@nat a couple of years ago, I was a salesbunny in a store. It was a big store, and I was in the tech section. When Christmas arrived, I had people coming towards me, very obviously emotionally distressed, asking me to find something to gift.

I started to notice the same pattern repeating over and over again: people putting an immense strain on their mental health and their budget, because they felt like they absolutely needed to find something. To the point of just giving that up to me, a stranger in a store, saying they didn't know what they needed or what they wanted, "just find me something cool that I can gift."

I wasn't a fan of Christmas before that. But ever since then, every time Christmas comes around, I think back to these people, how mentally exhausted they all looked. Especially women. Come to think of it, it was a lot of women. Friends, sisters, mothers. Desperate to please.

I don't want any part of this, anymore.