Here, have an orange.
Nov. 11th, 2009 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynThere has been an unfortunate side effect to all my recent purchases. I cannot think of anything I would like for Christmas. (I do not celebrate Christmas, but that is what my SO's family celebrates and the time of year they send gifts.)
Realistically, no one was going to get me what I wanted. I bought a wool blanket. No one is going to send me a $100 blanket. I bought a mixer. No one was going to send me a $250 mixer. No one would even send me the fancy silk yarn I just ordered unless I specifically requested it.
I have enough money that I can afford to buy things I really want. So if I have to be explicit about what I want, then there is a real probability that I have bought it already.
I'd like to have new glasses. And I'm likely to try to cheap out on buying them. But it's not something that can be given as a gift.
Then there is the inverse problem. I don't know what these people would want from me. Even when it's a shared gift with my SO, so money is no object, I have no ideas.
Realistically, no one was going to get me what I wanted. I bought a wool blanket. No one is going to send me a $100 blanket. I bought a mixer. No one was going to send me a $250 mixer. No one would even send me the fancy silk yarn I just ordered unless I specifically requested it.
I have enough money that I can afford to buy things I really want. So if I have to be explicit about what I want, then there is a real probability that I have bought it already.
I'd like to have new glasses. And I'm likely to try to cheap out on buying them. But it's not something that can be given as a gift.
Then there is the inverse problem. I don't know what these people would want from me. Even when it's a shared gift with my SO, so money is no object, I have no ideas.
