Yeah, now that her kids are grown† Mom gets frustrated around gift-giving holidays by how intensely practical everyone else in her household is, especially me (which is admittedly kind of a trauma thing, but it is what it is). She keeps being like "aren't there any books you want? games?" and I'm like "we have unlimited Internet: I have more entertainment material than I could ever possibly use".
We have mostly been compromising with emergency-preparedness stuff. For Hanukkah this year I got a LifeStraw portable water filter, a mini roll of duct tape suitable for keeping in one's bag (a pair of them, actually, since they came in two-packs), a seatbelt-cutter/window-hammer for escaping from a broken car, and the socks. For my birthday the previous month, I got a solar-powered external phone battery and (unexpectedly; as Mom's way of coping with her loving surprise gifts and everyone else hating them) a variety pack of weirdly-flavoured Kit Kats.
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†To clarify, my current household structure: A married het couple, age mid-50s (their first marriage; biological parents of:) Their 25-year-old daughter (me; has vague plans to stay and inherit the house) Their 20-year-old son (has vague plans to move out, but is currently willing to stay until we are no longer dependent on his income (we're working on it, but no firm ETA))
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You know you're an adult whenYeah, now that her kids are grown† Mom gets frustrated around gift-giving holidays by how intensely practical everyone else in her household is, especially me (which is admittedly kind of a trauma thing, but it is what it is). She keeps being like "aren't there any books you want? games?" and I'm like "we have unlimited Internet: I have more entertainment material than I could ever possibly use".
We have mostly been compromising with emergency-preparedness stuff. For Hanukkah this year I got a LifeStraw portable water filter, a mini roll of duct tape suitable for keeping in one's bag (a pair of them, actually, since they came in two-packs), a seatbelt-cutter/window-hammer for escaping from a broken car, and the socks. For my birthday the previous month, I got a solar-powered external phone battery and (unexpectedly; as Mom's way of coping with her loving surprise gifts and everyone else hating them) a variety pack of weirdly-flavoured Kit Kats.
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†To clarify, my current household structure:
A married het couple, age mid-50s (their first marriage; biological parents of:)
Their 25-year-old daughter (me; has vague plans to stay and inherit the house)
Their 20-year-old son (has vague plans to move out, but is currently willing to stay until we are no longer dependent on his income (we're working on it, but no firm ETA))