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a tiny peek at Christmas economics

170K views · Dec 3, 2023 · Science & Technology

Angela Collier

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@SlyEcho · 2 years ago · pinned
When I bring this up with my wife she calls me a Grinch 😂
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@bottlezone · 10 months ago
I was once part of an office gift exchange.  A spreadsheet was used to share gift ideas.  Someone suggested an LCBO gift card (LCBO = booze retailer here in Ontario).  Suddenly everyone just wanted an LCBO gift card.  Cost limit was $20 dollars, and so literally everyone bought a $20 dollar gift card.  So we all started out in possession of 20 real dollars with the power to buy whatever we wanted, and we all ended up with 20 fake dollars that can only buy booze.  Our Christmas gift was a small interest-free loan to the LCBO.  Christmas is frickin weird.
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@NotJustBikes · 2 years ago
I'm going to send this video to everyone who gives me bicycle-themed junk for Christmas.
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@josephmiller7075 · 1 year ago
Never be a hot sauce guy. Everyone will buy you a big box with like 15 hot sauces in it. You will never finish the hot sauce
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@justintroyka8855 · 2 years ago
My parents always say I'm hard to buy gifts for because I don't want anything. I always respond that that makes me VERY EASY to buy gifts for, because they can get me NOTHING and I'll be happy. That's what I think they should have done for Kenny Malone in the podcast episode: the one thing we know for sure about Kenny Malone is that he thinks Christmas gifts are bad, so getting him nothing would show that we understand him and know what he values.
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@Matty002 · 9 months ago
in my huge mexican family christmas is about getting together. presents are secondary at best and we limit it to gifts for your immediate family to resuce costs. making it about gifts is horrible
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@tjeales · 2 years ago
“Isn’t it cute how silly little humans behave” is literally my entire discipline of Anthropology summed up.
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@G5rry · 2 years ago
The gift on the podcast of their own book was clearly the best one. She might not have said it, but I’m sure she went home thinking about how great the exposure for her book was on that episode. Plus, she earned $0.10 on royalties for that purchase.
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@dbkeenan · 9 months ago
We stopped giving gifts to adults in my extended family over a decade ago. Best thing ever.
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@CyThirtyFive · 2 years ago
My Swedish family (I'm American) all buy and wrap one gift that we would like. 1) We put them on table. 2) We sit around the table. 3) 1 person roles a dice. -) If it's a 6 you pick a gift on the table to open. -) If it's a 1 you steal a gift. 4) We move counterclockwise around the table until all the gifts are gone. The gift giving becomes secondary to the tradition but when someone does get a good gift it has a story behind it. It adds a fun version of the trading element. It also allows people to spend significantly less while still keeping in the holiday spirit.
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@bascal133 · 9 months ago
Telling someone what you want and then getting it for you is a gift because they’re giving it to you and you’re getting it for free
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@bloody_albatross · 2 years ago
"Sometimes you have 40 peoples to buy for." What? Ok, we're clearly in completely different cultures here. I have to buy for 3 people and I have already no idea what to buy.
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