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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The tree comes from the pagan solstice celebrations
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.
All the chocolate is already down the toilet, or on my waistline.
Ah, the old “either went to waste or went to waist.”
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.
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).My wife and I got each other a dishwasher for Christmas…
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.
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.
My mom bought me a xlarge sweater. She must think I’m fat because I’m large at best.
I haven’t opened any Christmas presents yet. We’re having a late Christmas due to crazy schedules for everyone involved.
Had the original floam as a kid. Smelled terrible and didn’t stretch at all like in the commercials. Definitely went into the trash and I can only imagine how much worse the kind you had was. Slime or playdoh would have been better or easy to make.
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Not trash, just returned to the shop. HP Smart Tank 580 printer.
Did you buy a brother instead?
I currently have a printer, also HP, but an old one (20 years).
When I’ll finally need a new printer, I’ll be deciding between HP and Brother. I am not sure about Linux support with Brother printers. I heard it’s great, but I need to search more. I know HPLIP works well, but I also heard these new HP printers don’t last long. Then there’s also the thing called HP+ (not to be confused with Instant Ink) that many of those printers have, which REQUIRES HP account AND a connection to internet.
Be a member of the Brother-hood. I have a big black multifunction Brother printer, scanner (even fax, wtf!), and it works on both Linux and Windows. Bought four years ago. It just wants a quiet corner and a wifi connection. I think it’d even print from my Android phone if I tickled it a little, but can’t be arsed now. It’s happy with cheapo ink as well. It also cleans itself and has survived in a definitely-not-an-office environment. If it makes another year I’ll give it a pet name, it deserves one!
The first opened coffee bag. It has been deposited into the trash and or toilet
How was it?
It was good, even if it was bad we woulda finished it though because coffee is coffee
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
I think I accidentally threw away a Starbucks gift card someone gave me, because I’ve been unable to locate it since Christmas :(
EDIT: LMFAO the mods removed my reply to the Scrooge below me because I said “I hope you get coal next year” XD
