To me, gifts don't have to be fancy to mean the world to me. Some of the most precious gifts I have are little misshapen clay bowls the kids made for me when they were little, and I have a Christmas decoration made by the baby (who is now taller than I am)when he was very small, that is a piece of decorated canvas that has his precious little handprint on it.
Each year the kids in my school gift me with various cards, cookies, and assorted items and I love them because I love the kids.
But there are some gifts that are in the 'sendback' category, mostly business related:
Cheap chocolate covered cherries. Yuck.
Business gifts that are too brazen: I just got some cards from a health related company in th mail today. At the bottom of the letter was a note from them on how I could reward myself with travel this Christmas and they could help. I threw it in the trash.
The nicest business gift I ever got was a donation by an optometrist if his services for a family in poverty in my school one year whose child desperately needed new glasses and had no social services.
Little candy dishes. I like the thought behind these but I do not need the zillions of these I get. I think it would be bad form to post a request for gecko dishes for baby geckoes, though.
Do any of y'all get gifts, especially casual business gifts, which while you might cherish the thought behind them, you would just as soon return?
Each year the kids in my school gift me with various cards, cookies, and assorted items and I love them because I love the kids.
But there are some gifts that are in the 'sendback' category, mostly business related:
Cheap chocolate covered cherries. Yuck.
Business gifts that are too brazen: I just got some cards from a health related company in th mail today. At the bottom of the letter was a note from them on how I could reward myself with travel this Christmas and they could help. I threw it in the trash.
The nicest business gift I ever got was a donation by an optometrist if his services for a family in poverty in my school one year whose child desperately needed new glasses and had no social services.
Little candy dishes. I like the thought behind these but I do not need the zillions of these I get. I think it would be bad form to post a request for gecko dishes for baby geckoes, though.
Do any of y'all get gifts, especially casual business gifts, which while you might cherish the thought behind them, you would just as soon return?
It's dangerous enough for me to have sharp, potentially dangerous tools around, and I donate enough blood just changing guitar strings. As it was I cut myself on it when I opened the gift. I didn't/don't want to hurt his feelings so I still have it, and it has been the topic of a few interesting conversations. However, come the day I feel it's "safe" to get rid of, WHO would I re-gift it to? ..or, WHAT would I do with it? I don't know any lumberjacks and I already have a chainsaw... 