like all the fuckin ads with the hugging families around winter. any educationally normal adult knows everyone just gets more stressed, with travel and gifts and social obligations and everything, but you’re not even allowed to…openly feel that, it seems? it’s like there’s this happiness benchmark you have to reach, otherwise you’ll feel even shittier and sadder for not having a happy holiday season
What annoys me is I’m the only single one at our family gathering so I get fucked over. I have to buy for 3 families worth of individuals (12 total) and in return I get 3 gifts because they go as a team… It’s not even getting less stuff that’s the problem, it’s just a giant pain in the ass to buy for that many people. If it was up to me we’d just get shit for the kids and be done with it.
If they go as a group to get something expensive then I don’t see the problem.
Ex: let’s say the amount is $20 per person but six people go together to get you a $120 gift then there isn’t a problem to me. If they go together to get you a gift and the gift cost $20 total then yeah then there’s a problem.
That’s why I only give gifts privately and to my little brothers and mom, nobody else gets anything. I also don’t attend family get together so there’s that.