For me, there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke, and one toy for my kids that was a huge sparkly styrofoam mess waiting to happen, so I threw it out rather than curse anyone else with it.
Alcohol bottles (were full, now empty and in recycling, not trash)
My grandmother got me some uranium because she knows I’m into reactors. I didn’t have the heart to tell her she got scammed & it was all depleted.
Lol so you threw it in the trash? 😹
Nah, he threw it on the ground. DUH!
That’s not my dad!
That’s a cell phone!
Thank goodness… I feel in good company on this site age-wise, then I’ll drop what I think is an obvious one and crickets
The in-laws know I love to cook and got me a (to me, they’re familiar with the author through some TV show) random cookbook. It’s aimed at people who don’t know how to cook and lack confidence trying. Also who cook with things like Velveeta and cream of mushroom soup.
I mostly eat from-scratch Asian food.
My partner and I got scratch ticket packs for eachother for $38 total. I lost every ticket she won 20 dollar so we are starting the year 18 dollars short.
Finished off a thing of oreo caramel with a creamy filling.
I haven’t opened any Christmas presents yet. We’re having a late Christmas due to crazy schedules for everyone involved.
My mom bought me a xlarge sweater. She must think I’m fat because I’m large at best.
Oh, idk, oversized sweaters are kind of a vibe. Extra cozy.
At the other end of the spectrum: My wife and I made a minimal gifts pact. We each got each other minor crap we needed for around the house. It was perfect. No waste. No extravagance. Just stuff we were going to get anyway.
this is how my family has it set up too, everyone writes a list of some reasonable stuff they’d quite like to get anyways and we just pick a thing from each list while coordinating with each other to not duplicate anything.
Works brilliantly.
My wife and I got each other a dishwasher for Christmas…
Okay, was it a shared gift, or do you each have your own dishwasher now? If it’s two, do they match?
Shared gift 😁
Just don’t gift anything and enjoy a peaceful evening? Why does one need a special day to gift anyway?
My family did it and it was honestly amazing (obviously kids should get something if possible).Just don’t gift anything and enjoy a peaceful evening? Why does one need a special day to gift anyway?
We haven’t made it that far yet. I imagine/hope we will eventually.
Dumb cheap acrylic pyramids with silly decorations laid into the base.
My neighbour gave me a TV. To be precise, he rushed it to me unannounced at the exact moment I was leaving to go to a party. I accepted as quickly as I could in an effort to still make my train.
It turns out it’s about 15 years old and I have no use for it. He’s a lovely man but I intend to post it as free to a good home then drop it at an e-recycling station if nobody is interested.
Is it a CRT? Big giant tube tv? They can fetch decent prices.
Nope, just an LCD. It’ll make you feel old but 15 years ago CRTs had already lost majority market share. Sony shut down its last CRT manufacturing plants in 2008.
I know, I’d kill to hear that sweet degaussing zap again.
I think I accidentally threw away a Starbucks gift card someone gave me, because I’ve been unable to locate it since Christmas :(
A relative gifted me a really ugly tree ornament. I don’t put up a Christmas tree and haven’t ever in my adult life. Relative knows this and delivered it alongside comments about me needing to get a tree and get more into the “religious” spirit of the holiday.
Normally I would at least look to donate or something I don’t want, but ugly, religious proselytizing junk goes in the trash.
The tree comes from the pagan solstice celebrations
I like the plot twist that the sister is pagan
Yep, from Rome to Rīga, they used to mark the death of nature with plants that refuse to die. Later, they started decorating them to symbolise the blossoming or the harvest of the year’s last feast.
Source: school education from the last pagans of Europe.
The baked goods a lady from my dad’s church gave me. I don’t even know what they were; it tasted and looked like it was just a bunch of dallops of cake frosting sprinkled with almond dust. I don’t really eat sweets, and these offended my taste buds when I ate one. Nobody else wanted to take them off my hands so into the trash they went.
Meringues?
Maybe? I’ve never had meringue as anything other than what tops a lemon meringue pie, and that’s pretty fluffy and light and doesn’t really taste like frosting (butter cream frosting to be specific). These treats in question were fairly dense, and a bit crumbly. Could be meringue that’s dried out some, I guess.
I think that the other person was right about them being meringue.
There are a few different types of meringue that you can make, and there are also meringue cookies. I’ve had some before and they were almost exactly how you describe them.
there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke,
My kids got two or three items each that promptly broke. Into the garbage they go.
I hate the dollar store so much. It’s a waste of money and an environmental train wreck.
All the chocolate is already down the toilet, or on my waistline.
Ah, the old “either went to waste or went to waist.”
