Everyone likes to feel appreciated, and it doesn’t take much. Nobody wants to feel like they’re silently toiling away for an unspecified goal, forever. That’s what the whole Sisyphus myth is about. Nobody wants to be the guy pushing the boulder up the hill just for it to roll back down and for him to …
Seguir leyendo Employee hits 10-year anniversary at engineering job, boss rewards him with either a pizza kit or angel figurines worth $60: ‘You actually get gifts?!’
Categoría:gifts
‘I have zero interest in ever meeting her new husband’: Estranged mom tries to use gift from her affair partner as an olive branch at son’s wedding, is upset when son refuses to accept it
I feel like the word «boundaries» has become a buzzword of pop psychology in the last couple of years. It’s all that anyone seems to talk about when it comes to navigating tricky relationships. Everyone is allowed to have boundaries and to keep everyone in their lives accountable to them. You have to respect someone’s …
Seguir leyendo ‘I have zero interest in ever meeting her new husband’: Estranged mom tries to use gift from her affair partner as an olive branch at son’s wedding, is upset when son refuses to accept it
‘It’s started to feel very one-sided’: Parents refuse to bring gifts for nephews after their parents have never returned the favor, face the ire of the rest of their family
Gift-giving can unfortunately inflict some drama. If you didn’t get the right gift or give it to the right person or heaven forbid you re-gifted something, you might never hear the end of it. Some people’s love language is gift-giving. The rest of us may not totally understand it, but it’s true. Some of us …
Seguir leyendo ‘It’s started to feel very one-sided’: Parents refuse to bring gifts for nephews after their parents have never returned the favor, face the ire of the rest of their family
Wife finds out husbands plan to gift her a two-seater car she despises for her 45th birthday, wonders if she should call out his selfishness: ‘He knows how I feel about this car’
Gift-giving is an art form that not everyone has the talent for. Some folks are great gift-givers, tapping into their recipients’ secret desires and making them manifest before their eyes. Others just get a Chili’s gift card and call it a day. And that’s okay, not everyone needs to be a gifted gift-giver. As they …
Seguir leyendo Wife finds out husbands plan to gift her a two-seater car she despises for her 45th birthday, wonders if she should call out his selfishness: ‘He knows how I feel about this car’
‘She’s just a kid’: 10-year-old stepdaughter gets overlooked during a family gathering when she’s the only kid not to get a gift bag, leading her mom to confront the family
Being the only one not biologically related to the rest of your family must be an extremely difficult thing to come to terms with, regardless of how old you are. No matter how you are being treated in that family unit, you will always feel at least slightly like an outsider, like someone who does …
Seguir leyendo ‘She’s just a kid’: 10-year-old stepdaughter gets overlooked during a family gathering when she’s the only kid not to get a gift bag, leading her mom to confront the family
Man gifts mother-in-law provocative coffee mug for her birthday, she angrily smashes it and demands he pay her hospital bill: ‘A shard gave her a pretty sizable cut on her ankle’
Gag gifts can be a risk. Sometimes, they’re absolutely worth it. My family has a tradition of exchanging gag gifts every Christmas morning. The rules are: it has to be purchased from the dollar store, and you have to write something stupid on the gift bag, which is traditionally a brown paper sack. It’s a …
Seguir leyendo Man gifts mother-in-law provocative coffee mug for her birthday, she angrily smashes it and demands he pay her hospital bill: ‘A shard gave her a pretty sizable cut on her ankle’
Dad ‘loses it’ because his 2 and 5-year-old sons got him children’s toys for his 42nd birthday, mom claims they wanted to get him something they could do together: ‘I would have been over them moon with some socks, boxer shorts and a mug’
My family will never stop telling the story of when I innocently ruined my mom’s surprise. I can’t remember if it was for Mother’s Day or her birthday, but my dad and I went to the store to get a wallet for her as a present from me. I couldn’t have been older than four …
Seguir leyendo Dad ‘loses it’ because his 2 and 5-year-old sons got him children’s toys for his 42nd birthday, mom claims they wanted to get him something they could do together: ‘I would have been over them moon with some socks, boxer shorts and a mug’
22-year-old scratches a $25,000 winning lottery ticket at the family gift exchange, then everyone demands ‘their cut’ of the winnings, he refuses: ‘They’re the selfish ones’
Nothing good can come from a gifted lottery ticket. Either you win nothing and have no gift, or you win cash and get stuck in a moral dilemma about sharing your earnings. This family member found themselves in such a pickle after plucking the winning numbers out of a blind White Elephant gift. We all …
Seguir leyendo 22-year-old scratches a $25,000 winning lottery ticket at the family gift exchange, then everyone demands ‘their cut’ of the winnings, he refuses: ‘They’re the selfish ones’
Out of control stepmom confronts her husband’s ex-wife in a Target because her mother-in-law gave her a 30th birthday present, demands she give the gift to her: ‘She told me I’m trying to keep my claws in ex’s family instead of accepting I’m an ex’
Here at Memebase, we’re always talking about the crossed telephone lines of blended families; with so many adults and kids in a familial orbit, it’s often difficult to keep up with every family member you’re not required by law to interact with. Even if a family member is technically «not part of the family» anymore, …
Seguir leyendo Out of control stepmom confronts her husband’s ex-wife in a Target because her mother-in-law gave her a 30th birthday present, demands she give the gift to her: ‘She told me I’m trying to keep my claws in ex’s family instead of accepting I’m an ex’
Ungrateful woman rejects the blanket her sister-in-law crocheted for her because she made a mistake in the pattern: ‘She looked down at it and said that it wasn’t done until it was perfect’
Ever since I was a little kid, I have been highly trained in the art and science of receiving presents. My sister and I would get the same lecture from our parents every year when we were driving to our birthday parties: «No matter what you get, whether you like it, hate it, or already …
Seguir leyendo Ungrateful woman rejects the blanket her sister-in-law crocheted for her because she made a mistake in the pattern: ‘She looked down at it and said that it wasn’t done until it was perfect’