Which causes frustration
The Germans are most annoyed about these Christmas presents
Christmas presents don’t always meet the taste of the recipient. A survey shows which presents most often cause frustration under the Christmas tree.
Of course, gifts are not the most important thing at Christmas. It’s about conviviality, contemplation and so on. But of course it’s still nice when there are a few glittering packages under the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. However, the gift-giving often ends with a good deal of disappointment, according to a current online survey commissioned by the classifieds portal. According to this, four out of ten Germans were dissatisfied with at least one Christmas present last year.
For the online survey, YouGov surveyed more than 2,000 people, of which more than 800 reported disappointing gifts. The follow-up question about which gift wasn’t well received resulted in some very special flop categories.
Christmas presents: Be careful with sweets and clothes
Those surveyed were most often disappointed by gifts of sweets, food or delicacies – 27 percent of those dissatisfied would have been more happy about something else. Clothing and accessories also seem to be a difficult thing; gifts from this category were described as a flop by 25 percent of dissatisfied people. The other places on the unpopularity scale were care and cosmetic products (22 percent), decorative items (18 percent) and books (17 percent).
It cannot be concluded from the survey that it is better not to give these things as gifts. Maybe similar categories would end up at the top when asked about your favorite gift. But at least some caution is required here when making your selection. This is also shown by the question of the reasons for the disappointment.
The financial aspect played only a minor role here. Only ten percent of the dissatisfied respondents cited the monetary value of the gift as the reason. Disappointment was much more common when the gift did not suit the recipient, the person giving the gift had, in the eyes of the recipient, put little effort or thought into it, or the recipient simply had no use for the gift.
By the way: According to the survey, the in-laws are not the main cause of bad gifts. Friends were most often wrong, followed by their own parents and their partner. Only then do the in-laws come on a par with the grandparents.
Source: Stern
