Holiday gift giving is very strange to me, in my culture we just give each other cold hard cash
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte my family do a mixture of both, but exchanging gift vouchers for online shopping are increasingly common - as many of us have specialist hobbies and even if asked what you want for a gift its often hard to describe it or something relatively obscure (in my case I often buy electronic components and modules which are unusual for most people not into this hobby)
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@skinnylatte Otter socks are now on my list (hint, people!)
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK last edited by
@vfrmedia i do now also gift things like hotel stays and electronics to my parents. Not really tied to festivities or events tho just nice things to do
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@skinnylatte I don't want to live in a world where there are no otter socks.
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@wallacewords heh
Sea otters socks
Recycled cotton & RPET MD-Boys 3-9 and Ladies 6-9 L-Mens 6-12 and Ladies 10-13
Monterey Bay Aquarium Store (shop.montereybayaquarium.org)
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@joewynne yay
For Joe’s friends: https://shop.montereybayaquarium.org/products/sea-otters-socks
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@skinnylatte I got my wife lemur socks last year. She got me bicycle socks like a decade ago, but no one's ever gotten me fun animal socks before..
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@Andres4NY hehe
Sea otters socks
Recycled cotton & RPET MD-Boys 3-9 and Ladies 6-9 L-Mens 6-12 and Ladies 10-13
Monterey Bay Aquarium Store (shop.montereybayaquarium.org)
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Maybe things have changed since, but it would be very weird to gift things to people back home. Very very weird. And to receive gifts as well.
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sanae :vbike: :vbus: (SF)replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte I have the problem of my family being in this ambiguous space of doing gifts but only kind of because it's not really our culture and we have not figured out or agreed on what our cultural norms are (this is true of the holidays in general)
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Adrianna Tanreplied to sanae :vbike: :vbus: (SF) last edited by
@sanae food gifts!
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sanae :vbike: :vbus: (SF)replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte also needs to be things that can cross the border without explaining them to customs officials during the busiest time of the year, unfortunately
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Adrianna Tanreplied to sanae :vbike: :vbus: (SF) last edited by
@sanae oh, I would just order stuff in destination country for local delivery
Although when I did that once my parents did not like the local delivery cost money
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@skinnylatte sometimes those moments feel more like what I'm actually giving is *permission* to spend money on something I would generally not (or would feel guilty about)
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@darkuncle I didn’t grow up with gift giving as a concept, so I don’t even have the framework to think about things that way!
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Alexandra Magin 🏳️🌈replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte I still feel like I'm bad at giving gifts, I tend to just ask my wife if she wants something and she does the same for me, but I'm trying to become one of those people who buys something small and interesting for people when I see it
It's taking me a new kind of awareness to be thoughtful in the way I want to be, but it feels good for me, so long as I don't try to be perfectionist about it
