My sister is an emotional abuser, and an extremely nasty passive-aggressive type of person. So she took the opportunity a number of times to get me NOTHING for Christmas, and claim that it was because she had just doled-out so much cash for my birthday, which is also in December.

She also got me ugly second-hand Christmas sweaters and cheap, cheap scratchy, ugly blankets and throws on occasion. No matter what it was, she would carry on endlessly about how much "trouble" she had gone to, to get me just the right thing. But she clearly had not!

That was always a very hurtful situation. It was always a way for her to make me look like a fool.

She was not a gracious person. I no longer have anything to do with her.