For me, there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke, and one toy for my kids that was a huge sparkly styrofoam mess waiting to happen, so I threw it out rather than curse anyone else with it.
My sister gave us some diapers for our newborn. Already pooped her way through them.
Wow what an ungrateful crybaby pooping on your sister’s gift, smh.
/s of course. Congratulations on the newborn!
Congratulations! …about the newborn, not the amount of poop (though that’s also a good sign!)
an excellent reason for those to be in the trash
What a shitty present!
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Oh yes, we all remember that well established in the bible parable about Jesus dragging a pine tree into his house in a dessertic weather town for his birthday party every year and how mad Mary and Josef were when it started to rot in February because Jesus just refused to take it out.
Jesus was a lazy bum! Can relate.
I wouldnt say that. He retired from carpentry in his early 30s.
No-one wants to work anymore
Well he did supposedly drag a “tree” to a place and then some people hung something on it…
The original Christmas ornament
The tree comes from the pagan solstice celebrations
Nooo, it’s where the baby Jesus’s grow!
I like the plot twist that the sister is pagan
Bottle of scotch. It is in the trash because I have finished it.
You really should recycle
It shall be, haven’t need to the shop yet to deposit it in the glass receptical.
Christian devotional book from my aunt, I’ve straight told her I don’t read or want them but she keeps doing it
Take a picture of you burning it in a pentagram
Better to use a Bible as kindle As to use a Kindle as a bible
I mentioned to a family member how much I like my garlic press. I then received a garlic press for Christmas and will certainly be regifting it.
Is your family member Google Ad Sense?
“I see you spent a week researching PSUs for your computer and I see that you finally bought one. Would you like to buy a PSU? because even though we know you bought one we’ll be showing you nothing but ads for PSUs for the foreseeable future.”
Its really bad when you’re in your living room talking about PSUs, then all of a sudden the only adds you see online are about PSU’s.
Yeah, I’d be all like, “wtf happened to my ad blocker!?”
Speaking of which, if you talk about ad blockers in your living room, do you get ads for those?
Why have you not violently disposed of your “smart” electronics that apparently permanently monitor you for amazons profit?
Ad Sense doesn’t know you’ve made your purchase.
What kind do you have?
I have an ancient one, probably my great grandmothers, and the garlic just gets smashed into the square-but-actually-round holes and it’s impossible to get most of it out.
Mostly it makes smashed garlic, which I can do with a knife much more easily…
I got an Oxo Good Grips one for my Christmas this year and I think it’s the last press I’ll ever need
Pampered Chef also makes a very nice one. Usually pampered chef is terribly overpriced but they do have a few high quality gems in the catalog.
Yeah I saw those but they were stupidly overpriced like every they do . The Oxo ones were about €30, amazing price for a BIFL item
I have this one as well. I like how it’s one piece, unlike some cheaper ones
It’s not one piece. It looks like one piece but the rubber handles eventually separate. The past couple of years I have used it without the rubber handle covers.
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It will last about 5 years. I have one. The rubber handles fall off and the chrome plating peels.
It does say not to put them in a dishwasher or that’ll happen
Are people just too lazy to chop garlic?
Pressed garlic has a much more intense flavor. For a stew or most cooked stuff I would squash and chop it, for sauces or garlic oil I prefer pressed.
It’s also much faster as you don’t have to peel it and if you wash the press right away it’s just as fast as washing a knife.
It has literally never occurred to me that there’s no need to peel garlic if it’s going in a press. I feel dumb now.
Sometimes you want it pressed rather than chopped
Pestle and mortar? Smash it with a spoon?
Knife works better, since it’s a flat surface. A spoon would push it to the side instead of crushing evenly. Mortar and pestle is overkill unless you’ve got a lot of garlic to press.
You don’t know my diet
Regifting it because you don’t need a second one? Or because the one gifted to you is of lower quality?
Both. I bought one from this brand before and it rusted after the first use. I’ll admit I may not have washed it properly, but that’s not something I expect from my kitchenware. And I don’t see a use for a second garlic press, but I’m open to hearing one
That’s some chinesium level shit right there XD I wouldn’t want that crap either.
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My parents gave me one of those 2023 Guinness World Record book. I appreciate the gesture, but it screams “we didn’t know what to get you, and there were a pallet of 'em at Costco”. I can see the book’s appeal for a child or teenager but I’M 37.
I’ll be re-gifting it to my father in-law 😎 I’m 100% sure he’ll love it.
Good pooping entertainment
I’m the same age and I like browsing those when doing idle things like eating or pooping
Ah, so you don’t know what to get your father in-law.
Better give it to him soon. 2023 is quickly being forgotten.
But not forgiven
Weird that your father-in-law is a teenager.
Not trash, just returned to the shop. HP Smart Tank 580 printer.
Good call lmao, #FuckHP
AMEN. HP used to innovate technology. Nowadays they innovate new ways to fuck their customers around.
I like the hp-48 calculator
Only thing in all of these posts that deserves to be trashed.
The Canon version of that has been good for me. No subscription or anything, just fillable ink tanks.
Wow that’s a big gift! Do you have a different preferred solution for printing?
Not really preferred, but I do have a printer already. A 20 years old HP PSC 1315. It still works, and I don’t even know how after my USB port replacement attempt which was also my first soldering attempt, and it ended terribly. But, it does seem to make a connection, so it works for now. I didn’t know what flux is, and I used the highest temperature, 520°C. As I said, no idea how it works, but it’s been like that for over 2 years.
It’s not perfect, but it works. It only has partial support by HPLIP, so to print in high DPI I need to use a Windows 7 VM with the drivers. That then takes 20 minutes per A4 page. The colors are quite poor and it has quite large borders. If scanning anything with color, I need to play with contrast and saturation in Scan2PDF, otherwise most colors are just invisible.
On the plus side, I found an app called NokoPrint that allows me to print from Android phone using this printer via USB.So yeah, that smart tank would have been much better, but there would also be extra e-waste. I can deal with this printer. Actually, I got this from e-waste, so I even saved some. Also, they took it with extended warranty and some insurance, making it €207!!! I don’t want such an expensive gift.
Far be it from me to get in the way of your self-imposed suffering.
My neighbour gave me a TV. To be precise, he rushed it to me unannounced at the exact moment I was leaving to go to a party. I accepted as quickly as I could in an effort to still make my train.
It turns out it’s about 15 years old and I have no use for it. He’s a lovely man but I intend to post it as free to a good home then drop it at an e-recycling station if nobody is interested.
Is it a CRT? Big giant tube tv? They can fetch decent prices.
Nope, just an LCD. It’ll make you feel old but 15 years ago CRTs had already lost majority market share. Sony shut down its last CRT manufacturing plants in 2008.
I know, I’d kill to hear that sweet degaussing zap again.
My grandmother got me some uranium because she knows I’m into reactors. I didn’t have the heart to tell her she got scammed & it was all depleted.
Lol so you threw it in the trash? 😹
It’s a made-up story. Depleted uranium is a byproduct of uranium enrichment and places that do uranium enrichment aren’t even going to talk to you unless you have a host of government licenses. Depleted uranium only has a few applications like:
- Armor penetrating munitions
- Counterweights for aeronautics
- Ironically, as radiation shielding
This makes it very hard for collectors to obtain (it can take people years) and actual samples of DU are going to be more expense than regular uranium. The story makes as much sense as your grandmother buying cubic zirconia jewelry and being “scammed” with actual diamonds.
Well, the DU could have been scavenged from spent munitions a warzone after it had obliterated something.
Nah, he threw it on the ground. DUH!
That’s not my dad!
That’s a cell phone!
Thank goodness… I feel in good company on this site age-wise, then I’ll drop what I think is an obvious one and crickets
woosh
Yeah I feel like this is some kind of reference I’m missing
Can a man truly be wooshed when he doesn’t possess the required knowledge in the first place? I say not. This is an unjust woosh.
I rarely throw gifts away, if I don’t like them, I try to donate them to an organization or individual.
However, many years ago, someone got me “snow paint” which was, I’m pretty sure, literally just food coloring. You were supposed to use it to color in snow sculptures but I’m pretty sure that one found its way to the trash.
😂
The slinky my middle child got didn’t even survive the day.
Has anyone had a slinky that survived more than a week?
The plastic ones never do, but I had a steel one growing up i played with a lot tyat lasted me a decade.
I remember growing up with several slinkies around that we didn’t play with and therefore they lasted
Alcohol bottles (were full, now empty and in recycling, not trash)
Hooray for recycling!
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There is a thing called marriage counseling, put that on your wishlist
Let her fuck it up. It’s XL, you can sand and refinish. It’s also just a board. You replaced the old tool due to mistakes probably made by both of you over time, intentionally or accidentally. In 1 year the new board will have similar scars, and the trivial nature of said scars will also haunt your own memories of past strife taken too seriously.
Spoken from personal exp
We can’t tell how OP broached the topic with their wife, so maybe they came across as condescending and accusatory, but I see nothing wrong with taking the old cutting board as the lesson learned and trying to do better at taking care of the new one.
Sounds like OP is prioritizing their relationship over the piece of kitchenware, but let them vent over it a bit! Definitely an overreaction on the wife’s part.
Nows your chance to upgrade to a hardwood board with no maintenance requirements. Eliminate strife on both ends.
Be aware the delete function doesn’t.
We have an old bamboo cutting board that my wife bought and it’s been through Hell. It also bears no known emotional or sentimental value (which we’ll get to). Now, it’s all scarred up and soaked in all the odors and stains from years of abuse and neglect. It was also too small, and I always wished it was bigger.
I received a new, XL bamboo cutting board, which was at the top of my wishlist. It was perfect! I bought a fancy oil for it and everything. Then, I tried to lay down some ground rules with the wife for proper use and care of the board to prolong its usefulness by years.
My wife took it as a personal attack that everything she does is wrong. The replacement of the old board was emotionally taken as a replacement of some part of her. Then, she cried. The matter remains unresolved and the board will eventually make its way to either the trash or a new home because it’s now associated with some level of perceived scorn. All I wanted was something nice and to keep it nice. Fuck me, right?
Now, I want to cry.
It’s related to something else. Unless a fear of large cutting boards is involved.
It always is, isn’t it?!
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Those damn onions. Ruining the cutting board!
Why do this?
Awareness is better as ignorance. The workaround is to edit first, then delete.
Always the combination lemmy.world + some shit like ‘the wife’ … guys you have heard that your partners are actual persons, not some abstract, always present, overly emotionally behaved construct like ‘the wife’?
Mine is also at times very unrational.
lemm.ee is lemmy.world’s mysogynist bro in spirit, I know. Guys you are aware that y’all can get divorces and turn gay, right?
What will my mom say. O never mind… She’ll probably be happy for me. What will the people on the street think? (like I care) errrrrr I’m deleting this comment (lemmy doesn’t let you delete comments at all…)
I think I accidentally threw away a Starbucks gift card someone gave me, because I’ve been unable to locate it since Christmas :(
EDIT: LMFAO the mods removed my reply to the Scrooge below me because I said “I hope you get coal next year” XD
My partners job gave him a couple of the keg gift cards one year, it was over $100 value. We held on to them for a special occasion. We moved, it was my birthday, made plans with friends and excited to get steak paid for by his shitty employee.
Those fucking gift cards have never shown up again. Just gone into the void.
Haha wow! They also removed the one where they accused you of insulting people and the continued with a paragraph of insults towards you.
Oh, they finally removed that? Wow indeed. I didn’t find anything report-worthy, but hey
Real friends don’t let friends drink shitty coffee.
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Even if you didn’t like their coffee, they sell like candy and sandwiches and mugs and stuff? That’s not a useless gift card and I’m sorry you lost it!
Thanks. Honestly, I do like their coffee. I don’t really like them as a company, but I’m not going to turn up my nose at a gift. Maybe it will turn up!
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You are such a nice person. I said I hope you get coal, and … that was too much for you?? LMAO
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do me next!!
I hope the socks you got for Christmas keep falling down to your ankles when you walk
(Oof, I know that was harsh)
I was hoping for a block but I’m afraid your curse worked and now I need to know how u did that.
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Candy wrappers because I ate the candy.
