• boogetyboo@aussie.zone
      0·
      10 months ago

      Did she purchase them with the intent of giving them to you or were they someone’s hand me downs and she thought you’d want them?

      Either is pretty barmy to be fair.

  • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
    2·
    10 months ago

    My schizophrenic uncle wanted to give me relatively big sum of money

    He seemed sane at the moment but like you never know, I preferred to not tempt fate

  • Alice@beehaw.org
    1·
    9 months ago

    This is so mean, I know my family tries…

    I know a lot of adults are into figurines and toys, but I’m not. I have a small apartment and dusty surfaces stress me out. Plus there’s a bug problem courtesy of my neighbors, and it’s important to be able to clean up after those fuckers quickly. I just don’t like a home with a bunch of tiny knick-knacks taking up surface space.

    Every birthday and Christmas I get a dozen small toys, usually for things I liked as a kid. I try to mention that I want kitchenwares or craft supplies, but my family just doesn’t remember things I say very often. The fact that they’ve started remembering my birthday, after I mention it all month long, is a victory.

    I don’t want anyone to see their gifts in thrift stores, so I try to sell them on ebay, but it’s slow.

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
    1·
    10 months ago

    As an adult I hate gifts in general. If I wanted something I would have gotten it and if its something I could not get it would usually be so expensive as to be quite embarrassing. Rarely someone comes across a great deal on something I would want or is something that I would want that is not to expensive but not commonly available but then such opportunities are not just rare but almost never happen close enough to a gift giving occasion (as we do such things in society). As such I almost never want them and do not like to give them except when the rare opportunity arises and then out of the blue. This tends to fluster the recipient who then seeks to get something inane for me.

    • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Personally I give gifts that people never knew they wanted. That the value from the gift itself is worth more than the shelf price. My favorite gift is a small, but capable, screwdriver set.

      Everyone always tells me it’s lame like “it’s just a tool, it’s so boring”. But every single person I’ve given it to contacts me again in a couple months like clockwork telling me how it saved their butts. Telling me they use it to replace a light switch, repair or tighten up some furniture, replace a part on their bike, take apart their PC and the list goes on.

      NO ONE’S first thought after getting 15$ would be a screw driver kit, which is why I give them.

      Another one is a luxury nail clipper. One that’s like 20$. Something you’d never spend that kind of money on, but every moment you use it is GLORIOUS.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    My mother wanted to give me a 2x2x1 foot bug zapper. I live in a small townhouse, only a few feet of outdoor space. What we do have is taken up with native plants trying alto attract bees and insects due to the shocking drop in them. We also live in a climate that does not have mosquitoes or annoying bugs really. In the 8 years I’ve lived here we have had one fly come into our home, we’ve never complained about bugs once, and we’ve constantly talked about how little space we have.

    I returned it.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      10 months ago

      Your mom knows what’s up. You can’t undo sun damage, and anyone that cares what you look like while mowing the lawn is a grade A weirdo.

      • cygnus@lemmy.ca
        01·
        10 months ago

        True, but you can get the best of both worlds with sunscreen. I stopped leaving home without at least SPF 30 and it made a remarkable difference to how quickly my face is aging.