Christmas presents I don't want

[413x]

My family have finally got the hint I don't want to give or get trash presents. This happened about 2 years ago.

I said this year all club together and get this or get a token bar of chocolate.

They are too disorganised to club together.

Saves me and everyone else money and faff. Wasting money on some trash that goes in bin is like binning money and wasting resources, creating more litter.

I hate the consumerism of Xmas
It makes Xmas far less stressful not evening having to think about it

 

[randomshenans]

My dad got my two boys a bible thick book on bike maintenance. I mean, all for learning a skill and that but this thing could have killed someone it was so big.

 

[potatolord]

My family have finally got the hint I don't want to give or get trash presents. This happened about 2 years ago.

I said this year all club together and get this or get a token bar of chocolate.

They are too disorganised to club together.

Saves me and everyone else money and faff. Wasting money on some trash that goes in bin is like binning money and wasting resources, creating more litter.

I hate the consumerism of Xmas
It makes Xmas far less stressful not evening having to think about it

I keep telling my mum to stop buying me random unwanted christmas tat, but she'll never change.

She's trying to offload a 3 foot tall singing Santa on.me at the moment.

Ah well, nice problems to have, eh?

 

[413x]

I keep telling my mum to stop buying me random unwanted christmas tat, but she'll never change.

She's trying to offload a 3 foot tall singing Santa on.me at the moment.

Ah well, nice problems to have, eh?

My mum is always like 'do you want this'.
No mum. It's a piece of ****** tat and I don't want it.

She's always picking up junk from the charity shop! I dead to think the amount of skips of crap in my parents house

 

[Lysander]

I hate the consumerism of Xmas
It makes Xmas far less stressful not evening having to think about it

For the past two years we have done a no-present Xmas. I thoroughly recommend it. It removes a hell of a lot of stress from the occasion and Xmas becomes about food and family, not what you can "get".

Last year I saw people thronging around Oxford St doing last-minute panic-buying and thought "thank God that's not me". It really is awful, the frenzy that people are whipped up into to BUY BUY BUY. It really isn't necessary.

 

[413x]

For the past two years we have done a no-present Xmas. I thoroughly recommend it. It removes a hell of a lot of stress from the occasion and Xmas becomes about food and family, not what you can "get".

Yeah my whole family suffers from various forms of depression, anxiety etc to different degrees. Not having to overthink about Xmas presents and just focusing on family time is so much more valuable.

 

[Lysander]

Yeah my whole family suffers from various forms of depression, anxiety etc to different degrees. Not having to overthink about Xmas presents and just focusing on family time is so much more valuable.

I'm pleased. Same with my family, though my dad still cancelled Xmas at the 11th hour last year [as in, I was on my way to his house on Xmas morning ]. Just as well I didn't buy anything, eh!

 

[413x]

I'm pleased. Same with my family, though my dad still cancelled Xmas at the 11th hour last year [as in, I was on my way to his house on Xmas morning ]. Just as well I didn't buy anything, eh!

Damn! That's tough.

I moved to Wales and my family are in Suffolk. So it a long trek not seen them since last Christmas due to covid and life. That's actually crazy. Will be longest it's ever been.

Its nice that Xmas puts a marker in the sand. Doesn't have to be about presents.

 

[Basher]

For the past two years we have done a no-present Xmas. I thoroughly recommend it. It removes a hell of a lot of stress from the occasion and Xmas becomes about food and family, not what you can "get".

I really like this idea, and it's definitely what the Mrs and I will be doing this year. We'll get presents for the kids, but we just don't need anything and spending £hundreds on tat is a waste of time. I'd rather spend the money on some great food/wine and enjoy watching the kids playing with their toys.

 

[potatolord]

For the past two years we have done a no-present Xmas. I thoroughly recommend it. It removes a hell of a lot of stress from the occasion and Xmas becomes about food and family, not what you can "get".

I've tried to do this for a few years, but my mum values volume over quality.

Me and the wife have a £50 limit, to discourage an arms race.