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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
After years of thinking that I had my mom trained to just buy me gift certificates, I must have done something worng, as this year she inexplicably bought me velvet tops (multiple! in different colors!) from a store I would never shop at. So I think I'm going to have some sort of store credit at this place when I exchange them. My questions:
1. Should I tell mom that I am exchanging them or let her think that I wanted these things? I've already done my best to leave her with the impression that gift certificates are a good idea if she isn't sure what I might want in the future.
2. What can I buy with this store credit to a place I don't want anything from? Or should I see if they'll just send my mom a refund? I guess that would necessarily entail telling her that I don't want the things.
I hate being scrooge, but I also hate the idea of her wasting money on things that I really don't want. I wish she would just stop buying me stuff altogether, as I pretty much can cover all my own wants and she scrapes by for every penny.
Crap.
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You know you can't tell her you didn't appreciate the present she picked out for you herself.
Exchange for store credit, and turn the store credit into a gift certificate to regift to her on her birthday.
On another note, I've been baffled at both sides of the happy holidays/merry christmas thing this season, as I expect have most of you. I mean, all this BS about "jesus is religious but santa and trees aren't or are about commercialism" just baffles me, mostly at the ignorance of 90% of the population, and I am much more offended by people insisting on taking other people's well-wishing as insults than I am at having other people's beliefs or lack thereof shoved under my nose. But then there was some commercial on TV this weekend which used as a jingle a traditional christmas carol with the words changed to replace "christmas" with "holiday." I have to admit, I was surprisingly offended. Had they entirely changed the words (say, to sing about the amazing bargains at the store), I would not have been bothered, but this annoyed the heck out of me. I fully support retailers' attempts to appeal to the widest possible consumer base, but, damnit, if you are going so far as to use an actual well-known christmas carol, just own it.
Then again, the last time I was really annoyed by something like this was when the hymnal used at a christmas service, in a fit of PC, changed the "Joy to the World" lyrics to read "let people their songs employ." That shit doesn't even scan. I haven't attended christian christmas services since, and instead celebrate Yule.
BR(and I can't believe I just condoned the giving of a gift certificate - ye gods, what's happening to me?)C
