I figure it’s about 50-50 for me. People buy some ridiculous things as gifts, mostly out of desperation to buy something.
These come in several categories:
- WTF: the giver is clueless or even malicious
- Other people’s aspirations: gifts they think will make you a different, “better”, person
- Meh: no explanation necessary
- Hmm: seems like a good idea, just not for you
I don’t ignore, re-gift or discard any gifts, at least not immediately. But it’s extremely rare to satisfy me with a gift. It only happens when they know exactly what I’d have purchased myself in near future or if the person behind the gift means so much to me. Other than that, I prefer to not receive any gifts at all.
Zero. It is well known among those that care for me that if you feel you must, I do not want it if it if I can’t eat it.
I don’t receive gifts at Christmas. I’m forgotten.
People buy some ridiculous things as gifts, mostly out of desperation to buy something.
Then be an adult and tell them not to get you anything?
I don’t know what the issue is.
None, I appreciate any gifts that I receive and all the ones I’ve been given have been great!
0 or 100 I don’t get any
most of what I get is at my job. And lucky for me almost all of them are a card with cash in it. I appreciate all of them but wish that instead of homemade brownies you would do cash.
