The Last Poster Wins! [v23]

[Chakramaster]

Luckyyyyy. If only I could get a nice week off. xD

That's really generous! Too bad you don't live closer cause I could get you a discount on a nice treadmill. Not all things can be fixed sometimes....and sometimes it's just easier to get a new one to replace the broken ones. That was nice of her to look after your bunnies too. Especially for nothing in return.

I still need to do a ton of shopping her. Nothing done yet like at all.

[Neo Emolga]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's toast. It's old and while it's been several years since I've used it, none of the buttons do anything. That and there were several times where it was sitting in a puddle when water got in the basement.

[Chakramaster]

Yeah water damage can do that for sure. So it's probably time that it just gets fully replaced. Probably would actually be a bit dangerous to fix up

[Noblejanobii]

Have you tried dunking it in rice?

[Chakramaster]

That's a lot of rice we're talking about here. XD

[Noblejanobii]

Costco sells giant bags I'm sure it'll be fine

[Chakramaster]

How many giant bags would that be? Maybe 10?

[Lychee]

The rice can be a gift too! Woo!
(I got a bag of rice as a housewarming present and it has served me so well!)

I'm thinking about getting my friends little enamel pins of their favorite things, but I've probably left it too late! Shipping times in Australia mean I've got to be extra prepared, and I'm totes not.
How do you all feel about people who message you and say what they'd like as a gift (or even link you to it, to be so forward!)? Sometimes I find it so helpful, and other times I find it so presumptuous!

[Noblejanobii]

I'm often stumped on what to get people so any sort of guidance is always nice. That said, it obviously depends on what the gift is. I've had people who I'm not very close with say they want something upwards of $70 and that I find is very presumptuous. I'm not even sure I'd spend that on my close friends unless it was something really cool, let along an acquaintance.

[Neo Emolga]

Generally I get stuff around the $75-$100 mark for family and $50 for close friends. It helps so much when they provide a list, because I would rather get them something I know they would like or is at least similar in theme to what's on their list as opposed to getting something that may never be taken out of the box or have its shrinkwrap taken off because they didn't really care for it.

I'll admit, I'm guilty of that too. I've gotten some gifts that are a major time investment (books) and others that I just can't use (my brother got me a board game last year but I have yet to have an opportunity to play it with other people, and it looks complicated no less).