Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 07:07     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
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Anonymous wrote:I hate all of these ideas. My parents or MIL have given us most of them and we have returned or donated their bomba socks, first aid kits, decorative crap, bidets and a lot of other suggestions I see here. We are adults. We have first aid kits. We will NEVER use a bidet. I don’t want those overpriced socks.

Know the person you are buying for. A practical gift I’d use is a case of toilet paper, method cleaning spray, tooth paste… something consumable that the family goes through a lot. Please don’t clutter my house with stuff you think I need.


You’ll never use a bidet? Gross. How do you properly clean yourself? Dry tissue doesn’t clean it all!!!!


By taking multiple showers a day like most people? How can you clean only part of yourself and call yourself clean?? Gross.


Multiple showers are horrible for the environment and totally unnecessary.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 06:49     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
Salt grinder and Himalayan salt
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 06:45     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
The measuring spoons that are magnetized so that they all stay together.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 06:43     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I hate all of these ideas. My parents or MIL have given us most of them and we have returned or donated their bomba socks, first aid kits, decorative crap, bidets and a lot of other suggestions I see here. We are adults. We have first aid kits. We will NEVER use a bidet. I don’t want those overpriced socks.

Know the person you are buying for. A practical gift I’d use is a case of toilet paper, method cleaning spray, tooth paste… something consumable that the family goes through a lot. Please don’t clutter my house with stuff you think I need.


You’ll never use a bidet? Gross. How do you properly clean yourself? Dry tissue doesn’t clean it all!!!!


By taking multiple showers a day like most people? How can you clean only part of yourself and call yourself clean?? Gross.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 06:40     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
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Anonymous wrote:The OXO y-peeler is a good suggestion. Got one several months ago and could not believe what an improvement it was!


OXO is the best. They have consistently high quality materials. I love buying their kitchen stuff. Just got some fridge organizers from them and they're amazing.


Ooh, strongly disagree. I hate how much space they take up! Maybe in a suburban house with a half-acre kitchen, but in my itty-bitty city house, I can't have one spatula taking up the space of four normal implements.


?? I have OXO stuff in my rowhouse. Depends on what you are buying.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 06:35     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
Batteries— every kind and lots of them
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 06:27     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
Anonymous wrote:A multi bit screwdriver. Great to keep handy in a drawer so you don’t have to dig through a toolbox to find the right screwdriver.
Something like this
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-11-in-1-Magnetic-Multi-Bit-Screwdriver-Nut-Driver-32500MAG/313136187



Bidet hater and this is the first suggestion I’d actually like. Maybe not like, but not get rid of.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 06:11     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
A multi bit screwdriver. Great to keep handy in a drawer so you don’t have to dig through a toolbox to find the right screwdriver.
Something like this
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Klein-Tools-11-in-1-Magnetic-Multi-Bit-Screwdriver-Nut-Driver-32500MAG/313136187

Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 04:48     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The OXO y-peeler is a good suggestion. Got one several months ago and could not believe what an improvement it was!


OXO is the best. They have consistently high quality materials. I love buying their kitchen stuff. Just got some fridge organizers from them and they're amazing.


Ooh, strongly disagree. I hate how much space they take up! Maybe in a suburban house with a half-acre kitchen, but in my itty-bitty city house, I can't have one spatula taking up the space of four normal implements.


Most of DCUMAD lives in McMansions in MoCo or FFX. Sorry you are still stuck inside DC.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 04:43     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
I love giving a national park pass to families. For seniors you can get gift them the lifetime pass.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 04:10     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
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Anonymous wrote:Tile or airtag. I need one for my keys.


Doesn’t everyone has push button start by now? I don’t touch my keys for months at a time.


What about your house keys?


NP- I have a push button start too but I still need to have the keys with me in the car- so yes an AirTag is helpful especially I switch between my belt bag and diaper bag. We don’t have a house key but I would get an AirTag for it if we did.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 04:02     Subject: Re:Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
Box full of batteries. AAA and AA and 9 volt and maybe D batteries.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 03:57     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
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Anonymous wrote:Decorative items for the home! You can get really nice stuff at Home Goods and Ross!


Um, no. Decorative is the opposite of practical. And please, please do not bring that Ross junk into my house! NO RAY DUNN!


I think decorative items are practical!! You have to decorate a home! You must have a plain Jane home

NP. I don’t care for Home Goods junk. It would go straight to the thrift store.


Well you must be an outlier. Everyone I know loves decorative items


Hate to break it to you, they are just being polite.


No one would ever describe my mom as polite, I got her a shiny silver figurine of two dashound dogs laying together from HomeGoods and she has it on display in her living room shelving for a few years now
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 03:52     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
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Anonymous wrote:Dude wipes and toilet paper - the good kind.


What are dude wipes?


Baby wipes to keep in the glove compartment so you can wipe hands clean enough to dirty up your car by eating in it
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2023 03:49     Subject: Extremely practical gifts most people would appreciate
Electric rechargeable Portable tire inflater pump