Today, it's Christmas Day. Normally, my family would be opening gifts right now. Instead, my mom is holding our gifts hostage until we clean the house. Apparently, "The presents aren't going anywhere." FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I thought my mom and I could put aside our differences and open our Christmas presents. When she opened mine, she turned to my dad and said she didn't want the present, so I could give it to someone else. 'Tis the season. FML
Today, my mom got drunk and decided to unwrap all my Christmas gifts and throw them at the wall. Ho, ho, ho. FML
Today, my mother has stooped to a new level of "hiding" Christmas gifts. She now just dumps them in the middle of the floor and says, "Don't look at them." If she even thinks I'm glancing in the direction of the pile, she will burst into a manic rage, and yell at me for "ruining the surprise." FML
Today, my mother has issued a 'Christmas Ultimatum'. The rest of us have exactly 2 days to "get some Christmas around here" or we will feel her wrath. FML
Today, I waited anxiously until midnight to open my Christmas presents. As the clock struck midnight, I ran out into the living room, super-excited to open them, only to discover that everyone in our house had already opened theirs, and had all gone to bed. FML
Today, my family decided to break tradition and wake up at midnight to open presents. I didn't find out until I went downstairs to get a glass of water in the middle of the night, and found wrapping paper and empty boxes everywhere. FML
Today, I've had my tenth "Christmas" dinner since Christmas last took place. My mum has gone nuts and keeps playing Christmas music, making these dinners, and refusing to let me take down the Christmas decorations. My dad is too whipped to save us from this hell. FML
Today, on the third of February, my mom finally relented and let us take the Christmas decorations down. FML
Today, my parents refused to give my daughter her Christmas presents as an act of revenge against her father. FML
Today, my mom is coming to pick up the Christmas presents we got for her and her husband. She won’t come inside or come within 6 feet, so she can be healthy when she goes down to the ex-wife’s parents house to hang out. The ex in-laws that hate me. Glad my mom chose them over me. FML
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Top comments
Saturn_fml 23
Unless you have a 5 story mansion with tons of rooms and she wants you to clean all windows, floors, ceiling etc then it's not really that bad.
DontClickOnMe 28
Haha, sounds like something my mom would do. She's such a perfectionist. But hey, at least you're still getting the presents! Merry Christmas!
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Comments (82)
twilightluvr101 4
Honistly if ur old enough to be on this site then u should be old enoigh to kleen up after urself nd help.with the chores, think if only u wou Uld have done this the day b4 u would have ur gifts already
insanelyXnikki 18
A lot of people think ydi or whatever but honestly cleaning first thing on Christmas morning sounds awful haha... I mean if I was going to ask someone to clean, I wouldn't want to ruin the Christmas spirit by making them do it on Christmas morning.
cunningchick 1
Neither is the house!
insanelyXnikki 18
And besides that, the house is just about to get dirty again with all the presents being unwrapped and whatnot, so why clean it up just to clean it up a second time? Lol
kurofuchs 5
I'm guessing she's tired of working to get everything done and would like help. My aunts family does absolutely nothing to help her and gets to enjoy all of her hard work without even appreciating her. Offer to help next time and this won't happen.
lightfantastic 0
Quick fix. Quit being a spoiled brat and clean the goddamn house
cherrysizzle1 0
My mom didn't let me open them until I gave the control to her room and I remembered that I had hid it in my aunts car trunk and she had left like 30 before. :(
amhort 4
Good on her!
clutz123 5
actually, i would do the same thing; help clean up!
lbdancing 2
not everyone cares that much about presents. I haven't even opened mine yet and it's been 2 days!