Vanth

Do men tend to ask for wallets as gifts? If so, it makes sense they would tend to get them as gifts then. My dad certainly did. He was very particular about brand and model, and he showed genuine appreciation when I tracked one down (especially prior to internet shopping being what it is). It made for a good gift.

AMA

What country are you in?

A hospital proactively checking your history for trends and asking you to come in for a checkup when a concerning trend is identified is not a thing that happens where I am.

Sooooo, the private school you went to in Turkey was better than public schools in the same area. That’s a lot different than saying private schools are better, full stop.

Public schools in my area have 2, 3, 5, and 6 for example, with options for equivalent trips to 1.

Tut tut, I would expect someone with a private school education to not make claims built on such specious reasoning

“Get” as in buy/make them for others or “get” as in receive them?

US based, for context. I have a large family spread all over the place. We do a Secret Santa drawing, where each person gets another’s name and buys them their gift. So everyone gets one nicer gift instead of lots of little stuff.

We get our names and start buying around now so we can take advantage of Black Friday sales. People start receiving their gifts in the mail from early December through the holidays.

For non-family, non-Secret Santa, this is also the time I start buying gifts. I keep a note on my phone through the year for gift ideas, so it’s usually pretty easy come November to buy for people.

Oh, weird. With all the Musk fanboys lately, I had entirely forgotten about Bezos boot lickers. Keep giving your money to corporations for their broken commitments, Daddy Bezos wants to launch another rocket and needs your charitable donations.

Nothing as complicated as business accounts for me, but the failure rate on deliveries has increased for me over the last ~12 months. To where if I need a thing with some urgency, I am back to finding and buying it locally because Amazon next day shipping or whatever x timeframe shipping is not reliable.

Quick shipping with reliable ETA was my main reason for paying for Prime, so I’ll let it lapse at the end of the current subscription. I certainly wasn’t paying for access to Prime video.