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For me, there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke, and one toy for my kids that was a huge sparkly styrofoam mess waiting to happen, so I threw it out rather than curse anyone else with it.

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[-] robojeb@lemmy.world 172 points 11 months ago

My sister gave us some diapers for our newborn. Already pooped her way through them.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 55 points 11 months ago

Wow what an ungrateful crybaby pooping on your sister's gift, smh.

/s of course. Congratulations on the newborn!

[-] forty2@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

Congratulations! ...about the newborn, not the amount of poop (though that's also a good sign!)

[-] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 11 months ago

What a shitty present!

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

an excellent reason for those to be in the trash

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 93 points 11 months ago

Bottle of scotch. It is in the trash because I have finished it.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago
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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 82 points 11 months ago

there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke,

My kids got two or three items each that promptly broke. Into the garbage they go.

I hate the dollar store so much. It's a waste of money and an environmental train wreck.

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

Not to mention the way the cheap labor works that gets those things made.

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[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 81 points 11 months ago

Christian devotional book from my aunt, I’ve straight told her I don’t read or want them but she keeps doing it

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 61 points 11 months ago

Take a picture of you burning it in a pentagram

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[-] dirtySourdough@lemmy.world 76 points 11 months ago

I mentioned to a family member how much I like my garlic press. I then received a garlic press for Christmas and will certainly be regifting it.

[-] TheActualDevil@sffa.community 73 points 11 months ago

Is your family member Google Ad Sense?

"I see you spent a week researching PSUs for your computer and I see that you finally bought one. Would you like to buy a PSU? because even though we know you bought one we'll be showing you nothing but ads for PSUs for the foreseeable future."

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[-] 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago

My parents gave me one of those 2023 Guinness World Record book. I appreciate the gesture, but it screams "we didn't know what to get you, and there were a pallet of 'em at Costco". I can see the book's appeal for a child or teenager but I'M 37.

I'll be re-gifting it to my father in-law 😎 I'm 100% sure he'll love it.

[-] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 11 months ago

Good pooping entertainment

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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 57 points 11 months ago

At the other end of the spectrum: My wife and I made a minimal gifts pact. We each got each other minor crap we needed for around the house. It was perfect. No waste. No extravagance. Just stuff we were going to get anyway.

[-] SaintWacko@midwest.social 23 points 11 months ago

My wife and I got each other a dishwasher for Christmas...

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 35 points 11 months ago

Okay, was it a shared gift, or do you each have your own dishwasher now? If it's two, do they match?

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 11 months ago

Not trash, just returned to the shop. HP Smart Tank 580 printer.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago
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[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My neighbour gave me a TV. To be precise, he rushed it to me unannounced at the exact moment I was leaving to go to a party. I accepted as quickly as I could in an effort to still make my train.

It turns out it's about 15 years old and I have no use for it. He's a lovely man but I intend to post it as free to a good home then drop it at an e-recycling station if nobody is interested.

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[-] SpliceVW@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

The slinky my middle child got didn't even survive the day.

Has anyone had a slinky that survived more than a week?

[-] Unlearned9545@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

The plastic ones never do, but I had a steel one growing up i played with a lot tyat lasted me a decade.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 months ago

When my kids play with slinkies, they're destroyed within a day.

To clarify: the slinkie is destroyed. The children remain unchanged.

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[-] nikosey@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

My grandmother got me some uranium because she knows I'm into reactors. I didn't have the heart to tell her she got scammed & it was all depleted.

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[-] ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml 32 points 11 months ago

Alcohol bottles (were full, now empty and in recycling, not trash)

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I rarely throw gifts away, if I don't like them, I try to donate them to an organization or individual.

However, many years ago, someone got me "snow paint" which was, I'm pretty sure, literally just food coloring. You were supposed to use it to color in snow sculptures but I'm pretty sure that one found its way to the trash.

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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think I accidentally threw away a Starbucks gift card someone gave me, because I've been unable to locate it since Christmas :(

EDIT: LMFAO the mods removed my reply to the Scrooge below me because I said "I hope you get coal next year" XD

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[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

Candy wrappers because I ate the candy.

[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 30 points 11 months ago

My partner and I got scratch ticket packs for eachother for $38 total. I lost every ticket she won 20 dollar so we are starting the year 18 dollars short.

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[-] forty2@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Can confirm. That sparkly styrofoam stuff became a huge mess approximately 5min after opening.

Kudos to your foresight, and congratulations for the free time you saved by not cleaning up this pink and purple bullshit

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[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

I'm actually just about to celebrate Christmas in the next hour or so. My dad's health went downhill over the holidays and he needed to be moved to assisted living, so we had to delay Christmas for a bit.

I asked my family to get me gift cards because I don't like receiving a bunch of trinkets/cheap toys. And the non-cheap "toys" I want are too expensive for my family to afford. So I'd rather they contribute cash toward something I really want.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 26 points 11 months ago

The baked goods a lady from my dad's church gave me. I don't even know what they were; it tasted and looked like it was just a bunch of dallops of cake frosting sprinkled with almond dust. I don't really eat sweets, and these offended my taste buds when I ate one. Nobody else wanted to take them off my hands so into the trash they went.

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[-] bouh@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

À bottle of wine, but it's now empty.

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[-] worldofbirths@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

My 2.5 toddler got a little collectible car. It somehow exploded into all its tiny parts on the first trip to the ground, which of course was shortly after opening.

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[-] MrsDoyle@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Not in the trash, but I regifted something a friend sent me the week before Christmas. Wrapped it in fresh paper and gave it to another friend on Christmas Eve. No-one need know...

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[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

My sister bought me a nice glass rig, then got drunk and stumbled into it, shattering it on the ground

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