[ SECRET POST #2162 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2162 ⌋

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Re: Christmas present advice

[(Anonymous)]

One year, I carefully chose three books for my mom (all related to her gardening hobby)...and not five minutes after the wrapping was off them, she was talking about who she was going to regift them to.

I know, I know, once you give someone a gift it's theirs, to do what they like with. But we're talking about someone who has a closetful of useless stuff people have given her over the past couple of decades--ugly cookie jars, an ugly salt and pepper set with a matching napkin holder shaped like a reindeer, ugly Christmas knicknacks, an ugly set of matching Christmas hand towels, and other things she would never, ever be caught dead using--that she refuses to either regift, or unload at a rummage sale.

Because Mrs. X, who gave her the fugly handtowels, is friends with Mrs. Y, who might visit Z, (any one of a number of people she might regift the things to, or who might buy them at a rummage sale), and see the handtowels in Z's bathroom, and recognize the exact handtowels that Mrs. X gave my mom thirteen years ago, and magically divine that my mom had regifted them, and pass the news on to Mrs. X.

So yes, I felt hurt, and I said so.

But now I worry, any time she expresses appreciation for a present I've given her, that she really doesn't like it or value it any more than the yucky handtowels, so I can't win.