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What gifts that you received for Christmas this year are already in the trash? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Usernameblankface to c/asklemmy

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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.

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[–] 5PACEBAR 64 points 11 months ago (5 children)

My parents gave me one of those 2023 Guinness World Record book. I appreciate the gesture, but it screams "we didn't know what to get you, and there were a pallet of 'em at Costco". I can see the book's appeal for a child or teenager but I'M 37.

I'll be re-gifting it to my father in-law 😎 I'm 100% sure he'll love it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good pooping entertainment

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah, back in the days before smartphones the Guinness Book was a bathroom staple, along with several volumes of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers.

[–] thorbot 7 points 11 months ago

I’m the same age and I like browsing those when doing idle things like eating or pooping

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Ah, so you don't know what to get your father in-law.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Better give it to him soon. 2023 is quickly being forgotten.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

But not forgiven

[–] Chobbes 1 points 11 months ago

Weird that your father-in-law is a teenager.