I asked my family to limit presents to 3 each this year because we always go way over the top and ds and I have too many things in our house that it's getting out of control. Also, it's a terrible waste of money because half the things don't get used or aren't suitable.
My 3 present rule didn't go down too well and I felt like I'd come across as really ungrateful - though this definitely wasn't my intention.
I'm sticking to the 3 present rule and have found that I'm thinking a lot harder about the presents I buy and whether the recipient would really like it or not.
To get to my point! My sister has bought a selection of hand-made scarves from a colleague of hers which I saw yesterday. Whilst I thinking they look beautiful and are quite different to shop-bought scarves, they are so not my thing! I would have thought my sister would know this but she said in a round-about way yesterday that she was giving me one because she had one left over from the ones she'd bought. Also, that she'd gone way over the now laughable 3 present rule (which I'd thought they'd ignore anyway!).
I have just put 4 scarves in a charity shop bag because I haven't worn them for ages and I'm trying to down-scale my clutter. So, do I tell DSis now to give it to someone else or accept it as a Christmas gift but know that I'll never wear it. I know this is coming across badly but I have been so miserable over the last few months because of the amount of crap that I have and find really hard to get rid of.