All that I need

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I want to not wake up to an alarm.

  I want to sip coffee on my porch while I watch woodland creatures.

  I want to plow a field and drink barley water.

  I want to tramp around a bog looking for wild edibles while my dog flushes game.

  I want to wander in the woods after a snowfall, with the Milky Way above me and it’s so quiet I can hear the owls fly by.

  I want the fireflies to be all the light I need.

  I want an email to never find me.

  That’s what I want for Christmas a.

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  • Klear@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A gift card it is!

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To a restaurant 3 hours away.

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  • pigup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You will receive golden physical bitcoin (plastic).

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  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Best I can do is a medium Hickory Farms gift box from the mall kiosk.

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    • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s a mall?

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  • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that’s beautiful.

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    So… coffee?

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’s a start.

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• Murse@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  My answer is basically to stop letting a calendar date guilt trip you into wasting money on me because you’ve been marketed into some obligation so send me shit I don’t need. If you happen to find something you think I’d actually appreciate, go for it, but even then it doesn’t have to be for some stupid holiday.

  I’ve kinda just stopped giving a shit about things like christmas or birthdays, both for me and for the people I’d consider giving a gift to, but I give them the same treatment: if I find something they’d like, I’ll just buy and gift it as soon as it’s convenient. And honestly the reactions are much better anyway, since it shows you’re actually thinking of that person and not just fulfilling some annual ritual to send them shit cuz the commercials say it’s time.

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    My parents buy things for me earlier then Christmas (intending them for christmas) spoil them for me because they’re excited to tell me what they got or they think i can use it now, and then take it off me the day before just to wrap it up again 🤣

    I suppose people who live in different towns to their parents avoid this, and hence the parents build up a stockpile, and if you only have time to visit one day of the year, they’ll hand em all off to you then. Does that make it more acceptable? Because instead of waiting for a calendar day to buy the gifts at, they stowed the gifts away for until a big ceremony when family is visiting.

    Might be how Christmas became a thing. Though I do believe the first gift giving was more like secret santa in scale, because nobody would receive more than 1 gift from someone else.

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• EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Partial bottom surgery and a coupon for free facial/body hair removal services pls

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everything inexpensive, I already have. Everything else is too much to ask for.

  Like pay off my medical bills/student loans.

  Buy a house.

  Get dental work.

  8tb SSD.

  These things are way too expensive to ask anyone for.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  “S-socks please”

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• felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  We use the strategy of “luxury consumables” often. Fancy oil/vinegar, chocolate, candles, coffee, etc.

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  • Kitchel@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Yeah, I like to receive and give food gifts. Or I tend to give something I made myself, for example knitted socks or baked goods.

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Money. Not gift cards, not ‘you’ll take me out for a fancy lunch’, not ‘I’ll buy you something off your Amazon wishlist’. Money. Cold, physical currency.

  Why? Parents and relatives are denser than a concrete bomb shelter. I don’t want furniture, I don’t want games, I don’t want gift certificates. If I want something, I’ll buy it myself. And for my ‘splurge’ list, you know what, sure mom. I want an XL David from Bad Dragon, in natural colors, and in a soft+medium firmness. And, because I want to feel like I am being spitroasted, a small Flint, in natural, and soft. I do need to work on my gag reflex. Oh, you’ll just give me cash? Okay then. Don’t open any package addressed to me, mmkay?

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• Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Something not expensive from the heart”.

  Flusters folk a lot. I frankly don’t care if you give me a broken padlock or a dingalong found in a forgotten pawnshop as long as it does tie into, well, me. Intention is what matters to me more than the item.

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  • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yep. I ask for photos, letters, memories. A lot of them aren’t fans but I’ve got a couple loved ones who do special outings with me as gifts now at least.

    It’s hard to get them to transition to that, for sure.

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But the strip club doesn’t offer gift cards, so what do I ask for?

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    On the other hand, you can use gift cards to tip the strippers!

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I … can’t imagine that the strippers would be pleased with this…

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Asking what I want? Wouldn’t you rather play some sort of guessing game to prove that you know me better than I know myself?

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• RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everything I want is expensive and I don’t expect people to pay for it. Like if I were to buy something useful now, it’d be almost $1000 (fucking ram), and everything else is more expensive.

  So I just say I want nothing.

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• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I generally don’t want things. I have to come up with a book list because that’s really really the only thing I can think of that is a normal gift

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• glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I tell people to get me liquor and candles. Honestly, I just want my friends to show up once a year so we can hang out for a few hours like the good old times.

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• tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You wishing for a comet collision with Earth too?

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    comets are beautiful. We deserve an asteroid.

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• Townlately@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just give a list of charities, donate in my name. I have enough trinkets probably.

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  • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    This is a great choice!

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• vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s the only way to become a vessel for our prince of darkness Larry Summers

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