What gift would you like to NOT get this holiday season?

mixmaster
11.21.16 2:18 AM

My kids live in another state and they are sweethearts and very smart people, but we don’t see each other in person very often and they haven’t the slightest idea who I really am. They know I like to read mysteries, so one year for Christmas I got several novels about a woman shopaholic. It is a popular series, but doesn’t come close to Jack Reacher, Myron Bolitar, Elvis Cole, Virgil Flowers, etc. Another year I got a CD of duets by Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand. I mean, they are ok, but I grew up on the Rolling Stones and even like the Pretenders. I tell them not to send me anything I can’t eat or use up. I have too many THINGS already, so I guess they are at a loss.

Somehow a gift card doesn’t have a lot of holiday spirit, although that is what my grandsons want and get. So maybe I’ll just ask for one this year and save them the trouble of shopping.

Is there anything that you hope you don’t get this year? I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, I am always grateful for the thought. But don’t you just hate to see people waste their money on something you dont want?

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- AQUAFINA
- 11.21.16 3:20 PM
LOL…reminds me of the time my brother gave me a pair of striped socks with toes. My brother and his wife used to buy in bulk. So all the men in the family would get the same shirt but in different colors. Finally, we started drawing names, and it became a joke among the family whose name my brother was going to draw. He and his wife picked out weird gifts.
- Pamlou
- 11.21.16 1:03 PM
I definitely don’t want knick knacks for the house. I am wall to wall over here and need to clean out rather than add to it. I have a lot of things I keep for sentimental reasons that I have tried to weed out. I keep everything my daughter who I lost 4 years ago ever gave me and will never throw away. Last year my other daughter told me she had such a hard time buying for me because I had clothes galore and jewelry and everything. I said silly girl, I can never have too many tops or jewlery or gift certificates. Now, especially, I need clothes again. I’m a big reader (Mixmaster I always said God should have created man in Myron Bolitar’s image :)) and gc’s from Amazon would be greatly appreciated. But I’m supposed to be telling what I DON”T want. Knick Knacks is my big answer.
- mixmaster
- 11.21.16 12:53 PM
, , , I know alot of this is my fault. I’m hard to buy for because there literally isn’t anything I want. Books cost $25 new now, which I think is ridiculous. I can get them at the thrift shops for $3 for a hardback and sometimes they are less than a year old. Same with clothes. I don’t wear alot of clothes or shoes or accessories. I sold jewelry for 35 years and could stock all of your jewelry boxes I have so much, and all I wear are two rings and hoops. I don’t listen to music, I like foreign films, which are hard for other people to buy. I tell them every year a nice box of chocolates and pictures of the kids. Well, the kids pictures are on facebook and they area grown men now and don’t sit still for pictures.

I think you are right about the Amazon or HSN gift card. I can find used videos, used books and there’s always David’s cookies. So I guess I’ll break down and say give me a gift card. It just seems like the Grinch took Christmas.

I had to laugh at the person’s answer who won for the weirdest gift last week, the pre-scratched lottery tickets. That was funny. Take that to your next white elephant exchange!

Thanks for your suggestions.

Haven’t you all gotten anything that you wish someone hadn’t spent their money on?
- INSOMNIAC
- 11.21.16 11:59 AM
You should make a list a wish list for our children to use. Divide it into categories–books, CDs, etc.

This would make shopping easier for them, and you’re more likely to get gifts you’ll enjoy.

(And who wouldn’t want a gift card from Amazon?)
- loaf
- 11.21.16 11:56 AM
MIXMASTER MY KIDS ASK FOR A LIST . I KNOW WE DONT REALLY NEED ANYTHING BUT I LOVE CLUTCHES CLOTHES JEWERLY . ALSO COOKING . MAYBE YOU CAN GIVE THEM A LIST OF WHAT YOU NEED OR WOULD LIKE .PS. THEY KNOW I SHOP HERE ALOT . LOL :heart:
- Sophia247
- 11.21.16 5:54 AM
Lol, I used to hate getting gift cards as I don’t enjoy going shopping. Now, I like gift cards, if I can use them online. 🙂 What I don’t need any more of is any kind of lotion or cream. I have enough to last a many years. 🙂

I hope everyone gets what they want this year, and I hope you get lots of good treats from your loved ones! 🙂