Return Season
Tue, December 29 2009
If you listen to the media, you imagine that the days just after Christmas are full of shoppers rushing to malls and big box stores to return gifts that just don’t quite cut it – whether it’s a tacky Christmas sweater or something only 10 sizes too big (or small), a duplicate gift or something entirely off the wall.. Folks stuff them back in the packages for gift cards and cold hard cash to use on things they really wanted in the first place and I expect the stores know this well enough; even the sparse shopping we did resulted in us getting discounts or things like concerta coupon for December 26 to the beginning of January.
I don’t actually think I’ve ever returned a gift in the days immediately after Christmas. I can only remember returning one once, and it was months after. I’ve had a lot of gifts I don’t like but perhaps they were not returnable or I simply tossed or gave them away (sometimes after years).
Do you brave the crowds to return things?
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I'm Cole, a 20 something female newely returned to Central Wisconsin after my divorce. I review products in my free time. I also enjoy reading (fantasy), TV and movies (sci fi), music (mainly rock and metal), maintaining my numerous websites, chatting, and spending time with my friends and kitties... 
i have a lot of relatives who buy me presents that i know i would never use in a million years. i don’t return them, though. i’d have to hurt the person by admitting i didn’t like what they gave me, which feels mean. i feel bad that i’m wasting their money, but normally i either give the item to someone else, let it sit in my house somewhere, or try to re-purpose it into something else. if someone included the reciept with the gift i might return it, but most of my family are the “don’t let them know how much you paid” type of people.