When the next Christmas arrived, she found the perfect gift: a giant box filled with toilet paper. She wrapped it and placed it under the tree. On Christmas morning, her husband’s eyes lit up when he saw the box with his name on it.
But his face fell when he opened it, and she wryly reminded him, “Christmas is about meeting our family’s needs.”
Her husband was vocal about his disappointment, but her family found it fitting, and it soon became a running joke. Ever since that holiday, no husband in the family has dared to buy a vacuum cleaner or a mop as a “gift” for his wife.
Reddit users shared their own stories of holiday “gifts gone wrong.” One woman recalled receiving an alarm clock after her husband’s own had broken, while another recounted how her father-in-law gifted his wife a mop—only for her to find a necklace hidden on the handle.
When asked if her husband’s gift-giving skills improved after the toilet paper incident, she revealed that he never gave her another gift. Sadly, he passed away two years later.
What do you think of the woman’s approach? Would you have done the same, or taken a different approach?