# I got a MyPillow gift certificate for Xmas. Now what? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 16, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672 "2021-01-16T14:38:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![knobturner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@knobturner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knobturner)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/1 "2021-01-16T14:38:20Z")
My Trump loving sister gave it to me, knowing we are political polar opposites. I can imagine the slight smirk on her face as she placed it in my Xmas card. Burning it puts more money in My Pillow Guy’s pocket. Ordering bedding and donating it is probably the most ethical approach, but I’m open to suggestions that aren’t so ethical, but legal, because I really really really dislike My Pillow Guy. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/2 "2021-01-16T14:41:46Z")
Yes, I suppose donating to BLM or an abortion clinic would work. And put your sister down for a donation in her name to the ACLU or NOH8. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/3 "2021-01-16T14:42:29Z")
Give it back to your sister. Maybe rip/cut it in half, and then give it back. If someone I know gave me one of those, I promise you that I would mail them one of my dog’s turds in response. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/4 "2021-01-16T14:46:21Z")
I got a Mypillow for Christmas two years ago. I use it as my crotch pillow. (Needed for when I sleep on my side. Normally I’d call it a “thigh pillow”, but in this case I think a name change was appropriate) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/5 "2021-01-16T15:04:33Z")
The really sad thing is that the pillows are actually pretty good. The other sad thing is that _just about_ anything you buy supports something shitty along the way. Avocados, chocolate and clothes are just some of the things you’d give up if you knew what they really cost. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/6 "2021-01-16T15:05:49Z")
Buy something from them with the GC, return it for cash (if they’ll do it), then donate the cash to some uber left wing charity and send the confirmation note on to your sister. ETA: that may not work … but you never know: > **[MyPillow Gift Cards](https://www.mypillow.com/physical-gift-cards)** > > Gift Cards > > > Gift Card is redeemable via mypillow.com or by calling 1-800-544-8939 > Not redeemable or refundable for cash > Gift Cards do not expire > Only one Gift Card may be used per order [says it’s not redeemable for cash, but … a return … ??] ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/7 "2021-01-16T15:10:31Z")
Is the pillow really free to you or will you have to pay fees like shipping and handling even with the certificate? If it’s really free to you, order the pillow and have it shipped to some halfway house or homeless shelter as far away as possible so it has the maximum shipping charge. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/8 "2021-01-16T15:13:26Z")
I was wondering if we should _all_ buy several hundred dollars worth of pillows, and then return them, since they can’t resell them. But I just checked, you have to pay shipping both ways on returns. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/9 "2021-01-16T15:54:47Z")
The best way to fight the MyPillow guy is to coopt the brand. Buy a bunch of MyPillow branded bedding and reach out to your local LGBTQ rights organizations. Organize a big event where the most flamboyantly out individuals can loudly proclaim that MyPillow bedding is THE bedding for gay sex. Hand out rainbow patterned MyPillows to all comers. ---
**Author:** ![knobturner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@knobturner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knobturner)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/10 "2021-01-16T16:02:44Z")
All good ideas. Thank you. I found a nice set of towels, two for the price of one, and the gift card covers it. I’ll drop them at Goodwill. So, should my donation in Sis’s name go to the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, Biden’s inauguration, or Planned Parenthood? ---
**Author:** ![Keith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Keith1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith1)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/11 "2021-01-16T16:06:14Z")
This thread caught my eye because I have 2 My Pillows. They were given as a gift. That’s all I know about it. I’ve never seen a commercial or know anything more. The pillows are OK. I use them but they’re starting to get old. I get the sense that maybe I’m missing something? Is the owner a Trumpoid or something? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/12 "2021-01-16T16:14:10Z")
> [@Keith1](#): > > Is the owner a Trumpoid or something? Yes indeed. > [@](#): > > Another important player and financier of the post-election protest movement was Mike Lindell, founder and CEO of the My Pillow company, whose advertisements and political commentary are a fixture on conservative media. Lindell - a self-described former cocaine addict and alcoholic who says he found sobriety through Christianity - helped sponsor a two-week March for Trump bus tour that ended in Washington on Dec. 14 and spoke at five stops. > > My Pillow is a major advertiser and sponsor of the Right Side Broadcasting Network, a conservative media group that went along on the tour to provide daily coverage. > > Lindell said his financial backing of the bus tour ended in mid-December. He emphasized to Reuters that he did not help finance subsequent trips to promote the Jan. 6 rally that would devolve into riots. He said he did, however, attend the rally before the march to the Capitol that day, and he spoke the day before during rallies at Freedom Plaza, near the White House. > > The Capitol rioting has not changed Lindell’s views on contesting the election. “I’m never letting the fraud go,” he told Reuters. “It was the most corrupt election in U.S. history, and probably in world history.” (Christopher Krebs, a cyber-security chief for the Trump administration, called the election the most secure in the nation’s history shortly after the vote. Trump fired him.) [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protest-organizers-insight/how-trumps-pied-pipers-rallied-a-faithful-mob-to-the-capitol-idUSKBN29G2UP](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protest-organizers-insight/how-trumps-pied-pipers-rallied-a-faithful-mob-to-the-capitol-idUSKBN29G2UP) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/13 "2021-01-16T16:26:51Z")
I would send her back a video of me burning the thing. It might be one of the few times you’d like to be like me. ---
**Author:** ![Keith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Keith1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith1)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/14 "2021-01-16T16:26:58Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Yes indeed. Ahhhh!!! Thank you! I suppose in fairness, it sounds like he destroyed many brain cells with coke, booze & religion so we’ll credit him with that handicap. I did recently buy new pillows and so will hasten the My Pillows trip to the dump. It was my girlfriend who gave me them. She has a couple as well. I’ll forward your info to her and be certain we don’t make the mistake again. Sadly this time, he already has our money. ---
**Author:** ![Keith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Keith1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith1)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/15 "2021-01-16T17:03:16Z")
> [@Keith1](#): > > I’ll forward your info to her Just heard back: “Hum. Won’t be buying any more of his products!” ---
**Author:** ![Leftwix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e274bd/32.png) [@Leftwix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leftwix)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/16 "2021-01-16T17:11:25Z")
EXACTLY! A dog turd is even too nice. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/17 "2021-01-16T17:16:40Z")
You’ve never met my dog. ---
**Author:** ![Acierocolotl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acierocolotl/32/6241_2.png) [@Acierocolotl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acierocolotl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/18 "2021-01-16T17:38:18Z")
As the money’s already spent on the pillow guy, my suggestion has you keeping the high road. “Thanks for your thoughtful gift, my beloved sister. Please accept this belated gift I have made in your name.” Give an equivalent donation to the local battered women’s shelter, in her name with her address. They need the money, and they may send her the occasional solicitation, which will remind her of the time she was kind of a prick to you. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/19 "2021-01-16T17:45:34Z")
Save it until someone gets convicted and sentenced for storming the Capitol, then send the gift certificate to them in jail. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672/20 "2021-01-16T17:49:58Z")
> [@Keith1](#): > > I get the sense that maybe I’m missing something? Is the owner a Trumpoid or something? Your question has been answered, but here’s a little more. "Zoomed-in shots of the photographs, taken by Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford, show the partially visible notes appearing to mention “martial law if necessary” and the “Insurrection Act,” an 1806 law that allows the president to mobilize the military and National Guard troops to quell civil disorder or actions of insurrection. " [https://thehill.com/homenews/news/534564-mypillow-ceo-photographed-holding-notes-after-trump-meeting](https://thehill.com/homenews/news/534564-mypillow-ceo-photographed-holding-notes-after-trump-meeting) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-mypillow-gift-certificate-for-xmas-now-what/930672.md?page=2)