To a certain extent, it’s got some truth in it. The statement about “If I need something, I just buy it myself” is particularly relevant for a lot of people.
But we’ve been conditioned to think that there will be something forthcoming even when we pretty much know it’s not going to happen.
And some of us eventually come to grips with it (after a fashion) by just outright stating that no gifts are expected, and sometimes it is easier that way.
And sometimes it’s not.
Your mileage may vary. I’ll try to avoid raining on your parade.
@ironcheftoni
Because shifting IRKs around as a last resort might make something useful in one of them…
Well, okay, there’s no hope for iPhone 6 cases, but I’ve seen an outdated laptop sleeve used for other purposes a couple of times. Can you say “Mac Air clam case used for making quinoa sprouts”?
@werehatrack I think I have seen that, but could not for the life of me figure out why they were rolling quinoa sprouts into those little papers? Plus it looked like they were a little past sprouting. I think they were doing it wrong.
Pretty much if I don’t have something I want, it’s because it is either hard to obtain, I consider it too expensive to just up and buy myself, or I only kinda want it which really means I don’t need it. Especially in the first two cases, I’m not going to ask anyone else to get it for me either.
How about some nice cookies or something? That’s a fine gift. But not from everyone because that would be too many cookies.
Solution: everyone should exchange one cookie (or brownie, or pecan tassie, or kale-quinoa-date cluster, whatever your definition of treat is) each. We wind up with a variety, and not wildly too many, and then we can sit around with a big glass of milk and taste them and hang out. And you can remember that your friend’s mom that makes the cowboy cookies is a great person, and secretly judge your drunken cousin that tried to pass off some knockoff chips ahoy they bought at the dollar general on the way over as a Christmas cookie. You know, how Christmas is done.
@Sneakertree
But the supply of TrackRs miht be finite, and could run out someday, and if you give them all away, how can you ever prove that you were really here? (I still only have one, but at least I have that.)
meh.
To a certain extent, it’s got some truth in it. The statement about “If I need something, I just buy it myself” is particularly relevant for a lot of people.
But we’ve been conditioned to think that there will be something forthcoming even when we pretty much know it’s not going to happen.
And some of us eventually come to grips with it (after a fashion) by just outright stating that no gifts are expected, and sometimes it is easier that way.
And sometimes it’s not.
Your mileage may vary. I’ll try to avoid raining on your parade.
And for all the stuff you get that you don’t want; that’s what Meh Exchanges are for!
@ironcheftoni
Because shifting IRKs around as a last resort might make something useful in one of them…
Well, okay, there’s no hope for iPhone 6 cases, but I’ve seen an outdated laptop sleeve used for other purposes a couple of times. Can you say “Mac Air clam case used for making quinoa sprouts”?
@werehatrack I think I have seen that, but could not for the life of me figure out why they were rolling quinoa sprouts into those little papers? Plus it looked like they were a little past sprouting. I think they were doing it wrong.
Pretty much if I don’t have something I want, it’s because it is either hard to obtain, I consider it too expensive to just up and buy myself, or I only kinda want it which really means I don’t need it. Especially in the first two cases, I’m not going to ask anyone else to get it for me either.
How about some nice cookies or something? That’s a fine gift. But not from everyone because that would be too many cookies.
Solution: everyone should exchange one cookie (or brownie, or pecan tassie, or kale-quinoa-date cluster, whatever your definition of treat is) each. We wind up with a variety, and not wildly too many, and then we can sit around with a big glass of milk and taste them and hang out. And you can remember that your friend’s mom that makes the cowboy cookies is a great person, and secretly judge your drunken cousin that tried to pass off some knockoff chips ahoy they bought at the dollar general on the way over as a Christmas cookie. You know, how Christmas is done.
@djslack I put cookies in a box, drop it off at UPS, and say that I tried. OH SHIT I GOTTA BAKE COOKIES.
I give them something I have created… then I am never asked to come back
@Koolhandjoe My daughter is away at school so I put Catbaby in her room. She was dressed in her Halloween shirt and shorts.
My daughter came home for Thanksgiving and asked me to move that thing because she wasn’t going to sleep with it in her room.
I call that success. And just bought Catbaby an new dress for Christmas.
@sammydog01 100% Success!!!.. That is fantastic
I’ve got the perfect gift for each of these people. Trackrs! It’s the gift they didn’t even know they didn’t want!
@Sneakertree
But the supply of TrackRs miht be finite, and could run out someday, and if you give them all away, how can you ever prove that you were really here? (I still only have one, but at least I have that.)