When my birthday or Christmas is nearing, I make a list of all the stuff I want to get as gifts.  Am I being presumptuous?  No, practical.  Every year I tell my boyfriend what I want because every year at least one or two of my friends will call him and ask him what they should get me.  This way, I am saving them the stress of not knowing what gift to give.

I hate getting gifts I can’t use or won’t use because it’s so not my thing.  I hate it because I’ll have to store it (it’ll immediately go into storage until the Salvation Army and I don’t have much storage space) and because someone just wasted their hard-earned money on an item that won’t be used or loved by the person they intended.  Seriously, I feel almost physical pain when someone wastes cash this way or in any way.

By the way, I do the same thing, I ask people what they want coz sometimes I just don’t get it right. Plus it gives me pleasure knowing I helped a loved-one make their desires come true.