09-27-2007, 08:46 AM
JohnC Wrote:Anyhow, the process of clearing out our house and going through all of our accumulated stuff made me realize that we really don't *need* most of it. And easily 75% of that unneeded cruft came from people, who, like us, felt obligated to give us a gift but didn't really know what we might need or want.
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I used to be to be a gift whore because I wanted more and more things but now I realize that most of it just collects dust in my house. I'm really half tempted to tell my sister that we should only trade like 1 small gift this Christmas. We're both married and each feels obligated to get 2-3 things for the other two people and you end up with stuff you really won't use. I feel bad just tossing it but it's not like selling Simpson's dominoes will be worth the effort.
Both our households are in the six digit income range so it's not like we need anything and if we want something we buy it for ourselves anyway. Spending a couple hundred dollars on each other because we feel obligated really seems like a waste.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth