My husband ruined Christmas by returning my daughter’s present to ‘punish’ her without telling me – so I took revenge
A MUM was so furious that her husband returned her eight-year-old daughter’s Christmas present to “punish” her that she took revenge.
The 30-year-old woman saved up for months to buy her daughter – who is from a previous relationship – a Nintendo Switch.
The popular game consoles retail from £259 brand new.
But when her husband returned it as a punishment behind her back, she returned the PlayStation 5 she had bought him.
She then used the money to buy another Nintendo Switch.
People have now compared the strict husband, 31, to the Grinch.
The upset mum penned on Reddit yesterday that the incident happened before Christmas “but there is still tension in the house”.
Giving context, she divulged that her husband removed presents from under the tree when her daughter and his six-year-old son from a previous relationship misbehaved.
She said that she “didn’t really get a say in it as he was the one that bought the presents”.
However, when the mum noticed the Nintendo Switch was missing from under the tree on Christmas Eve, she “started seeing red”.
She immediately asked her daughter if she had touched it.
As her daughter said no, she asked her husband.
He asserted that he took it away to punish the little one.
The mum explained: “My daughter has been asking me for months to get her a Nintendo Switch, so I decided to save a bit and buy her one for Christmas.
“It was sitting under the tree, then suddenly on Christmas Eve I noticed it was gone.
“I asked my daughter if she touched it and she said she didn’t, so I decided to turn to my husband.
“He said that she swore at him while he was trying to get her ready for bed the night before so he decided to punish her and take away the present and return it to the store.
“I started seeing red, and demanded he hands me the money back since I was the one that bought that present.”
However, when her husband refused to hand the money over, the furious mum decided to give him a taste of his own medicine.
She had similarly treated him to a brand new PlayStation 5 which costs upwards from £539.99.
She took the game console back to the shop and used the refund money to buy her daughter another Nintendo Switch.
The mum went on: “This started a big argument with my husband and I.
“And with him calling me childish for doing that.
“He got his family involved and they spammed my phone telling me to get his present back.
“But I refused.
“He is still not talking to me.”
The mum published her story to Reddit’s Am I The A*****e forum to decipher whether she had done anything wrong.
She was met with support, with some people even branding the husband a thief for not handing the money back.
One commenter stated: “It’s not childish, it’s criminal.
“He’s a thief.”
Another penned: “At least for Christmas she got money back from the difference in present prices and a good look at her husband’s parenting style.
“Two for the price of one.”
A third person joked: “They could make another Grinch movie with this dude but people would say it’s too unrealistic.”
The mum is yet to give an update on the situation after creating the post yesterday.
