A woman removes herself from a family Christmas gift exchange after her relatives refuse to consider her financial limitations.
Gifts are also part of the Christmas spirit as you can make the people you love happy by giving them one. The poster can no longer afford to give gifts to almost 40 of her close family members like she had every other year, as money was a little tight for her this time around. In the past, she has tried to protest over it and suggested an alternative, but they have always brushed her off.
When they ignored her protest this year, she said she would gift them all ramen noodles, which angered them so much that they removed her from the group. She is sad that she can’t give her child a big Christmas like every other year but also doesn’t care what her family thinks as they removed her from the group. In today’s story, the original poster (OP) is the mom of a 4-year-old boy, and she just got her first apartment after saving for four years while working three jobs. Wow, what a determined young lady! Although her hard work finally paid off, she’s now in a pretty tight spot and can’t really afford to buy Christmas presents for her almost 40 close family members. The story also shows that house prices in the US recorded the biggest annual increase in 35 years with a 20.6% rise in 2022. No wonder the woman is experiencing a financial crisis—and she’s a single mother. In the past, she has tried to come up with an alternative, like Secret Santa, but they wanted to do a gift exchange later on which didn’t really work for her. This year as well, she asked that she be left out of all of it, but they simply refused to listen to her. Their reason was that it was “only $5,” but she tells us that actually, the limit comes to around $100, which honestly sounds absurd. It states that over 60% of the average American’s holiday budget is dedicated to gifts and presents. Woah! That’s a lot of money that the poster just cannot indulge in. She even jokingly suggested to the famil
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