Have you ever gotten a totally USELESS but very thoughtful gift? (i.e.: a video game you'd rather like to play... for a system you don't own, or a box of homemade fudge... but you're allergic to chocolate)
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Actually, one time I gave a rather useless gift. I was a student at Florida State University and gave a friend ear muffs for a Christmas gift. He was from Miami, which had slipped my mind, and the weather in north Florida was the coldest he ever experienced. He loved the gift but it was rather useless, except, perhaps, to hide Vulcan ears. ;-) (true story)
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Happens to me all the time because I'm allergic to nuts. Cakes, cookies, fudge... all that stuff tends to be off limits to me when I get it. Then it's time for the "regift," where I pass it on to someone who will enjoy it. I also have this tendency to get about 50 different soaps. I never have to buy any!
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how can it be thoughtful if it isn't useful to the one receiving the gift? But yes I have gotten nice gifts that I would never have used. In fact I have a drawer full of gifts never removed from their package that I know i will never use. I can't make myself get rid of them so I guess one day i will try to use them or just keep packing them away.
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My grandma sent a hat, scarf and mittens set to me, IN FLORIDA. They were heartfelt, of course, I kept them. But they are still tied together and will probably not use them ever.
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My husband and I got married two years ago...you will never recieve more random gifts than for a wedding!! Some people don't check the registries at all, they were all sweet gifts but 5 spatulas and 4 fruit bowls...oh my!! We also recieved a $300 crystal Tiffany's bowl, right now it's sitting in my china cabinet holding my most recent horse show ribbons. They were quite thougtful, but I still haven't found a better use for those items.
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my mom always gets candles. She hates candles. Fears candels. She was caught in a fire that was started by a kid with a candle. Anywho she is always getting them and we just laugh because we know they wont get used.
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Oh yes. My sister and I have a pact that when one goes overseas that they must find the most useless, nastiest and cheapest souvenir for the other. A lot of thought goes into such a gift. eg She went to France. She bought me a pink sponge Eiffel Tower. I went to Bali: I bought her a ceramic whistle in the shape of a turtle (very badly made by the way)
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Every year one of my neighbors bakes me a pork pie (and a bunch of goodies). As for the pork pie, I am a vegetarian... :D She has been trying to fatten me up since I moved here.
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An expensive bookmark. Its gold over silver w actual Amethyst (shoot, can't spell it) stones on it. The top is loaded w them. Can you see me reading a book and leaving that bookmarker just lying about? I have it in a drawer and sort of take it out and twirl it around once or twice a year. Thats the only action its had. Its a lousy book marker, but given to me by a loved one who shares the passion of reading. So its thoughtful and sucky at the same time.
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Quite often I get gifts with sentimental value... they don't have a practical use, but I prefer them to normal gifts...
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