For me, there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke, and one toy for my kids that was a huge sparkly styrofoam mess waiting to happen, so I threw it out rather than curse anyone else with it.

  • @robojeb
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    My sister gave us some diapers for our newborn. Already pooped her way through them.

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      Congratulations! …about the newborn, not the amount of poop (though that’s also a good sign!)

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      Oh yes, we all remember that well established in the bible parable about Jesus dragging a pine tree into his house in a dessertic weather town for his birthday party every year and how mad Mary and Josef were when it started to rot in February because Jesus just refused to take it out.

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      The tree comes from the pagan solstice celebrations

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      • Justas🇱🇹
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        Yep, from Rome to Rīga, they used to mark the death of nature with plants that refuse to die. Later, they started decorating them to symbolise the blossoming or the harvest of the year’s last feast.

        Source: school education from the last pagans of Europe.

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    Bottle of scotch. It is in the trash because I have finished it.

      • slazer2au
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        It shall be, haven’t need to the shop yet to deposit it in the glass receptical.

  • @cmbabul
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    Christian devotional book from my aunt, I’ve straight told her I don’t read or want them but she keeps doing it

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    there were several dollar store trinkets that already broke,

    My kids got two or three items each that promptly broke. Into the garbage they go.

    I hate the dollar store so much. It’s a waste of money and an environmental train wreck.

    • @UsernameblankfaceOP
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      Not to mention the way the cheap labor works that gets those things made.

    • @Tikiporch
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      They do have some of the smaller Lego sets, which is the only toy I’ll buy as a last minute gift there.

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        Lego gets a special dispensation. It lasts (unlike some of the knockoffs) and it’s a nice creative toy for kids. And adults.

      • @[email protected]
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        we got a family-wide present of two lego sets, one bonsai tree and one bouquet of flowers, honestly really good.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      And sketchy. Who knows if any particular batch of any particular product was made to safety or quality standards.

      • gordon
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        Actually they are all the same, and none of them are, that’s why they are all the same. The plan was made before fire codes required updated sprinkler systems or something and since they keep reusing the same plans they all are fire hazards.

        A fire fighter buddy of mine was ranting one night and I caught the tail end of the discussion.

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          I feel like I’m catching the tail end of this discussion. Is this thread still about dollar store products? What plan do you mean?

            • @Buddahriffic
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              Oh ok, that makes sense. Thought he might have meant that at first but second guessed because I only see them in strip malls or other buildings they didn’t build themselves these days but thinking about the aisles does make me think fire hazard now. At least they usually keep the lighters by the cash, though I wonder if someone learned that one the hard way.

  • @dirtySourdough
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    I mentioned to a family member how much I like my garlic press. I then received a garlic press for Christmas and will certainly be regifting it.

    • @[email protected]
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      Is your family member Google Ad Sense?

      “I see you spent a week researching PSUs for your computer and I see that you finally bought one. Would you like to buy a PSU? because even though we know you bought one we’ll be showing you nothing but ads for PSUs for the foreseeable future.”

      • @A_Random_Idiot
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        Its really bad when you’re in your living room talking about PSUs, then all of a sudden the only adds you see online are about PSU’s.

        • @Buddahriffic
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          Yeah, I’d be all like, “wtf happened to my ad blocker!?”

          Speaking of which, if you talk about ad blockers in your living room, do you get ads for those?

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          Why have you not violently disposed of your “smart” electronics that apparently permanently monitor you for amazons profit?

      • tech
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        Ad Sense doesn’t know you’ve made your purchase.

    • Apathy Tree
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      What kind do you have?

      I have an ancient one, probably my great grandmothers, and the garlic just gets smashed into the square-but-actually-round holes and it’s impossible to get most of it out.

      Mostly it makes smashed garlic, which I can do with a knife much more easily…

      • @Mr_Blott
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        I got an Oxo Good Grips one for my Christmas this year and I think it’s the last press I’ll ever need

        • @Usually_Lurker
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          Pampered Chef also makes a very nice one. Usually pampered chef is terribly overpriced but they do have a few high quality gems in the catalog.

          • @Mr_Blott
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            Yeah I saw those but they were stupidly overpriced like every they do . The Oxo ones were about €30, amazing price for a BIFL item

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            It’s not one piece. It looks like one piece but the rubber handles eventually separate. The past couple of years I have used it without the rubber handle covers.

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          It will last about 5 years. I have one. The rubber handles fall off and the chrome plating peels.

          • @Mr_Blott
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            It does say not to put them in a dishwasher or that’ll happen

        • @hinterlufer
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          Pressed garlic has a much more intense flavor. For a stew or most cooked stuff I would squash and chop it, for sauces or garlic oil I prefer pressed.

          It’s also much faster as you don’t have to peel it and if you wash the press right away it’s just as fast as washing a knife.

          • SanguinePar
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            It has literally never occurred to me that there’s no need to peel garlic if it’s going in a press. I feel dumb now.

        • @smort
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          Sometimes you want it pressed rather than chopped

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              Knife works better, since it’s a flat surface. A spoon would push it to the side instead of crushing evenly. Mortar and pestle is overkill unless you’ve got a lot of garlic to press.

    • umulu
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      Regifting it because you don’t need a second one? Or because the one gifted to you is of lower quality?

      • @dirtySourdough
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        Both. I bought one from this brand before and it rusted after the first use. I’ll admit I may not have washed it properly, but that’s not something I expect from my kitchenware. And I don’t see a use for a second garlic press, but I’m open to hearing one

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          That’s some chinesium level shit right there XD I wouldn’t want that crap either.

  • @5PACEBAR
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    My parents gave me one of those 2023 Guinness World Record book. I appreciate the gesture, but it screams “we didn’t know what to get you, and there were a pallet of 'em at Costco”. I can see the book’s appeal for a child or teenager but I’M 37.

    I’ll be re-gifting it to my father in-law 😎 I’m 100% sure he’ll love it.

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      Good pooping entertainment

      • @[email protected]
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        Yeah, back in the days before smartphones the Guinness Book was a bathroom staple, along with several volumes of Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers.

    • @thorbot
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      I’m the same age and I like browsing those when doing idle things like eating or pooping

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      Better give it to him soon. 2023 is quickly being forgotten.

    • @Chobbes
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      Weird that your father-in-law is a teenager.

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    At the other end of the spectrum: My wife and I made a minimal gifts pact. We each got each other minor crap we needed for around the house. It was perfect. No waste. No extravagance. Just stuff we were going to get anyway.

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      Just don’t gift anything and enjoy a peaceful evening? Why does one need a special day to gift anyway?
      My family did it and it was honestly amazing (obviously kids should get something if possible).

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        Just don’t gift anything and enjoy a peaceful evening? Why does one need a special day to gift anyway?

        We haven’t made it that far yet. I imagine/hope we will eventually.

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        As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, in Iceland they buy each other books and on Christmas Eve they open the books and everyone sits around reading them.

    • @Awesome357
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      We always get stuff for the kids and the nieces/nephews, and our moms. But we haven’t gotten a gift for each other in years now. We both buy something if we want it bad enough throughout the year, and it’s both of our money anyway, so what’s the point? We will some years get a “household gift” that’s something we need or everyone can benefit from, that shouldn’t go to just one kid or "you two share this and try not to fight over it, or that they will care less about. Nice air fryer one year, Nintendo switch another, etc. But nothing really needed or wanted this year so we’ll probably just take a pass.

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          True, but for our family Xmas isn’t totally over yet.

    • @UsernameblankfaceOP
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      That is a great agreement. All the Christmas with none of the waste

    • @[email protected]
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      this is how my family has it set up too, everyone writes a list of some reasonable stuff they’d quite like to get anyways and we just pick a thing from each list while coordinating with each other to not duplicate anything.

      Works brilliantly.

    • @cm0002
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      Good call lmao, #FuckHP

      • @mojofrododojo
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        My first laser printer was an HP Laser Jet MP5 that my boss threw away because ‘it was noisy’. Workhorse beast printed easily another 15,000 pages before I replaced it with a color laser from Brother. That beast (purchased in 2013) has gone through 3 toner carts for CYMK, and printed high res great output in glorious color for over a decade now.

        Moral of the story: HP wasn’t always garbage, but they certainly are today; Brother makes a damn good printer.

        • @RampantParanoia2365
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          Oh yeah, in college I bought an HP color ink jet that lasted probably 2 decades. No bullshit, it just printed stuff, and it was fantastic.

      • u/lukmly013 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        I currently have a printer, also HP, but an old one (20 years).

        When I’ll finally need a new printer, I’ll be deciding between HP and Brother. I am not sure about Linux support with Brother printers. I heard it’s great, but I need to search more. I know HPLIP works well, but I also heard these new HP printers don’t last long. Then there’s also the thing called HP+ (not to be confused with Instant Ink) that many of those printers have, which REQUIRES HP account AND a connection to internet.

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          Linux user here, can confirm a Brother multifunction laser printer/scanner monster from around five years ago works flawlessly and painlessly out of the box with multiple Debian derivatives.

          Also the first toner I bought with it is still sealed in its box because the free starter toner which came with the printer still hasn’t run down. I’m never going back to inkjets!

          • @cyberpunk007
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            My 2 year old brother (all in one, not a human) same story. Works great with Linux. Better than my hp, even.

        • @cyberpunk007
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          Recently went through this, did not continue with hp and went brother, couldn’t be happier.

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          Be a member of the Brother-hood. I have a big black multifunction Brother printer, scanner (even fax, wtf!), and it works on both Linux and Windows. Bought four years ago. It just wants a quiet corner and a wifi connection. I think it’d even print from my Android phone if I tickled it a little, but can’t be arsed now. It’s happy with cheapo ink as well. It also cleans itself and has survived in a definitely-not-an-office environment. If it makes another year I’ll give it a pet name, it deserves one!

        • Zerlyna
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          I have had three Brother lasers since 2006 and they are workhorses. Can’t help with the Linux question.

          • @vxx
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            Why did you get 3 printers in 17 years, did they break or anything?

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              Two were for work. One I have at home.

        • MeanEYE
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          HP is a nightmare, I had nothing but issues on my system with HP. Brother is no fuss no install kind of deal. It just appears ready and willing.

    • @RampantParanoia2365
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      The Canon version of that has been good for me. No subscription or anything, just fillable ink tanks.

    • MeanEYE
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      Only thing in all of these posts that deserves to be trashed.

    • @UsernameblankfaceOP
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      Wow that’s a big gift! Do you have a different preferred solution for printing?

      • u/lukmly013 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        Not really preferred, but I do have a printer already. A 20 years old HP PSC 1315. It still works, and I don’t even know how after my USB port replacement attempt which was also my first soldering attempt, and it ended terribly. But, it does seem to make a connection, so it works for now. I didn’t know what flux is, and I used the highest temperature, 520°C. As I said, no idea how it works, but it’s been like that for over 2 years.

        It’s not perfect, but it works. It only has partial support by HPLIP, so to print in high DPI I need to use a Windows 7 VM with the drivers. That then takes 20 minutes per A4 page. The colors are quite poor and it has quite large borders. If scanning anything with color, I need to play with contrast and saturation in Scan2PDF, otherwise most colors are just invisible.
        On the plus side, I found an app called NokoPrint that allows me to print from Android phone using this printer via USB.

        So yeah, that smart tank would have been much better, but there would also be extra e-waste. I can deal with this printer. Actually, I got this from e-waste, so I even saved some. Also, they took it with extended warranty and some insurance, making it €207!!! I don’t want such an expensive gift.

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          Far be it from me to get in the way of your self-imposed suffering.

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    My neighbour gave me a TV. To be precise, he rushed it to me unannounced at the exact moment I was leaving to go to a party. I accepted as quickly as I could in an effort to still make my train.

    It turns out it’s about 15 years old and I have no use for it. He’s a lovely man but I intend to post it as free to a good home then drop it at an e-recycling station if nobody is interested.

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      Is it a CRT? Big giant tube tv? They can fetch decent prices.

      • soli
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        Nope, just an LCD. It’ll make you feel old but 15 years ago CRTs had already lost majority market share. Sony shut down its last CRT manufacturing plants in 2008.

        I know, I’d kill to hear that sweet degaussing zap again.

  • @nikosey
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    My grandmother got me some uranium because she knows I’m into reactors. I didn’t have the heart to tell her she got scammed & it was all depleted.

    • @mvirts
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      Lol so you threw it in the trash? 😹

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        It’s a made-up story. Depleted uranium is a byproduct of uranium enrichment and places that do uranium enrichment aren’t even going to talk to you unless you have a host of government licenses. Depleted uranium only has a few applications like:

        • Armor penetrating munitions
        • Counterweights for aeronautics
        • Ironically, as radiation shielding

        This makes it very hard for collectors to obtain (it can take people years) and actual samples of DU are going to be more expense than regular uranium. The story makes as much sense as your grandmother buying cubic zirconia jewelry and being “scammed” with actual diamonds.

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          Well, the DU could have been scavenged from spent munitions a warzone after it had obliterated something.

            • @blazeknave
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              Thank goodness… I feel in good company on this site age-wise, then I’ll drop what I think is an obvious one and crickets

        • @mvirts
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          Yeah I feel like this is some kind of reference I’m missing

          • @[email protected]
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            Can a man truly be wooshed when he doesn’t possess the required knowledge in the first place? I say not. This is an unjust woosh.

            • Abird
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              NAY I SAY! This man cannot be wooshed for such a folley! Truly unjust, as you say.

  • @SpliceVW
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    The slinky my middle child got didn’t even survive the day.

    Has anyone had a slinky that survived more than a week?

    • @Unlearned9545
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      The plastic ones never do, but I had a steel one growing up i played with a lot tyat lasted me a decade.

    • @[email protected]
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      When my kids play with slinkies, they’re destroyed within a day.

      To clarify: the slinkie is destroyed. The children remain unchanged.

    • @UsernameblankfaceOP
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      I remember growing up with several slinkies around that we didn’t play with and therefore they lasted

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      Let her fuck it up. It’s XL, you can sand and refinish. It’s also just a board. You replaced the old tool due to mistakes probably made by both of you over time, intentionally or accidentally. In 1 year the new board will have similar scars, and the trivial nature of said scars will also haunt your own memories of past strife taken too seriously.

      Spoken from personal exp

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        We can’t tell how OP broached the topic with their wife, so maybe they came across as condescending and accusatory, but I see nothing wrong with taking the old cutting board as the lesson learned and trying to do better at taking care of the new one.

        Sounds like OP is prioritizing their relationship over the piece of kitchenware, but let them vent over it a bit! Definitely an overreaction on the wife’s part.

    • KinNectar
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      Nows your chance to upgrade to a hardwood board with no maintenance requirements. Eliminate strife on both ends.

    • @[email protected]
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      We have an old bamboo cutting board that my wife bought and it’s been through Hell. It also bears no known emotional or sentimental value (which we’ll get to). Now, it’s all scarred up and soaked in all the odors and stains from years of abuse and neglect. It was also too small, and I always wished it was bigger.

      I received a new, XL bamboo cutting board, which was at the top of my wishlist. It was perfect! I bought a fancy oil for it and everything. Then, I tried to lay down some ground rules with the wife for proper use and care of the board to prolong its usefulness by years.

      My wife took it as a personal attack that everything she does is wrong. The replacement of the old board was emotionally taken as a replacement of some part of her. Then, she cried. The matter remains unresolved and the board will eventually make its way to either the trash or a new home because it’s now associated with some level of perceived scorn. All I wanted was something nice and to keep it nice. Fuck me, right?

      Now, I want to cry.

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      Always the combination lemmy.world + some shit like ‘the wife’ … guys you have heard that your partners are actual persons, not some abstract, always present, overly emotionally behaved construct like ‘the wife’?

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          lemm.ee is lemmy.world’s mysogynist bro in spirit, I know. Guys you are aware that y’all can get divorces and turn gay, right?

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            What will my mom say. O never mind… She’ll probably be happy for me. What will the people on the street think? (like I care) errrrrr I’m deleting this comment (lemmy doesn’t let you delete comments at all…)

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    I rarely throw gifts away, if I don’t like them, I try to donate them to an organization or individual.

    However, many years ago, someone got me “snow paint” which was, I’m pretty sure, literally just food coloring. You were supposed to use it to color in snow sculptures but I’m pretty sure that one found its way to the trash.