It can be low effort, passive-aggressive, insulting or derogatory towards your convictions.

  • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml
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    Pizza baking sheets. They didn’t fit in my oven.

    A paella pan. I don’t like paella.

    A coffee grinder. It just doesn’t grind coffee beans to the right size.

    A random Italian cookbook. I have a chefs degree. I’m well down with basic Italian cooking.

    See, I cook every day. Twice. And on occasion I love to cook for friends but that also means I’m over poor quality cooking stuff. I’ll buy my own gear. Most people think they do me a favour but I just have useless stuff piling up over the years. I’m grateful to get gifts but last year I just told people right a way that if they want to give me cooking related gifts I would be equally happy with some special sort of salt of some fun ingredients to cook with. Those things don’t last as long but it would make for a much better gift for a food enthousiast.

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      same. Don’t buy me electronics. I’m too much of a snob to use what you bought. Either stick to the Christmas wish list we all agreed on, or keep the receipt.

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        All the computer mice, headphones, and keyboards…

        The connector cable it comes with will spend 10,000x as much time in my hand than the item you intended to give me.

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      Yeah, it gets that way when people know something major you do. The amount of lame chemistry shirts and such is far too high.

      I know they mean well, and I definitely appreciate it. But it does get a bit old.