Sports Team Themed Christmas Gifts

By Realist (Guest Post)

Giving gifts is NOT about you using spare time to enjoy your hobbies. The priority should be about giving people gifts that they want or will enjoy; NOT about how you can use your free time. It should not be used as some sort of opportunity for people to push for attention and praise at gatherings either.

Unless your intended recipients have all kinds of homespun knitted items in their home and wear them frequently; you already know they do not want homespun or knitted items. And unless you really want to offend people; do NOT dump homemade clothing on only the girls. Being female does NOT mean they want to wear homemade items that you believe boys would never wear.

my neices have developed quite a justified resentment of their grandmother because they get tons of not-so-great (sorry, you are NEVER as good of a crafter as you'd like to believe) homemade clothing and accessories for every holiday. Their brothers get gifts they actually want but Grandma relelntlessly tires to guilt the girls into wearing things that embarrass them and showing "proper gratitude" for receiving "gifts" they detest. It hsa even begun to affect the boys as they feel their sister's discomfort.

Scarves are super easy to make BUT how many people use them anymore? You won't be starting a "trend" by giving people a bunch of items they do not wear or seek to own.

If you persist in making gifts because YOU want to enjoy the preparation and do not care about the recipients; at least bve prepared for items to be "lost" and don;t try to add guilt on top of selfish gifting. Do NOT ask why people don;t wear your gifts either.

When was the last time you gave anyone an honest answer about a gift you had zero use for, knew was "repackaged", etc? NEVER so don't expect others to be more honest than you have been.

Gifts do NOT have to be expensive at all; just personal.

What about hats with the KK color themed to their team? It won't take long for each and you can even personalize them with duplicate stitching.