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Originally Posted by CourtneynCarl
The best reason NOT to collect things - once you start, people see it as an invitation to give you things THEY think you would like. More times then not you end up not really liking the gift, but having to display it anyway. Nothing worse then spending your Saturday mornings dusting the ugly crap other people gave you!  |
Boy, you are NOT kidding! I happened to mention one time that I liked dolphins. This followed a trip to Sanibel Island where we saw dolphins swimming by our condo twice a day...
My in laws saw this as an opportunity to buy me every crappy dolphin figurine the dollar store carried. Their heart was in the right place so I couldn't find it in me to tell them that I only liked REAL dolphins...until last Christmas, when my MIL gave me *sigh* a queen sized faux fir dolphin comforter for our bed.