If you don't celebrate Christmas what do you do when someone gives you an Christmas ornament?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say, "Thank you!" and I display the ornament to remind myself of my friend and their kindness.

This. It’s not complicated.

[Anonymous]

I hiss and try to avoid it touching my skin. I carefully wrap it in a cloth and keep it separated from my person until I can safely deposit it in the center of my pentagram and perform the ritual depriving it of all its powers. Then I pop it in the trash.

[Anonymous]

I do have a tree but I still give away or donate some of the ornaments I receive as gifts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say, "Thank you!" and I display the ornament to remind myself of my friend and their kindness.

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Nice
Also don’t need Christmas trees to display ornaments - can go anywhere - outside trees/ window curtain rods/ fireplace mantels/ etc

[Anonymous]

Put it on your local Buy Nothing Facebook group and it will likely be gone in an hour!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say, "Thank you!" and I display the ornament to remind myself of my friend and their kindness.

This. And the , since it was my boss, in a place of public employment, I started looking for a new job, and left as quickly as I could. How does your own boss, who you've worked closely with for 8 months (they were new, not me), not know that you don't celebrate Christmas (and in my case, am Jewish)

[Anonymous]

There are Christmas trees all over the place. Just hang it on one and leave it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Say thanks and pass it on or donate it.

+1 I don't celebrate Christmas so I don't have a tree to put it on, and I wouldn't put up a Christmas ornament unless I just really liked the looks of it and wanted to see it in my house. So I'd give it to someone or put it in my little free library.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have several ornaments that a non-Christian colleague gave to us after they were gifted to him. They always remind me of him as we decorate our tree.

That’s not what is being discussed. You celebrate Christmas. It’s about someone not Christian as in another religion and it’s a bad gift.

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Her point is that her colleague was in OP’s position, and he gave the unwanted ornaments to PP.

Its a very tone death gift.

Nobody is disagreeing that when the colleague received the ornament it was a tone deaf gift. If the colleague then figured out who did celebrate Christmas and gave it to them, which is what happened to the PP, that's not a tone deaf gift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thank them and then offer it to someone who celebrates Christmas. Last time I got one was from a company I worked for - they gave a huge glass snowflake ornament thing. I thanked the person handing them out, and on my way out that day stopped by someone's desk and offered it to them.

Then another jewish coworker asked what I did with mine, I told them, and like half a dozen jewish coworkers gave their ornaments to that one person.

amazing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say, "Thank you!" and I display the ornament to remind myself of my friend and their kindness.

This. It’s not complicated.

[Anonymous]

Really? You can’t think of any creative re-use, OP? I BUY ornaments (nearly all are non religious- snowflakes, happy holidays, winter-themed) to attach to gift bags and or wrapped presents and cards.

I use the same ornaments on seasonal wreaths and decor inside and outside of my house.

Think of ornaments as fancy tags or embellishments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say, "Thank you!" and I display the ornament to remind myself of my friend and their kindness.

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Nice
Also don’t need Christmas trees to display ornaments - can go anywhere - outside trees/ window curtain rods/ fireplace mantels/ etc

Except that displaying an ornament is a public way to acknowledge you DO celebrate Christmas - and the only people who would argue with that are Christians who like telling eveyrone they know that their holiday, celebrating the birth of Jesus, is actually totally secular and why can't us non-Christian weirdos just GET that

[Anonymous]

Seriously, be happy someone gave you a gift. My neighbors are Indian and celebrate Diwali every year. They give us Diwali snacks and every year we get excited and say Thanks. People want to share in their holiday traditions with others and it's well meaning. Stop trying to find the evil in everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really? You can’t think of any creative re-use, OP? I BUY ornaments (nearly all are non religious- snowflakes, happy holidays, winter-themed) to attach to gift bags and or wrapped presents and cards.

I use the same ornaments on seasonal wreaths and decor inside and outside of my house.

Think of ornaments as fancy tags or embellishments.

Non-Christians generally wouldn't do any of those things. Because the ornaments are a Christmas symbol.

Maybe if you're not from the US and you are adopting some of hte traditions of this country you might feel otherwise. But if you are from the US, and are not Christian, then you likely would not do this. I know I wouldn't.