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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]It's not that you and OP don't want gifts or things - you only want the things that you have selected, that meet your needs, wants, and requirements to be organic, ethically sourced, sustainable, etc.  Other people's tastes won't be acceptable so you don't want them.  We hear, loud and clear.[/b][/quote]

Not the poster you are responding to, but no gifts, simply means no gifts. [b]Nobody here said to give organic and ethically sourced, etc.[/b] It's really that simple. If someone says they don't want gifts, just don't give them. There is no hidden message telling you to get a certain gift. Save your money. The person does not want anything that can be purchased. Just your visit and good cheer.

It makes me so sad to see how people cannot comprehend that the best gifts cost nothing and some people value that and not stuff.

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Not the poster you are responding to, but did you read the OP's first post that started the thread? Extensive talk about how gifts exploit the people who made them etc. etc. That's the very definition of insisting everything be "ethically sourced."

You also aren't reading the whole thread very well. Many people have posted that of course "the best gifts cost nothing" and agree with you just a visit and "good cheer" are plenty. But the issue is the incredible rudeness of OP and others who reject gifts already in the givers' hands and being presented to them. Yes, it can be argued that it's rude to give a gift when someone hasn't asked for one. But on a scale of rudeness? The self-righteous rejection is worse. Especially when accompanied by a lecture, which I suspect OP is glad to deliver. [/quote]

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