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.
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.
Lol so you threw it in the trash? 😹
Nah, he threw it on the ground. DUH!
That’s not my dad!
That’s a cell phone!
Thank goodness… I feel in good company on this site age-wise, then I’ll drop what I think is an obvious one and crickets
woosh
Yeah I feel like this is some kind of reference I’m missing
Can a man truly be wooshed when he doesn’t possess the required knowledge in the first place? I say not. This is an unjust woosh.
It’s a made-up story. Depleted uranium is a byproduct of uranium enrichment and places that do uranium enrichment aren’t even going to talk to you unless you have a host of government licenses. Depleted uranium only has a few applications like:
- Armor penetrating munitions
- Counterweights for aeronautics
- Ironically, as radiation shielding
This makes it very hard for collectors to obtain (it can take people years) and actual samples of DU are going to be more expense than regular uranium. The story makes as much sense as your grandmother buying cubic zirconia jewelry and being “scammed” with actual diamonds.
Well, the DU could have been scavenged from spent munitions a warzone after it had obliterated something.
Christian devotional book from my aunt, I’ve straight told her I don’t read or want them but she keeps doing it
Better to use a Bible as kindle As to use a Kindle as a bible
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.
Sounds like a good plan! I hope the event is a fun time, despite the hardships
Of the mess, no. But here’s a pic of Satan’s abomination…
It’s basically tiny styrofoam balls that stick together, I think it’s mostly static electricity holding it together. Once you open the package, and start manipulating the biodiversity hazard, it leaves little pieces of itself everywhere.
Much like herpes, and just as welcome. In my case, Satan was feeling extra cute so there was glitter mixed into the packaged santorum.
It’s now day 6 after opening and I guarantee I’ll find little purple and pink assholes around my house
I believe we got Play Dough Foam, but idk.
It’s called floam and it’s an unholy mix of polystyrene beads and slime…
Set it to order as much floam as it can and send it to your enemies, before the credit card gets cut off.
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.
We always get stuff for the kids and the nieces/nephews, and our moms. But we haven’t gotten a gift for each other in years now. We both buy something if we want it bad enough throughout the year, and it’s both of our money anyway, so what’s the point? We will some years get a “household gift” that’s something we need or everyone can benefit from, that shouldn’t go to just one kid or "you two share this and try not to fight over it, or that they will care less about. Nice air fryer one year, Nintendo switch another, etc. But nothing really needed or wanted this year so we’ll probably just take a pass.
Well it’s January now…so yeah I guess you did.
True, but for our family Xmas isn’t totally over yet.
That is a great agreement. All the Christmas with none of the waste
And we finally get around to getting the crap we keep forgetting to pick up! Note pads!
this is how my family has it set up too, everyone writes a list of some reasonable stuff they’d quite like to get anyways and we just pick a thing from each list while coordinating with each other to not duplicate anything.
Works brilliantly.
My wife and I got each other a dishwasher for Christmas…
Okay, was it a shared gift, or do you each have your own dishwasher now? If it’s two, do they match?
Shared gift 😁
If you attach the waste pipe of one to the water inlet of the other you can share the bacterial infection too
A true couples gift
Just don’t gift anything and enjoy a peaceful evening? Why does one need a special day to gift anyway?
My family did it and it was honestly amazing (obviously kids should get something if possible).As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, in Iceland they buy each other books and on Christmas Eve they open the books and everyone sits around reading them.
Just don’t gift anything and enjoy a peaceful evening? Why does one need a special day to gift anyway?
We haven’t made it that far yet. I imagine/hope we will eventually.
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.
😂
The slinky my middle child got didn’t even survive the day.
Has anyone had a slinky that survived more than a week?
The plastic ones never do, but I had a steel one growing up i played with a lot tyat lasted me a decade.
When my kids play with slinkies, they’re destroyed within a day.
To clarify: the slinkie is destroyed. The children remain unchanged.
I remember growing up with several slinkies around that we didn’t play with and therefore they lasted
Nooo, it’s where the baby Jesus’s grow!
I like the plot twist that the sister is pagan
Oh yes, we all remember that well established in the bible parable about Jesus dragging a pine tree into his house in a dessertic weather town for his birthday party every year and how mad Mary and Josef were when it started to rot in February because Jesus just refused to take it out.
Well he did supposedly drag a “tree” to a place and then some people hung something on it…
The original Christmas ornament
Jesus was a lazy bum! Can relate.
I wouldnt say that. He retired from carpentry in his early 30s.
No-one wants to work anymore
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.
Maybe? I’ve never had meringue as anything other than what tops a lemon meringue pie, and that’s pretty fluffy and light and doesn’t really taste like frosting (butter cream frosting to be specific). These treats in question were fairly dense, and a bit crumbly. Could be meringue that’s dried out some, I guess.
I think that the other person was right about them being meringue.
There are a few different types of meringue that you can make, and there are also meringue cookies. I’ve had some before and they were almost exactly how you describe them.
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.
They do have some of the smaller Lego sets, which is the only toy I’ll buy as a last minute gift there.
Lego gets a special dispensation. It lasts (unlike some of the knockoffs) and it’s a nice creative toy for kids. And adults.
we got a family-wide present of two lego sets, one bonsai tree and one bouquet of flowers, honestly really good.
Not to mention the way the cheap labor works that gets those things made.
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It’s a grotesque waste.
And sketchy. Who knows if any particular batch of any particular product was made to safety or quality standards.
Actually they are all the same, and none of them are, that’s why they are all the same. The plan was made before fire codes required updated sprinkler systems or something and since they keep reusing the same plans they all are fire hazards.
A fire fighter buddy of mine was ranting one night and I caught the tail end of the discussion.
I feel like I’m catching the tail end of this discussion. Is this thread still about dollar store products? What plan do you mean?
He’s talking about the physical dollar store ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh ok, that makes sense. Thought he might have meant that at first but second guessed because I only see them in strip malls or other buildings they didn’t build themselves these days but thinking about the aisles does make me think fire hazard now. At least they usually keep the lighters by the cash, though I wonder if someone learned that one the hard way.
All the chocolate is already down the toilet, or on my waistline.
Ah, the old “either went to waste or went to waist.”
Not trash, just returned to the shop. HP Smart Tank 580 printer.
Good call lmao, #FuckHP
AMEN. HP used to innovate technology. Nowadays they innovate new ways to fuck their customers around.
I like the hp-48 calculator
Did you buy a brother instead?
I currently have a printer, also HP, but an old one (20 years).
When I’ll finally need a new printer, I’ll be deciding between HP and Brother. I am not sure about Linux support with Brother printers. I heard it’s great, but I need to search more. I know HPLIP works well, but I also heard these new HP printers don’t last long. Then there’s also the thing called HP+ (not to be confused with Instant Ink) that many of those printers have, which REQUIRES HP account AND a connection to internet.
Recently went through this, did not continue with hp and went brother, couldn’t be happier.
Linux user here, can confirm a Brother multifunction laser printer/scanner monster from around five years ago works flawlessly and painlessly out of the box with multiple Debian derivatives.
Also the first toner I bought with it is still sealed in its box because the free starter toner which came with the printer still hasn’t run down. I’m never going back to inkjets!
My 2 year old brother (all in one, not a human) same story. Works great with Linux. Better than my hp, even.
Be a member of the Brother-hood. I have a big black multifunction Brother printer, scanner (even fax, wtf!), and it works on both Linux and Windows. Bought four years ago. It just wants a quiet corner and a wifi connection. I think it’d even print from my Android phone if I tickled it a little, but can’t be arsed now. It’s happy with cheapo ink as well. It also cleans itself and has survived in a definitely-not-an-office environment. If it makes another year I’ll give it a pet name, it deserves one!
Why did you get 3 printers in 17 years, did they break or anything?
Maybe used them lots?
My first laser printer was an HP Laser Jet MP5 that my boss threw away because ‘it was noisy’. Workhorse beast printed easily another 15,000 pages before I replaced it with a color laser from Brother. That beast (purchased in 2013) has gone through 3 toner carts for CYMK, and printed high res great output in glorious color for over a decade now.
Moral of the story: HP wasn’t always garbage, but they certainly are today; Brother makes a damn good printer.
Oh yeah, in college I bought an HP color ink jet that lasted probably 2 decades. No bullshit, it just printed stuff, and it was fantastic.
Wow that’s a big gift! Do you have a different preferred solution for printing?
Not really preferred, but I do have a printer already. A 20 years old HP PSC 1315. It still works, and I don’t even know how after my USB port replacement attempt which was also my first soldering attempt, and it ended terribly. But, it does seem to make a connection, so it works for now. I didn’t know what flux is, and I used the highest temperature, 520°C. As I said, no idea how it works, but it’s been like that for over 2 years.
It’s not perfect, but it works. It only has partial support by HPLIP, so to print in high DPI I need to use a Windows 7 VM with the drivers. That then takes 20 minutes per A4 page. The colors are quite poor and it has quite large borders. If scanning anything with color, I need to play with contrast and saturation in Scan2PDF, otherwise most colors are just invisible.
On the plus side, I found an app called NokoPrint that allows me to print from Android phone using this printer via USB.So yeah, that smart tank would have been much better, but there would also be extra e-waste. I can deal with this printer. Actually, I got this from e-waste, so I even saved some. Also, they took it with extended warranty and some insurance, making it €207!!! I don’t want such an expensive gift.
Far be it from me to get in the way of your self-imposed suffering.
The Canon version of that has been good for me. No subscription or anything, just fillable ink tanks.
Candy wrappers because I ate the candy.
You really should recycle
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