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The Gimme Pig Doesn’t Fall Far From The Gimme Tree

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My story is about one of the moms of my 9 year old daughter’s “best friend” who I will call Sally. The kid is very poorly behaved and has terrible boundaries and the mom is worse, but my daughter seems to be crazy about her so she wants her to be invited to all of her parties and such. My daughter’s birthday party is what this story is all about.

My daughter wanted to have her guests make ice cream sundaes instead of getting a cake. I went a little overboard and spent about $80 on ice cream and tons of toppings including fruit, candy, chocolate chips, nuts, whipped creme, etc. I gave each of the girls a red solo cup and told them to have at it. They created and consumed these massive sundaes and were happy as clams. Sally asked if she could have seconds and I said no, the first sundaes were huge and I didn’t think there would really be enough for all of the guests to have a second one. Sally was pissed and pouted but I didn’t really care.

I took all of the leftovers into the kitchen, putting away the ice cream but leaving most everything else out in the bowls I’d put them in while I went to continue to supervise the party.

When Sally’s mom showed up to pick her up about 20 minutes later, I was occupied with something else and didn’t really notice. When I walked into the kitchen you can imagine my surprise when there are Sally and Sally’s mom. Sally’s mom has made herself a huge sundae and is putting the leftover candies into plastic bags. She says “Sally wanted to take home all of the leftover chocolate chips and mini peanut butter cups”. My jaw was on the floor.

Not only did she help herself to food in my home without asking she decided to take some of it TO GO??? I didn’t know how to react, how to behave, what to say….so I did nothing and she took it home. 0728-17

“I’m so sorry.   Those have already been promised to someone else.”

Wedding Wednesday – Amount of Cash Given Is Equivalent To How Much Sincerity The Giver Has…Nope, Not In A Million Years

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The anonymous guest, an ex-colleague of the bride, asked for advice on a Mumsnet forum after being told the £100 cheque she gave the couple was not sufficient.

According to the poster, known as Puzzledandpissedoff, the email from the newlyweds read:

“We were surprised that your contribution didn’t seem to match the warmth of your good wishes on our big day. In view of your own position, if you wanted to send any adjustment it would be thankfully received.”

You can read the rest of the horror story HERE.

So, the amount of the wedding gift did not sufficiently “match the warmth of your good wishes”.   Money has become a barometer of friendship or a gauge of the true sincerity of the gift giver’s congratulations.

One thing is true, however.   The email the bride and groom did send to the gift giver does equate to the lack of grace and gratitude they have for their guests and the gifts they bear.

BYOFood…and BYOChair….and, Oh, Btw, Now That You Are Snagged Into Coming, Bring Money, Too

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My mother has received an invite to a birthday party for a cousin turning 50. Said cousin and his wife recently had some renovations completed, so the party is to celebrate the birthday and show off the home improvements.    My mother ran into cousin in the weekend and he asked if she was coming – after a short discussion it appears she had missed the emailed invite and of course she’d love to come celebrate his birthday with him.

However, upon opening the email the true nature of the party was revealed.  The invite detailed that the men are to bring “meat or something sweet”, and the women are to bring a salad, or side dish.

Yes that’s right, the husbands are to bring the mains and desserts, and the wives are to bring the appetizers and side dishes to fill out the meal.  At this point I was left wondering what was left for the ‘hosts’ to provide at this party.

However, in a follow-up email shortly after the invite was sent, it was kindly pointed out that as their renovations have only just been completed they don’t have outdoor furniture yet, so if you’d like to sit down, you are invited to bring your own deck chair.   So now the guests are providing the food, and the seating.

Yesterday a third email arrived, from the wife, suggesting that as Mr Almost-50 doesn’t have a BBQ of his own, everyone could donate towards this as their present, and she has provided her bank account details for everyone to directly deposit into!

I think this could (almost) be forgiven if it were students holding a pot-luck flat-warming, but these are grown adults with adult children of their own. 1025-16

The Self Righteous Will Get Tossed Into Etiquette Hell

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So recently my brother and his wife (who I will call SIL) called my partner and asked if starting next year we perhaps just exchange cards for our children’s birthday or phone calls (as they live interstate) with the exception of important birthdays, she suggested 1, 5, 13, 18 and 21. Their reasoning was that with my sister having another baby it is just getting too expensive to be spending $40 per child’s birthday, which is the previously agreed upon amount.

Now I think this is all my SIL’s influence, they have ONE child compared to my three and I think she’s being exceptionally greedy and selfish, she doesn’t want to spend $120 on my kids because she only gets a $40 present in return. Earlier this year after I sent her child’s birthday present (which totaled $20 including postage) I heard she was talking about it to my mother and she said that her son had more fun “playing with the box”, which was her telling us that what I sent her wasn’t good enough. She’s been trying to stop us from this for years always crying that they have a “strict budget” and that it’s getting so expensive, she even suggested that we take the money we would spend on her child and buy our kids extra presents, which is ridiculous! Anyone knows that $40 between three kids isn’t going to go very far, and their $120 would get their child so much more.

In addition to this, my kids don’t care about cards. They generally tear them trying to get the money that’s inside them. Last year she gave my son $40 in a pop up card she had made and then proceeded to sulk when my son tore the card trying to see if it contained more money. He’s only 9. These days she doesn’t even send a card, she just gets something shipped to our house from online and calls relentlessly to find out if they received it, even though she usually has a tracking number so she would know if they receive it. She even had the gall to call and ask why the kids don’t call to say thank you when they get their gifts!! Trying to tell me how to parent my children!!

I wish my brother would just divorce this materialistic woman, it’s her choice to only have one child, so I don’t see why my children have to suffer because she doesn’t want to spend more money on my kids than I spend on hers! It’s ridiculous!

Any advice on how to deal with this horrid woman? 0817-15

It’s tempting to believe this was written and submitted as a troll post.   The only person obsessed with dollar amounts is the OP whose greedy, ill mannered kids destroy cards in their frenzied attempt to get the money inside and don’t have any clue to thank the giver.   Meanwhile Mom is all huffy and put out that someone called her on her bad parenting and calculates to the penny how unfair it is that her greedy kids don’t get their fair share.