Do you buy “just in case gifts”?
Just in case someone turns up?
Or do you buy gifts with noone in mind to give it to, just because you like it?
Over the years I have done this and sometimes have ended up with a stock of ungiven things. Some do come in handy but some sit there for years. Last year I wrapped several items up and put them under the charity trees at the shopping centre.
At the moment I have a doll jewellery stand, a makeup bag, several pretty frames, cups and saucers, candle holders, Christmas bottle stoppers and probably more I’ve forgotten about. Most of which were bought at bargain prices over the years.
Some of them are already wrapped.
I definitely buy just-in-case gifts. I hate to not have something for someone who gets me a gift. I wrap them and put a blank tag on them, and I keep a pencil right next to them! (Not a pen, because the wet ink would be a giveaway that I just wrote it!) I usually get a nice bottle of wine, a martini shaker, a book of short stories, or some nice candles as my just-in-case gift.
