I need to have this conversation with a very dear friend who is very generous and extravagant. I’m in a different financial bracket and just can’t keep it up. We barely know each other these days, and while I’d like to hope my gifts don’t miss the mark as widely as hers do, I’ve really no idea. It’s all pointless.
I’m an early organiser, so in one sense it always feels too late to have this conversation but also it always seems too early too. Most of my RL friends and family abhor any mention of Christmas before late November (by which point I’m preparing for hibernation). I’ve already sorted her gift for this year, but I need to stop the madness. When do I say something?
And then there’s the matter of what to say. I was thinking along the lines of financial circumstances but ideally I’d like her to stop sending me stuff too and I could see her doubling up her efforts instead. Climate change obviously is a part of my thinking too but I can’t think how to word it without being a bit high moral ground about it.