Her Girlfriend Refuses To Open Gifts For Decades If They Are Wrapped Nicely, So After She Recently Opened One, Her Girlfriend Was Furious
This 29-year-old woman and her girlfriend, who is 30, have been dating for six years. Recently, they also moved into her girlfriend’s parents’ home to save money amidst the tough financial market.
“My girlfriend’s parents have a huge, beautiful house on land, and we all get along well. I am incredibly grateful for this,” she said.
However, since moving back in, she’s realized that her girlfriend has an interesting habit– holding onto gifted items for years just because they were “wrapped nicely.”
For instance, in their bathroom cabinet, there are dozens of bath and skincare products that have gradually piled up over the years. The products were either gifted to her girlfriend before they met or to her girlfriend’s mother.
But her girlfriend’s mom does not use any of the items and allows them to pick out whatever they want from the massive collection.
It just so happens that a lot of the products are also wrapped very well in boxes or wrapping paper with bows.
“And my girlfriend has a thing for things that are wrapped cute and values the box more than the product,” she explained.
“My girlfriend even has gifts in her room that she got 12 years ago that she refuses to open because she thinks the wrapping is ‘too nice to open.'”
Three years ago, she was even gifted a really nice soap from her girlfriend’s family. Yet, because the box was hand-crafted origami, her girlfriend forbade her from using the soap!
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Instead, the item just sat in their closet until it was eventually thrown away while they were moving.
Still, she learned to live with her girlfriend’s tendency until just the other day when they were taking a shower.
While washing up, they happened to run out of soap, and her girlfriend asked her to go into a drawer in the bathroom to grab another bar.
At that point, she asked if she could use a different kind of soap, and her girlfriend claimed that there “should be more options.”
“So, instead of picking up the mass-produced 12-pack box, I randomly picked up one that was wrapped in a small paper box with a small bow on it, which was at the very bottom of this drawer that is rarely opened,” she recalled.
She also claimed that, compared to the other wrapped gifts, this particular bar of soap looked very plain.
Anyway, she wound up opening it, and she came to find out that the soap actually belonged to her girlfriend’s mom.
It’s crucial to point out that her girlfriend’s mom doesn’t even know that the soap existed. In fact, the bar was so old that it had even lost its smell.
Still, her girlfriend is really mad at her.
“And I feel bad, but I also know this might be insane. My logic is that it’s made to be used,” she reasoned.
So now, she’s wondering whether her girlfriend is just overreacting or if she really did mess up by opening up the decades-old present.
Have you ever saved a gift just because the wrapping was pretty? Or do you think it’s crazy to hold onto dozens of unopened gifts? Was she in the wrong here or not?
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