I received chocolates from 3 different friends so far. I appreciate their thoughtfulness BUT they all know I am allergic to chocolate. Hello? I brought them to work and left them on our company kitchen table for everyone to eat. My seond worst gift (so far) is a HUGE basket of lavender lotion from a good friend. This person also knows I have skin allergies and cannot wear anything that contains a fragrance. What are these people thinking? What a waste of money.
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They're not thinking, and that's the problem. I get a lot of skin products that I am allergic to as well, and I get them from my in-laws who know very well that I am allergic to some of the ingredients. (I think it's just their way of letting me know that they don't care.) I also get a lot of ceramic bowls from people for some reason, even though the givers know that my apartment is full of ceramic pieces that I have made! One of the more disappointing gifts I got was when I was 12. My parents gave me a pink bike even though they knew I hated the color and I didn't want a bike. My step sister wanted one, and so they gave me the exact same thing instead of bothering to see what I wanted instead. Before I even got to open up the gift, which I had to assemble, I got the annual big lecture about how horrible I had been all year and that I didn't deserve any of the gifts. I was also told (ever year) that it was more effort for my parents to return the gifts that it was for me to open them, and that's the only reason I got anything. (I can't really recall any of the other gifts I have received from my parents because the lecture usually overshadowed anything else that happened that day. I think the only reason I got the bike is because I stopped asking for things by the age of 10 because I knew I didn't deserve to get presents anyway.)
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