The Christmas Crap-Shoot

[streiner]

Ok, I don't know if anyone else's Christmahannakwanzikkah gift-giving group is like mine, but it seems like either 1. the people I buy gifts for over the holidays have either gotten progressively worse at telling me what they want, or at least dropping semi-subtle hints to at least point me in the right direction, or

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[sseaman]

I think cash is even better than a gift card

[streiner]

Well, it's good to know that I'm not alone in being a little more blunt in asking what people want, and people are getting better about being more blunt in asking me what I want.

The reason I raised the question is because this is a change from the past. When I was younger, people seemed to have a sixth sense about stuff like this, or they were just a lot more sneaky in how they gathered their intel...

If the gift cards are for stores that people do their regular shopping at, then I don't see a problem with giving gift cards. If you lose the gift card, sure that's a problem, but losing a wad of cash would be a problem too...

I've given my family a list of the places I normally shop, they should be all set. I normally don't let gift cards sit around too long because especially when it comes to clothes shopping, I've become a huge fan of the after-Christmas clearance sales. Wait a week or two into January and the prices on stuff will start dropping like a rock. That's when the stores break out the mad discounts...