# Please don't give me \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ for Christmas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2019, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159 "2019-11-29T05:54:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/21 "2019-11-29T16:44:29Z")
Ebola. Please don’t give me ebola for Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/22 "2019-11-29T16:47:59Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > anything. Yep, I’m with you too. If I want something the chances are I’ve already bought it for myself. And I’m just not good at looking and sounding grateful for something I don’t want and will never use. OK, I’ll grant one exception - a whiskey that I am not familiar with. That’s it. j ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/23 "2019-11-29T16:51:02Z")
Another “anything” here. If you see something at any time of year that you know id like, sure, get it. Ill probably appreciate it. But don’t do because of the stupid bullshit holiday says you have to. And certainly don’t expect anything from me. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/24 "2019-11-29T17:23:20Z")
What I really want is for you to bring a box for me to fill up with stuff for you to take home with you. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/25 "2019-11-29T17:46:29Z")
[Stop Giving Me Crap for Christmas](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vxhgo8ZUP0) ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/26 "2019-11-29T18:02:25Z")
Luggage. Suitcases. Specialty boxes with handles. PLEASE! There is a REASON why we don’t have any! We’ve done the whole suitcases business, we were an Army family, and we did suitcases for years and years. We finally got rid of the damned things. And we do NOT want any more. Grocery tote bags work fine for us now. Really. And we’re too old to give a damn about “how it looks.” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/27 "2019-11-29T19:51:03Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Any clothing connected to slouching around at home - cutesy socks with dogs on them, slippers, robes, pyjamas, onesies, hoodies, ‘athwear’. I don’t do any of that shit. Okay, I promise I won’t get you any of that stuff, but I have to ask, what do you wear when you are lounging around at home? Nothing? Or do you just spend all your time engaged in activities and never lounge around at all? I’m pretty easygoing when it comes to gifts - I’ll accept anything, but if you give me chocolate or coffee, it’s going to be passed on to someone who can use it. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/28 "2019-11-29T21:34:59Z")
Those boxed sets of scented lotion/body wash/shampoo. Tends to be re-gifted. I don’t like most artificial fragrances and really don’t want to go around smelling that shit on my own skin for hours. Look, I understand these are the usual gift choice for “woman I don’t know” which is why I’ll re-gift … to some chick I don’t know well, either. Eventually. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/29 "2019-11-29T21:54:37Z")
Stuff. Stuff for the sake of stuff. I just don’t need stuff. Get me a consumable if you don’t know what to get me, but stop drowning me in stuff. Clothes, and here I’m talking to you, Mum. You just pick random sizes! Thanks for the size 10 shirt, the size 16 underpants and the size 26 PJs. Goodwill will love them! ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/30 "2019-11-29T22:31:36Z")
I’ll add that foo-foo smelling stuff in “gift sets.” I cannot wear cologne any more, and steering my cart down the laundry detergent aisle at the grocery store makes my lungs hurt. I don’t want candles, either. I WILL take the chocolate and coffee that **SpoilerVirgin** doesn’t want! 😉 ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/31 "2019-11-29T23:48:38Z")
I don’t want candles, and I can buy my own hand location. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/32 "2019-11-30T00:53:16Z")
Clothing, specially clothing that’s completely different from anything I usually wear. You’re not allowed to turn Christmas into an intervention on my wardrobe. Perfume you’re expecting me to wear. I’ll use it as alcohol to clean sticker marks. Easter swag. Giving cups decorated with Easter bunnies for Christmas to the widow and the spinster was a particularly “WTF? Is she actually this rude, or actually this ignorant?” moment. Then again, the last time she got a bit too much alcohol was at the baptism of our common Nephew-by-Adoption and she slurred at me (the aforementioned spinster) that “y’ain’t a real woman unless y’v given birth,” so she’s definitely as sensitive as the fingernails of a dead elephant… ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/33 "2019-11-30T00:59:41Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Endorsing the OPs request for nil family photos. I have a (large, naked) photo of my baby god daughter that I have to remember to retrieve out of the drawer every time my friend comes over. Said child is now 8, when do I get to stop? I have a firm belief that proper manners requires one to display a gift prominently when the giver is visiting _once_. From that point forward, there are no strings attached. Seriously, life is too short to worry about hurting feelings by not keeping a gift displayed for 20 years, and who are you fooling anyway–they do the same thing with decorative gifts they receive. I regularly remind my wife of this. Once the person has seen their gift in view in our home, it is eligible for retirement any time she feels like changing things up a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/34 "2019-11-30T01:37:36Z")
Sounds like there should be a post-Christmas SDMB gift swap. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/35 "2019-11-30T02:05:48Z")
Chocolate. It can be easily regifted, but I just don’t have a sweet tooth any longer. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/36 "2019-11-30T02:17:53Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > Sounds like there should be a post-Christmas SDMB gift swap. Send your address and you can have an unopened bottle of schnapps ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/37 "2019-11-30T03:19:15Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > Send your address and you can have an unopened bottle of schnapps Send the scnapps to **DorkVader**. He’s been having sinus problems! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/38 "2019-11-30T04:20:51Z")
A gift card for the local brothel. Same thing, year after year. They are so sick of me. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/39 "2019-11-30T04:58:17Z")
My adult daughter apparently forgot she gave me the same quaint but useless retro-punk box thingy twice. I don’t need another this Xmas, thanks baby. I have enough mandolins at the moment. No more Native American language courses either, please. Nor adorable pets. Books by right-wing political shits (but I repeat myself) will be shredded to mulch our toxic plants garden. I’ll donate lefty books to the county library. I’ve needed no neckties since 1987. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159/40 "2019-11-30T06:52:46Z")
Chocolate and coffee are gratefully accepted at my house. So is anything with alcohol in it. Other than that, no thanks, I’m good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-dont-give-me-________-for-christmas/844159.md?page=3)