You get anything nice? Give anything nice? Did you abstain? My stepdad got me some thigh highs and a lockpick set, and my sister got me a lush gift box. I got nothing from my partners though :(
My brother didn't want gifts because of the consumerist superficiality, so I donated to the victims of capitalism foundation in his name. I made my mom some plantain salve. My sister got "Woke Baby" since she's preggers.
Did you get anything absolutely awful? Either spiteful or just a bad gift?
One of my friends got me a soviet era ushanka, so that was dope
That is exactly how it looks lmao
Seriously, it has that grey/bluish thing just like that
Received. I explicitly asked for MFP merch. My family is really bad at buying gifts so now we just pass around our wish lists. We also have to coordinate to make sure no one is buying the same thing, after that one time one of my relatives got 4 copies of Forest Gump.
I got a nice pair of sweatpants from my parents which is great bc I haven't bought a new pair of sweatpants in literally over 10 years
I do Christmas with my wife's family because my family is insane, but I'm still adjusting to how they do presents — everyone gets a list together of specific items they want (with links to purchase) and then emails or texts it to everyone else and there's a chaotic scramble to coordinate who's getting what.
It's low pressure but my material conditions are good so buying stuff for others and getting an equivalently priced item in return doesn't feel like I'm giving much, especially since i really like when someone knows me well enough to pick something great out for me without asking so I assume others are the same. Plus then when you don't get the things on your list it's more disappointing cause you could've just bought it yourself months ago.
That's a long way of saying my wife forgot to forward my list until late this year, so mostly I got gift cards but I also got a great set of drill bits and screwdriver heads that I didn't even know I wanted.
a chaotic scramble to coordinate who’s getting what
We forgot to do this one year and one of my relatives got 4 copies of Forest Gump
New jean jacket, a few 1l beer steins, and Death Stranding. Gonna enjoy playing the post apoc postman game.
