UL: I can't believe your Dad asks you about stuff he gives you-too funny!
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UL: I can't believe your Dad asks you about stuff he gives you-too funny!
A few weeks ago he asked about the ten speed bike he gave me when I moved to Alabama -- ten years ago! Like: "Do you still have it...?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
No worries-some day he won't be able to remember what he gave you:))
To those who re-gift: just stop the madness. Why foist off on someone something that you didnt want?
Think of all of the bath salts and little bars of artisan soaps that get passed around by women.
;)
LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
LOL I love bath salts and soaps..........my castoffs are nice things, just not my style.
Gifts are gifts and my feeling is they are given to make the giver feel good. I say this because I had a mother who had to give, did not matter what the reason. I always had a hard time taking gifts from anyone. Mom's gifts always came with a price tag, How much excitement or happiness the person responded with. Next was the questions of how did you like it, did you hang it up or use it, where in the house is it?? After many years she stopped giving me gifts for the most part, for that reason my lack of response. She always said to never to return a plate empty, cookies came on it, cookies return on it. I feel maybe the person just wanted me to try their cookies that day.
I now have a neighbor who gives for the same reasons, the response. I am not ungrateful, but she buys costume jewelry sets and does not what the earrings, so she wraps them and gives them to me. Then comments on have you worn them? I don't ware these type jewelry. But yes I put a pair on sometimes to walk by her home with my dogs so she can see them and respond. Now there is a sight dog walking and dangling earrings!
SO i just take a gift and leave it at that, because I understand it means more to the person than it does to me.
your last line sums it up well
I'll regift if the gift suits the receiver.
My friend knows I've been decluttering for quite some time, and has just given me a brass horse statue for my birthday. It's nice, but I don't want it. Her birthday is close to mine and she knows I haven't started my new job yet and don't have extra funds to buy a gift. I've mentioned that I'm not spending money on anything but necessities and now I feel bad that I can't get her anything. And I've got nothing suitable to regift to her.
maybe make a date to take a long walk together to catch up and stop for ice cream after, not all bday gifts have to be things