Sometimes I feel like BF's personal piggy bank

This morning on the way to work, BF says he can't think of anything to get SD10 for Christmas and ask me to look for something on Amazon while at work. So I browsed around Amazon and found a cute pink art set for less than $20. I got her a My Little Pony sketch book for Christmas last year and she finally started using it. So I send him the link and said we could get her that, some drawing paper and a few more sketch books. All he replies with is Cool.

So at lunch, I tell him he can pay for the art set and I'll buy the paper and sketch books. BF says he doesn't have an Amazon account. Ok, it's easy to open. BF- Well I don't want to put my credit card number on any more websites. Me- Ok well, I guess you will have to think of something else. BF- Oh, yeah ok.

What pisses me off is he specifically requested I look on Amazon for some idea's. (I have a Prime account and buy almost everything from them. ) It's like he had no intention to help with the gifts, just figured I would buy, buy, buy. Just like always....I already told him that I wasn't buying them a bunch of junk that wasn't going to be used just so they can have stuff to open on Christmas morning.

I am so glad I have my own bank account.

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I don't get this mentality

I don't get this mentality either. Every birthday and Christmas, SD gets a whole bunch of stuff that she never plays with because she's only here 4 days a month. It just ends up cluttering up my house. The only good thing about it is that I have a young DD who can eventually use SD's toys and they'll practically be brand new.

I keep my finances separate from my husband' as well, for this reason.

Same here. Skids barely play

Same here. Skids barely play with anything they get from DH. Almost all of the stuff stays at our house and just clutters up two rooms. I recently told DH I wanted all the kids (my BS included) to go through all their stuff and sort out what they don't play with. What really bothers me is the things that have never been opened or only played with once. Such a waste of money. I would rather give it away to someone who will use it than have it clutter up the house. I gave a lot of the books/toys to my BS's pediatrician's office.

Also glad that our money is separate although still working on all the details of that.

I was trying to convince my

I was trying to convince my husband that we should teach SD about others who are less fortunate than we are. I want to go through all of her toys with her and give some of them away around Christmas to families in need. Since she'll be getting a whole bunch of new stuff, we can make room for it by giving away some old stuff. My husband, of course, got mad and said that I just hate SD, and it'll be so hard on her and blah blah blah. That's how he viewed my suggestion.

Lol. I'd love a drink.

That's definitely the go-to answer for everything I say about SD - unless I'm singing her praises of course.

Wow that is crazy! My skids

Wow that is crazy! My skids LOVE to go pick out toys etc for the less fortunate, both from theirs and from the store. They know they get less Christmas presents because of it but they look forward to doing it every year.

That being said, this is something BM and SO started when the girls were very young, so they have been brought up doing it.

I can't believe DH was against teaching his daughter such a valuable lesson!