Gift exchange debacle...

[daveymark]

It's Christmas, for christ' sake. Say thanks and throw it away, ebay it, donate it, or regift if she doesn't like it. Don't EVER say you don't like it.

 

[rh71]

let it go, don't do it with her again

 

[olds]

Jesus H Christ. It's Xmas, let it go.

 

[Tylanner]

The ball is in your court buddy.

You're just gonna drop it?

Swindlers must be punished!

 

[hzl eyed grl]

Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
wow your girlfriend sounds really shallow for her to go and want to tell the other person how bad the gift is. I'd say just let it go, there are more important things in life.

 

[Hammer]

that's pretty funny. rub it in til your gf explodes. :laugh:

 

[pulse8]

Let it go, but make note for the future and get her sh!tty gifts next year.

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: nick1985
Me and my girlfriend have a mutual close friend that we both combined our money towards. I asked my girlfriend how much we should each contribute, and she said that she was with her(our friend) when she bought my gift and it was about $30. So we figured about $30 each since that was likely the cost of our gifts. We bought her a new backpack and a jump drive for school and that came out to about $60. Well, i got my gift, which was the red hot chili peppers greatest hits CD with videos and a ton of extra stuff(im a big chili peppers fan), and my GF was right it was about $30. However, my girlfriend got a cheapy $5 bracelet, $10 at most. She hates the thing and is quite upset that she spent all that money on her and got a horrible gift in return and she is thinking about telling her she is kind of dissapointed. I told her that she should just let it go....what do you guys think? What would you do?


cliff notes:
me and GF buy a mutual friend a present
we assumed we should pay $30 each, since my gift was about $30(my GF was with our friend when she bought my gift)
i get a $30 gift as expected
GF gets a cheap 5/10 dollar bracelet she thinks is fugly.
GF is pissed


**EDIT**

the friend is a VERY close friend to both of ours. We both consider her our best friend, so this is why my GF is overly upset.

thats the spirit:roll:

 

[Triforceofcourage]

Tell your girlfriend to quit being a materialistic stuck up bitch.

 

[poopaskoopa]

I actually see it Goosemaster's way. Having said that, if your GF has any tact, she'd stay quiet. Think of what would happen AFTER she hits to the friend that the gift sucked.

 

[nick1985]

she is deffinately not going to tell her she is kind of dissapointed spending a lot of money on her and getting next to nothing in return. she was just saying she might tell her to make herself feel better i think. I think i would be dissapointed too, if i spent $30 and i got a $5 gift but my girlfriend got a $30 gift. that would suck, but i deffinately would just pretend i like it and move on.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: poopaskoopa
I actually see it Goosemaster's way. Having said that, if your GF has any tact, she'd stay quiet. Think of what would happen AFTER she hits to the friend that the gift sucked.

Here's a new function Zuni installed last night. Learn to use it:

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
wow your girlfriend sounds really shallow for her to go and want to tell the other person how bad the gift is. I'd say just let it go, there are more important things in life.

Vigorous sex might change her mind




Seriously though, bring it during sex and tell her that there are more "important" things in life that are more pleasureable than getting a damn gift that she can go and get herself. Friendship is greater that anything else.


And no I dot not thhink your girlfriend is exhorbitantly shallow. She just feels regret in that she put time and effort into her purchase while your friend did not. No shallow. Acutally quite normal.

😉

 

[tallest1]

tell her to call the waaahhhmbulance

 

[Looney]

I didn't read the replies, but i'm pretty sure i know what the general consensus here is... your gf is pretty shallow if she's getting all upset over this, and wants to confront and possibly ruin a friendship over a gift.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Hardcore
I didn't read the replies, but i'm pretty sure i know what the general consensus here is... your gf is pretty shallow if she's getting all upset over this, and wants to confront and possibly ruin a friendship over a gift.

UPDATE: SHE IS NOT GOING TO CONRONT HER AND RUIN A FRIENDSHIP.


she is just dissapointed, and im sure a lot of other people would be too.

 

[Hammer]

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: Hardcore
I didn't read the replies, but i'm pretty sure i know what the general consensus here is... your gf is pretty shallow if she's getting all upset over this, and wants to confront and possibly ruin a friendship over a gift.

UPDATE: SHE IS NOT GOING TO CONRONT HER AND RUIN A FRIENDSHIP.


she is just dissapointed, and im sure a lot of other people would be too.

nice job. now ask her to stick out her hand.

 

[SupaDupaPan]

I don't think it's the money cost that's bugging her ... but really the lack of thought put into the gift perhaps. My best friend (I've been friends with her since I was 3) and I never really care about cost when it comes to gifts. This year I'm building her a computer, and I know she's making me something. I'm quite okay with the fact that she didn't spend any money this year 🙂 But if I received a gift like that, I would probably think in my mind, " I spent all this time looking for a gift for you, thinking of things that you would like the most, and you have the audacity to just go walk into a target and pick up the first thing you see?" A cheapy bracelet like that is like a *generic* gift you would give to a friend ... But it's definitely not something you'd want to ruin a friendship over.

But that's just my $.02

 

[abaez]

bring it up nonchalantly

like poke fun.. when you're going out next summer and you're with her.. tell your gf "hey wear that AWESOME bracelet you got for xmas from (name!)" add major sarcasm and stuff.. maybe she'll get the hint and it won't turn into a huge deal.