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I had a great aunt who would crochet a vest and other things for christmas. Always sent a card and check for 5 dollars for birthdays. I always felt special everytime and wore the clothes proudly. Found out later some of my cousins mocked her for her gifts. I think they thought they were being witty but I thought they were cruel. "Did you get the check for 5 dollars...hahaha" and yes we were in our 20s. I still miss that woman, she was larger than life and liked her perfume sultry. Bless you Auntie Alyce.
It makes it so special when someone took their time to make a gift themselves, is worth more than anything. Glad to hear some people still appreciate that. Sounds like a great aunt
This is so sweet and encourages me to try my “original” gifts again. 💌
Homemade gifts help the planet.
I cannot believe anyone would mock the woman who thought of them every year! It don't matter the amount! The thought counts! Abd 5 bucks is still lunch!
She was a great-aunt meaning she was my grandmothers sister. I miss her dearly but also had some great aunts who were my parents siblings or sisters-in-law so very blessed.
I once read about a man who gave his wife a new very expensive fishing rod for her birthday, that he wanted himself but couldn't justify spending the money on himself for (She wasn't a fisher at all, but he somehow convinced himself that she would benefit from him having it) So on his birthday, she gifted him a couple of dresses. He got the message loud and clear.
My grandfather once got my grandmother a pair of mens slippers for her birthday cause he wanted a new pair.. I so wish she had of done this to him!
I HATE when people do this. Tell me your completely selfish without saying you're completely selfish...
😂😂😂
I would get him a divorce. Lmao
Omg, this is what happened to me this Christmas! 🤣🤣🤣 I just posted my comment before reading yours.
The girl who got jewelry is crazy, even the attempt to buy jewelry is so thoughtful and sentimental. I think 99% of women (many of whom have never had a man buy them jewelry) would be over the moon receiving that heart necklace, bonus points if he knows you well enough to buy something you like! Price doesn't even matter, I would be thrilled at a bead necklace he strung himself.
*THIS!^ A THOUSAND TIMES THIS!^*
Same.. think I would be upset if he spent too much tbh.
My favourite gift a man has ever bought me was this gorgeous Vera Wang 'love' heart necklace. It's so tiny but absolutely gorgeous. He abandoned his son and left me to pick up the pieces because he wanted a long distant relationship instead though 🤷🏻♀️ but I still have the necklace and I'd still wear it if my son didn't pull and snap the chain 😂
Seriously that should’ve been an entitled person video, but then she threw the trauma quote in there….uh maybe the trauma was from you being so entitled and being dumped for it
I'm glad someone made this comment. Honestly I think those necklaces look cute and her thinking other wise is kind of a red flag
I almost cried this Christmas. My first job took the staff to lunch at the local fancy Italian restaurant, $100 bonus, and a $25 voucher to the store. My 2nd gave us $200 bonus (cash) & a Starbucks $15 gift card, & the managers of the department's gave us little gifts too. I seriously almost cried because working myself to death at my old job for 5 years never showed us this kind of appreciation. Everything they did was deducted from our paychecks.
It felt so wonderful to be appreciated.
That girl saying: "Guys, don't get anything heart shaped for your girlfriend.. they won't like it, it's really tacky", and my girlfriend got me a heart shaped pink stone Pandora engagement ring, and I LOVE IT. Girl, don't generalize. We're not all like you.
Edit: I GOT A ❤️ FROM CHARLOTTE OMG, THIS MADE MY CHRISTMAS. LOVE YOU GIRL, and you'll find a lover that's worth the wait, it took me 31 years to find my fiancee and now I'm so happy! ❤️
Also, entitled much?
I hate hearts. But even I know that’s just me. Lord she is DEFINITELY generalizing on that one
Yeah, that one annoyed me. I have a heart shaped engagement ring that my MIL gave to me to have a ring since my husband proposed spur of the moment, because in that moment, he realized that he really wanted to spend the rest of his life with me. I treasure that ring. It used to be hers. Husband and I have been married for 20 years now, and we're still going strong, and I love my MIL. She's precious.
Thank you!
100% agree!! Heart shaped jewelry is one of my favorites ❤
The girl with the heart-shaped necklace:
My first gift from my boyfriend was a heart-shaped fruit bowl that he and his grandpa crafted together. I really really love it
That's cause someone put actual care and love and talent into it. That's not tacky AT ALL. The mainstream, mass produced stuff is almost always tacky, and if gotten as a "girls must like this, right?" kind of a gift, it's also thoughtless.
I like heart jewelry. ❤ Nothing obnoxiously large or anything, but why are hearts 💕 bad or "tacky"? Maybe I'm just not cool, idk...
That is very special! If you break up, it would be nice to give it back, since he won't always have his grandpa. Just a thought.
@@BeLoud13 I hope that won't happen. We are married now, our babygirl is almost here and we have a house together xD
I know that's no guarantee for anything...
@@MeganVictoriaKearnsI've had an odd aversion to heart shaped anything all my life. I don't know why! But that necklace was very pretty & this guy, making a fruit bowl in the shape of a heart, WITH HIS GRANDPA...OMG, I'D PROBABLY CRY IF SOMEONE DID THAT FOR ME! I also won't wear a watch...& I'm not sure why that is, either! 🤷
My aunt handed me a box this year and said, "When I asked what you wanted, you said it was something no one could give, but, as your aunt, it's my job to make the impossible possible."
She gave me THYME.
Best gift ever.
😂🧡
Oml, I wanna be this aunt 🥺
Omg ❤ tell your aunt she's the best 😂
Just before Christmas, at my very first "real job" (as a nanny) my apartment was broken in to and had all of my beloved CDs stolen. My bosses gave me a $200 gift certificate to the record store to help replace some of my lost collection. They were the best bosses ever.
last year I lost my job and had to move back in with my parents in my home town. I now work for a small family business that employees about 20 people and pays minimum wage. We get Christmas bonuses based on hrs worked/seniority. I've only worked there since May but quickly gained traction within the company, and my coworkers talked me up to the boss so much that I got $1,000 on my pay check extra as a bonus, which is more than I even expected. That was incredible to me, especially for a small business. I cried! I'm so so thankful to them for taking a chance on hiring me and providing an opportunity to get my feet back under me.
That’s exactly what the family should do for each other. Happy to hear you have a supportive family
one year my mum forgot to bring my presents up when visiting, but remembered all my siblings ones. she felt so bad that in a panic she wrapped all the fruit from my own kitchen individually (like picked the bunch of bananas apart & each apple & tangerine).
it wasn't so bad as a week later when i visited hers i did get my actual gifts. but on the day i was feeling left out, so all my brothers tried to compensate by getting super hyped when it was my turn to open something & kept clapping & cheering for each new fruit for me to put back in my own bowl 😅
now it has become kind of a tradition where she always buys me something fruit themed (like scented pens or lip balms).
LOL! Oh, wow. And I love your brothers' reaction so much. Their hyping up the 'gifts' is priceless.
This deserves all the likes in the world. I laughed so hard
Aww, this was a wholesome story, it actually made me teary eyed. It sounds like a beautiful memory despite the circumstances.
Haha….I need those kind of siblings
OMG! That made me laugh so hard!
The first gift I ever received from my husband (before he was my husband) was a heart shaped necklace. I still love it, after 25+ years.
Giving your girlfriend jewelry is not a bad gift. He could have given you a f-ing broom for crying out loud!
The very first christmas i was with my husband (thrn boyfriend) he put so much thought into the presents. One of them was a heart shaped necklace with diamonds, among other jewlery.
He said "i know you were necklaces but these are the ones i couldnt decide on, so you can have them all. I'm not very flashy, so i didn't wear it because of diamonds, but he was more interested in learning what i liked. I eventually made the heart (tunred around) into an oragami owl necklace that he got me a few years later. I say all this to say if you aren't sure, LEARN. If you care, TRY and ASK. Everyone has different tastes, and that girl is really out of touch if she thinks thats the worst, and confidently so.
Sounds like the woman who doesn't like the heart shaped necklace is just ungrateful.
Any jewelry would be a great gift. Geez.
I like heart shaped necklaces. What’s wrong with that?
I got really pretty heart shaped earrings. She was just being kinda bitchy tbh. Don’t give gift advice and speak for all of us. She seems like she only wants Prada purses or something.
For the broom, he should have got her a year of paid housekeeping and stuck a card with the info on the bottom of the dust pan.
I worked at a company where at Christmas we would have a white elephant gift exchange…but this was no ordinary white elephant. The owners of the company purchased all the gifts (well actually I did with their money😊). One gift that the bosses did buy themselves was a 60” tv and a PlayStation. There was also gift certificates for lift tickets to ski, spa day, night at the theater(dinner and gift certificate for theater to see play), and a kitchenAid stand mixer (that I was plotting how to get for my self) when I was getting ready to purchase that my boss called me in to her office and told me when I bought the one for the Christmas party I was to buy one for myself as a gift from them(I had to hide it) I still have it in my kitchen and use it frequently and am very grateful to have had such amazing bosses. They truly cared for all of their employees and even with the economic downturn in 2008 tried to give everyone a good Christmas. ❤
I had a great-great-aunt who would give every child in the family an unwrapped deli container that held exactly 100 pennies. We loved her and never felt slighted. We turned it into a game. When we got home, we would count the pennies--and she never got it wrong! And we got a funny Christmas memory out of it.
How cute! My great grandma used to give my siblings and I puzzles and toys she bought at the thrift store (there were 5 of us and she was on a fixed income). We always appreciated and played with what she gave us
@@weaverofworlds22 Love this.
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One year for Christmas, my ex husband's mom thought she was going to give me the worst Christmas present ever by not inviting me to the big family celebration at her house. It was just the opposite. It ended up being the best Christmas present. My ex was to be at her house by 7am (we lived about a half hour drive from her place). He was up at 5am getting 4 tired kids ready for the day and loading up the car with presents and such for his family. He didn't get home until after 11pm that night. And of course, the kids were really cranky. He looked exhausted when he walked through the door. It turns out his mom had him come over early so he could clean her whole house top to bottom and then after that he did ALL the cooking. And after dinner and presents, my ex husband ended having to stay at his mom's and do all the clean up. Me on the other hand, enjoyed having the day with no cooking, cleaning, and running after kids. I even got to a bubble bath and an afternoon nap!
That’s really fucked up and toxic she didn’t want you there. However I’m glad you were able to make the best out of a shitty situation. Also glad you got out of that toxic sounding family.
@@AngelJuliet - It’s more toxic that her husband allowed that. Nope, no wonder they’re divorced.
Gotta say, that was a wonderful gift for her. However, if I had been the husband, that would have been the last time I ever went to my mom's for Christmas. What a shitty family.
@@lokicooper4690 that was our last Christmas together. We divorced a couple months later. I am married to a wonderful guy now. ❤️
@@kericougar4722 Oh please tell me you sent a super sweet and enthusiastic thank-you card to that awful woman! Lol 😆🤣😂
When I was 13 years old, I had gotten a little chubby and was having some really unhealthy body image issues about my weight. For Christmas, my aunt gave me a dress, a pair of jeans, and a sweater... All in a size 2. I wore a size 14 at the time. She insisted that I try them on because she was sure they would fit. When I showed her that I literally couldn't squeeze into any of it, she acted all confused and said that my two cousins both wore that size, so she assumed that I would too, since we were about the same age. Then she cheerfully told me to go ahead and keep the clothes in my closet so I could wear them after I "finally get all that weight off." I'm an adult now and I haven't spoken to that aunt in several years.
Your mom or dad or any other adult should have ripped her a new one.
Thats incredibly messed up! I'm sorry that happened.
That’s cruel. Your Aunt doesn’t deserve you! You’re beautiful! 😊💕
This takes the cake for worst gift. That is horrible! I sincerely hope you have a good body image now and totally understand you're not talking to that aunt anymore.
I honestly don’t blame you, that’s horrible. Your body is beautiful if you take care of it no matter what size you are and this is horrible for a thirteen year old.
It’s very different but one time I ordered a size fourteen dress from sears (when I was in my early twenties) they sent me a size four. The dress was beautiful but there’s a lot of difference between 14 and 4. The people at sears told me that they didn’t want to take the return even though I said I just wanted an exchange for the size that I ordered and the salesgirl asked me if I couldn’t just keep it because I ordered it online and it would hurt the store if I returned it there, I told them that it was their fault and I wasn’t looking for a return but an exchange so their net loss would technically be $0. I think sears works on commission or worked if it doesn’t exist any more but still sending someone a size 4 instead of a size 14 and them being hesitant on the exchange was really demeaning to me.
Aww I felt so bad for the person that got their family James Brown tickets, because it honestly was a really thoughtful and awesome gift, just really bad timing 💔
I *GD LEEEERRVE* James Brown!!! So sorry about the aftermath!
Can we take a moment to appreciate that Charlotte posted on Christmas day? We love you! Merry Christmas
IKR? And here I am doing a load of laundry, and painting my soon to be master closet....
She is the best!
Yes! I was so psyched when I saw the notification, my day was made. 🤗
You know you can post videos and have them come out on a certain day.
That auto upload is so tricky.
Just wanted to share that my partner got me a half-heart / half-cat silhouette necklace a looong time ago and I still love it. Please don't take the 'everyone hates heart shaped' thing too seriously, ppl! Also - merry christmas!!
No that girl was just entitled. My favorite necklace ever is that penguin one she showed - which btw it’s from Brighton or Pandora which are both Nice higher end charm makers. And my mom, brother’s girlfriend and I all love heart shaped jewelry, especially ones with filagree like the one she showed. So really 4/1 she’s the one with terrible taste in jewelry
@@RoseyVamp I thought the necklaces she was showing were cute too, I think her saying everyone shares her opinion is unfair. Honestly if she's so concerned about things like getting heart shaped necklaces I don't see why she can't tell her significant others about this. It's ok to have preferences, but good communication is always the best thing to have in a relationship.
I thought the pendants were cute. She seemed to generalise too much.
Minus the trauma part which I totally get, the girl rating the past gifts from her boyfriends sounded pretty entitled to be honest. A lot of girls would’ve been just fine with those things, myself included! I’m also someone who hasn’t gotten a lot of super nice gifts for Christmas and I’ve been with my boyfriend for 5 years, but we are just super broke 🤷🏼♀️ I don’t talk shit on him for it. I get that they weren’t in HER taste, but just saying..maybe no one liked her personality so they didn’t get to know her well enough to get her her super personalized gifts? I don’t know lol
Thats what I was thinking. I think she was a little entitled. I would have been happy with the necklace.
@@manuela1102 same too!
Yeah ikr especially the heart. The heart was super cute I thought. There was nothing wrong with it
Agreed! Not sure she would have been happy with anything under the $100 mark. As someone who is also super broke I’d be happy with anything someone got me. It’s the thought that counts for me. One of my favorite gifts is a ring from one of those 25 cent machines. 🤗
I honestly think she mentioned trauma just to sound a little relatable but probably the trauma was because she didn't receive the things she felt she deserved
One of my bosses accidentally bought all of her employees alcohol filled chocolates. The problem was I was the only one old enough to consume it. She didn't understand why everyone wasn't taking them home. I explained to her that she misread the packaging, and they legally were not allowed to even handle it in her restaurant. She was nice enough to call all the parents and explain what happened. She also said she understood if they were not going to let them have it. All but one of the parents came and got the gift to take home for the teenagers to have.
There was another year my grandfather was placed in charge of buying all his grandkids Christmas presents. Normally Grandma bought them, but Grandpa insisted that year. He bought us all the same size single pair of blue men's size 8 socks. Yup, even the baby got a single pair of blue, men's size 8 socks. When Grandma found out, she snuck $20 in each pair, but told us all to leave the socks folded so we "didn't make a mess with our socks." Grandpa never found out. He was so proud of the job he did Christmas shopping.
I bet your grandfather was really happy with all the money he saved with those gifts
I think that he got those socks in a bundle of at least 4 pairs of socks and that's why they all were the same size
I also think that your grandfather uses/used size 8 and that his favorite color is/was blue
@@MPbmfm two 10 packs
This is actually a very sweet story 🧡
@georginagarcia2878 thank you. She never bought it again though. We all had a good laugh
My mom once gave me an expired calendar. It had Dilbert, who I was super into back when that calendar was current. She lost it for several years, found it again, and decided eff it and wrapped it. When I opened it I said, "um... you're the one who taught me it's the thought that counts, so I just have to ask... what was the thought?" Mom laughed so hard she cried and turned bright red, and she said, "the pictures are still good!"
Old calendars (non leap year ones) are good again every seven years. Just ignore the year and focus on the months and days. Ha!
The worst present I ever received on Christmas is officially you playing that laugh over and over again while my phone is full volume and I'm putting together a tool box in the garage and couldn't drop what I was doing to turn it down as neighbors walked by! Hahaha great video nonetheless. One love and merry Christmas from St Louis Missouri!
GOLD!😂
@pookie: I know, that slayed me. I was thinking "Oh no! The internet has officially broken Charlotte Dobre!"💀🤣
I fast forwarded it. For some reason i found it really annoying
@@jacoabtweed789 embarrassing gold. When children look at you like you're crazy it doesn't sit right. I didn't even try to explain to this family. Would've only made it worse probably. I just took the L
@@eatmyoctopus well I probably would have but if I can't turn down the volume, I also can't fast forward. No where to run in That moment.
Not every girl hates heart shaped jewelry. I personally love heart shaped stuff. Is it cheesy and cliche? Probably, but I love it, and to get it from someone I love? Bonus!
When I was young we had relatives on my mom's side that lived a distance away. Might see them once a year at a wedding or funeral. At Thanksgiving they would send back a big box of Christmas gifts with another relative. It was always random things from a thrift store or something. As kids we were confused and disappointed. As teenagers we found the humor in it, and would save them for last. Some of my favorites. A "Favorite Dad" coffee mug. I was 15. A pair of size 13 foam flip flops. In MN. And a pair of red, yellow and green plaid pants. 10 sizes too big!
They're all gone now. Never mocked them, in fact, thanked them for the gifts when we saw them. To this day, we have no idea if they were trying to be funny, or just didn't have a clue. I mean, they didn't have to send anything. But, it provided us with a lifetime of laughs, memories and stories. My siblings have their own. Plus, I threaten to regift the pants to any of them that piss me off. Oh yeah, I kept them! Lol.
Thats awesome! Sounds like a fun treasure hunt through odd items :)
Aw lol that's such a fun story to be able to tell:) Thanks so much for sharing with us!
Umm… as a woman, we don’t claim the chick at 6:00 saying that you should never give your girlfriend a heart shaped necklace. I’ve been given heart shaped jewelry by my significant others, and even some family members! It’s not tacky. It’s sweet and you should be grateful that someone feels that way for you. Get over yourself and give that sweet man a hug and kiss for giving you his heart on a chain. Ooh that made me so mad. 😡
I got a necklace from Tiffany’s this year from my husband. It’s two hearts, one with my initials. I adore it.
@@cynicalbeauty18 Right?? Thank you! God, the nerve of some people. 😡
I work in a jewellery store and I've witnessed it first hand, heart shaped necklaces and other jewellery are very popular, they hardly ever get exchanged or returned, she is so wrong about that generalisation of hers. So wrong. I've even bought myself 2 heart shaped necklaces, they're a really safe choice actually. Sold a sweet young man a gold heart that he was giving his girlfriend, I hope he never sees what that woman posted..
@@Humanoidfrenzzy I hope so too. And I feel so bad for whoever has been or will become romantically involved with this woman. She needs an attitude adjustment.
@@dawnstar6727 Yes she does, absolutely.
I agree w/Charlotte: I don't see anything wrong with a heart-shaped necklace pendant from a loved one..? I think that woman seems a bit high maintenance/spoiled. I do think the thought behind a gift like that is more important than whether it fits her sense of style. I've received a couple of those over the years, and I always appreciated it! 💙
Ikr? I don't even wear juwelry but this was so cute. I'd have loved it 😁
I love that, not only is she quite demanding, she's announcing that no woman would like something heart-shaped? Please. She's obnoxious.
That woman was judgemental and spoiled. That heart necklece was actually nice. And not tacky at all. Might not be her style, but thats not the way you treat a gift bought by the one you care for.
That necklace was quite beautiful, I didn't see anything wrong with it, such a spoiled brat. >.
Thank GOD I'm not alone in finding that spoiled brat so ridiculously spoiled. The necklaces were very cute, INCLUDING the penguin xD
Merry Christmas to you, Charlotte. I am a bedridden cancer patient, but you've given me the gift of smiles every day and I thank you.
Wishing you a blessed Christmas and may God give you strength to fight the cancer. I sincerely wish you will get well again soon. Sending prayers and positivity your way... from one cancer patient to another ❤❤❤ Let's keep fighting! 💪💪💪
Hey Susan...sending lots of love and light your way. I hope you feel some peace and comfort today.
Merry Christmas to you. I hope your gift for the year is good health.
Sending hugs xoxo
Lots of love Susan. Best wishes and merry Christmas
My husband gave be a butcher block for an anniversary gift one year, probably within our first five years. I remember feeling a bit hurt or disappointed but oh well, it was a nice thing. Fast forward to us now at 47 years of marriage and I still use that thing daily and any other romantic gifts he might have given me over the years I can't remember. He is a smart man and he chose me so that proves it!
i totally get that her complaint was that her boyfriends didn't know her well enough to gauge her interests but I LOVE heart shaped stuff. I would have to see how large that heart was but a dainty little heart necklace? absolutely. also that penguin one was cute af i would wear it.
Right some women are so high maintenance! I like heart things too.
@@TenaciousBrie I think high maintenance is the wrong word choice but I love penguins and heart shaped jewelry too
I thought the same. What's wrong with heart-shaped jewelry? I own a few of them myself.
Preferences are normal, so I don’t blame her at all, but she shouldn’t exclaim that all girls would not appreciate heart shaped jewelry, that I don’t agree with.
It is a safe bet, and the gifts probably wasnt not a cheap trinket
I worked for a property firm as a receptionist in Dublin for 3 years. Every Christmas my boss gave me €1000 cash, brought everyone for lunch, gave on of the girls in accounts the company credit card for all the girls to go out for dinner, drinks, and stay over in a hotel. He was was so generous. Any corporate gifts the executives received would be divided out.
I wish my reaction to this post was not shock. What you're describing is exactly how companies should treat their employees. I know that if I were ever in a position like your bosses where I had a say in bonuses to my employees, that's the way I would treat them.
Why is this an anomoly of a story? This should be the norm!
I don't even know you and I am genuinely so happy for you that you have a job where you and your co-workers are valued and appreciated. And rewarded for your role in the success of the company.
I'm sorry, I just can't get over this! It's so incredible they do those things for you all. Why do freaking BILLIONAIRE business owners / CEOs offer up $15 gift certificates as a bonus? Like how could they possibly be that greedy! They effing NEED every one of their employees to remain so wealthy. It's disgusting.
Please excuse rant. This struck a nerve, apparently... 💜
@@MeganVictoriaKearns Aw thank you. This was many years ago and I’m long gone, but I always remember how well I was treated there. The company were (and still are) very successful, in part because of how well they treated people - you get back what you give. Thanks for your lovely message x
@@kazbaz2011 💜💜💜💜💜
On our first Christmas together my boyfriend got me the heart shaped necklace I wore every single day for years since I got it. I think it was so sweet of him and I was so happy. I'm still wearing it as I'm writing this. I don't understand why someone would not like a heart shaped necklace, it's like the purest and sweetest gift someone can give you.
To the girl who said no girl wants heart shaped jewelry, you could not be more wrong. Guys, don’t listen to her.
Well I agree with her
Exactly, that necklace is beautiful
exactly i love heart shaped necklaces lol
Depends on the girl …. I don’t like heart shape just no for me but I do know plenty who do like it . Best gifts are always the ones that show that the other person knows you,
i like heart-shaped jewelry, the only reason i wouldn't like that one as much is i don't like gold because it doesn't really fit my skin tone. but it's still really pretty and i liked the penguin charm! she just screams entitled choosy beggar to me that made a baseless generalization
The second one on this list, the gift card to Walmart being taken out of the person's paycheck: I've worked in office administration doing payroll for over 17 years and I can guarantee you that is most definitely not legal. That company basically spent the money the employee had worked for. That money is due to that person to spend the way they see fit. Oh that made me so infuriated!!!! 😡😡😡
I thought it wasn't legal! I'd heard an employer got in legal trouble and had to reimburse employees for that in the U.S.
My son's father had died and the next Christmas the executor (his aunt) sent him a cheque from herself, which later came out of his portion of the estate. Some people are just beyond ignorant.
Unless they included the $50 as a pay item, also included it as a deduction (to cancel each other out), but collected taxes on it. That is how we do it. I process payroll for 1400 people. A gift card most likely has to be taxed, and that’s the way it has to be done.
@@abbyjohnson1579 , this! I work for an accounting firm and I can almost guarantee that the $50 is also on the top part of this pay stub. We're only seeing deductions. The top part would have the $50 value of the gift card because it is taxable and income in the US. Sad but true. The $50 for the deduction is reflective of the gift card this person was presented.
@@abbyjohnson1579 He updated his reddit post to say that's what happened. He got an extra $50 on his pay check and they deducted it for tax purposes.
We had to tell grandma to stop sending us gifts. She would ship a box full of random stuff she bought at yard sales. It was always filthy and nothing made any sense. She spent more to ship the box than anything inside.
We didn't want to hurt her feelings so we told her to save the shipping cost and save it up to ship "herself" out to visit us sometime.
That's a great way to handle that.
I work at a thrift store and many seniors say they are buying stuff for grandchildren. Honestly seems unnecessary, they just want to feel like they can help....
My mom gave us stuff she had dumpster dived for. And she told us she had gotten it in the trash! She was proud of it. But, it was stuff that was cheaper than you'd even find at the Dollar Tree.
My last job was in sales for a hospitality company (#3 in the US) and I personally sold over $1.4 million in sales my very first year and to thank me I got a $50 amazon gift card as my Christmas bonus. The kicker is I had previously worked at an ace hardware and my last Christmas bonus from them was $700. So yeah small business owners usually are always more generous and kind to their employees compared to a multi million dollar company.
I agree with this! I work part time for a family run tutoring company and I got a box of custom, high quality chocolates from local companies in my city, while my bf at a huge plumbing company got 50$ for save on foods. The thought and consideration is just not there in the big corporations.
Would get a form letter included with the pay stubs when working for Sobey's a large Canadian grocery store chain
Some (many?) multi-million dollar companies see employee bonuses as cutting into their profits. It's nice they acknowledge you, but sometimes I'd rather they didn't.
One year I told my husband to be creative and make something homemade. Our youngest child was born 9 months later. I love my daughter, but I buy my own Christmas presents now.🤣
Yay! I’m so excited to watch Charlotte today, my family is far away and she makes me feel less homesick somehow. Merry Christmas everyone I hope you’re having a great day!!
Mom? 😂
Merry Christmas to you too.
Sorry you are not with your family!! That sucks this time of year! I hope your day is as great as it can be!!
Merry Christmas to all. I love Charlotte at the very least her videos give me a smile and chuckle.
I am away from my family as well today, Merry Christmas.
"Don't get heart shaped jewelry for your lady"
I like how she tries to make her personal preference a thing all women hate...
The entitlement is strong with this one.
I kinda like the penguin charm
@@lilajswagerriffic Apparently in tarot the penguin enables you to stay focused on your goals - something I just learned today. I like penguins anyway, and I think it's cute too! Maybe we should all go buy penguin charms :)
Ikr! I as a Lady would like and have gotten heart jewelry that I love!
I know, ungrateful and entitled. I just got a heart shaped necklace w/ a mom and babygirl on it that my hubby got me from our 1yr old... It's the most beautiful special gift! I love hearts, my engagement ring diamond is a heart 💞
I was quite surprised! My boss got me a handmade cup with a cute little elephant on top of the handle (I love elephants). I had to work overtime in december so our deal was that I'd get time off after christmas for compensation. But he also gave me cash saying the month went well and he'd appreciate my work. I was speechless! Literally! 🤯
I just started a new job 4 days before Christmas & my boss got me some really gorgeous gourmet chocolates ❤ I thought it was incredibly kind of him, especially considering how new I am. I was genuinely touched by the gesture!
And I'm a waitress at a nice Japanese sushi restaurant, so it's not like a billion dollar company or anything.
The girl who says "don't buy anything with hearts for your girlfriend" really doesn't know what she talks about. I've given jewelry with hearts multiple times and it was all cherished and worn.
I think she's just entitled - If a boyfriend gave me a heart shaped paper cut out it would be the cutest thing ever, let alone if I could wear it!
@@laurenroseanne8205 I agree, and that is my experience as well. :-) Even a heart shaped potato can buy a smile.
Yes, my now-husband gave me origami hearts and love notes on heart-cut-out paper for Valentine’s Day with a stick of my favorite Hi-Chew candy flavor. We were both in college. I was thrilled. It was the cutest thing. I still have them hanging up on the wall eight years later.
@@EvaValenti that's awesome!
Wow, after seeing those "bonuses" from companies, it's no wonder everyone is quitting their jobs! Have a great Christmas Charlotte!
Last year's christmas "bonus" from the grocery store I worked at was a face mask with the company logo on it. By January 3rd, I was looking for another job.
I used to work at the Dean Markley guitar string factory in Kalamazoo, MI. Every Thanksgiving & Christmas we got like a 5 lb ham & a big Butterball turkey. I always appreciated it, since neither of those things are cheap.
I've had 6 different jobs within 3 different careers (University academics, Business. Healthcare) over 20+ years and we've never gotten a holiday bonus. My dad and mom worked for the government, so they've never gotten a holiday bonus either.
My company gives out a year end cash bonus, but they take 1/2 of it and put it in our 401k's. The first couple of years this really pissed me off, as we had no say and I needed that money. Fourteen years of this annual bonus later, needless to say, I am extremely grateful for their fantastic gift.
Of course, Many people are working for companies where the managers and CEO are millionaires and billionaires, yet the employees cannot pay their electricity bill.
The one with the blanket though…
I just started my current job about two months ago. My new boss got me a super swanky and soft blanket for Christmas and I was thrilled and super grateful. I only interact with him maybe twice a month. It was super sweet.
Two of my favorite work presents have been 1. A super soft blanket to cuddle with on the couch and 2. A super soft "sweater blanket" with arm holes to snuggle with on the couch. And I'm perfectly capable of knitting or crocheting or sewing or doing a tie-blanket of anything I would ever want to cuddle with. But I'll still appreciate a good blanket as a company gift.
The girl with the jewelry gifts. Can you be anymore up yourself? Merry Christmas Charlotte and thank you for doing such a great job 💖
Right, I thought they were cute. I would’ve loved it.
Exactly. Those were good gifts. Especially the necklace. And she said they were in highschool! What kind of gifts did she think highschooler could get lol just ungrateful
Yeah those gifts were cute. The penguin was a Pandora item so not super cheap either. I'd have liked either of those. Heck I even thought the novelty piggy bank idea was cute.
Ikr! 2/10 effort? Poor guy was so nervous he literally brought a girl along to help.
The issue with gifting jewelry is you have to really KNOW someones style and likes, its a very intimate gift.
She might have liked a tiny necklace better than a "giant" heart. Other people would love that! And that is the point, it shows how much or little you know about the other persons taste.
My mother used to routinely give me clothing for Xmas - in HER taste & size. A boss at a non-profit I worked for once gave me a $15 gift card to a store I never shopped at that was going out of business (thus limiting the time frame to use the card). I processed her expense reports & saw that she included the purchase of my gift card so she could be reimbursed. Our budget was based on donations. Her salary was guaranteed, mine was hourly & was based on the amount of donations received, so essentially, I paid for my own gift card.
I think the worst Xmas gift I've ever seen was my dad giving my mom a wig from Goodwill. He bought it for her for one reason... It was on sale... At Goodwill. While neither of my parents was that wonderful, no one deserves that.
On a better note... Sort of. I tried pranking my girlfriend (long since wife) by giving her a frying pan, withholding the real gift of a beautiful herringbone necklace. She LOVED the frying pan as it was a very good one but was meh on the necklace... Which got hung on a drawer and broke that same week. 20 years later, we still use the frying pan.
Good quality cookware > jewelry. Unless you sell the jewelry to buy a lot of useful things.
I tried gifting an awesome set of cookware. She wasn’t happy.
Oh boy 😂.
This is wholesome!
I used to buy gifts for my kids to take to my exs family (a whole other story to this one) and one year I was buying the gifts at the markets and spotted a necklace that looked like a male appendage, all 3 peices were there and I wrapped it with glee for my ex mother in law. It still makes me smile thinking about her wearing it in all those photos on FB 😁
I could wear a different piece of heart shaped jewelry for two weeks straight and not repeat. Most have been given to me by my husband, going all the way back 30 years ago when we were dating. I love each and every piece, so that chick that doesn't like heart jewelry only speaks for herself. Thank god.
Enjoying Christmas Day on my own, in my house, no gifts given or received- & enjoying watching Charlotte!
Same goes alone this Christmas and enjoying Charlitte too x
I'm spending it alone as well. No gifts received - I even forgot to buy myself a gift, which was a pretty dumb oversight. At least I get the whole chocolate log to myself!
Same, Covid.
@@macmurphy74 you got a chocolate log?? I've never heard of that, but it sounds yummy.
Same here, but to be honest I don't really mind :) I'm kind of an 'einzelganger' and don't really have any family anyway, I just made a bit nicer food than usually 😁 Hope you (and the other people in the comments) still had (a) good day(s) though 😊 My dog just got some bacon from me, she is still drooling next to me. Yuck 😂
Lmao! The “Outwork Everyone” bracelets is what the Home Depot gave me about 10 years ago during the holidays but refused to up my pay for learning and passing other department training as they were supposed to. Gotta love corporations.
Charlotte, I love you, but as someone with sensory/hearing issues - please never ever let a clip of a repeat sound happen, for that long, ever again🤣🖤😅
I don't have sensory or hearing issues and I found it annoying too. Thank you.
Tad bit too long
I had to turn the sound off it hurt my ears so bad
Yeah it did go too long
True! It was annoying after the first 3.
I'm heavily pregnant and I can pop literally any time now, so this is my first low key Xmas just in bed with my husband, without the rest of the family and I'm so grateful for your video today. You make us laugh so hard! Happy holidays, queen! Thanks for bringing joy all this crazy year ❤️
@@rbwkn thank you!!! Merry Christmas! Love, from Brazil ❤️
Best of luck for the birth. I hope everything goes well for you and baby 🎄🌸❤
Happy popping! Hope all goes well.
Congratulations! I just had my daughter less than a week ago, we had an emergency cesarian, so today is pretty much just me and baby resting and chilling out enjoying each other's company.
My husband got us the gift of Covid this year. He said he was the best husband and father because he got us the gift of time together. We laughed and laughed until we couldn’t stop coughing.
But seriously covid sucks. Take care of each other. We’re not bad off, but it could be so much worse.
My dad once left at 3pm on December 24th (yes, Christmas Eve) and said he'd be back later. When we woke up the next morning, mom had a new coffee table under the tree - which she didn't want because she loved the current coffee table. Dad, super proud of himself, said, "remember yesterday when I left at 3? It was because I realized that I hadn't gotten you anything for Christmas yet."
... a coffee table...
I literally just moved all my things out yesterday, that is my Christmas gift to myself. She's right, freedom is the best gift.
He still doesn't know yet.
Good for you! I hope you're doing great!
This makes me even more grateful for my amazing boss. She's nice to work with and treats all 3 managers equally. This Christmas she took us all out for a manager dinner. We all got jackets, some nice serving platters and $100 checks. Last year we got monogrammed jackets, personalized hydroflasks and $100 checks. Learn from her! That's how you treat you employees!
And her other non-manager employees? Do they get treated well as well?
@@Freya778 great point. I'm curious about that as well.
A dime in a Xmie card from Grandma, year after year. Yet we still loved it...we were little after all.
My bf has given me out-of-date wildflower seeds, ridiculous books with crazy titles even I would not read, bits of cheap chocolate, etc. etc. It never mattered. We always laughed so much over everything and silly gifts count for fun.
My mother accidentally gave me a calendar from 2021 this year and the whole family was rolling!
I have worked at the same soft drink company for 10 years, and for the previous 6 (that I can remember) we were given 2 12-packs of whatever flavor of pop we wanted (as long as it was the most popular selling brands IE our "flagship flavors"). Last year we were allowed to choose from any flavors we produced. This year, they actually stepped it up. Totally shocked me. We got free tickets (popcorn, 2 drinks, and 2 snacks) to a movie theater, 1 DIY gingerbread house, fancy corporate bottle opener (actually very nice looking), and (*drum roll*) a $50 gift certificate to a grocery store. I was totally blown away. For once something that didn't completely suck.
BTW as a side note, everything up until this year could be written off by the corporation for tax purposes, not to mention that every time some product is getting within 1 week of expiring, we get to take some home.
Worst gift I ever got was from my father's mother. She gave me her old broken phone. When I opened the box, coffee grounds fell out of it, so when I moved the faceplate on the back... a banana peel fellll out yall. I was 10. And cried so hard. In front of my whole family who already hated us, and I still don't know why.
Quit talking to all of them right after that.
I'm so sorry, it sounds like she got her phone out of the literal trash to give you. It takes a special piece of work grandma to be so unnecessarily cruel to a child.
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Wow. That’s disgusting on so many levels. I’m so sorry. They probably hated you guys because you didn’t take her bs. Maybe your dad called her out. Jerks like her don’t like that do they?
You all deserved better
ngl, at first I assumed the end of the story was that she had a brain tumor and lost her mind, wth? who does that?
I'm sorry that happened to you, Erika. No kid needs to get caught in the crossfire of petty adult conflicts. Glad the episode at least resulted in no longer having to see the old bat and her evil associates.
Best Christmas gift received today: a video from Miss Charlotte! The fact that it was filled with her genuine, hysterical, lilting laughter was the bow on top!
That must mean she makes every day feel like Christmas
My late husband had a extremely cheap, slightly crazy aunt. She wrapped up a 10 pound cabbage and gave it to my brother in law (age 21) We about died laughing after she left. The cabbage was rewrapped and re gifted to almost everyone in his extended family. It became a family legend.
Reminds me of 'Aunt Bethany' from "Christmas Vacation" who wrapped up the cat food jell-o and her cat-as presents
Former bookkeeper and accounting manager, it is not legal to deduct a gift out of someone's paycheck without permission, stealing under $500is a misdemeanor, declaring theft as a charitable tax deduction is felony fraud.
I can't imagine the required permission conversation. Ö
Wow! I'm always thankful for my employers (primary care physicians), but especially this year. We each got a $500 check...with NO taxes taken out! Healthcare has been super difficult the past two years, but I'm truly grateful to work where I do.
Merry Xmas Charlotte!
A couple weeks ago, my boss was bragging about how good our Christmas bonuses were going to be this year - that they would be better than last year (last year we all got $100 Amazon gift cards which I thought was very generous). Anyways the business is moving locations this week, and we had all planned to help out with the move until our boss told us last week that it would be volunteer basis (and we would not be getting paid)...so we told him we won't be working if we weren't getting paid (duh). Anyways....guess who never got their Christmas bonuses this year.....
Your Resume must be bright, shiny and repolished by now, right? If not, why not?
the bonus was the privilege of helping the business move. what a ripoff
Worst gift ever. My Ex-husband's deceased Wife's jewelry and overalls. Granted, we had met over the same time as our recent trauma in our lives, still not cool.
@@youdontknowmebut or maybe a new garbage can...
@@youdontknowmebut Small "trial size" of glass cleaner for his truck or a tree shaped air freshener to hang from the rear-view mirror. Oh heck, splurge and get him both.
I worked 12 hour days at the #1 top rated family resort in the United States for several years running, (located in Pa,) and our Christmas bonus was a $25 gift certificate to only be used in their gift shops. Not even their market that carries groceries. Meanwhile, they put up billboards all over town thanking their employees for making them soooooo successful! How much did those cost?🤬
Merry Christmas Charlotte! For the record, I love heart jewelery! My hubby even found the perfect heart shaped engagement ring with pink tourmaline baguettes in the sides. I love hearts! Also, I thought the penguins was adorable! What's wrong with that chick???
There was a family who were masters at gag gifts for each other. The best on I heard of was giving a wrapped library book. "It is yours for two weeks, return it before the two weeks are over."
Haha that's actually pretty brilliant.
Beyond the years that my mom "canceled" Christmas because we were too horrible to get anything, like she would literally put up the tree and take it down screaming at us for minor stuff usually a week prior to Christmas. I later found out that it was because she waited too long to get on assistance for Christmas and rather than fess up and say we will have a scaled back Christmas she made it our fault. But the worst gift besides my mom borderline was from my ex husband. Our 2 or 3rd year of marriage he literally got me a wall mount plastic grocery bag holder and that was it. I was so upset and pissed because I went all out for him
I'm glad he's your ex 🤦🏾♀️ I would've waited until the next day and returned all his crap and bought myself my own gifts. Some people are so inconsiderate. I can also relate to the bad childhood Christmases. We'd get asked what we wanted by or stepmom and dad every year only to get nothing and a wack a$$ apology. Meanwhile they've bought themselves birthday and Christmas gifts 🙄 We literally would've been happy to receive socks and underwear.
Ah yes, the narsisstic mother, leading to codependent relationship..... hope things are better now! :)
My parents did some stuff like this, though not as extreme, and as an adult I realize it’s probably because they were stressed about money. I’ve decided my kids will not be told Santa is real, and I will never take my stresses out on them. I am so sorry that happened to you 💕
@@mellamokori Eh, it sucks but what can you do? When my kids were little what we did was santa brought socks, underwear, candy, and the cheaper stuff then mom bought the more expensive gifts so if we were having a lean year it would be easier to explain. But thank you!
@@mellamokori You can still let them know Santa is real and not get them so many gifts.
As a teen I was anti makeup. I never understood the concept of "I feel like crap. Maybe if my eyelids were blue I'd feel better about myself!" A family friend gave me a giant makeup kit. I joked and said "Is this a hint?" and my mother freaked out!! She brought that comment up over and over for the next 40 years. It was the equivalent of giving a Vegan a gift certificate for "The Black Angus"!!
Charlotte's hair is a gift to the world at the moment - it's beautiful! - i can't stop looking at it ....
I would like a heart shaped necklace. I love simple designs and the one she showed was very cute.
My X-Mother-in-law used to always buy me coconut-scented everything: candles, soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, etc. even though she knew that I was mildly allergic. She would always just laugh it off like she forgot or acted like I only pretended to have a reaction to the scent or taste because she loved coconut flavored and coconut scented everything.
My x-mother-in-law used to do similar things all year round. I was practically a baby and she loved torturing me. As a matter of fact, all the females in that family loved torturing me. I was so happy when I got out of that family. Such relief.
Oh dear, you should read my comment on here, I had a mother in law like that. I’m sorry you’ve been through it though. It’s really really hard. Merry Christmas and I pray she eventually warmed up to you.
@@heatherkelley5385 well it’s her ex mother is law so I don’t think it matters now
damn. That sounds like it was 100% intentional
Totally passive aggressive.
My grandma only ever went out once a month, most of the time, to buy groceries for the month. She didn't drive so my mom usually took her, then us when we got older. So because of this we would get things that was available. Girls got shampoo or conditioner, boys got deodorant or shave cream ( when older). We were never upset about, we always used them. We even started to look forward to them. Oh and she ordered thing from catalogs, and we also would get the items she got free for ordering things.
A woman I know got a letter from CPS, informing her she would lose custody of her child. They knew she couldn't get a lawyer during the holidays. The *c-word* that did this, is my neighbor.
CPS are the filth of this planet, they are bottom feeding scum and more people need to know. People always say "call CPS" for dumb reasons but they don't realize that those people come in and they literally destroy lives! They get a bonus check for every child they remove and put in the system so they WANT to remove children, theres a financial incentive. DO NOT call CPS unless its an actual case of child abuse!
@@AcousticGString Who gives them the bonus check?
@@Eeyore9287 CPS is a federal agency, they are paid by the state they work in and the agency is funded by federal money, tax money.
@@AcousticGString completely agree. CPS is a horrible Horrible mess of scummy people, doing scummy things to families. I've only ever dealt with them once, very briefly, and although they were pleasant enough, they were very sneaky and did illegal things. (All because of my daughter's father) but that isn't even the real reason I hate them, it is all the thousand's of horror stories that I've read/heard. They treat poor people.. oh I can't even get into it, it's Christmas I don't want to get upset. But look it up, what they do to Native American population.. and poor people, it's absolutely disgusting.
@@sumrose7972 I am Native American, they are only out to take "adoptable" children from people, kids they can make money on. They have the 1977 Indian Child Welfare Act that has prevented them from taking Native children like they used too but they typically target poor people because they know they can't fight financially. They drag the cases out years and they know that costs money that people just cannot afford. They also get more money on top of that bonus check if the child is labeled with a disability...thats why they often say a child has ADHD or bipolar disorder right away when they do not. Where I live the bonus is around 2400 per child if they can get one of their own doctors to say they have some issue. They then leave kids that are very abused in the home because they are un-adoptable.
My Mom always asked for stuff like a new iron, a new vacuum, a new skillet for Xmas. We kept telling her to think of something better and she would just say she didn't need anything. One Christmas we got her a birthstone ring with all of our stones. She rarely wore it because she didn't really wear jewelry often. 🤷🏼♀️ Eventually after I moved out I started getting her silly stuff. She loves Miss Piggy and I found a Miss Piggy pez dispenser. 😂🤣
I have a friend who was pretty poor growing up (I didn't know her as a kid). She was so excited one Christmas because her brother got her a bike for her gift. She was riding it around on Christmas morning... so happy. And then the cops showed up because her brother had stolen her bike and they took it away.
I don't give or get presents anymore and it has reduced my holiday stress to practically nil. I give gifts year 'round though, like when I see a perfect thing for that person. Merry Christmas!!
My previous employer went all out on Christmas. They had a big dinner for all employees (around 50 of us) and our spouses. We would then play the dirty Santa game where we would take turns picking a gift then stealing others. But, the company bought ALL the gifts-even for the spouses. The last year we worked there I got a clothes steamer and my husband got a nice cordless drill. They treated us so well. Current boss lets each pharmacy put a dinner on the store credit card. No spouses. Oh well, not as bad as some of the stories!
I’m an RN at a prestigious satellite hospital in SoCal- one year the employee holiday gift was an apron. Not like a medical, useful apron, like a baking cookies apron. It was a weird choice.
Whenever an employer gives out a weird gift like that, you can bet that someone in their family has a little business on the side selling that item and they just handed your bonus to their family member. I worked at a law firm that generally gave good bonuses, but some of the smaller holidays of the year, we stopped getting gift cards and started getting these personalized cookie lollipop things that tasted like play-doh on a stick. Yeah, the executive director's daughter had opened some cookie franchise so now all the money we would have been getting was going to his darling daughter to send us inedible cookies.
@@carolinegrova8707 Attorneys are the worst. They like to flash what their money can buy, but cry poor mouth at the holidays. For Christmas one year my yuppie attorney gave me his used stair stepper. He even tied a recycled and drooping red bow on it. He also hadn't bothered to clean the thing. He stood there like an idiot with a huge smile and told me how "lucky" I was to get this stair stepper because it cost a lot of money (it didn't). He also was shocked when I didn't show gratitude for receiving his used gift. We shared space with a CPA and another attorney. They heard about my "fantastic" gift and came down to look it over. They berated my boss for being cheap and giving an inappropriate piece of used dirty equipment. My boss tried to argue his case that I was ungrateful and maybe he should fire me for not showing him gratitude. After all, he reasoned, he had just bought a new BMW, was building a multi-million-dollar home and times were tough.
My ex husbands company insisted on a family potluck Christmas party. Have your family bring food for everyone and then they did the gift exchange. In front of the kids, with out giving the kids anything. Kmart was just down the road so I drove over and bought some of those lifesaver storybooks. Enough for all the kids. I swear I spent more on the party than the company did
The employee bs “bonuses” are too infuriating to laugh about. Executive salaries and bonuses are so ridiculous when compared to their employees, and our taxes continually go to bail these bastards out so they continue to provide jobs, which they go ahead and eliminate anyway.
I work at a physiotherapy clinic as a receptionist and it's a privately owned business so most of us don't get big bonuses or anything but the clinic wide gift always include a free massage, a $75-$150 gift card (Depending on how long you've been there) to different stores every year. (Grocery stores, fast food, liquor stores etc.) Plus something festive like one of those hot chocolate mix/ mug sets. This year, my manager also got all of us hot chocolate bombs. Obviously a big bonus would be nice but I know the company just doesn't have that and the gifts are always so thoughtfull.
I find it bizarre that someone would find a heart-shaped necklace or other piece of jewelry 'tacky and gross'. I mean, sure, if it's weirdly huge or strange in some way, I dunno, maybe made of something odd, go off, then, but... that was a sweet little gold heart necklace and I am just confused that she had that take on it. *shrug* Each to their own, I guess.
Agreed. My husband gave me a heart-shaped necklace last year and I love it.
I'm guessing she really doesn't like hearts, but she should understand that her opinion is not everyone else's. I mean, as I've stated somewhere else in the comments, if it were considered tacky and gross, why do jewelers make so many heart-shaped things, and why do they sell so well?
She sounds like a high maintenance girlfriend. Imagine being a high school kid and buying your girlfriend a necklace and she refuses to wear it because she hates hearts. I think she hated the penguin charm because another girl helped him pick it out.
This girl is just entitled and self centered. She got offended that hr bf wanted her to show off the gift he got her, and then she hated a penguin necklace that was from a nice retailer (either Brighton or Pandora) she didn’t get bad gifts, she’s the bad gift. And she clearly full of herself to think her opinion on jewelry is the end all be all
Yeah I dont personally like heart shaped jewellery and gold isn't my colour (I'm so very pale hahah) but I wouldn't ever make the assumption my preferencr of style is anyone elses. She was a bit rude about it
My mother once gifted me a book. A book that I gifted her a few years before...
It was about spiritual self development and she sayd "I thought you would like these kinds of books". She had totaly forgotten about the fact that I gave it to her 🤦♀️
I'm not against regifting, but you have to be very careful about it. If I have something I really don't like, and haven't used in a long time (talking several years), I tend to donate it. Especially if I don't remember who gave it to me in the first place.
@A H yeah... you're kind of right but in my opinion its something she doesn't want but needs...
Btw you gave me some creepy feelings for a moment bc your initials (?) are the same as hers 😅
This year in the Netherlands there was a hospital where they gave their employees a thermometer for Christmas. Yes, after the year they had… they gave them something they can literally shove up their ass. Needless to say the hospital was roasted to shreds
Wow.
At least they got something!! I've worked for my health authority for almost 12 years and have never received anything above what I earned!
Even the pizza/snacks came from the people I work with, never the hospital!
Which hospital was it?
Actually, I love heart-shaped jewelry. My boyfriend gave me heart-shaped earrings for our first Christmas almost six years ago and I'm still wearing them proudly 🤷🏼♀️
After not receiving Christmas gifts for years at jobs i worked i didnt expect anything at my new job (its a great place) but i got a box full of nice things to eat and a coffee mug.. made me so happy 🥰
The loop of Charlotte laughing made my baby cry. Please don't do that! (Silent night and such)
Have a happy Christmas anyway and thank you for making us laugh despite there not being too many reasons this year. To Charlotte and her whole team: thank you! We love you!
I would have liked the penguin and the heart. I mean trying to figure out what she likes is important, but I suppose it would depend on how long they had been dating. I'd appreciate it for sure either way... unless I specifically told them "I hate heart jewelry" and then they bought me heart jewelry. Someone has to like heart jewelry or they wouldn't make it lol
Wasn't a bad Christmas gift, as my Nanna (R.I.P.) had some brain damage that gave her dementia. But she once got me a bright yellow fluffy photo album with plastic pink hearts all over it. It was meant to be given to my cousin Joanna, but with her "issues", she got the presents mixed up. To not cause my Nanna embarrassment I accepted it, said it was awesome and still have it over two 1/2 decades later. My cousin Jo got my present which was a Lego set. Which I believe she also accepted and later put it together in front of Nana.
Not every girl hates heart shaped jewelry, just the entitled ones.
Say it a little louder for the people in the back
How is it entitled to have a personal taste in jewellery though? Lol it's not entitled to dislike heart shaped jewellery, it's entitled to act like a jerk when receiving it and then go on tiktok years later to put them on blast for it.
Right? I don't even generally wear jewelry, but my boyfriend got me 2 necklaces this year and I wear them constantly
Lol absolutely. My first love gave me a gold heart locket, l still have it, we are married 22 years. I cherished it then and l cherish it now.
What do you mean entitled? The way she talked about that gift was pretty mean and entitled, but the fact itself of not liking heart shaped things is just subjective taste
Those necklaces were actually pretty cute, especially the heart.
not a Christmas gift, but for my 5-year work anniversary. the HR team in my former company gave me (and a friend who was hired at the same time as me) a certificate made in MS Word that had WordArt in it. when we jokingly used them as a mousepads, we were written up by HR and complaints were sent to our manager because we were "not being grateful."
Well that's illegal. I would've sued tbh 😂
Not Christmas but around that time of year, one year I was going on a cruise with my maternal grandma. My paternal grandma must have told this family friend she worked with. Because she gave her a "dress" for me to wear to the fancy dinner on the ship. Grandma showed it to me all excited. It was a nightgown, not a dress. I said nothing. I did pack it for the cruise and I still have it to this day. Its a great winter night gown and I love it.
A couple years ago I got a gift from an old friend that was a book. A couple weeks after I was gifted it, she started to call and text repeatedly and tell me to pay for it cuz she needed the money. I ended up putting the book on eBay and when she said she wanted the book back. I messaged her the link to purchase it in my eBay shop.
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@@mermaidlifeonearth oh, man was she mad. 😂😂😂
I love getting the opportunity to have a laugh after you post every day!! Merry Christmas!
My Grandmother gave me a $0.59 cent package of dates rolled in coconut. She wrapped it nicely. Yet she left the price tag right on top of the package. I was rather surprised... I still ate them, they were good at least.
I remember before our family Christmas parties, there was one time my sister and I spent a whole week planning gifts for the rest of the kids (we were like ten, and most of them were our age or a bit older). Some of them were toys we already had, but that was just under the circumstance that one of them had wanted it previously (we gave our younger cousin our brother’s old nerf gun (with his permission) because he’d wanted it for a while after playing with it when he was over recently). We even tried our hand at hand-stitching a pillow made from our dad’s old jeans in the shape of a J for our older cousin (we had our own pillows in the shapes of the first letter of our names, and we loved them, so we wanted to give one to him, and we thought it was better than a toy or something more childish since he was older). We were ten, but we tried harder than our parents.🤷🏼♀️
I worked at Half Price Books for almost 16 years and when I first started, we usually got a profit sharing check on the last day of November. Then we had a holiday party the second Sunday of December which included a Christmas bonus check usually given out at the party. We closed our stores 2-3 hours early on that Sunday and while a small thing, it felt like actual appreciation and a huge break in the middle of the holiday shopping crazy. Then one year for Christmas they moved the party to the end of January, which felt like a huge slap in the face and did NOT feel like appreciation at all. They also removed literally all of the best parts from the prizes to the decent booze to the good food and even the cookie baking competition. They just started using the same garbage catering company every year who made the same crap every year that was not that good. Still attended for a while to spend time with coworkers I liked, but eventually stopped going as all of the fun had been sucked out of it.
I've genuinely- genuinely- never learnt my worth anywhere as much as I have from you. Idk what that says about my family nor who I hang around with but no one has taught me my value and how I should care about my time like you lol. Is that terrible? At least now I know. Seriously thank you and Happy Xmas/ buon natale Charlotte :)
Hey. Just an internet stranger here, but I see you and want you to know that I am genuinely rooting for you in life and want you to know that you are genuinely priceless. You are beautiful and unique and you deserve the world. I hope your holidays, whatever you celebrate, are grand.