Giving presents to others, sharing stuff with them.

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Do you like giving presents to other people and do you often do this? I personally, do it very often because I win stuff in online contests practically all the time And I share those things with my psychologist, my mom, my cousins and my uncle Recently for example, I gave some perfume bottle to my cousin's wife. And tomorrow the results of some contest will get announced - if I win a watch, I'm going to give it to my uncle on the occassion of his upcoming birthday And if I win a handbag in another contest tomorrow, I'll give it to my mother.

I like to bring a bouquet of flowers from my garden and maybe a baked good when I visit people.
Maybe some vegetables from the garden.

That's really kind and yeah I do like to give things to people who I like

I enjoy giving presents to people.

I usually find shopping for presents a real pain. Like, every Christmas and birthday I have to find the perfect presents AGAIN. I usually only buy for my mom, my brother and sil at Christmas now. Most people are either too hard to buy for, won't just tell you what they like, or they can just buy what they want with their own money, anyway.

Although when I do give someone a present they really like, such as my mom, I find it's worth it.

Honestly, no. I know that sounds bad, but...

Presents, in the past, have come with expectations. Certain individuals, well, assumed they could buy my love and became angry when they couldn't. When I receive unexpected gifts, there's a part of me that feels anxious. Finding a gift of equal value, it feels more like a chore that I complete... like an owed debt. I hate feeling like I owe something. I'd rather do something just to be nice, rather than feeling like I need to do it. If that makes any sense whatsoever.

My family were always weird about presents. There was always so much stress about the subject. I always worry about messing up and getting a gift wrong. Some years we wouldn't give gifts to certain family members because they were having money issues and we didn't want them to feel pressured into spending money on gifts for us, so we'd agree to not exchange presents. Then someone would unexpectedly break that rule and everyone stressed about it.

So, I tend to associate presents with stress, yelling and unhappy holidays. I leave buying gifts to the last minute because I'm a menace to myself and society.

However, I am trying to build healthier associations and really nail this whole giving gifts without having a breakdown thing. Breaking the cycle and all that.

I dont like to give presents. I dont believe in Christmas. However I do give my sibling birthday and holiday presents. I am also unemployed so I cant really afford big ticket items for holidays.

I dont like to give presents. I dont believe in Christmas. However I do give my sibling birthday and holiday presents. I am also unemployed so I cant really afford big ticket items for holidays. I dont plan on giving my future wife and kids holiday presents when I have a family.

I don't have many people to give presents too, but when a friend of my Mum's lost her Sons I sent some flowers to her, the same with a friend who lost her sister.

I won some cool things recently, ones I don't need myself too much so I'll share them with my family members soon

You're a good egg Irulan

I didn't know that English idiom and I needed to check it out

Did you like it

Yes A nice meaning. And in Polish, if you make eggs out of somebody, it means you are pulling their leg Another nice idiom.

I love that

I sometimes make eggs out of people

The net claims a good equivalent of a good egg is człowiek dusza in my language, which literally means a soul man

And the name for a person who is making eggs out of someone is jajcarz - literally an egg person - because jaja means the augumentative for eggs.