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Am I being ungrateful or do I have a right to be a little upset?
Just please rad and don't tell me "you're ungrateful!"I never have spare cash-ever. There is always something that needs to be paid for, like my food, gym membership,etc. And my parents never buy me stuff I actually love. This year I decided i would make a list&guide my parents into what I wanted. The big thing was I had broken my digital camera and I wanted a replacement.They agreed, and told me I could pick any one.
I spent $200 on my parents gifts which means I had to give up a lot.Christmas Eve I had to spend at a friends house and watch her open tons of boxes marked "Bloomingdales", "nordstroms", she even got a new digital camera as well.But i kept thinking "well, at least I can get a new camera.." So after my parents opened all their gifts, I realized there was only one box for me. It was seven hanes tank tops!They told me they were getting my old camera(that i hated and really banged up) fixed. Now i'm upset and my parents don't understand why. Do i have a right to be upset?
By the way, I'm really not jealous of my friend. a few years ago i wouldv'e been, but we've been best friends for years and it's a lot more fun to just like everything with her, plus iknow i'll end up borrowing it. i'm just mad at my parents...
and belive me it's NOT money problems. rrrr i sound like a brat. but we aren't even spending x-mas together! they are making me go to my friends g-ma's house.
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- Bethany JLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
I don't think you have a right to be upset but you do have a right to be jealous of your friend's Christmas. That is natural to be jealous in a case like this. You would like to be the one receiving the nice gifts and not some crummy Hanes tank tops. What is that anyway? Who needs 7 of those? I think next year you should scale back how much you spend on Christmas. It's not the amount spent anyway. It's the idea to get together with friends and relatives and celebrate Christ's birth. Just buy them each one inexpensive present next year. They certainly did that for you this year. Maybe they are setting out to make sure you learn the value of a dollar. Teach them the same lesson.
- 1 decade ago
OMG< you have every right to be upset!!! I would be mad too. But, guess what my parents bought me? A gutair! And I hate playing instruments and I'm only 14 and I asked for a bunch of other stuff like a Dooney and Bourke purse, hollister hoddie and other stuff. Oops, sorry didn't mean to rant. But, I would just explain to your parents that they told you that you were getting a new digital camera and you don't like how they went back on their word. Hopefully, they'll understand.
- 1 decade ago
you can be upset but dont show it cuz i mad ethe same mistake once and it ended up that my mom had money problems and so she couldn't afford the most expensive thing, she relized that i wasnt happy and begged money to my grandmother so that she could buy me s omething i realized i acted like a spoiled brat and made everyone sad and my brother didn't want to taalk o me. all for one stupid present. i made it up now but i took a couple of months to fix it a little.
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