Are you giving any gifts this year?
Things are tight with money right now so I’m not sure what I’m going to do. My mom had to pay for my plane ticket to Connecticut.
Maybe I’ll do IOU’s and shop in January when I’ll have more money. I like to buy consumable gifts for people these days, like a Japanese snack sampler or a free month of mail-order meals. All the people I buy for are adults who don’t need anymore “stuff”.
I ordered my dad a gift bag of variety jerkies on jerky.com and made my mom sunflower brittle at home. My parents have everything they need and don’t want anything, so sending them things they can eat just made sense. My family is impossible to buy stuff for, every holiday and birthday is a pain in the butt!
I think I’m going to make chocolate caramel pretzel bark and put it in little decorative tins.
I got my sister an ethiopian opal necklace and my mom some stained glass pattern books
My whole family are not buying any gifts this year. We’re just getting together as a family and for me, that’s costly enough because I have to buy a train ticket.
Don’t buy if you can’t afford it right now. Don’t worry about IOUs. Those who care will understand.
Some family members I never hear from, and I never try to keep up the contact either these days
I have provided so many opportunities to reconnect that never gets followed up
But for some reason they’re more than happy to do presents
Guess the math works out better for them?
Anyway after this year I will no longer be playing this game
It’s not so much the money, it’s the principle of not wanting to prolong such a transactional relationship with people who don’t care
We live 10 mins away from each other, which makes it worse
That said I am going to continue buying for the people who’re actually invested
That’s keeping it real @Joker!
I am kinda desensitised now to family turning on each other
Don’t know if Covid set it all off but so many people just don’t get on any more
It’s sad because I thought this would never happen
But turns out not just friends can stab you in the back
Those sound like beautiful gifts @Rainstorm
Good point. I decided on making a big batch of chocolate caramel pretzel bark for everyone. Everybody loves that stuff.
I gave away all my gifts this year at Thanksgiving…surprised everyone.
My boyfriend and I gave each other a night at a cheap dog friendly motel with my dog so we can get out of this town .
I also hope to give him a deodorant body spray.
We gave a pair of thick warm socks to a guy he lives with.
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