Especially if it is something I have gotten before, I sing about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XYAYXM1MWw

I appreciate the thought WAY more than the gift.

My mom can't afford much but she puts a lot of thought and feeling into what she does give. I appreciate that more than I can express in words.

How would you feel if you got someone something that you were thoughtful enough to buy or make and they expressed anything but pleasure in the gift? I'd be hurt.

I have never in my life told someone I did not like what they gave and truthfully I have never NOT appreciated something thoughtful given to me.

I got a knitting kit from one of my closest friends. She didn't know that I recently tried knitting and hated it. It doesn't matter. Maybe I will use it, maybe not. She really thought I would like it and that meant something to me.

My mom gave me an oil rig music box (LMAO) but it was her mother's who she just moved into an assisted living home. It was very sentimental and I will put it nicely on display in my house because I appreciate what it represents to my mom.

I also got a ton of candy. I don't eat sugar. I said thank you and will probably pass it along to others at work. I'll enjoy giving it away to someone who will appreciate it and I wouldn't have that opportunity had it not been given to me.

Did you get some crazy gifts or something?

Well, I don't sing about the gift LOL Good ploy to get your music out there though LOL
But ANYHOO...obviously you say you like it, and hope it comes with a gift receipt, and if it doesn't regifting to someone that person doesn't know and has no chance of ever knowing is also a good idea. No reason to hurt someones feeling for giving you a gift they thought you'd like, so put on a smile and just know it was the thought that counted and it was nice and be grateful for that :)

Come on Bob. You accept the gift with gratitude. If you dont like it resort to re-gifting

Not my music -- that is Bob Rivers, who also wrote such Holiday classics as "It's the Most Fattening Time of the Year" and "Walking Round in Women's Underwear."

Bob -- just smile and say thanks.

yes I would go ahead and fib...I try to practice honesty....and in hindsite I would say I really never got a gift that I was turned off by...I think that if I did I would just graciously accept it and then find someone else who would like it more than me...not that I did not like it but as it said above the thought that counts...

Ha! I JUST got a gift I don't want and won't use -- some bubble bath and bath stuff.

But how nice of her to remember me! Makes me happy that she thought of me, and when I say "thanks, I love it," I'll mean it.

.....smile.......and regift?

I'd like to just end the practice of exchanging gifts on Christmass. It don't have anything to do with Jesus anyhow, it's just all about sending jobs to China and destroying our country... that's why I don't even like Christmass... it's just about destroying our country and teaching little kids to worship santa claus and the elfs instead of God. That would be my solution... just end gift exchanging, except for little kids... they should still get a few nice American made gifts under the tree on Christmass, and just tell'em that Jesus put the presents there, instead of santa claus

You tell the truth...how much you appreciate that they thought about you and how great that makes you feel.

Then next year you can re-gift it.

oops just saw that EZ said it better and shorter....!

I just got an early Christmas gift of sweet foods like fudge and cookies which I am not suppose to eat (Drs orders) but I accepted them gracefully and with appreciation. however, it triggered my addiction to sweets and those delicious needhams are now history! Ahh well!

I pretty much do everything suggested by you guys. I say thankyou very much and either regift or take to the Salvation Army Store. I don't really think of it as a lie because the thought of receiving something, especially something that has time involved like something handmade really means alot to me and I really do appreciate it even if I never use it!

Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!

God Bless!

bob yeah I can hear that because I am diabetic...and it has happened where I have been given candy...and I always tell them that I am diabetic but that someone else will enjoy it...then I try to give it away if I am not as tempted as a man with a sweet tooth can be...

at the company Christmas party this last week they had give away items that people were to play games to get something free to take home...they had a large container of candies like a Halloween kid would come home with....I did not partake in playing to win that or any other game beyond signing my name for the raffle of the table decorations...I felt sort of uncomfortable seeing the candy and the winner walked around after getting this trying to see if she could give it away a piece at a time...I avoided the temptation...and it is almost as bad as alcohol for me...but I do not completely abstain from sweets which I truly should if I were considering my health....

so do only what you can about the sweet tooth but the urges are there just as hard to break as alcohol...just no hang over from candy or cookies but then we could lose alot like a leg or a kidney or eyesight...maybe not you but that is my motives for staying out of the candy store....

Billy I am alot like you. I always try to avoid the temptation but sometimes I'll go on binges and eat alot of pastry or sweets and choclate stuff. Exactly like it was with alcohol only with something different. The food that seems to find it's way to me around this time of year is the one thing I hate about the Holidays. I love sweets but yet I hate sweets!

I am not diabetic but dr said my colestorol was high. Not going to control it by giving in to the sweet food urges are we?

I think overeaters anonymous is the safest place for us.

TC!

:) Clean fun lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WIvZu4dPQQ