To hate homemade gifts

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New thread with the vote enabled this time!

Unless the giver is actually good enough at making what ever it is to sell then I wish they just wouldn’t give homemade stuff, especially food

Fortunately I don’t generally receive them but I have a friend who’s a teacher who’s inundated with them at Christmas

It just seems such a waste as it pretty much all gets binned

@daisypond In answer to your question about what people bought elderly parents, I would get things like slippers, flowers, ornaments or some kind of toiletries for my mum; slippers, wine, a jumper or a book for my dad. Chocolates, biscuits for both.

These are bought gifts, my only level of 'home made' would occasionally be putting things into a hamper for them.

I'm not sure how successful our present buying for dad was though as when we had to clear out their house following dad passing and mum moving into home; we found years of books, puzzles etc we had bought for dad sitting in his wardrobe unused. He would probably have been fine with just nice things to eat and drink, and new slippers as they wore out.

Yabu!
Something someone has made the time and effort to choose the colours/taste/style each recipient likes and make them something which is original and not grabbed under a three for two offer that's had little thought put into it is second in your mind op?

Oh but home made perishables are the best kind of gift, you can throw them away without them knowing and say you ate them, and even if you do eat them, you don't end up with tat you don't want! I don't make my own gifts, food or otherwise, FWIW

Absolutely love homemade gifts!!! Some of the most beautiful things I own are home made. Currently wanting this- if anyone wants to try their hand at making it I’ll send you my P.O. Box number 🐍

A friend knitted me a striped hot water bottle cover and gave me a jar of homemade marmalade one year. Great presents.

@AcrossthePond55 here pecan turtles use more pecans and a harder toffee which you pour into the centre of the pecans then cover in chocolate and put a pecan on top. The the ones poking out the bottom/sides look like feet/head and the one on the back the shell. This has a softer toffee, and fewer pecans but you can fit at least one whole one straight into your mouth.

I need pecan turtles now!

I've given homemade gifts in the past and am doing so again this year. I've made chocolates in flavours I know the recipient likes, I've made and decorated cakes, and I've also knitted/crocheted for family members, again, in colours or designs I know they like. I've also made a quilt for someone using fabric featuring a favourite character. Clearly all lazy and selfish. The recipients are clearly lying when they told me how much they loved them and asked me to make more!
I do think that some homemade gifts are well meaning but not necessarily well thought out. But the key part is well meaning. I've had a lot of less than perfect gifts in my time. Most of them have been shop bought. At the end of the day a rubbish present is a rubbish present, wherever it came from.

Also, homemade is usually more expensive! Have you see. The price of fabric and of wool.
A friend makes cards and sells on etsy, the embellishments etc...are really pricey.

Also, homemade is usually more expensive!

Yeah, it's really not. 🤣

I think nice homemade gifts with good quality materials can be more expensive, but I think this thread shows that whilst 50% of homemade gifts are good and done by talented people, the other 50% aren't.

I'm making Christmas Cakes this week to give as gifts. I get asked for them & this one is special, because it's for my long time close friend & DDs godfather. He lost his Dad last Christmas & it was tradition in his family that his dad always made the Christmas cake & he's asked me if he ca have one of my cakes fir his family this year. I'm honoured as I know it means a lot to him. It's nigh on killed me though as I've a neck injury, so it's taking me way longer & causing me actual pain. It's not cheap to make either & takes planning as I soak the fruit in rum & spices for a year ahead of making it. I don't mind any of this though as I know they are appreciated

YANBU. If you're giving something homemade, it shouldn't be the main gift. Example: DD's making biscuits to give to her friends. They're doing a secret Santa, so one of them will get the biscuit AND a main shop bought present. If they weren't doing a secret Santa, I'd tell her to get stuff her friends want or give them nothing. (I know it's a bit different with baking, but the point still stands)

@RockinHippy it is such an honour to be asked in those circs and your cake is beautiful

Thank you NC

@Bluntness100, it really depends what it is. I can only speak for textile-based stuff, like the quilts I make, or the crochet/knit gifts others here do, but they definitely cost more than high street versions.

I voted YABU and I dont make gifts. I'm shit at making anything !
I love receiving them though. I have a friend who sends me handmade jewelry or food items. I really appreciate it.

I bit baffled by this thread. Some gifts bought from a store are crap and thoughtless. Some homemade stuff is the same. It's not either or.

I completely agree, @OVienna.

Going against my own dislike for handmade gifts, my place of work had a craft fair today and I bought this canvas bag made by a colleague as a Christmas present for my environmental-conscious aunt. I hope she likes it!

I voted YANBU because mostly they are shit and self-indulgent. But my MIL is great at painting and I'd definitely be grateful for any of her work because it's lovely.

But yes, generally I think it's a bit of a rubbish gift but then again I'm not a big gift giver myself and sort of wish the whole thing would just fuck off.

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I often wonder what make someone dig up an old thread in this way.
I guess in this case @BluishPink it is just so you can draw attention to your website

This one has been dug up to advertise.