Wtf Bed, Bath, and Beyond?

The hubster and I went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond today to pick out a wedding gift for his cousin Rick who eloped on Maui over Memorial Day weekend. We picked our gift off the registry and went to pay for it using our 20% off coupon. They asked us if we wanted to take advantage of their complimentary gift wrap. We said sure since we saw some nicely wrapped purple packages when we came in. Imagine our surprise when we were presented with this:






Our lovely gift wrapped in a purple trash bag. Wtf. Really? To add insult to injury, we waited 20 minutes for this piece of shit. Notice the ugly wrinkles in the second picture. I wonder if the girl who wrapped this is actually proud of it. I mean why couldn't they wrap it on paper. It's your generic rectangular box. It's not even oversized. I see absolutely no excuse for this trashy monstrosity. I was tempted to rip off the trash bag in store after I had received it. I'm just going to wrap it myself, but i can't even reuse the ribbon since the bitch cut the ribbon too short. Where are the tails? Epic fail Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

Kids these days

The hubster and I had his son for the weekend.  We had fun playing with the Xbox Kinect and watching old Disney movies.  They are old in that they were made over 10 years ago, but I wouldn't refer to them as old.  The animated movies with all the songs will never be old.  After watching Mulan and Hercules, I wished that they still made movies like this.  Tangled was ok, but it was lacking in the song area.

Anyway, as we were finishing up lunch on Sunday, the hubster asked his son what he wanted for his birthday.  Do you want to know what he asked for?

• a million dollars
• through constant denial, he lowered it to a much more reasonable $250 (*note the sarcasm in this line)
• a nintendo 3DS

WTF?!?!  This kid has a habit of asking for super expensive gifts when it comes to Christmas and birthdays.  I mean we just got him a Nintendo DS for Christmas which was to replace the one he broke from the previous Christmas.  I think he broke it a couple months after he had it.  I was originally was against getting him a replacement.  What does that teach him?  That if he's not careful with this toys that it doesn't matter because someone will replace it for him.  I don't think I started asking for pricey gifts until high school, but I think that's about the time where kids become brand conscious and stuff.  He's going to be 10!

I wonder where he picked up this habit.  I wonder if he knows the value of a dollar (God, I feel old just typing that out).  We've kinda touched on the subject with him before.  The usual doing chores for money/allowance.  He's never actually followed through on any of the "chores".  They were simple tasks: walking the dogs, cleaning his room, cleaning up after himself after a shower.  He can do the math.  If walking the dog gets him $0.50 per walk (and by walk, I mean taking them out to do their business), he knows how long it will take him to save up $50 for a game or whatever, but he still asks for big ticket items.

He's not entirely bad with money.  He does save his birthday cash which he loans out to his mom.  Seriously, what kid has to loan money to their parents at the age of 10.  I think it's more the entitlement that bothers me.  Enough rambling for now...