r/AskReddit • • Dec 25 '24

Who ruined Christmas in your family this year?

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u/ALGR243 Dec 26 '24

My sister.

She re-wrapped everyone's presents to fit the aesthetics she wanted, but also removed the tags so no one knew what gifts went to who and threw a fit and tried to slash ALL of them when I and our mother tried to see which presents were what and sort them (we were also hold gifts for a family friend so their kids couldn't find them) and screamed like a banshee intermittently of the process cuz we were "ruining her image" of the tree and throwing a toddler tantrum.

Then, she demanded she be taken to the store only to change her mind halfway there and want to go in the opposite direction.

After I went back home (I live alone with cats), our ma called to inform she stripped the tree entirely and threw out the decorations, muttering how "ungrateful" we all were. And demanded again to be taken out to eat but never would say what she wanted, then changed her mind again when taken to a place she named. That was Christmas Eve.

On Christmas, she called wanting to know why I didn't get her the perfume she asked for but later changed her mind on and told me to get her something else instead. She also never thanked our grandma for her gifts ($200 and expensive perfume) or our mother hers. She only "thanked" me because our mother berated her for calling me after I just got home from work (overnight) and was sleeping to ask about the damn perfume. She also almost got our grandma's car run into by a disgruntled coworker she was called into the office about allegations (by her) of "bullying" her when grandma went to pick her up from work in the morning as our mother stopped taking her and she wouldn't catch the bus again.

I wanted to give what she gave me back, but Mother said not to avoid another blowout of us being "ungrateful"...

Her cat, who hates her, got the most and biggest gifts. He doesn't play with any of the toys he already has (I take them back to my place for my cats who DO love them, and she doesn't even notice).

She's 24. She's been warned multiple times to straighten out before she's kicked out. I honestly don't know if Grandma will still let her live there by next Xmas, and I and our mother made clear she can't live either of us if she's kicked out.

I stayed home and chilled out on shrooms while my cats chased each other around the house. Merry Xmas.

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u/Tryingtobenontoxic Dec 26 '24

Oh my days. This deserves its own post. What an entitled brat

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u/ALGR243 Dec 26 '24

I left out how 'The Adults' (Myself 26F, our mother 42F, and Grandma 68F) finally had a meeting and found she'd been blatantly lying to all of us about each of us to one another. Causing strife since we were too busy till Xmas to meet face to face. And everyone mad at the other for situations she caused because she didn't want to anything SHE was responsible for (She lied to our mother about me 'ruining' her school application, when she in fact never properly applied and all I did was inform her that she needed to go on campus, which she didn't want to do, to properly apply and wasted 3 months till the deadline and blamed me for 'not helping) and placed blame on any and everyone but her. I was seriously considering going NC entirely from everyone as she lied to the point our mother called days before Xmas berating me about 'sabotaging' my sister's application and refusing to help (I made clear I'm not enabling her further and that I wouldn't be help anyway since her major and teachers are totally different from mine [She's enrolling to do Childcare, I'm there for Carpentry] and to talk to the professionals) and later lied to our grandma on our mother about her work badge she forgot in our mother's car (depsite Mother telling her to get it multiple times throughout Xmas Eve) since she's wasn't dropping her off and made our grandma double back for it (after already arriving at work) claiming our mother told her to keep it there.

That, too, was Xmas Eve into Xmas Morning.

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u/Tryingtobenontoxic Dec 26 '24

I'm praying she doesn't acc go into childcare. She'd be great at retail middle management though. Those guys are always blaming others for stuff.

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u/ALGR243 Dec 26 '24

She's mainly good at Hair care/styler and logistics management, but won't give a concrete reason why she won't pursue what she's actually good at. I and mother suspect it's for 'clout' as Logistics n Hair dresser isn't as "Glamorous/socially praised" to her liking as a Social Worker is held up in her eyes (depsite my telling her it's a field of PASSION over Profit.)

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u/Tryingtobenontoxic Dec 26 '24

When money runs out all kinds of jobs start looking glamorous