Anyone receiving unwanted gardening tools, seeds or gift certificates for online plant nurseries can send them to me, no questions asked.
David? Bah! Next time, bring home Vincenzo de Rossi’s “Hercules and Diomedes.”
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Our kids give us money. (that’s not to be construed as a complaint)
I’m going to go with electronics, too. Not because I don’t want them, but rather when people buy them for me as gifts it’s invariably not the model I would have bought, doesn’t have the features I wanted, and I end up not being happy with it.
After I graduated from college and got a good job, it took a while for it to sink in that I wasn’t a poor college student anymore. So when I wanted a new digital camera I requested one for Christmas, because up to that point that was what I’d always done when I wanted some expensive gadget. My parents got me a sort of mediocre one that I can only conclude they selected because it was cheaper. I used it for a little while, but wasn’t happy with the image quality particularly in low light situations, and then just ended up buying another one myself anyway. Since then I realized I can afford to buy that stuff myself, and if I want something I’ll just buy it myself and get the one I actually want.
“Carpet bombing”. By those who have a an idea of my hobbies and interests, but only the most superficial knowledge of them as their “go to” gift ideas. Not realizing that these interests are very diverse and multi-faceted. As such, stuff that’s ranges from being of very limited use ( let alone enjoyment ) to just outright bizarre curios.
For example, one of my avocations is being a gearhead ( motorhead, what have you ) and over the years have owned and enjoyed owning, restoring, modifying cars, hot rodding etc. I’ll get some cheap “all in 1” wonder wrench from some infomercial, even though I own about 20K worth of the best tools money can buy, many of which were modified or hand made ( amassed over the years of course ). Or some generic auto accessory from Pep-Boys.
I got a tree for Mother’s day. Hey, it was a inspired gift.
Never expected that. I’ll plant it In a nice spot.
But, seriously?! Do these people not look around? Do they not know me at all? Zillions of trees. I’m literally living in the middle of a forest.
I guess my tree will reduce in a teeney-tiny way the harm all those Mom’s day cards have done to the Rain forest.
Kinda.
I don’t really want anything. People know I’m hard to shop for, so they always get me cologne sets that include deodorant and body wash that I don’t enjoy. Queue the “I’ve got BO jokes,” but, no, I’m hygienically sound. I’ve got a stack of wallets of various quality, and a stack of gift cards from places I’ll never go, like Darden restaurants, Starbucks, and so on.
I would love a nice gravy boat, though. Every time I have family over in which I make gravy, I serve it in a jalepeño-themed salsera, which kind of works. It’s a huge hint to my family that I don’t have a gravy boat, but no one ever bites.
I don’t want tacky stuff like “Man Cave” signs, but I have 'em.
Make me some cookies. Toll house. I’ll be good.
So many presents I don’t want here. It’s amazing.
My unique contributions - Monopoly games and socks, both of which my mother gets me every year. I haven’t played Monopoly in 15 years. I have enough socks, mostly from my mother, to last me 10 years. Mom, if you’re reading this, I know you mean well and I love you.
Could someone arrange the great Coronavirus/Marie Kondo/Straight Dope unwanted gift exchange of 2020? I would happily ship off a weird-ass Monopoly game to anyone for the asking with no expectation of anything in particular.
Don’t hint TOO hard, or you’ll get a dozen of them. :o
I actually think that’s a nice gift. Sure, you have dozens of trees about, but this one is - and will always be - special.
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Funny, I didn’t see any tourist knick knacks of that statue in Florence. 
My co-workers would have loved them, though!
I really don’t want anything. I’ve never liked getting gifts, and I especially hate opening gifts in front of the giver. What if I don’t like it? I don’t have a good poker face. My sister who should know what I like and don’t like, always gives me a Christmas gift of something that I intensely dislike, like cheaply scented body lotion. My good friend always spends way too much money on birthday and Christmas for me. Fortunately she knows my tastes.
Back in the 60’s and 70’s “soap on a rope with aftershave” gift sets were extremely common for men.
Have you ever tried to use soap that’s on a soap? And the soap in those sets was never refreshing deodorant soap. It was supposed to be scented like the aftershave and all but stunk.
And the aftershave was always something cheap, horrible, or passe’ like English Leather, Jade East, or Old spice.
Please don’t ever give me something like that.
Whatcha get for Mother’s Day? Nothing! Confused silence. 
Honestly Just a sincere acknowledgment from the kids and a hand in the days meal prep is sufficient. Don’t bring me flowers though I’d take a cherry blossom bough from the yard.
I was invited to a FB group that is for gifting and wining your neighbors. You provide your address and someone from the group drops of a goody bag. I want none of it! But I like reading the posts.
I actually think this is what many are doing with their pandemic unemployment. It’s a rural city with a poorish population. I do t begrudge them their fun but some folks are dropping off dozens of goody bags with fireball whisky, bottom shelf wines and dollar store items. In a gift bag with tissue paper. Makes me twitchy. What would I put on my outgoing gift bag? Veggie seeds, mini baileys Irish cream, face mask, condoms? Lol and I am never going to post my address on FB I don’t care if it’s a private group what are they crazy!
This made me laugh! I once gifted a couple of co-workers picture frame for their desks, seeing that they had pictures of their family taped to their monitors. I thought I was being funny when I printed out a silly picture of myself on regular printer paper and put it in the frame, (replacing the standard stock example picture). The gift really was the frame, but when I went in their offices and found the frame on their desk with my goofy picture still in it.
I felt bad, but explained to both of them that I do not think so much of myself to give them a picture of me wearing a giant foam cowboy hat with equally giant sunglasses!
I bought a picture frame for my own use once. When I went to put the picture in the frame, I noticed something in the picture and no longer wanted to display it. I’d already put a hanger on the wall though, and the picture that came in the frame was actually very nice, so I hung the frame with its picture until I could find a “real” picture.
I ended up keeping the picture up for years. Anytime someone looked at the picture for the first time, they’d ask, “who is she, she’s really cute?” I’d get a far-away look in my eyes, get kinda choked up, and say, “I’d really rather not talk about it”. The subject would be changed.
I don’t think I ever told anyone the truth about the picture.