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Worst birth day presents you have received
Papersatan:
I have never been able to ask for cash. It strikes me as terribly rude, but then I also am very against asking people what they want. Gifts shouldn't be an obligation. I know that socially sometimes they are, but if I know what I am getting it ruins it for me. Actually, growing up if you let on you knew what a present would be, you didn't get it.
If I am hard pressed for money (which is usually the case) people who would be buying me gifts usually know it. I inevitably get gift cards, but to places where I can buy practical things or to restaurants, which I think is nice. My mother doesn't buy me anything but Walmart and Amazon gift cards now. I use the cards mostly to buy things I need with a few splurges. It is nice and practical, but to be honest I preferred real gifts. My parents have given me good gifts in the past: A new printer, a KitchenAid mixer, the complete Calvin and Hobbes collection... I miss the excitment of opening a present that I have no clue what is. Now the only surprise is how much it is for.
Worst gift I remember them giving me? new bed sheets for my birthday when I was 12ish. I was disappointed because that felt like a thing I would have gotten anyways.
I would love a new set of bed sheets now.
lepetitfromage:
Oh man, me too. Sheets are stupidly expensive for basically just being a few yards of fabric. Practical gifts are the best.
Mister D Nomms:
If I told my 12 year old self that in 10 years he'd actually buy socks himself and enjoy it, he wouldn't have believed me. Then he'd probably ask me about robots and brag about the newest video game he has.
bainidhe_dub:
My husband was way excited to get socks for Christmas this year - I finally found the Size 12-14 socks instead of the Size 10-12 so they actually fit him.
Carl-E:
My wife and I, in the early, very lean years, got each other socks and underwear for christmas as "stocking stuffers". What's funny is that it wasn't consciously coordinated - we both knew that the other really needed them.
Every year, there's at least one pair of each in the stockings now - usually decorative or silly, but fun.
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