Man Removes Mother-in-Law’s Expensive Gift from under the Christmas Tree to Teach Her a Lesson

Marrying into a family where one partner sides with their parents no matter what is a nightmare as described in the following social media story. However sometimes the only way to get through it is to be equally petty.
In December 2022 a Reddit user named theantigrinch wrote into one of the platforms channels sharing a story of how he was once petty or sought revenge. He explained that hed gotten a wellpaying new job that year and decided to splurge on gifts that Christmas.
Most of his money was spent on his nineyearold daughter. The Reddit user shared how the little girl had been helping around at home without anyone asking her was pushing herself in her schoolwork and being a kind person.
Her father felt she 100 deserved all hed gotten her. However when his wifes mother his motherinlaw visited one morning she saw that their Christmas tree had more than usual gifts under it and asked why.
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Her soninlaw explained that hed bought everyone including her lots of presents. The motherinlaw then asked how many had he bought his daughter and he revealed she would be getting around three big gifts and the same amount of smaller ones.
For some reason his motherinlaw became outraged and informed him that her grandchild didnt deserve that many presents. The grandmother insisted on her stance
She started saying that a nineyearold did not deserve that many gifts and she would be taking away the gift she bought
The upset soninlaw protested and told her that it was an unfair move especially seeing shed promised his daughter a doll and the child looked forward to receiving it. Instead his motherinlaw shared how it would be a lesson to the child that you couldnt get all the things you ask for in life.
The childs father understood the merit of the lesson but still felt his daughter wasnt showered daily with gifts and Christmas was a day for spoiling ones children. Sadly his wife encouraged him to let the matter go and that her mothers gift for their child was hers to choose what to do with.
The Reddit poster decided to be petty by going along with his motherinlaw and wifes ideology. He removed the 600 designer bag hed gotten for his motherinlaw a present shed wanted the most and replaced it with a 40 robe.
When his motherinlaw opened her gift she was disappointed and asked her soninlaw if that