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> Remember, all those gifts they give you are a social debt for which they will want to collect. I feel that is a bit of a sweeping statement. I certainly don'
by jk563 9y ago
> Remember, all those gifts they give you are a social debt for which they will want to collect.
I feel that is a bit of a sweeping statement. I certainly don't expect anything back for the gifts I've bought for friends and family for weddings, I would be shocked if I were a unique case.
- mfoy_ 9y agoI know people who say they felt guilty about getting wedding gifts and whatnot. They said it felt like they were forcing their friends to buy them things... which I guess is what it is.
- CalRobert 9y agoIf someone gets you a gift, and then invites you to their own wedding a year later, some non-insignificant percentage of the population will be offended if you don't get _them_ a gift. Of course, gifts are terrible if you just don't really want more stuff in your life (I'm happy to take a pint...), and a massive exercise in value destruction, but that's beside the whole social indebtedness bit of it. I'm really fun at Christmas.