I hear ya! It drives me f**king crazy when I feel like someone is just NOT listening to me!

My husband does that to me, buying clothes and gadgets that I specifically said I didn't want, buying something different than I asked for at the grocery store. I'm kind of a health nut and he refuses to read labels. He thinks that if the front of a box says "all natural" then it is. Never mind that the first ingredient on the label is high fructose corn syrup. I'm diabetic and can't eat sugar and junk food.

We've gone round and round about this until finally one day I took what he got, walked to the trash, looked him in the eye, threw it straight in and slammed the lid shut. That seemed to get his attention. I told him "I'm not going to say thank you, because I don't feel grateful. What I DO feel is ignored and unheard."

When friends try to give me stuff. I politely decline and say that I'm pursuing a minimalist life style and don't want to add to my possessions. (This is true....so I'm not lying)

My mother in law is terrible about using my house as a dumping ground for things she doesn't want. I don't even bring it in the house, I put on the curb or take it straight to a good will drop box.