Vent: Be cognizant of how you approach people for gifts.
This post is not for everyone. It’s for the 5-10% of people I see who seem to think that they are entitled to gifts for whatever reason.
I have recently been getting more and more people approaching me for gifts just out of the blue in pretty aggressive ways for the Finch community. I also have people trying to make me feel bad when I say no. And it’s not just me. I see it happening to a lot of people. If you just happen to mention that you are a gifter you will usually have several people lining up asking you in a joking or nonjoking way to gift them something.
No one is entitled to anything on here. If you approach me in a positive way you will be way more likely to join my tree than if you act like you deserve something for free or try to make me feel guilty.
The other day, for whatever reason, I was approached by several on one of my posts. Further down a girl was talking about how she had wanted a plushie and what she had been doing to save up for it. She didn’t ask for one. I gifted her right then - a plushie. And she’s in my tree and I keep gifting her things because I like her work ethic.
I’ve worked for everything I have here. I’ve only been gifted one thing. I didn’t get a plushie until 10 months in so I don’t feel bad if you have been here 1 month “already” without a plushie. But I have given babies plushies because I liked something they wrote or a post that they posted.
Again, this post is not for the VAST majority of you. But there are enough of you who need to hear it that I finally wrote it.
This post is not for everyone. It’s for the 5-10% of people I see who seem to think that they are entitled to gifts for whatever reason.
I have recently been getting more and more people approaching me for gifts just out of the blue in pretty aggressive ways for the Finch community. I also have people trying to make me feel bad when I say no. And it’s not just me. I see it happening to a lot of people. If you just happen to mention that you are a gifter you will usually have several people lining up asking you in a joking or nonjoking way to gift them something.
No one is entitled to anything on here. If you approach me in a positive way you will be way more likely to join my tree than if you act like you deserve something for free or try to make me feel guilty.
The other day, for whatever reason, I was approached by several on one of my posts. Further down a girl was talking about how she had wanted a plushie and what she had been doing to save up for it. She didn’t ask for one. I gifted her right then - a plushie. And she’s in my tree and I keep gifting her things because I like her work ethic.
I’ve worked for everything I have here. I’ve only been gifted one thing. I didn’t get a plushie until 10 months in so I don’t feel bad if you have been here 1 month “already” without a plushie. But I have given babies plushies because I liked something they wrote or a post that they posted.
Again, this post is not for the VAST majority of you. But there are enough of you who need to hear it that I finally wrote it.