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[prairiedaun]

I'm starting to work out a list of who is getting what for Christmas; early, I know, but like every year I'm trying to make more of my gifts handmade crafts/baking/random stuff that I need to start planning now. I try to do this every year, and I always end up giving up by the end. Not this year, my friends.

I do, however, have a question about handmade/homemade gifts: at what point are they no longer an expression of your love for the person, and more a statement of "I didn't want to spend any extra money on you, you horrid person"?

Comments

[aymaera.livejournal.com]

For me, it's when they take less than an hour/ are less effort than thinking of something they might like from a store. Then it's more like, I thought I should maybe give you something, but I didn't actually care.

[black-hound.livejournal.com]

I think that it depends on the person who gets the gift. Some people, no matter how much time and effort was put into a handmade gift will think they've been cheated.

*she says from personal experience*

[boulderbird.livejournal.com]

I think when they're made in less than an hour with scraps and remnants... and most importantly, if they look it.