Tormenting Family for the Holidays

[MagicalMom]

Am I the only one who does this? I love to call my family members & say things like "I got you that thing you asked for............that was you wasn't it?.......Mmmmmmmm someone asked for it, you kow that thing. I forget what it 's called.............maybe I'm thinking of someone else." The later I'll say "I hope you weren't kidding when you said you wanted that thing.........you know that thing you mentioned that one day when we were out? I thought it was odd that you wanted one of those, but i saw you looking at them. If you don't want it just regift it because we don't even know what it is!"

Then I call my parents & tell them how terrible I feel because I spent all my money on the kids & can't buy them any presents. Then later I call back & ask them what they want.

Then I mess with the kids. I'll never forget the year DD14 asked for Twister & I told her it was too vulgar & not permitted in our house!!! She was so frustrated, spending weeks trying to explain the game to me.

DS10 is begging for a terrain twister. He goes on & on about how it can go in the water, dirt & snow. I told him there is no possible way a terrain twister could go into the water because then it would be called an aquatwister. I bought it for him, he can foegive me Chrsitmas day.

He also asked for either a roboraptor or the robosapien. I found a mini robosapien candy dispenser so I have wrapped it & will repsent it to him by making a big deal out of it & telling him how excited I was to find what he asked for! I'll bring the real roboraptor out after that!

I also bought DH a soduku book for his stokcing. I told him I bought him something that he didn't ask for, I really don't know what it is, by the title it wounds like some forgein thing, supposed to be highly addictive & flying off the shelves like crazy.

I also told my family that I wrapped all of the presents & forgot to put name tags on them so this year they will have to unwrap them all & then guess who they are for! No wonder they think I'm nuts!

Anyone else do this? Christmas is so much fun!

 

[Hercules10]

Santa's gonna take the shovel to the reindeer stall for your stocking.

 

[Disneyrsh]

Somewhere along the line your idea of 'Christmas Spirit' got whacked.

 

[ericamanda01]

My DH wants a video Ipod. He has told me and some of his friends, who wives I am friends with. Well I told DH that I understand how much he wants the ipod, but the fact reamins that he didn't tell me this until I spent all my budget on the gifts currently under the tree. And I said, "Futhermore I am worried that you won't enjoy the gifts I did get you because they aren't what you really want." He said he didn't mean to worry me, and that he is sure he will love his gifts and that he really didn't want an ipod anyway. So on Christmas morning after we are done opening gifts I will notice something behind the desk and it will be the Ipod I got him! (Insert evil grin here!)

Oh and I got him a computer monitor and convienced him that it is for a friends DH and that we are keeping it here to trick him. I even got him to wrap it. Imagine, he wrapped his own gift!

If this seems mean I am only making up for all the past christmas's that he has tricked me.

 

[OhMari]

Somehow that was funny but doesn't your family every get really frustrated with you?

 

[C.Ann]

I also told my family that I wrapped all of the presents & forgot to put name tags on them so this year they will have to unwrap them all & then guess who they are for! No wonder they think I'm nuts!

Anyone else do this? Christmas is so much fun!

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One year - back when we always had the big Christmas Eve party at our house - I didn't put "names" on any of the gifts - I put "clues" instead - and everyone had to figure out which gift was theirs.. As an example, my Dad was a steamfitter before he retired so his gift tag read, "All steamed up.." One of my stepdaughter's husbands was ALWAYS sneezing (allergies) so his tag read, "One of the Seven Dwarfs".. Oh my gosh - it was a BLAST and everyone had SOOOO much fun trying to figure out which gift was theirs..

 

[Brianne]

I can't say I go that overboard but I do tend to do some things. DH wants an airplane---badly. Swears that he has to have one before he dies & tells me this all the time. So I got him an airplane this year--it's in his stocking.

 

[Aidensmom]

I can't say I go that overboard but I do tend to do some things. DH wants an airplane---badly. Swears that he has to have one before he dies & tells me this all the time. So I got him an airplane this year--it's in his stocking.

I gave DH a new car one year.....made by Hot Wheels. It was the right model and color though.

 

[MagicalMom]

Somehow that was funny but doesn't your family every get really frustrated with you?

Everyone always gets what they asked for in the end. They are used to me by now.

 

[Michie]

Somewhere along the line your idea of 'Christmas Spirit' got whacked.

Have a BIl who does the same thing; he thinks it is funny, others don't. He really stresses out a lot of people around the holidays.

 

[diznygirl]

For my family it's a contest - the one who gets the best present "wins" the holiday. So we keep telling each other "I'm gonna win this year!" And then I have to call Christmas Day to find out who won... if I get my nephew the Roborapter then I'm a shoe-in to win!

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

I gave DH a new car one year.....made by Hot Wheels. It was the right model and color though.

My grandparents did that to me when I got my drivers license. They sent me a model of a Ferrari and said that they will buy me a real one when they win the lotto. I'm still waiting.

 

[Sonya]

One year - back when we always had the big Christmas Eve party at our house - I didn't put "names" on any of the gifts - I put "clues" instead - and everyone had to figure out which gift was theirs.. As an example, my Dad was a steamfitter before he retired so his gift tag read, "All steamed up.." One of my stepdaughter's husbands was ALWAYS sneezing (allergies) so his tag read, "One of the Seven Dwarfs".. Oh my gosh - it was a BLAST and everyone had SOOOO much fun trying to figure out which gift was theirs..

We do a version of this, We don't put who they are from, we put clues to what is inside in the "from" spot. Then you guess what it is before you open it and then you guess who it is from!
Like when I got the new Alton Brown book for DH I put that it was from "W"

OP, you are crazy, and I love it!

 

[MagicalMom]

Have a BIl who does the same thing; he thinks it is funny, others don't. He really stresses out a lot of people around the holidays.

Awwww guys, I'm not stressing them out. Really. They know I'm teasing. I don't do it constantly or daily. My parents know I'm pretty far form broke. If DH is really going to stress out of a 3.00 soduku book than he'd be too up tight for me. My 30 yo sister, who gets tormented the most, knows that I spend nearly as much on her as I do my own children. She was with me when I bought many of her gifts so she considers everythign else just gravy. They all play along & know I'm just teasing them.

 

[jennyl772003]

We screw around with my son a lot! We tell him that we told Santa that he asked for a Barbie, things like that. Or we ask what he wants, he tells us, then we twist it up and repeat it back to him and tell him that we will tell Santa for him.

A few years ago my DH was dying for either an XBox or GameCube, he couldn't decide. I bought him an XBox. Then closer to Christmas, he told me he'd prefer the XBox. I told him I had already bought his gift.

I then took the XBox out of it's original box, and put it in a box that was more the size and shape of a GameCube box, and put it under the tree.

 

[mom2grace]

A few years ago my DH was dying for either an XBox or GameCube, he couldn't decide. I bought him an XBox. Then closer to Christmas, he told me he'd prefer the XBox. I told him I had already bought his gift.

I then took the XBox out of it's original box, and put it in a box that was more the size and shape of a GameCube box, and put it under the tree.

Now that's FUNNY! And ingenious! I'll have to keep that idea tucked away.....