• ElGosso [he/him]
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    4 年前

    Anyone else have a rough time during the holidays? My mom always went big on the holidays to try to give me a nice Christmas but it means that I only associate them with her, and by extension, her screaming about Pepsi broadcasting advertising into her mind.

    Turns out some things are too deep to wash out, even after a decade of hard drinking.

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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      4 年前

      I've never been particularly materialistic which made me the one who was "hard to shop for." It made me sad, because my family would try REALLY hard to buy me cool/nice things, but like, I'm just not wired that way. I feel bad every year because I just can't pretend to be excited about that stuff, no matter how hard I try, and I can see the sadness in their eyes when their hopes of finally getting me the "perfect gift" are dashed yet again. It's only gotten worse since I've become a leftist as now I just see the whole thing as an exercise of hollow consumerism. I don't know man, it's really bumming me out this year.

      • ElGosso [he/him]
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        4 年前

        When I was a kid I used to love getting stuff and now I just don't care about things so I'm in a similar boat. I found that something that works good for me is to ask for, like, nice foods and booze and stuff like that.