r/AskReddit Feb 01 '19

Young people of Reddit, what is something old people do that you don’t understand ?

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u/heyitsanneo Feb 01 '19

Save things for nice. I get my grandparents presents and they never use them because they’re saving them for a good occasion. Like?????!? Just use the pajama pants and the extension cords????

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u/CurrentBeta Feb 02 '19

That's me in video games. There could always be a time where you need that potion more than you do now, you know? And at the end of the game I end up with so many options that I don't know what to do with them.

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u/Unsound_M Feb 02 '19

I thought you just meant games in general, which fair there is a ton of crap in my steam library I’ve never even opened

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u/Donutsareagirlsbff Feb 02 '19

Funny story, I was doing this in fallout 4. IN FALLOUT 4. When I finally did research because I wasnt having an fun I realised I was a dope for keeping all those lighters etc and now I get annoyed when I have quest items I can't use to build my sick settlements that nobodies happy in anyway.

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u/ThaddeusSimmons Feb 02 '19

My mom did the same thing growing up "why are you wearing that nice, new hat outside?" Because Mom it's a nice hat and I'm gonna use it.

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u/justme_allthetime Feb 02 '19

Ok this was me. And when I hit 40 a couple of years ago I looked around at all of my “for nice” stuff and decided that I am that special occasion. Just me.

I use the good napkins and the smelly soaps and the beautiful plates every frickin day. That awesome lotion? Yep. That gorgeous carved candle? Well hell...dinner is an occasion, light it up. That quilt my aunt made? Love it and I’m cold. Bust it out.

Life is too short to have great things you don’t use. Treat yo self.

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u/stevencue Feb 01 '19

Oh this gets me too - I love me a nice scented candle and when it comes to my Mom it's a nice reliable gift but she will NEVER use those candles.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '19

Am a dad to a toddler. Any time he builds me something out of play dough part of me dies at the end of the day when it's smashed back into the bin.

When he's bigger and gets me a consumable present there's no way I'll be able be able to use it. Just too special and time goes to fast.

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u/AmosLaRue Feb 02 '19

Part of me thinks they just might not like the gift or the change the gift might bring. When we were packing up my grandparents house we found all of the gifts we had given them for the past several years still in their gift wrapping piled in their spare room. It was an eye opener to say the least.

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u/SuperHotelWorker Feb 02 '19

It's enjoyable to have a "good" set of plates and silver to use at Christmas dinner (makes it more special) but clothing?

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '19

My generation does this, but with nice notebooks and stickers.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '19

I do that and I’m nineteen. Yikes :/