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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup
Now that we've resolved that issue, how about the B&N card that is in the drawer with the Wal-Mart card?
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I'm sure the very next LoTer you see would be thrilled to get the B&N gift card that you will never use. Heck, you could just hand it to the next human you see and make someone's day.
If someone knows me well enough to get me what I want, and wants to take the time to hunt it down, then that is spectacular. But if someone doesn't know what to get me (which almost no one does) then I appreciate the thought of a gift card. Anyone that asked what I wanted this year got told B&N gift card (just family, I didn't do the gift thing with friends). I appreciate that while they really don't know me well enough to shop for me, they still want me to have something I want and will use.
What I really hate are the gifts that I've gotten where the person was obviously just in the grocery store because they were assigned to bring soda and picked up a gift while they were there. I've gotten a talking picture frame that way (actually, Indi loved that), a really crappy book of inspirational sayings about marriage (anyone that's ever met me should know I would hate that), and random boxes of really cheap chocolate. All for various wedding anniversaries. If you don't care about what you choose, don't care if I'll like it, and are just getting it because you feel obligated then please don't bother. Especially if you've been a member of my immediate family my entire life. I don't mind not getting a gift, really, but to get me something that any modicum of thought would reveal that I will hate is sort of offensive.