Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “What do we want for Christmas?”.
What is on your Christmas list this year, ask Jason uh my whole family just perked up, because I have not posted my Christmas list yet. Oh, I don’t know what I want. I don’t want anything well, you just said you want a surround, sound speaker setup. That’S too much, though yeah that’s my problem. Everything I want is something I could never ask anyone else to give me yeah, because if it’s like 20 bucks I’ll just get it, if I actually want it mostly, I don’t want it yeah and if you don’t want it bad enough to spend 20 bucks on It why would someone else spend 20 bucks for someone else to spend 20 bucks? You know you know what I asked for for Christmas.
I asked for us to not do a gift exchange whoa, I hate gift exchanges, wait. What do you mean by gift exchange? I hate exchanging Christmas, presents gifts at all yeah, I just I don’t want any and I don’t want to buy any or if, if we buy you something like there are people in our lives that we buy things for a lot. Actually, like my Aunt um Yvonne’s parents, uh we’ve gotten both of them cars we’ve gotten both of them multiple vacations uh. They do a lot for us.
I’Ve talked about this before, but with the amount of child care that they do for us, we’re probably ahead on the deal yeah Child Care is so expensive um. So like there’s people that we absolutely buy things for, but I don’t like buying junk. I don’t like. I don’t like just getting people junk to put in their house and I feel like a lot of the time with the reasonable, with a reasonable budget gift exchange.
That’S what everyone ends up doing you just go to some gift guide, find some junk and then expect it to be in someone’s house when you visit them, and it just creates all this pressure and like this guilt. If your junk is not as good as their junk like I just I, I hate it. My family’s Christmas has always been very epic um, but even when we like didn’t, have money and didn’t have a lot of gift exchange, it was always we just found other ways to make it cool um and the gift exchange has been become a little bit more Serious as people have become a little bit more successful um, but like myself and my dad are the notoriously like ridiculously hard people to shop for um and whenever I complain about my dad.
Everyone Snips at me because they’re like you’re, just as hard um so like I can’t imagine other people that have to shop for both of us because, like neither of us, want anything and just to clarify Ken k over on floatplane, says no adult gift exchange right. Oh yeah, Christmas is for kids, oh yeah, like my oh man, I’m excited about buying for the little one. My side of the family has been doing a gift exchange all the way into adulthood.
For us, and as soon as Yvonne and I had kids, we were sitting here going. Why on Earth? Are you guys spending any money on us? This is ridiculous. We’Ll participate in stupid, the stupid secret, santa stupid gift exchange, but don’t buy anything for us buy stuff for our kids. I do like, like I do like buying stuff from my mom. I do like buying stuff for my brother, my brother and my mom. Everybody else seems to have a when they, when they do figure out something. For me, it’s usually like oh wow. I never really would have thought about that yeah, which is why it’s so hard – and this is cool but sorry for the intense labor of trying to figure something out.
So I like feel bad, but it’s it’s cool um. So I don’t know it’s tough Conrad goes. I like giving gifts a lot receiving gifts is okay, but it’s way more fun to give people things, but you’re giving them is an obligation you’re giving them pressure. Sometimes that’s how I feel, but that’s the thing I know that’s how you you should respect, how other people feel about it.
Yes, yeah when people who just love giving gifts give me stuff it makes me uncomfortable. I don’t like it, I don’t want it and when I say I really don’t want anything, I’m not like. I really don’t want anything but like. Oh, if you got me something ooh, no, I really don’t want anything. Listen to the words I’m saying yeah and I don’t I don’t know. There’S just there’s, there’s been there’s, there’s a lot of frustration because – and I mean maybe part of it – is just like my upbringing right because I’ve run into situations where people have given me something that they thought I would love. And then it’s like extremely hurtful and what’s like strain on the relationship when I didn’t want it and don’t like it when I said I didn’t want it and I didn’t like it give me a break yeah yeah yeah. That’S, I think it helps in in my family that I don’t think it’s like that for for anyone um, but that’s also a reason why you and I have never done gift exchange between us ever yeah. There’S lots of good suggestions in in the chat, though like uh, you can donate um to, like you know, uh a shelter, that’s a cool one in people’s names and stuff, like that totally totally 100 super down give food. That’S our fallback: whenever we’re not sure what to do.
Is we just like give people fancy food um to be clear? I don’t want that either like the amount of food that arrives in my name here every year, yeah, I don’t I I promise you there’s only one thing: I eat it’s the little chocolate covered cookies from noctua everything else, and I usually don’t even finish them, because I don’t want like that, many treats in my life and that’s almost because it’s more of a tradition thing all of the rest of it all the rest of it goes straight to the staff like kitchen and other people eat it. So if you were thinking that you were sending Linus some kind of like special treat to try, I’m not eating it, I’m giving it to the people here, which is fine like by all means like send stuff and people will will eat it. Don’T make things yeah. I’M talking to Brands right now who are sensible enough to send things that are sealed. Um by Twitter, blue, buy people Twitter blue for Christmas; okay, that’s pretty funny [ Laughter ] anyway.
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