Anonymous
01/05/2024 09:58
Subject: The list of unwanted gifts
I have a neighbor who hosts a bad gift exchange just after Christmas every year so people have a chance to exchange with others...maybe ending up better or worsel
Anonymous
01/05/2024 09:53
Subject: The list of unwanted gifts
My adult stepdaughter sent me a digital photo frame loaded with pictures, including ones of her mother.
They may have been included by mistake. But I doubt it.
They may have been included by mistake. But I doubt it.
Anonymous
01/04/2024 22:07
Subject: Re:The list of unwanted gifts
So my brother is brilliant and weird. Today he’d definitely be diagnosed on the spectrum, but we just see him as brilliant and weird. For years he has bought me weird gifts. Occasionally great, occasionally horrible, but always heartfelt and always him. I’ve learned about awesome folk music, horrible klezmer music, impenetrable times, life changing books. I’ve always tried to get him unique things I think he will like, and I recognize that I often fail, but figure he will take them in the spirit I have taken his gifts. BUT now he is married and his wife buys me gifts. None of them are things I would like and they don’t tell me anything about either of them, other than the fact that she likes gaudy home decor, scarf prints, and gift baskets. I donate all the stuff from her, but I would love a random CD that hurts my ears but is important to my brother!
Anonymous
01/04/2024 21:53
Subject: Re:The list of unwanted gifts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
My BIL gave my 6 year old daughter a packet of miso soup mix, 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.
Wow. That is pretty bad. My husbands brother-in-law sent him a single tea bag-but at least my husband drinks tea!
The miso soup is inexplicable unless he is training her to someday join him for a meal at a Japanese restaurant. Was it wrapped?
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.
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.
Interesting idea but no it isn’t an anime character or any kind of distinctive design it’s just a solid color pencil case. I’m pretty sure the soup and pencil case were bought separately and then BIL combined them. I know it makes no sense but a lot of things BIL does make no sense haha
Anonymous
01/04/2024 21:42
Subject: Re:The list of unwanted gifts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
My BIL gave my 6 year old daughter a packet of miso soup mix, 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.
Wow. That is pretty bad. My husbands brother-in-law sent him a single tea bag-but at least my husband drinks tea!
The miso soup is inexplicable unless he is training her to someday join him for a meal at a Japanese restaurant. Was it wrapped?
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.
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.
Anonymous
01/04/2024 21:09
Subject: The list of unwanted gifts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It wasn't for me, but 7 yo was a witch for Halloween so our au pair got her a Wiccan bible so she can learn to be a real witch. That got recycled quickly.
Ha ha. I love this.
It's inappropriate, unless you're all in the same coven. That's like randomly giving someone a Bible or Quran.
Anonymous
01/04/2024 21:06
Subject: Re:The list of unwanted gifts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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 $$ since I’m buying each kid a gift instead of one joint gift) into thinking of something I know they ‘ll like and be excited to open, that’s personal to each kid.
My BIL gave my 6 year old daughter a packet of miso soup mix, which is not something she has ever had or would want to have. I just don’t understand…
My parents are good gift givers now because they finally got to a point after years of bad gifts where they will actually ask me what the kids and my husband and I want and get exactly what I tell them. But honestly the whole gift giving thing is so ridiculous at this point. Either you are shopping from a wish list which is a way to guarantee you’re getting something someone wants but it’s not very fun since the recipient knows what they’re getting. Or you give them useless junk. There’s no in between it seems, in my family anyway.
Wow. That is pretty bad. My husbands brother-in-law sent him a single tea bag-but at least my husband drinks tea!
The miso soup is inexplicable unless he is training her to someday join him for a meal at a Japanese restaurant. Was it wrapped?
It was “wrapped” in a pencil case/bag which was also part of her gift. It was just so random to see her open the pencil bag expecting pencils or markers or something and seeing a soup packet.
I still have no idea why he gave it but I think he is just a really weird person.
Anonymous
01/04/2024 21:00
Subject: Re:The list of unwanted gifts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:From my brother and SIL: every year they give my kids (ages 9 and 6) a 1000 piece puzzle. The kids aren’t interested in doing puzzles and we have never even started one. I don’t know where they got the idea we like puzzles. I wish they’d give us nothing instead of a giant puzzle every year. It also does annoy me that I buy their kids gifts that i actually put time and effort (not to mention more $$ 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.
My BIL gave my 6 year old daughter a packet of miso soup mix, 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.
Wow. That is pretty bad. My husbands brother-in-law sent him a single tea bag-but at least my husband drinks tea!
The miso soup is inexplicable unless he is training her to someday join him for a meal at a Japanese restaurant. Was it wrapped?
Anonymous
01/04/2024 20:57
Subject: Re:The list of unwanted gifts
Anonymous wrote: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.
My BIL gave my 6 year old daughter a packet of miso soup mix, 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.
For the puzzle givers, maybe ask them to get a Lego set instead. Maybe even a Lego Advent Calendar.
Anonymous
01/04/2024 20:41
Subject: The list of unwanted gifts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Keeping it but got something called a "Ninja Creami" to make pints of ice cream or homemade blizzards. Not interested.
It’s to make healthy ice cream using fruits, etc. I don’t think it’s terrible at all.
If someone is scrambling to buy me a gift and lands on a Nina Creami, that is not someone that needs to be scrambling to get me anything!
So then why are you keeping it?
You’d have no trouble rehoming that!
Anonymous
01/04/2024 20:28
Subject: The list of unwanted gifts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Keeping it but got something called a "Ninja Creami" to make pints of ice cream or homemade blizzards. Not interested.
It’s to make healthy ice cream using fruits, etc. I don’t think it’s terrible at all.
If someone is scrambling to buy me a gift and lands on a Nina Creami, that is not someone that needs to be scrambling to get me anything!
Well
Who did you get it from?
People are so whiny on this thread!
I can’t find the starter thread for this whole section. But if you want to send me a Ninja Creami, I’ll take it! Let me know. Ill post a burner email and pay shipping.
Anonymous
01/04/2024 19:28
Subject: The list of unwanted gifts
My mom gave me a small plastic photo album from Cracker Barrel.
Anonymous
01/04/2024 19:10
Subject: The list of unwanted gifts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Keeping it but got something called a "Ninja Creami" to make pints of ice cream or homemade blizzards. Not interested.
It’s to make healthy ice cream using fruits, etc. I don’t think it’s terrible at all.
If someone is scrambling to buy me a gift and lands on a Nina Creami, that is not someone that needs to be scrambling to get me anything!
I’m curious what you bought them that is so much better?
Anonymous
01/04/2024 19:09
Subject: The list of unwanted gifts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Keeping it but got something called a "Ninja Creami" to make pints of ice cream or homemade blizzards. Not interested.
It’s to make healthy ice cream using fruits, etc. I don’t think it’s terrible at all.
If someone is scrambling to buy me a gift and lands on a Nina Creami, that is not someone that needs to be scrambling to get me anything!
Well
Who did you get it from?
People are so whiny on this thread!
Anonymous
01/04/2024 17:55
Subject: The list of unwanted gifts
Anonymous wrote:Truffle Oil
See, I would love this because my dog is learning how to snuffle for truffles.