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    He's such a dick, he doesn't even respect me enough to tell me when they were arriving or leaving for this visit. Something I may need to know as I'm running the house!

    So, this morning he's all nice and suddenly treating me like a human. Then he says - Hey, we're leaving on Friday. Can you follow us downtown so we can drop off the rental car and then drive us to the airport? I respond - Sorry, I'm tied up Friday afternoon. If you would have told me sooner it would have been no problemo

    I am busy Friday but could get out of it in a heartbeat if I want Fuck him
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    Good for you

    Too bad you have to wait until Friday for them to GTFO though.

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    Not like I'm counting the seconds or anything...

    (251,800 seconds)

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    I have to get this out and then I'll stop complaining about my waste of a sperm load brother.

    I tell my family I don't want to celebrate Christmas this year and want to be alone.
    Brother disrespects this and comes here...to celebrate Christmas. He has three other offers at other places to do this.
    I don't have a job, he makes about 130k a year.
    I decide to suck it up and get everyone nice gifts. I buy French Press coffee makers and strainers to clean them with, plus clothes for people.
    I tell him specifically - I quit drinking coffee, and it was ironic I got a few people French Presses (along with a handy how-to instruction sheet from researching them).
    I tell him specifically the day he arrives - I don't need or want gift cards, I don't drink coffee (second time) and money would probably be the best thing I could receive, thank you.
    He goes shopping while he's here on Christmas Eve (because he's so disorganized and doesn't think about others first).
    Open my gift from him and his wife (dual income family, she makes a bundle doing hair at an upscale a salon) and it's a....

    ...cheaper version of the same French Press I gave them If you don't drink coffee, in a nutshell...you need to buy whole beans, you should buy a specific type of bean grinder called a burr grinder, and a person could get snobby and use a scale/timer/etc to make this type of coffee properly. It's not hard, but think espresso or specialty coffee rather than the normal pot 'o sludge.

    Did I mention I'm trying to quit drinking coffee?

    Then I find out he got my sister a 25 dollar gift card to Tim Hortons! Same thing I got from him last year. I would be livid if I was her. She makes fudge for an army of people, sends multiple gifts with the fudge, and sends people like me a check for 100 dollars on top of it all, and this is a 'slim' Christmas in terms of giving according to her. Her son just had a baby a few days before Xmas, so even with that HUGE distraction, my sister is a total giver and a very kind person in terms of Christmas.

    Then my asshole...umm..then my brother says to both of us - Sorry it was tight Christmas for cash for us this year and it's reflected in the gifts we had to give.

    Two flights out here return at Christmas time - 989 bucks
    Car rental for 6 days - over 300 bucks
    Money spent here on 'their food' since they arrived (both are BIG eaters) 200 dollars

    1500 at least...

    Combined total of gifts for his only brother and only sister - 45 dollars.

    Whew, that was a lot and I usually don't put Christmas in monetary terms like this. You give what you can. Like my Dad taught me, giving a nice, thoughtful present is the best present you can give yourself. If he's watching my brother right now, he would be ashamed of him.


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    Isnt he the guy that looks like an overweight Michael Caine?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    Isnt he the guy that looks like an overweight Michael Caine?
    my brother? I don't think I've ever posted a picture of him here.

    I only take pictures of the ones I love

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    Maybe you can make him a going away cup of coffee....with a touch of rat poison in it

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    One of them "the help" cakes..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Maybe you can make him a going away cup of coffee....with a touch of rat poison in it
    Coincidence....him and I just had a very long, serious conversation about life since I made that post.

    I got a misty eyed talking about my Mom and Dad and Christmas is general.

    I got my Mom four nice sweaters and some chocolates. Since she's in a dementia care facility, she may not even wear the clothes as things go missing, other patients wander around and take stuff etc...it's normal. Him and I saw my Mom on Xmas, gave her the gifts and I said - This one is from me and Dave (my brother), because he didn't even buy her one.

    So today, he just said to me like two minutes ago - Here's a 20 to help with Mom's gift

    Okay I'm going to be an ass again .... The clothes I bought my Ma were in excess of a 100 dollars fully realizing she may never wear them and that she won't understand where they came from.

    I am miles from perfect and part of me feels like shit for even explaining the cost of gifts on a forum....but I sleep fine at night and am glad I don't share any of his Patrick Bateman genes.

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    I guess him giving you a $20 is at least a little bit of progress

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    I guess him giving you a $20 is at least a little bit of progress
    His daughter, my niece....gave me a prepaid 50 DOLLAR Visa gift card.

    Me in loud voice - THANKS SNOOKI (my nickname for her) THAT WAS SUCH A NICE THING TO DO FOR YOUR UNCLE HAL!!!!

    I have no shame in these matters

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    Okay, I'll stop. Christmas shouldn't be about cost.

    But I will quote myself because my Dad was a beautiful man.

    "Like my Dad taught me, giving a nice, thoughtful present is the best present you can give yourself."


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    Don't feel bad about complaining, I have the same issue with on of the wife's kid's and her husband. Cheap fucking bastards they are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Don't feel bad about complaining, I have the same issue with on of the wife's kid's and her husband. Cheap fucking bastards they are.
    If you can't...you can't. But my brother lives in a different tax bracket and when I saw him online shopping on his laptap for a winter coat that approached 1000 dollars...and he had just given me the we don't have much cash for Christmas line ....he's making a choice, not trying to live within a budget.

    Like I said to my sister (who has to mediate between the two of us) "My gift to him this year will be brand new locks on the doors."

    she said - Nooooooooooo, you can't do that hal

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