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If you really have a gift you want to get rid of, find a 24 hour store on Christmas Eve and donate it for the store to either sell or give away.
I used to work Christmas Eve day at a 7-11 and I'm telling you, people come in in the evening absolutely desperate for gifts. They'll take anything. Bonus points if you have some wrapping paper, tags, and a bow hanging around.
Many years ago, I got a slight earfull from my SIL because her children gave me one of those electronic music boxes, Ipod?, and I hurt their feelings because I had never used it, never opened it (they told me those deadly words "And if you don't open it, you can take it to the store and get even more memory!"). The thing is, I have no use for such a device.
So the current worry is a Kindle. I know many people think those things are the best thing since sliced onions, but not to me. The current worry but there are others as well.
I know, I know I must have asked this question before...but that was a previous year. Have matters of protocol, of what to do, changed?.........I suppose a Kindle could go in a box of bug out supplies for someone to use........
Give them back to the store. They were supposed to give you gift receipts. If not, give them back to them and kindly say you have no use for them.
Also make your preferences clear so they wont give you more electronics in the future, but gifts that are more to your liking.
It’s very simple. I exchange gifts with very few people because we all have what we need and buy what we want.
Same here. The immediate family members and 1-2 friends with whom I exchange gifts don't do anything lavish. Modest token things we discover the other person will get a bit of pleasure from. If it takes some collaborative scheming to make that happen (personally, that's a lot of the fun), so be it. Sure, every once in a while, someone comes up with a head-scratcher, but again, the thought is what matters.
I've gotten things that I really can't use and I've either re-gifted, donated or passed on to the buy nothing group. I feel bad that the person wasted money but I'm also grateful that they thought of me. I'm at a point in my life though that I don't need a lot. A food gift, IMO, is the most useful.
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