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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.

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[-] 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 10 months ago
[-] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah, back in the days before smartphones the Guinness Book was a bathroom staple, along with several volumes of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

Ah, so you don't know what to get your father in-law.

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I’m the same age and I like browsing those when doing idle things like eating or pooping

[-] radix@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Better give it to him soon. 2023 is quickly being forgotten.

[-] NotSpez@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

But not forgiven

[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Weird that your father-in-law is a teenager.

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