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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From my brother and SIL: every year they give my kids (ages 9 and 6) a 1000 piece puzzle. The kids aren’t interested in doing puzzles and we have never even started one. I don’t know where they got the idea we like puzzles. I wish they’d give us nothing instead of a giant puzzle every year. It also does annoy me that I buy their kids gifts that i actually put time and effort (not to mention more $$ since I’m buying each kid a gift instead of one joint gift) into thinking of something I know they ‘ll like and be excited to open, that’s personal to each kid.

[b]My BIL gave my 6 year old daughter a packet of miso soup mix,[/b] which is not something she has ever had or would want to have. I just don’t understand…

My parents are good gift givers now because they finally got to a point after years of bad gifts where they will actually ask me what the kids and my husband and I want and get exactly what I tell them. But honestly the whole gift giving thing is so ridiculous at this point. Either you are shopping from a wish list which is a way to guarantee you’re getting something someone wants but it’s not very fun since the recipient knows what they’re getting. Or you give them useless junk. There’s no in between it seems, in my family anyway.[/quote]

Wow.  That is pretty bad.  My husbands brother-in-law sent him a single tea bag-but at least my husband drinks tea![/quote]

The miso soup is inexplicable unless he is training her to someday join him for a meal at a Japanese restaurant.  Was it wrapped?[/quote]

It was “wrapped” in a pencil case/bag which was also part of her gift. It was just so random to see her open the pencil bag expecting pencils or markers or something and seeing a soup packet.

I still have no idea why he gave it but I think he is just a really weird person.
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Any chance it was a Japanese anime/character pencil case?  Pokemon?  The soup packet might have been a little extra gift from the original vendor.  Amazon Z-Shops and E-Bay vendors sometimes give a little free gift to encourage good reviews.  For example, once I ordered a 4-pack of a hard to find flavor of Celestial Seasonings tea from an Amazon 3rd party vendor and it came with 3 unbranded honey straws.  I've gotten a couple other samples over the past two decades.

Sorry...my family likes Japanese school supplies and miso soup...so I'm too curious about the explanation.[/quote]

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