> > >>She has had a few issues lately and resulted in my not getting her anything for Christmas as I felt she didn't deserve anything.
> >
> > Wait, we're supposed to *earn* Christmas gifts? Funny, I thought people just gave them out of the goodness of their hearts. Silly me.
>
> If you have a job, try asking your manager to promote you or give you a raise out of the goodness of his heart. It might work for you, but I have earned through hard work every promotion and pay raise I have gotten.

While that may very well be the case, it's completely irrelevant. I don't know about you, but where I come from equating Christmas to a job just doesn't work.

I give gifts at Christmas because I like giving gifts to people I care about. Keeping a list of who's been bad and good is Santa's job, not mine. :-P