I’d like to virtual cheers all of the men out there who bought thoughtful gifts and made someone happy this season. Merry Christmas!
True of mine but he more than made up for it
Submitted 7 hours ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to memes@sopuli.xyz
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VampirePenguin@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Wow, lot of shitting on this guy… You know it just works for some families. Doesn’t make dad a deadbeat if he’s doing other stuff.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 41 seconds ago
No offense taken, as a dad.
My wife LOVES shopping for the kids and finding deals. I love helping the kids figure out what they want, and translating it to my wife.
It’s a partnership.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
I mean, Dad was watching the kids while Mom did the shopping? sounds like a functional and healthy family to me.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Dad worked. One day in the lean years he was on the books for 5 employers at the same time: no overlapping shifts, just a hairy schedule on a paper calendar and more than one job-to-job commute.
We do not castigate dad for devoting his entire life to the household.
Mom, who merely had one full-timer, did the shopping and wrapping on the side. The two of them set up a wonderful Christmas day together with very few gifts and resources, and we were all together on Christmas morn before Dad went to work.
It worked. We didn’t lack for joy.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Plot twist, Dad believes in Santa to this day because he knows he didn’t buy the presents.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 4 hours ago
When my son stopped believing in Santa dad was able to convince him that HE still believed in Santa. Keeping the traditions alive for a couple more years.
This is an awful boomer ass take. Good job!
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 6 hours ago
Are dads still like that? The young dads I know are pretty involved in their children’s lives
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
My wife went out Christmas shopping while I took my toddler to go play in the snow.
Separating responsibilities is functional, I don’t understand the negatives here.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 23 minutes ago
I think its more referencing the dads who are entirely uninvolved untrained the their kids lives whatsoever to the point they don’t even participate in any Christmas planning or prep for the family.
Not your specific situation.
fascicle@leminal.space 1 hour ago
Theres millions of people so theres bound to be all kinds
khannie@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I did basically all the gift shopping this year and set up all the Santa stuff with the help of one of my older kids as my wife was knackered yesterday.
Other years my wife has done the bulk of the shopping and we usually do the setup together. There’s no structure to who does the shopping I suppose, it’s more whoever has the time or energy any given year.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Some people are like that.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 4 hours ago
LadyButterfly has been hurt and does not like men.
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
I love men! In many ways I prefer them because I find them more straight forwards than women. Of the 3 people I trust the most, 2 of them are men.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
All dads I know including myself are the opposite. They do all the shopping and wrapping.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Yep, dad here, can confirm and get tired of these tired old jokes. Such a boomer joke
metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 1 hour ago
My wife did the shopping for some of the bigger ticket stuff, I did the stocking stuff (which included some fun toys), I did most of the wrapping but it probably would’ve been more even split if she didn’t have a chronic disease sapping her energy.
sparkles@piefed.zip 6 hours ago
Yeah my ex came over for 30 minutes to watch the unwrapping and took one bag of trash with him on the way out the door. I did absolutely everything else.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
My brother goes with my sil to do the shopping and goes out of his way to find the things he knows my nieces love. This year was frozen and kpop deamon hunters
BanMe@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Uhh I’m the one that fills the stockings so I get to act surprised by the shit I put in there 3 hours prior. Would be neat if someone else ever put something in mine, but not happened yet.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
In my defense, while my wife shopped and wrapped I was on toddler wrangling duty XD
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
My dad earned the money, my mom spent it. That worked for them, there were no complaints.
OTH, they were born during the Great Depression, and were both very frugal. Neither of them liked to spend money. As the fourth of four kids, most of my clothes and toys were hand-me-downs, and my mom made my clothes until I hit puberty, as well as making most of her own clothes her whole life. I don’t have any complaints either. Both of my parents loved their kids unconditionally, I grew up in a warm, and mostly happy family.
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I buy throughout the year whenever I see something I know they will like. By Christmas, I forget what I’ve bought and wrapped.
This year, I asked my girlfriend if she will want something and tell her I’ll hold onto it until Christmas. Buy it with her, and then by the time she gets it, she’s forgotten. I did that with a bracelet that said “Mom” on it during the summer, that I would put her daughters name as the from so that she gets something from her daughter. I always try to buy something to be “from” her daughter. It is really nice for her daughter too, to have that experience “giving” something on Christmas too.
I sat with her daughter the other night making bracelets for her to give out at our family Christmas party and the first one we made was for her to give to her biological Dad when she goes with him in a few days.
grue@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
How do you avoid accidentally buying the same thing twice?
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
It hasn’t happened. I only wrap around the beginning of December. So, I just wouldn’t wrap em both. But I forget what they are in like a few days.
Evotech@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
He knows how much it cost though
then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I guess if he’s the kind of guy that’s good for nothing else
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
My dad was Buddhist
blinfabian@feddit.nl 51 minutes ago
ALERT: THIS IS SANTA DENIER CONSPIRACY PROPAGANDA!! SANTA CLAUS PUT THE PRESENTS THERE, NOT THE MOTHER