With some gifts, it seems like they just don’t know you at all. Yes, it’s the ‘thought that counts’ and all that nonsense, but when we take stock of our festive gift haul, among all those well-meant presents are those that somehow missed the mark.
Of course, in days before the dual wonders and horrors of the internet, this unloved stuff would, as a rule, be banished to a drawer and long forgotten, only to be fished out years later and regifted. Potentially back to the person who gave it to you in the first place.
