• CraigeryTheKid
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    5 months ago

    As someone with kids, I still feel like I “hate Christmas”. Not only all the waste, especially packaging, but the “obligation” to buy all your nieces/nephews toys - which has turned into just buying things off their wishlists that the parents picked.

    so… why don’t i just buy for my kids, and you yours, and we’ll see you for dinner?

    but then yes - all the waste! Having to “pick something”, and then of course grandma buys the most random, lowest quality stuff I have ever seen. I don’t even know how she finds them.

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      5 months ago

      And one of my kids Birthday is just a few weeks before, and the other a few weeks after.

      The house just explodes with crap between November and January.

      • Delphia@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        My daughter is in early Jan… this year literally made us call our mortgage broker and start looking for a bigger house.