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To stop doing an amazon wishlist?

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jamhot · 10/11/2015 09:19

NC due to many identifiable gift details.

Each year, family members ask me and DP for our Christmas wishlist. In past years we've ended up with duplicate items as people don't mark things off as purchased (DP got 3 cafetieres one year, and it still wasn't bloody marked off as purchased!) so we stopped handing it out.

The more technically proficient members of the family have still been finding and using them, and we haven't discouraged this. Until now.

I put "socks" on my list for this year. I put them on as many of DPs family have little cash, so I try to put on lots of affordable items.

My mum popped in this weekend, and gave me an "urgent early Christmas present". She has bought me 27 pairs of socks. She seems to think I needed lots of pairs, and urgently. Neither is true. I can only assume she got this idea from the amazon wishlist. I have not mentioned socks to her.

AIBU to stop doing a wishlist? I know family will complain but we keep ending up in silly situations because of it.

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catfordbetty · 10/11/2015 11:16

My wish list is for me only - the public ones seem rather cold and grasping. In any case, I'm often not really sure if I wish the things on it or not. It's instructive sometimes to scroll back to its beginning to see the things you once wanted and have managed to do without. I quite like noting that an item is now unavailable because time or technology or fashion have now made it pointless.

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