So, without needing to guess much, it’s likely going to be a shittacular Holiday Season. Everything is going to be expensive and stupid and extra scammy and shit. More so than usual (Subscribe for more uplifting messages every day delivered to your inbox. Or don’t. See if I care.)

Anyway, I cook, and make lots of homemade stuff as the season and market allows.

I just finished making 10 jars of super dill-y dill pickles, and a few of okra. Which I’m making with the plan of giving them to people I like for the holidays, as people usually love the recipe I use. I never planned on being “the pickle guy” but here we are.

Might also make some bubbly 7% ABV spiced honey wine, beer, vanilla extract, herbal bitters for coughs. We’ll see.

Just curious if anyone has any similar plans in mind and what y’all are making.

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I like the idea of giving a very specific trinket or gift to a person based on what I understand of their wants and needs.

    If I feel like that is insufficient, then I will also add cash to it, so it’s like, I was thinking of you, and I also know you were thinking of yourself, and so this is the perfect combo gift.

    Fuck your gift cards, and nobody’s getting a gift card.

    You get cold card cash, and then something that is meaningful and not onerous or painful.

    Like I have one friend that likes guns and reading and anime so I will draw them something as their gift that is anime related and then give them like 50 bucks because they’re adults and they don’t need the cash but I want them to know I’m thinking of them.

    I have another friend that really likes old scary movies, and it’s hard to find them, so I just give him cash.

    If they spend it on food, or weed, or gas, or whatever, instead of purchasing a gift for themselves, then that’s perfectly fine. You know, it is the thought that matters.