To goat or not to goat ...

[UsedtobeFeckless]

Friend has just been all over Facebook to announce she's not doing Christmas cards or presents and has given a load of cash to various good works in far off lands instead - would l be unreasonable to keep the nice thing l got her for myself and get a load of chickens or whatever on her behalf instead?

Ywnbu.

Everyone wins
You get the nice thing.
She gets to feel virtuous.
Someone else benefits.

Except the chickens. Please only donate to a charity that deals with happy free range chickens!

Sounds like a plan

Goat her.

Give proper gifts to everyone else.

I hate the Christmas goat thing. Donate to charity in your own name, not someone else's. It's virtue signaling.

I'd love a goat!! No one will give me one.

Next year. That's it. I'm insisting on only goats.

I'm fine with not doing presents or whatever she wants to do but waiting until 3 days before then doing the big reveal via Facebook when everyone is wrongfooted by it is a bit pesky ...

I only want to give a goat if people promise not to eat it ... Maybe mosquito nets would be better!

Goat her. She's clearly waited till people have already purchased gifts for her to do this. And I bet if you add up how much she's spent it's only a fraction of the cost of buying gifts and posting cards.

Keep her present and give money to a charity in her name. Im sure people say that they have donated to charity just to get out of getting people presents. I bet they aint donated anything to anyone(obviously not all of them) but id want my certificate with my name on as proof hahahaha.

She was always quite keen on gifts and stuff previously - this whole charity begins on my FB friends list thing began quite suddenly a week before her birthday when she announced via FB that she wanted to donate a target of xxx amount to a good cause and here was a link so we could all chip in rather than buy her birthday presents. Thing was, everyone could see how much you had donated because there was a counter that namechecked who had coughed up what ... l'm a bit put off by the whole thing - it's just so public ...

I'm seeing her tomorrow so l'll stick the nice thing in the car anyway and then l'm covered whatever happens! lf she's goated me l'll goat her back and if not then it's back to plan A and she gets the original goodies. I'm going to suggest we stop with the presents next year as she's obviously reached peak stuff and l can't handle anymore goat-related doublethink ...

Please come back and tell us what happens!

My friend gifted me a toilet this year. It was an excellent choice (I have Crohns) and I wish whoever gets to use it has many years of trouble free crapping.

I’d give a goat. It always annoys me when people announce on social media they are donating to charity instead of doing Christmas cards. A few of my well off friends have done this, when they could easily afford to do both. Actually I don’t mind if they don’t send me a card, but I don’t see why the world needs to know that they are making charitable donations, when many of us already do so quietly and without virtue signalling