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What's the point of telling each other exactly what you want and buying the other's thing? Seems like just swapping the chore of purchase to me. In my family,
by ALittleLight 7y ago
What's the point of telling each other exactly what you want and buying the other's thing? Seems like just swapping the chore of purchase to me.
In my family, for Christmas, everyone fills out a short questionnaire (hobbies, goals, what are you learning, where are you going, favorite authors/genres) then we use the questionnaires to guide gift giving. This way, there's still room for creativity and thoughtfulness in gift giving, but it's guided by the responses. Plus, it's fun to read everyone's answers and you can give gifts that line up with multi-year trends after a while.
- Andrex 7y agoIf it works for you, all the more power, but this sounds about as warm and loving as a chemistry test. If we boiled everything down to sheer logic we wouldn't celebrate Christmas at all. The point isn't necessarily what makes the most "sense," it's about tradition and good feelings.
- nkrisc 7y agoAgreed, what's the point, indeed? My wife and I have just forgone buying gifts for each other entirely, unless one of us happens to think of something that would just be perfect for the other, without any calendar restriction. But we no longer feel like we have to buy something for the other on some arbitrary date looks like a birthday or holiday. It's so freeing. Bonus: we have less stuff in our house. Trying to implement this with my extended family. We still but gifts for the kids though, they enjoy it.
- leetcrew 7y agothe point is you think of the other person when you use their gift. it makes an item that would have been mundane, had you purchased it for yourself, a little more special. your system sounds nice too though, just a little more effort than I want to put in.