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Soooo, have you communicated this to your friends so they know not to gift you with these things? If not, you should. If you have, problem solved. Why be so contrary with everyone?
Yes they know not to give me these things. Everyone who comes to my house isn't a close friend of mine. Sometimes neighbors give things.
How is contrary to say no gifts? Everyone doesn't want other's regifted garbage or flowers that send them into an asthma attack or food that someone may be allergic to. I'm really happy without receiving these "gifts". A visit to an ER is not a gift in anyway.
Yes they know not to give me these things. Everyone who comes to my house isn't a close friend of mine. Sometimes neighbors give things.
How is contrary to say no gifts? Everyone doesn't want other's regifted garbage or flowers that send them into an asthma attack or food that someone may be allergic to. I'm really happy without receiving these "gifts". A visit to an ER is not a gift in anyway.
You have stomped on everyone's suggestions in this thread. Good God, it seems simple enough that when you send out a dinner invitation, to tell your future guests "Please, no gifts. Your presence will be gift enough" or some such.
No you are not an old fuddy-duddy. If you were then I'd be old crow. It is our society that has gone downhill. Common courtesy and indeed common sense is no longer part of it, and today's young people and their parents are unaware there were any such things before. It's a "Me, me, me" culture, now.
You have stomped on everyone's suggestions in this thread. Good God, it seems simple enough that when you send out a dinner invitation, to tell your future guests "Please, no gifts. Your presence will be gift enough" or some such.
I had already said I don't want gifts. Not sure what you don't understand.
I had already said I don't want gifts. Not sure what you don't understand.
Well, I guess the subject has become all about what to bring you, and not hostess gifts in general.
I guess I would bring you a lump of coal, as it is about the only thing left!
Seriously though, I've been brought things I do not like, but I graciously accept them in the spirit they were given.
I am somewhat traumatized at the concept that the gift I bring could cause so much angst.
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