Lazy presents?

[Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady]

Inspired by another thread.

What do you count as lazy presents? Or "I can't be arsed to think of anything good to get you" presents

For me its:
Candles
Bath stuff
Hand cream
Alcohol

My OH buys his dad a bottle of red wine most Christmases. I mean you've known the man your entire life and you can't think of anything a bit more personal?!

The thing is those things you use up, so if you like them you'll need more. As opposed to presents which you just keep and use again and again.....

It wasn't supposed to be a smug thread...It was supposed to be funny!

But I've obviously upset the candle givers out there 😉

Oh and for those saying I must be horrible and ungrateful when I receive said candle...no one has ever bought me gifts like this so nope!

This is about presents I see other people buying, not presents I've received

I love all the things you've listed except the booze. Everything else is something I already really hope I get for Christmas. That and amazon vouchers are the things I ask for.

Alcohol is not a lazy present. Who would ever think a fee bottle of plonk was lazy?!

It is if you don’t drink alcohol in the first place and the giver has known you for years.

@Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady

Perhaps it because I only buy presents for my immediate family? So I know what they like, and I come up with good ideas that are well received.

For example a few years ago I bought my dad an engraved leather notebook for him to write his memoirs in, and he did and gave it back to me completed as a surprise for my last birthday. To me that is a thoughtful and not lazy gift.

Perhaps if I had a lot of aunties, grandmas etc to buy for I would buy candles, hand cream etc as that would be more appropriate 🤷‍♀️

Of course your presents are always perfectly splendid, I bet you fart rainbows too.

Gift giving is so 'personal' though isn't it (obviously ), I would have no interest in a personalised leather notebook - but my absolute favourite gift is Badedas Bath oil.

I manage a charity shop and we love January when all the unwanted gifts get donated, although we find it amusing it is really quite sad that so many presents just get given away.

I adore candles and bath stuff. I hope nobody is put off buying them for me by thinking they are a horrible generic thoughtless present and instead buys me something incredibly specific because they have thought about it and decided I am the type of person to like that. I also love flowers, which also could be seen as a generic present.

A notebook is the epitome of a generic, “lazy”, if you will, present, though.

The worst type of present for me is not something like candles (I honestly can’t understand why that is a lazy present) but something which has been bought that the recipient can’t use. Wine for a teetotaller, chocolates for a diabetic, bath bubbles for someone who only has a shower...

Candles - I like them, but only some of them. Others smell vile.

Bath stuff - the bottom of my wardrobe resembles a small branch of Boots.

Hand cream - There's only one I like, and I'm allergic to most of the others.

Alcohol - I don't drink.

I had a surprise anonymous "midwinter" gift in the post this morning - posh body lotion, hand cream, body scrub.
Bit perplexed, but a lovely surprise.

No alcohol or candles.

I have found gift buying harder this year though, because I've not seen them enough to pick up on things they'd like.

@tobedtoMNandfart

Amazon gift vouchers 🤣

I like Amazon vouchers, much better than any other gift card. I love spending browsing Amazon on xmas day afternoon looking at what I might spend it on

That list would make me very happy.

@phoenixrosehere

Alcohol is not a lazy present. Who would ever think a fee bottle of plonk was lazy?!

It is if you don’t drink alcohol in the first place and the giver has known you for years.

Very much so. I've been teetotal for 15 years yet close family still buy me booze 🙄

I love getting bath stuff and candles for Christmas.

I love consumable presents! I can’t stand people buying things I don’t need. I really have too many possessions already

Candles
Bath stuff
Hand cream
Alcohol

These would be some of my favourite gifts.

I love candles, use them a lot, bath stuff is divine, especially if made with lovely natural ingredients, essential oils, flower petals etc.
Hand cream- ditto, decent stuff though, I go through gallons in wintertime.
Alcohol- again yes please, some interesting gin from local distilleries would be most welcome!

I quite like consumables. I would rather have one nice consumable rather than lots of smaller low cost gifts. One posh candle or a nice shower gel is perfect for me.

Nothing wrong with a bottle of someones favourite drink vodka, thank you, much better than allegedly "thoughtful" gifts that go in the bin/charity shop. alcohol doesn't go off and always gets used here!

Lazy or just really nice and useful?

I hate the fact people actually get offended by gifts that aren't personal ans perfect enough.

I'm honestly pretty grateful for whatever I'm given! Probably the least thoughtful present I'm given is wine - not that I don't drink it but in the sense that I'm only ever really given it by people who don't know me well, because it's a generic generous present (because it tends to be rather good quality wine) from senior people at work. The only gift I've actually had to give away (though it was actually really thoughtful and kind in one sense) was some beautiful lilies given to me on Christmas Eve by someone senior at with. The problem is that I have cats and lilies are lethally poisonous to them!

*at work, not with

Mugs, chocolates, smelly gift packs where you get 3 different scented litres of body butter.

Baylis and Harding gift sets.
Cheap chocolates.

I like all the things on your list as long as they are the right brands that I will actually use, love bath stuff but I have sensitive skin so can only use certain items ,body butter and the hemp stuff from body shop I would be pleased with but most bubble baths and shower gels are a no go. Same with candles, I only like the sweet smelling ones, nothing that smells of pine 🤢.

I wouldn't have told the giver, but I had to give it to someone random at work whom I didn't even know, because everyone I knew well has cats or dogs too.