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Input: About a week ago, my aunt and uncle took me to Hawaii as a little surprise vacation to celebrate my acceptance into nursing school (yay!). My uncle is an investor while my aunt owns her own bridal salon; needless to say, they’re pretty well off. And while they spared no expense for the trip, I didn’t want them paying for anything I brought back because Hawaii was amazing enough (I had to *reeally* fight them on this too).

I spent a little over $300 in total on gifts. On the last day of the trip, my mom called and asked me to buy gifts for three of my cousins because their mom had given us gift cards this year. We normally don’t celebrate xmas/exchange gifts with them, so it caught me off guard a bit. Nonetheless, I walked down to the ABC store and started looking.

My aunt had shown me another ABC outside of the hotel earlier on because they had better deals, so I decided to walk over and check it out. Low and behold, they had a magnificent 5/$20 shirt deal going on. I was also able to get 2 additional shirts for my other cousins (whom I’m very close with), so it was a win-win in my head. I even had them all pick the shirts out themselves through FaceTime to make sure they liked and would fit in them.

Fast forward to the day I get home, and my mom is fuming with anger when she finds out what I got them. She said I was cheap and selfish to spend so little on them (they gave us $20 Starbucks gift cards) and compared them to the $11 shirts I had bought for my siblings (I got them from the hotel ABC store prior to finding that wonderful 5/$20 deal at the street ABC). Then she decided that she was just going to buy entirely different gifts for them herself.

I would’ve never guessed my mom would get so worked up over something like this. For starters, she doesn’t like that aunt *at all*. Neither does most of my family (some decades-long drama), but I like my cousins just fine. I’m just not close with them, so I wasn’t planning on spending a whole lot on them. I probably should’ve gotten them an additional souvenir or something just because of the $20 vs $4 disparity, but I don’t think the shirts are a bad gift... heck, I would’ve got one for myself if I hadn’t already spent so much. I’m going to give them the shirts anyways just because I already got them, but I wanted to know if it really was an asshole move on my part? 






buying $4 shirts as gifts