December Full Bonus Episode!
Added 2024-12-30 20:00:00 +0000 UTCVery last video of the year, and I think my face during all the fish interactions make it my favorite. Fish man.. but also these stories.. because what?!?! Who leaves out their wife from a white elephant game? Who puts their name on other people's gifts?! Lots of goofy holiday problems, and I'm ready for your comments!
Comments
For the first story, I was in the same position. First year getting everyone gifts and I hadn’t received anything or a birthday text, only a Facebook comment. I stopped showing up with gifts and things changed. Don’t over exert yourself for one sided relationships
Anissa Velazquez
2025-01-20 15:36:54 +0000 UTCElfster for secret Santa has been amazing because they can make a wishlist of things they want so you know what the other person would want if you aren’t close to them
Alyssa Marshall
2025-01-14 16:37:36 +0000 UTCfor the last one - for some reason i cant get past the wife saying “christmas isnt for friends its for family” like thats such a wild thing to say 😂
kristin
2025-01-09 19:19:27 +0000 UTCHere in NL (maybe all of Canada lol) we have breakfast, lunch/dinner and supper. I hate when people call supper, dinner 😅
Strickly Keeks
2025-01-07 14:27:11 +0000 UTCFor the last story - I really think that the wife seems overbearing and has always had an issue with “boys nights” so he put off telling her until the last second to not deal with the blowout of that decision until the latest possible second
steph
2025-01-06 05:38:48 +0000 UTCMorgan you have skills using mittens with the laptop! Love the podcast!
Alexandra Gonzalez
2025-01-06 00:05:55 +0000 UTCWe do $20 worth of scratch tickets, everyone wraps them and we all pick a number and do it like a table swap before anyone scratches them
Kerry Bowles
2025-01-05 23:19:21 +0000 UTCi love watching you all fish!! so cool!!!
amanda
2025-01-04 22:29:17 +0000 UTCI so love the Blues Clues intro horn! 💙
Jessica Rose
2025-01-03 06:12:55 +0000 UTCI think also for the mum who missed out on the gift exchange; its probably reasonable to assume she is breastfeeding her baby, potentially not and the baby just gets distracted but to sit away from everyone it’s strong possibility. Usually, that would be within the first year of life for the baby, so she’s possibly celebrating her babies first Christmas. Also very likely going through some major changes and feels more isolated and different anyway. It’s likely it wasn’t the only time she needed to step away from the family during the day and that she may have shown up to this a bit sleep deprived. For her she’s probably spent several 20 minute periods hearing the laughter from the next room, maybe having to eat after everyone else or awkwardly with one hand if her baby doesn’t like to be sat down, it’s a cumulative thing. And whilst it’s only a very fleeting season of life, it can feel all consuming while you’re in it.
E. J.
2025-01-02 23:35:07 +0000 UTCTotally agree & honestly I was getting the vibe that this friend isn’t someone he’s that close with considering the friend is only in town for the holidays and he hasn’t seen him for the last couple of years. He also was likely in town more than just that one day and would have been able to find another day if it was that important they spend time together. Seemed like a way for him to get out of hanging out with her family tbh.
Bailey Perez
2025-01-02 04:17:41 +0000 UTCThe lunch and dinner confusion is totally valid. My mom calls "lunch" dinner, and "dinner" supper. We're Canadian and that's how I grew up. Everything but "supper" I kind of use interchangably lol, often I just say "food time" so I don't get mixed up when calling the kids to the table. I spent a year in North Dakota for school so the change in words was a little tricky to get used to.
Holly Holfeld
2025-01-02 01:34:05 +0000 UTCWith my mom, dad, and brother we all just buy each other gifts because it's small. But with my husbands side it's Chinese gift exchange. So anyone who WANTS TO BE INVOLVED (never mandatory as everyone's financial situation is different), they buy a gift, you draw a number from a hat, #1 picks a gift, then #2 goes, and can steal #1's gift or pick their own. The stealing rule is only 3 steals, and you can't steal it back. If #2 steals, #1 picks a new gift, then #3 goes, they can steal or pick their own, so on and so forth. So everyone ends up with a gift of the same value, and at the very end #1 can steal from anyone, and their gift goes to the person they stole from.
Holly Holfeld
2025-01-01 23:11:28 +0000 UTCI think with the Chinese Gift exchange or what elephant and whatnot, I think women like it better. Because like you said, you can buy a candle, or a book, or a family game or something. Men are very much more practical. Like my bil's hate them because they want $100-$500 items like big tools and stuff and there really aren't things under $20-$30 that men want. They wont be impressed by a candle. I dunno maybe like a few bags of jerky or something haha.
Holly Holfeld
2025-01-01 23:06:02 +0000 UTCThe first story you started talking about family size. I have 1 brother, who has never been in a relationship so our family is relatively small. My husband, on the other hand has 5 siblings (so 6 kids in total), all of them are married, we have 3 kids, one has 5, one has 4, one has 1 biological, 2 from previous relationships, and then she also has a few that are half siblings of her daughter but not related to them. Because of their situation we never really know whose all coming. We do a chinese gift exchange for the adults, if you want to get something for the kids, you can. This year we did family game night exchange with a treat you like. Draw a number, pick a gift, or steal from someone else.
Holly Holfeld
2025-01-01 21:22:10 +0000 UTCThis. I spend my birthday with my family pretty much every year and one of the most important gifts I get is that my mom and/or sister will bake me a cake (Tres Leches, usually, but also a layer cake with nutella or vanilla frosting, etc.)
Malcolm Lasky
2025-01-01 19:47:31 +0000 UTCSo, when my aunt was a kid, she was talking with her grandparents over the phone and when they apologized for not being able to make it out for her birthday, her response was "That's okay, you can mail it." The family in the first story is giving those vibes, except my aunt was like...6 at the time.
Malcolm Lasky
2025-01-01 19:45:58 +0000 UTCThank you for talking about how baking for a gift is such a labor of love. Every year I make hundreds of cookies to hand out to loved ones for the holidays (this year 764 cookies. 13 different kind). I sometimes get in my head about whether or not its “enough” but it took me 4 straight days from 7am to like 10pm to get everyones trays done
Cassandra Griffiths
2025-01-01 18:05:17 +0000 UTCI love Justin’s mom and dad! They are so cute! ❤️
April Ames-Harrison
2025-01-01 01:15:21 +0000 UTCThe last story. I'd be pissed! The husband is an AH because she seems like she is trying to find a compromise. He just doesn't seem to care. He wants the entire evening with his friend but he is a parent now. You can't do that when you have kids and it is Christmas. 🤦♀️even if they didn't have kids, it is still a time for family. He could easily invite his friend over but he won't. It's so immature.
Bri Winans
2025-01-01 00:52:31 +0000 UTCPleaseeee come to Toronto in 2025
Naomi Olbino
2024-12-31 22:20:46 +0000 UTCThis was my first Christmas with a pretty new boyfriend and my family were all over me making sure they got him good gifts but also made it clear he should not bring gifts for them. I could not imagine excluding someone on Christmas
Brittany Smolinsky
2024-12-31 21:01:25 +0000 UTCI have to disagree with the mother in law story . She should not allow her MIL to label the gifts. It honestly seems like such a cop out on her part. The MIL would be the one ruining Christmas and not OP. Shame on MIL for being lazy and overstepping boundaries. Justin’s mom is too nice and I love how she saw both sides. 🥰
James Lian
2024-12-31 20:57:06 +0000 UTCFirst Story I thought they uninvited her from Christmas since it was the first event where they'd have to give her something lol
Isabel De Armas
2024-12-31 20:50:07 +0000 UTC
