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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Like writing in our diaries, except we say I'm alowd
we call the blogs. I'm gonna do one because I
want to know if you guys can relate to this,
dear blog. This time of year, May and June are
very expensive times in my family because you've got Father's Day,
Mother's Day, my dad's birthday, my mom's birthday, and my
sister's birthday. So for sixty days, I do nothing but
(00:21):
spend money. And my sister and I were talking about
this yesterday, and it's the same thing every year. She
and I get on the phone and go, all right,
what are we gonna do for mom? What are we
gonna do for Dad? What are we gonna do for
Father's Day? What are we gonna do for her birthday?
And we wind up coming up with something. But I
don't even know if it's what they would want or
(00:42):
if they even care, because if you ask my parents
what do you want, they'll say nothing. But they do
want something, and they should get something because they deserve it.
But at the same time, it's like you don't need anything,
and then it's like, well, I just want to spend
time with you, and then it's like okay, now I
got to figure out how we're gonna do that. It
just is so complicated, And I wonder if there are
(01:02):
any families or any of you guys, Like everyone likes
to get a gift, and if you want something like
this year, at least they said to us, this is
what we would like. I love, so we can just
go get it. And I realize it takes the surprise away,
but like, here you go. And I don't get me wrong,
like I love a gift on my birthday. You guys,
for example, are wildly thoughtful and and remember things. But
(01:25):
then again, I spend more time with you guys than
I do them, so like I, it's easier for me
to think of what it's stressful, but easier for me
to come up with stuff to buy you guys, because
at least I sit here all morning, five hours a day,
five days a week and listen to what you know,
you guys are into and you want. I don't do
that with my parents. But I just wonder if there
are any families out there that have just said, you
(01:45):
know what, forget it, like forget it on the gifts,
like just just just call me on my birthday.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, Fred, I can relate because the three people I'm
looking at, and we'll throw Shelley in starting with Shelley's birthday.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Then it's you three. Yeah. Then it's the holidays.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, and I gotta buy for both of those, for
at least one of you and then my family, So yeah,
I can relate.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yah. So November and December stressful around here, uh huh.
May June is stressful for me, you know, and it's
like I don't know, like maybe we all just like
chip it on a trip and then we all just
get together and and it just it serves all the masters,
but it's just like I'm telling you, it's extremely stressful. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So my friend actually does do that. They stop doing
gifts for Christmas with her dad's side, and what they
do is they all throw in for you know, a
vacation where they can spend time. So usually they'll go
up to like northern Michigan, you know, with all of them,
and like they put their money towards that, so like
an experience maybe, but then.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, right, but then it's like I don't know, I'll
buy my mom something really nice one year and then
it's like I can't Maybe I can't keep that up.
I don't know, So then do I get her something
equally nice next year?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I don't know hard and they do something different?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
It is, Yeah, it's all right, but don't you dare
talk about just a phone call? Yeah, okay, Dad, don't
get crazy now, you can figure something out.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Thing you can give them, You should find them here. No,
I'll be honest with you. And I love my dad.
I love my sister, I really do. But the person
that I spend the most money on and the most
time thinking about is my mom by a mile. And
I love my dad. I love my dad, but he
just doesn't receive gifts the same way. Like he's grateful
and stuff, but like he would be happy with something
(03:23):
just so basic, but I still don't even know what
that is. Because even if it's like a twenty five
dollars thing, he sits at his office and if he
sees it on you know, Kickstarter or whatever, he just
buys it. Or he wants a book, he just buys it.
And I'm the same way, by the way, like if
I don't go out and buy like big stuff for myself,
but like I don't sit and go I want to
read this book in six months. You can buy it
(03:44):
from me for my birthday and then send it, you know,
send it to whatever. I don't know, And then I
feel like someone said gift cards. I feel like gift
cards are kind of impersonal your parents. No, yeah, that's
unless you're asking for gift cards. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Apparence, You guys need to speak up, like please, this
whole guessing game. My sister does this Mother's Day's coming up.
We are going to say, what do you want? She's
gonna like, listen, lady, help us help.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, just say it. Tell me what you want. Give
me like three options in them or even two price range.
Give me an expensive one and a moderate.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Price one, right, like a list or something, because I can't.
Every year I said that I don't need anything.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I don't even let's cut the charade.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
We both know I'm going to get you something. Yeah,
we both know I'm gonna spend my money, So don't
you want it to be on something that you'll actually lose?
Every year we do that, I'm like, I can't do
it anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Next time that somebody says to me, like in my family,
I don't need anything, okay, I don't have it, right, Okay,
you know what your anxiety would never let that foot.
But that's how we feel. That's how we teach people
a lesson. Yes, no, all right, And then they call
him happy Birthday, like, where's my gift? You said you
didn't want anything I offered? You said you don't want anything.
(04:57):
And next year they won't make that mistake. They'll come
up with thing. And then like my sister, you know,
I want to get her a nice gift, but really
it's her husband's job to get the nice, nice gift.
I used to be the one to give my parents
and I would be the ones to give her the
nice gift when she wasn't married. For Mother's Day. No
Mother's Day, we send her something, but I mean for
her birthday or Christmas, like normally one of us would
(05:19):
would get her like the nice thing. Well, now that's
his job. It's all my job. But there's certain stuff.
I don't need to be buying her jewelry. I don't
need to be buying her like expensive stuff. But I
also need to upstage. I don't need to upstage him either,
And he has other obligations. He's got two kids and
a wife and a house and a bunch of stuff
I don't have. But yet, do I need to be
the one to give the nicer gift than her own husband?
(05:40):
Probably not? What if that's emasculating. I don't mean I'm
not trying to upstage him. You don't. Don't think of
it like that. My brothers, if you're listening, don't think
of it. Give me the good gift, you know, Okay,
don't worry about upstaging Big tim forget about. That's fine.
And if they want to buy your ring, about it?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What about?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You want to picture? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I would? Are you wait? Yeah? Mix you all about?
We'll marry each other
Like writing in our diaries, except we say I'm alowd
we call the blogs. I'm gonna do one because I
want to know if you guys can relate to this,
dear blog. This time of year, May and June are
very expensive times in my family because you've got Father's Day,
Mother's Day, my dad's birthday, my mom's birthday, and my
sister's birthday. So for sixty days, I do nothing but
(00:21):
spend money. And my sister and I were talking about
this yesterday, and it's the same thing every year. She
and I get on the phone and go, all right,
what are we gonna do for mom? What are we
gonna do for Dad? What are we gonna do for
Father's Day? What are we gonna do for her birthday?
And we wind up coming up with something. But I
don't even know if it's what they would want or
(00:42):
if they even care, because if you ask my parents
what do you want, they'll say nothing. But they do
want something, and they should get something because they deserve it.
But at the same time, it's like you don't need anything,
and then it's like, well, I just want to spend
time with you, and then it's like okay, now I
got to figure out how we're gonna do that. It
just is so complicated, And I wonder if there are
(01:02):
any families or any of you guys, Like everyone likes
to get a gift, and if you want something like
this year, at least they said to us, this is
what we would like. I love, so we can just
go get it. And I realize it takes the surprise away,
but like, here you go. And I don't get me wrong,
like I love a gift on my birthday. You guys,
for example, are wildly thoughtful and and remember things. But
(01:25):
then again, I spend more time with you guys than
I do them, so like I, it's easier for me
to think of what it's stressful, but easier for me
to come up with stuff to buy you guys, because
at least I sit here all morning, five hours a day,
five days a week and listen to what you know,
you guys are into and you want. I don't do
that with my parents. But I just wonder if there
are any families out there that have just said, you
(01:45):
know what, forget it, like forget it on the gifts,
like just just just call me on my birthday.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, Fred, I can relate because the three people I'm
looking at, and we'll throw Shelley in starting with Shelley's birthday.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Then it's you three. Yeah. Then it's the holidays.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, and I gotta buy for both of those, for
at least one of you and then my family, So yeah,
I can relate.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yah. So November and December stressful around here, uh huh.
May June is stressful for me, you know, and it's
like I don't know, like maybe we all just like
chip it on a trip and then we all just
get together and and it just it serves all the masters,
but it's just like I'm telling you, it's extremely stressful. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So my friend actually does do that. They stop doing
gifts for Christmas with her dad's side, and what they
do is they all throw in for you know, a
vacation where they can spend time. So usually they'll go
up to like northern Michigan, you know, with all of them,
and like they put their money towards that, so like
an experience maybe, but then.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, right, but then it's like I don't know, I'll
buy my mom something really nice one year and then
it's like I can't Maybe I can't keep that up.
I don't know, So then do I get her something
equally nice next year?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I don't know hard and they do something different?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
It is, Yeah, it's all right, but don't you dare
talk about just a phone call? Yeah, okay, Dad, don't
get crazy now, you can figure something out.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Thing you can give them, You should find them here. No,
I'll be honest with you. And I love my dad.
I love my sister, I really do. But the person
that I spend the most money on and the most
time thinking about is my mom by a mile. And
I love my dad. I love my dad, but he
just doesn't receive gifts the same way. Like he's grateful
and stuff, but like he would be happy with something
(03:23):
just so basic, but I still don't even know what
that is. Because even if it's like a twenty five
dollars thing, he sits at his office and if he
sees it on you know, Kickstarter or whatever, he just
buys it. Or he wants a book, he just buys it.
And I'm the same way, by the way, like if
I don't go out and buy like big stuff for myself,
but like I don't sit and go I want to
read this book in six months. You can buy it
(03:44):
from me for my birthday and then send it, you know,
send it to whatever. I don't know, And then I
feel like someone said gift cards. I feel like gift
cards are kind of impersonal your parents. No, yeah, that's
unless you're asking for gift cards. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Apparence, You guys need to speak up, like please, this
whole guessing game. My sister does this Mother's Day's coming up.
We are going to say, what do you want? She's
gonna like, listen, lady, help us help.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, just say it. Tell me what you want. Give
me like three options in them or even two price range.
Give me an expensive one and a moderate.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Price one, right, like a list or something, because I can't.
Every year I said that I don't need anything.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I don't even let's cut the charade.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
We both know I'm going to get you something. Yeah,
we both know I'm gonna spend my money, So don't
you want it to be on something that you'll actually lose?
Every year we do that, I'm like, I can't do
it anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Next time that somebody says to me, like in my family,
I don't need anything, okay, I don't have it, right, Okay,
you know what your anxiety would never let that foot.
But that's how we feel. That's how we teach people
a lesson. Yes, no, all right, And then they call
him happy Birthday, like, where's my gift? You said you
didn't want anything I offered? You said you don't want anything.
(04:57):
And next year they won't make that mistake. They'll come
up with thing. And then like my sister, you know,
I want to get her a nice gift, but really
it's her husband's job to get the nice, nice gift.
I used to be the one to give my parents
and I would be the ones to give her the
nice gift when she wasn't married. For Mother's Day. No
Mother's Day, we send her something, but I mean for
her birthday or Christmas, like normally one of us would
(05:19):
would get her like the nice thing. Well, now that's
his job. It's all my job. But there's certain stuff.
I don't need to be buying her jewelry. I don't
need to be buying her like expensive stuff. But I
also need to upstage. I don't need to upstage him either,
And he has other obligations. He's got two kids and
a wife and a house and a bunch of stuff
I don't have. But yet, do I need to be
the one to give the nicer gift than her own husband?
(05:40):
Probably not? What if that's emasculating. I don't mean I'm
not trying to upstage him. You don't. Don't think of
it like that. My brothers, if you're listening, don't think
of it. Give me the good gift, you know, Okay,
don't worry about upstaging Big tim forget about. That's fine.
And if they want to buy your ring, about it?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What about?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You want to picture? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I would? Are you wait? Yeah? Mix you all about?
We'll marry each other
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