A gift seems more fitting than none. I was thinking a book
Giving a gift to an estranged sibling
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 28, 2024 2:04 PM |
Why? Don't bother
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 27, 2024 7:54 PM |
Gift cards are very simple.
But a book is more personalized if you spend some time finding a book the person would like.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 27, 2024 8:00 PM |
Huh? Unless it’s meant as an olive branch why would you give a gift if you are estranged?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 27, 2024 8:00 PM |
Only if it’s a passive aggressive book that you’re giving. Maybe something about improving their personality; or if they’re fat, a book on dieting.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 27, 2024 8:03 PM |
I’m thinking about buying all the Trumpers in my family bitcoin. That way, if it fails I can laugh and if it’s a success they will be grateful to me.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 27, 2024 8:07 PM |
Give the sibling Moby Dick. The endless chapters on pictures of whales, whale anatomy, whaling techniques and blubber thickness will have you in each others arms before you know it.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 27, 2024 8:50 PM |
I've literally never exchanged gifts with my siblings, and we get along fine.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 27, 2024 8:58 PM |
Give them Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury—about one of the most fucked-u families in literature. Plus there’s that Caddie-Quentin unconsummated incest thing to creep out your sibling.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 28, 2024 12:16 AM |
Send her a small saucer with a note: "I thought you'd appreciate something shallow."
by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 28, 2024 12:23 AM |
Fascinating thoughts, OP.
“Cooking for a friend from school I don’t really talk to anymore.
A meal seems more fitting than none. I was thinking scrambled eggs.”
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 28, 2024 12:27 AM |
A book works for me! And the idea of it for you! Where are you from? Probably there is a town historical society or elsewhere selling titles on your home town. No matter your present estrangement, a book on where you grew up would be anice.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 28, 2024 12:52 AM |
That's not a gift, that's a reminder of the estrangement by way of the passive-aggressive sibling as the "gift" giver.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 28, 2024 1:09 AM |
The gift I would give to my now dead sibling is a box of dog shit. I am sorry I never gave her this gift while she was abusing me my entire chlldhood.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 28, 2024 1:12 AM |
I donated to the care and upkeep of a goat for a year in my mom’s name. I don’t recall her thanking me for it.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 28, 2024 1:16 AM |
^^Thanks for the penetrating analysis, Captain Obvious.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 28, 2024 1:35 AM |
E7 Literally ? Are you positive it is literally ?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 28, 2024 1:35 AM |
Self-help book suggestion: "I Thought We'd Never Speak Again," by Laura Davis.
I'd send a used copy, if that.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 28, 2024 1:46 AM |
Give a weekend-getaway for two (you and sibling) where you can patch up your estrangement. Promise not to leave until everything has been aired out and you two are 'friends' again.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 28, 2024 12:44 PM |
R4, that was my thought. I was thinking “brothers karamazov”
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 28, 2024 2:03 PM |
R8, i do like that
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 28, 2024 2:04 PM |