Every year for Christmas a relative buys me a supposedly upmarket/luxury shower gel set. I dread it!
I am a strong chap with strong hands but this gel takes a LOT of squeezing to get any out of the tiny bottle to the point of being painful. Then when it does it comes out in what I can only describe as clots. I try to lather it up between my palms to no avail then when I apply it to my body it just drops off into the bath, making what should be a calming bath into a stressful ordeal!
This year there was shampoo too, it was so thick and viscous it took ages to rinse out, and I only used a bit cos I donāt have much hair on my head!
I would much rather have a nice, cheap, clean smelling shower gel that actually does the job, adheres to my skin, lathers up and rinses off easily!
you need to up your gifting game. I would start with glitter. Glitter based gifts send a strong ādont F with meā message. Next you can go with high maintenance gifts - easy to kill plants, anything sensitive to heat/cold/wet/sun/darkness. Those are extra good if you visit often because then you can ācheck upā on it frequently. Final boss is anything that requires a subscription/recurring cost/replaceable batteries. Bonus points if its a battery hog.
We accidentally bought Christmas cards that are effectively glitter bombs. Got all new cards for the people we like, now have a lifetime supply of hate cards.
I know we should be grateful for what we get but we make a list of things of various values to suit different budgets that we would like for christmas. Then relatives can choose something from the list knowing its something we really want. Hubby always gets me some surprises though.
I get a weekly grocery shop and sometimes the delivery drivers wear so much cologne. I have quite a sensitive nose (I was in a domestic fire in 2019 and I think my sense of smell has been stronger since then) so for me i end up feeling suffocated and i can taste the damn stuff. Iām a two-spritz girl, anything more than that is too much.
I very nearly glittered somebody this year. Not a full-on glitter bomb - thatās like nuking somebody festively - but more of a ā¦ āwhoops, how did that get there?ā, accidentally-on-purpose, āclumsyā glitter smudge. Itās not my fault if glitter transfers
Yes I have a very sensitive sense of taste and smell. Used a disposable wooden spoon in my hot drink at work absent mindedly until i drank it and I could taste the wood.
Also I can smell a dog treat from a distance even if my dog has hidden it!
Every year I get asked what I would like, every year I make a list and every year my lot detour off of it because itās not āpersonalā enough. I donāt want personal, I want practical - my home is too small for personal. This year I asked for garden storage/ money towards garden storage because our rat-infested shed is coming down in April, I got a candle holder and some earrings from my father-in-law. Iām not seeing Mum til tomorrow but I expect my brother has also gone completely off script.
One of my worst oneās was a mobile phone holder for the car that required drilling into the dashboard! Anyone who knows me knows I look after my cars and wouldnāt dream of defacing it, also that my phone stays in my pocket when driving. To top it off it was from C&A which had closed in the previous January!
@WillC if you want collectively and not just this year, my father-in-law once bought me a dressing gown a whole six sizes too small. I know hubby would have told him my size!
Any year! My mum was once gifted a fleece jacket with sun fading down one arm. An aunt was gifted one of those tiny hand whisks you get in a hot chocolate kit.
The ultimate one was an address book to my mum with addresses of complete strangers already in it!
Have you tried expanding the hole if itās taking too much effort to get out? Few taps with a screwdriver will likely do it regardless of how thick the product is
