I hate getting books for Christmas in general because I’m such a mood reader, and I’ve plastered a fake smile on my face many a time and repeated internally ‘Its the thought that counts.’ as I unwrap a book I will not read.

But the worst one by far, given to me by my own Mother , who I know loves me, when I was fourteen years old! was >!Men are from Mars Women are from Venus.!< I am sitting there horrified thinking what is she trying to tell me? As my sisters are flat on the floor laughing to the point of puking. We eventually came to the conclusion she just saw an attractive cover on a bestseller table and grabbed it. Love to know your terrible gift stories.

  • Icariidagger@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    No books at all… I always wanted books for Christmas and was gifted scented candles. I hate candles nowadays because of this. I would say: a bookshop gift card is enough, even if it’s just 5.00 EUR, it doesn’t have to be a book. Noooope. Just the bloody candles.

    • Indifferent_Jackdaw@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I hate candles too, but because I witnessed a candle fire once, the apartment (not mine) went from fine to gutted in ten minutes so I only have emergency in case of black out candles.

    • rowan_damisch@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I had the opposite problem, where I told one of my brothers that I wanted to have the video game Life is Strange for christmas, but got an Amazon 🤢 gift card and a bunch of gummy bears. Weirdly enough, the game costed around 20€ when I send him a link to the page where he could buy it, but he gave me a 25€ gift card.