Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : A little background...

My wife’s sister is a couple years younger than her. She was in college when my wife and I met, and since then, I’ve only known her as being obsessed with image: Physically, socially, what clothes she wears (brand, in style, etc...). If that’s your jam, ok. She ended up marrying a guy who has the same stigma with image. They refuse to shop at anything other than top “name brand” stores, will not wear logo or branded clothing (even to football games at their alma matter). Everything in their life revolves around their social and physical image. They both work in education, so they don’t make a ton of money, but they apply these rules to their entire family, including their two kids. (They bought $50 Jordan’s for their infant son, as an example).

From the time, you can probably tell this annoys me, but it’s their life and their money, so they should do as they please. 

Due to this, they are awful to buy presents for. 95% of what you buy is returned, or embarrassingly mocked after they open it. It is so bad, my MiL just gives them her CC number and gives them an amount they can spend and let’s them buy it, then wraps it for them to open. 

As we are preparing for Christmas, my wife asked her sister what her husband wants. (We all agreed to a $30 budget to spend on each other.) She told her that he wants an UA rain jacket. We looked everywhere and the cheapest we could find was north of $50, but found a very nice Columbia jacket that fits the price range. When presenting this to her, she responded with “Ummmm... we don’t wear Columbia. How about we all just bring cash and exchange money at Christmas, then we can buy what we want.”

I won’t go into the amount of frustration I’m feeling, but I told my wife I’d rather just agree to not buy each other presents and use the money on the kids than deal with that shit. 

Am I the asshole??