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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What gifts did you/your family get this year that are going into the Buy Nothing pile, the donation pile, or maybe even the trash?

-Those tall, cylindrical wafer cookies with chocolate inside
-Candles
-“Cookie kits” and “chili kits” and anything that involves dry ingredients in mason jars
-A huge marble run that has no place in our home; it’s seriously huge and I don’t understand how anyone could think we had room for it. Probably a regift. [/quote]

I have received all of these!

I purchase the cylindrical wafer cookies for myself.  If you like sugar cones or fortune cookies they taste like that.

I dislike candles (artificial smells, masking of unpleasant smells instead of eliminating issues, safety hazards).  I give them to people who like candles or use them as my white elephant gift.

SIL gives handmade and purchased food kits.  I get the thought but don't share her taste.  We tend to stall on making these, make once, then usually discard the rest of the jars.  One kit required overnight soaking of ingredients plus hugely expensive meat purchase.  Not a fan of gifts that require spending my own money to use.

Marble run.  Received two expensive European wood ones that were both less fun than a cheap larger disassemblable set would have been.  Gave one back to sister (original donor) as hand-me down set when her kids were ready.  Hopefully she enjoyed it since she picked it.  Don't remember what I did with the other - packed away?  I thought about returning it but it came from an online store that mostly had products for younger children so nothing I could use store credit for.  The base set was really simple, a tunnel block had a defect that stopped the marble, and the expansion packs were like $30 for something like a eight inch wood domino run so it only got played with once.  So please note: German wood is not always preferable to Chinese plastic.
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