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Ugh!! Sorry this might be long but I need to vent!!
I got left in charge of organising our family Christmas and Secret Santa. Which is fine I don't mind I'm probably the most organised and I like seeing our family together so it is worth it. About 2 month ago I email and text my eldest brother(half brother) and SIL and ask if they are coming to Christmas and if they want to be in the Secret Santa. I also emailed everyone else at the same time details and if they are all happy about it. Everyone replies except my brother so I email a few more times and text. They are online all the time I refuse to call them when I need not call anyone else. In the end mum talks to them on a game they play online. And I finally get a reply and am told can it wait till they get back from the US in a month. I say ok. Then when they are back I leave it a week so they can settle in and then I email and text again a few times no reply so after 1 week I decide to send out secret Santa without them in it took me 1 1/2 hours to write to everyone. 2 days later they email me and say can we be in the secret Santa but still don't know if they are coming. So last night I had to re-do all the secret Santa with new partners and email everyone again. So now I'm still waiting for the gift choices(I give the partners 3 gift ideas so people get something they want). Which I spoke to my brother on the phone about, email them, text them and yet here I wait still.. Well if they don't reply there partners can give them $50 in a card because I'm not calling or emailing them again..
Why does it have to be so hard I have enough to do with everyone coming and organising food and where they all sleep.
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- Gingerbread Carpenter Elf
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Posted 20 November 2009 - 04:52 PM
I don't like unreliable people either, so I sympathise with your frustation.
I think you should have just left them out of the Secret Santa and told them it's already done. That's really what you should have done, but I probably would have ended up redoing the whole thing as well, just like you did.
I think you should have just left them out of the Secret Santa and told them it's already done. That's really what you should have done, but I probably would have ended up redoing the whole thing as well, just like you did.
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- P-W Junky
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Posted 22 November 2009 - 11:41 AM
I'd be so frustrated! I have a hard enough time trying to get Robb pinned down on when he wants the kids for Xmas let alone trying to organize something like that.
Is this something you guys do every year? They should know better then...
Hopefully it will all get sorted :)
Is this something you guys do every year? They should know better then...
Hopefully it will all get sorted :)
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Posted 22 November 2009 - 12:24 PM
I shouldn't be surprised they do this to us all the time. Doesn't matter if it's a birthday, wedding, christening they either done RSVP or leave it till the last min to reply.
The annoying part is unless I invite them and chase them up no one else would bother. Last family Christmas I left it to my brother and mum (Not her son) and in the end I had to ring and ask if they wanted to come. They did come but showed up late and everyone else did everything to get lunch ready and they ate first.
This is our first Secret Santa. And it will only be done every second year when we are together. We don't buy gifts for each other unless we are spending Christmas together. There is to many of us. This works well every adult writes a list of 3 gifts to the value of $50 each so then there partner picks one of the 3 gifts.
The annoying part is unless I invite them and chase them up no one else would bother. Last family Christmas I left it to my brother and mum (Not her son) and in the end I had to ring and ask if they wanted to come. They did come but showed up late and everyone else did everything to get lunch ready and they ate first.
This is our first Secret Santa. And it will only be done every second year when we are together. We don't buy gifts for each other unless we are spending Christmas together. There is to many of us. This works well every adult writes a list of 3 gifts to the value of $50 each so then there partner picks one of the 3 gifts.
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