Oh for crying out loud!
Thanks the giver and be happy that they love you!
My MIL buys crap all year long from the deep discount tables then puts it all on her bed just before Christmas and picks stuff for each of us, without actual regard to wants or taste.
She gave my two year old a Kaboodle with a mirror and that same year, forgot my four year old totally.
When the next year, we tried to send her a list for the kids, she sent a poison pen letter stating, “I’m not going to buy what you want me to buy. I’m going to buy what I want” Mind you, we included things on that list like coloring books and crayons because she is worth a cool mil yet is so tight she squeaks.
Tell me again who she loves. It is only herself.
Not possible in my case. My brother gave me a “George W. Bush Countdown til Out of Office” Calendar. I would rather have had the $12 it cost.
I disagree. Chances are if a person gave a gift that you either didn't like, or didn't want, they did not take enough time to find out who you were as a person, or didn't know you well enough to ask. There's no love involved, only obligation.
IMO, better to hand out a pre-paid credit card rather than give a person something he/she would want to re-gift within the hour.
Exactly. Assume ,being Christmas, that their heart was in the right place. Then, Regift.
Oh, so I should thank the giver for a diet book? Even if they’re fat, too? Even if they constantly make snide remarks about my weight and how I’m fatter than they are (and I’m not)? Even if they live 200 miles away, I rarely see them and they are a distant relative? Even if they call mostly to tell me how fat I am? Even if I am by now doubting that they love me?