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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just donate the gifts. How can you possibly not know this? [/quote]

Not OP, but we really need to get out of the mentality that isn't NBD to keep buying junk and imposing it on others. Climate change is real. Some of this is junk that absolutely nobody wants. It would be nice if these "givers" understand the true gift is  being a kind and lovely person, not doing a junk dump on someone who asked you to stop repeatedly. The landfills are overflowing with crap. Just stop. I think it needs to become more socially acceptable to just not accept it at all and let them figure out what to do with it or hopefully stop. When someone asks you to stop giving gifts and you continue, you are not a big hearted person or some overly giving person who is unappreciated. It's obnoxious behavior.[/quote]

Right, but if they send it anyway, they send it anyway. I'm 100% with you that they SHOULD listen and that our climate is in dire need of relief, but what real recourse can there be? Unless you make it a law that you can't give people unsolicited gifts (to create an actual penalty for sending unwanted things), there's not much you can do except return or share what they send. I suppose you can always keep making the same request - it's probably no more obnoxious than them continuing to ignore it. And when you send your thank you note, you could be very frank: Thank you for the snow cone machine and case of flavored syrups - it was so thoughtful! Since our 10x5' kitchen is already completely full, we decided to share your generous gift with toys for tots. Love, Pruney.[/quote]

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