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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are the hostile PPs so insistent on giving people stuff they don’t want? [/quote]

Thankfully I don't know anyone crazy and selfish enough to "not want gifts".  So it's not a problem.  [/quote]

I don’t understand this hostility[/quote]

+1 “Selfish enough to not want gifts?” How does that work? I’m with OP. I don’t want anything. Save your time and money. I want to spend time and visit and talk and eat/drink together. But, please, just stop with the stuff. [/quote]

NP. But do you stand there and reject a gift to their faces? OP does. Says so in the post. Then is...offended that the giver is offended, I guess.

Of course time and memories are the best gifts. Of course when people are asked (or in OP's family's case, commanded) not to bring gifts, and do, it's unfortunate when people fail to heed the recipient's sincere request.

But OP, and maybe you too, seem to be oblivious to the fact that for those gift-givers, you've just handed them a truly indelible, unforgettable, un-donate-able gift: The memory of your profound rudeness and arrogance. There's one gift they'll never be able to get rid of over the years.  Some will try again to give you gifts. Others won't. But both groups will remember something -- and it will not be your social concerns or your worries about the environment. 
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