For me, there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke, and one toy for my kids that was a huge sparkly styrofoam mess waiting to happen, so I threw it out rather than curse anyone else with it.
My sister gave us some diapers for our newborn. Already pooped her way through them.
Congratulations! …about the newborn, not the amount of poop (though that’s also a good sign!)
an excellent reason for those to be in the trash
Bottle of scotch. It is in the trash because I have finished it.
You really should recycle
It shall be, haven’t need to the shop yet to deposit it in the glass receptical.
Christian devotional book from my aunt, I’ve straight told her I don’t read or want them but she keeps doing it
Take a picture of you burning it in a pentagram
Better to use a Bible as kindle As to use a Kindle as a bible
there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke,
My kids got two or three items each that promptly broke. Into the garbage they go.
I hate the dollar store so much. It’s a waste of money and an environmental train wreck.
Not to mention the way the cheap labor works that gets those things made.
It’s a grotesque waste.
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And sketchy. Who knows if any particular batch of any particular product was made to safety or quality standards.
Actually they are all the same, and none of them are, that’s why they are all the same. The plan was made before fire codes required updated sprinkler systems or something and since they keep reusing the same plans they all are fire hazards.
A fire fighter buddy of mine was ranting one night and I caught the tail end of the discussion.
I feel like I’m catching the tail end of this discussion. Is this thread still about dollar store products? What plan do you mean?
He’s talking about the physical dollar store ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh ok, that makes sense. Thought he might have meant that at first but second guessed because I only see them in strip malls or other buildings they didn’t build themselves these days but thinking about the aisles does make me think fire hazard now. At least they usually keep the lighters by the cash, though I wonder if someone learned that one the hard way.
They do have some of the smaller Lego sets, which is the only toy I’ll buy as a last minute gift there.
Lego gets a special dispensation. It lasts (unlike some of the knockoffs) and it’s a nice creative toy for kids. And adults.
we got a family-wide present of two lego sets, one bonsai tree and one bouquet of flowers, honestly really good.
I mentioned to a family member how much I like my garlic press. I then received a garlic press for Christmas and will certainly be regifting it.
Regifting it because you don’t need a second one? Or because the one gifted to you is of lower quality?
Both. I bought one from this brand before and it rusted after the first use. I’ll admit I may not have washed it properly, but that’s not something I expect from my kitchenware. And I don’t see a use for a second garlic press, but I’m open to hearing one
That’s some chinesium level shit right there XD I wouldn’t want that crap either.
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My parents gave me one of those 2023 Guinness World Record book. I appreciate the gesture, but it screams “we didn’t know what to get you, and there were a pallet of 'em at Costco”. I can see the book’s appeal for a child or teenager but I’M 37.
I’ll be re-gifting it to my father in-law 😎 I’m 100% sure he’ll love it.
I’m the same age and I like browsing those when doing idle things like eating or pooping
Better give it to him soon. 2023 is quickly being forgotten.
But not forgiven
Weird that your father-in-law is a teenager.
At the other end of the spectrum: My wife and I made a minimal gifts pact. We each got each other minor crap we needed for around the house. It was perfect. No waste. No extravagance. Just stuff we were going to get anyway.
My wife and I got each other a dishwasher for Christmas…
Okay, was it a shared gift, or do you each have your own dishwasher now? If it’s two, do they match?
If you attach the waste pipe of one to the water inlet of the other you can share the bacterial infection too
A true couples gift
Shared gift 😁
We always get stuff for the kids and the nieces/nephews, and our moms. But we haven’t gotten a gift for each other in years now. We both buy something if we want it bad enough throughout the year, and it’s both of our money anyway, so what’s the point? We will some years get a “household gift” that’s something we need or everyone can benefit from, that shouldn’t go to just one kid or "you two share this and try not to fight over it, or that they will care less about. Nice air fryer one year, Nintendo switch another, etc. But nothing really needed or wanted this year so we’ll probably just take a pass.
Well it’s January now…so yeah I guess you did.
True, but for our family Xmas isn’t totally over yet.
That is a great agreement. All the Christmas with none of the waste
And we finally get around to getting the crap we keep forgetting to pick up! Note pads!
this is how my family has it set up too, everyone writes a list of some reasonable stuff they’d quite like to get anyways and we just pick a thing from each list while coordinating with each other to not duplicate anything.
Works brilliantly.
My grandmother got me some uranium because she knows I’m into reactors. I didn’t have the heart to tell her she got scammed & it was all depleted.
Lol so you threw it in the trash? 😹
It’s a made-up story. Depleted uranium is a byproduct of uranium enrichment and places that do uranium enrichment aren’t even going to talk to you unless you have a host of government licenses. Depleted uranium only has a few applications like:
- Armor penetrating munitions
- Counterweights for aeronautics
- Ironically, as radiation shielding
This makes it very hard for collectors to obtain (it can take people years) and actual samples of DU are going to be more expense than regular uranium. The story makes as much sense as your grandmother buying cubic zirconia jewelry and being “scammed” with actual diamonds.
Well, the DU could have been scavenged from spent munitions a warzone after it had obliterated something.
Nah, he threw it on the ground. DUH!
That’s not my dad!
That’s a cell phone!
Thank goodness… I feel in good company on this site age-wise, then I’ll drop what I think is an obvious one and crickets
The slinky my middle child got didn’t even survive the day.
Has anyone had a slinky that survived more than a week?
The plastic ones never do, but I had a steel one growing up i played with a lot tyat lasted me a decade.
When my kids play with slinkies, they’re destroyed within a day.
To clarify: the slinkie is destroyed. The children remain unchanged.
I remember growing up with several slinkies around that we didn’t play with and therefore they lasted
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Sounds like yall need some counselling.
Be aware the delete function doesn’t.
We have an old bamboo cutting board that my wife bought and it’s been through Hell. It also bears no known emotional or sentimental value (which we’ll get to). Now, it’s all scarred up and soaked in all the odors and stains from years of abuse and neglect. It was also too small, and I always wished it was bigger.
I received a new, XL bamboo cutting board, which was at the top of my wishlist. It was perfect! I bought a fancy oil for it and everything. Then, I tried to lay down some ground rules with the wife for proper use and care of the board to prolong its usefulness by years.
My wife took it as a personal attack that everything she does is wrong. The replacement of the old board was emotionally taken as a replacement of some part of her. Then, she cried. The matter remains unresolved and the board will eventually make its way to either the trash or a new home because it’s now associated with some level of perceived scorn. All I wanted was something nice and to keep it nice. Fuck me, right?
Now, I want to cry.
It’s related to something else. Unless a fear of large cutting boards is involved.
It always is, isn’t it?!
(ps i go around copy pasting people’s DELETED comments to bring awareness to the fact you CANNOT DELETE COMMENTS)
Those damn onions. Ruining the cutting board!
Why do this?
Awareness is better as ignorance. The workaround is to edit first, then delete.
Always the combination lemmy.world + some shit like ‘the wife’ … guys you have heard that your partners are actual persons, not some abstract, always present, overly emotionally behaved construct like ‘the wife’?
Mine is also at times very unrational.
What will my mom say. O never mind… She’ll probably be happy for me. What will the people on the street think? (like I care) errrrrr I’m deleting this comment (lemmy doesn’t let you delete comments at all…)
Candy wrappers because I ate the candy.
I rarely throw gifts away, if I don’t like them, I try to donate them to an organization or individual.
However, many years ago, someone got me “snow paint” which was, I’m pretty sure, literally just food coloring. You were supposed to use it to color in snow sculptures but I’m pretty sure that one found its way to the trash.
😂
Alcohol bottles (were full, now empty and in recycling, not trash)
Hooray for recycling!
My partner and I got scratch ticket packs for eachother for $38 total. I lost every ticket she won 20 dollar so we are starting the year 18 dollars short.
Don’t buy scratch tickets.
I was in line at a convenience store the other day, when the person in front of me bought a dozen or so scratch tickets. Normally, I wouldn’t have gave it a second thought, people gamble. But what made it stand out to me was that the person made the cashier just immediately scratch the QR code square and scan the ticket. Like, the person didn’t even touch the tickets. Just handed over the money, and made the cashier do the work. Not only that, but the cashier didn’t even bat an eye; as this seemed like a normal occurrence to them. And the person in front of me didn’t win anything, they just walked away with nothing.
So not only was it extremely sad to see this person, who is clearly addicted to gambling, waste their money. But, seeing how the industry has made it so easy and fast for someone to piss their money away was quite disgusting. These people don’t even play the game on the cards now. They just scratch off the code and scan it. Just sad all around.
In Norway the profits are used to fund local football clubs for kids and such. It does not need to be exploitative and bad.
We call them a “stupid tax” but infrequently buying them is pretty harmless. I don’t mind group lotto either it can be fun to buy in and run the numbers out over a course of a few months. There’s some charity lottos I’ve done before.
Yeah they are always a loss overall but since we didn’t buy other gifts this year it was just to have a little chance at winning.
Sometimes it’s the dreams that are worth the price.
When I was 18, I worked in a convenience store. I was behind the counter with my manager and some lady decided to throw a few bucks at some dollar scratch tickets. I was behind silly and put my finger on the middle one and said it would get her at least five dollars. She laughed and took them out to her car. A few minutes later she came in looking like she saw a ghost. She asked how I knew and I just told her that I guessed. She won exactly five dollars on the ticket I pointed out.
As someone working in my family’s gas stations for the last two decades, this is something that happens at least a few times a month for me.
9 times out of 10 the big winners have sat and played on a roll until it hits something and they move on to the next making it nearly impossible for an average, non addicted customer to get anything. The gambling addicts will spend 200k to win 10k and jump up and down like the 10k winner is going to change they life.
Customers who always share their winnings, I point them to the ticket that hasn’t hit in awhile. Customers who aggravate me and bounce in front of people like someone pissing themselves at a slot machine, I lie and tell them a ticket hasn’t hit even if it has. It’s probably wrong, but my thinking goes that the longer a particular ticket has gone without hitting, the closer it is to a winner. Someone smarter than me can probably call me an idiot on that one.
Pointing people to winners (which is a total freak thing every time I do) has paid me probably 6k in the last 20 years. If decent folks think you assisted them in their luck, they always want to share in the luck.
I’m sorry I’ve pretty much just sat and typed nothing here. Too far in to back out now. :p
My 2.5 toddler got a little collectible car. It somehow exploded into all its tiny parts on the first trip to the ground, which of course was shortly after opening.
Haha wow, a fragile collectible for a child that young? No wonder it broke immediately.
