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The Minimalists

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How Do You Get Your Family to Give You Gifts?

Meredith asked what if I went to your living room and just dumped a big pile of trash in there and I was like here you go Merry Christmas. If someone is disrespecting your boundaries if they are going out of their way to not support you it's easy to look at that and say well if it was trash I would get it out of my house as soon as possible but we're talking about trash. You don't have to be mean about it you can show compassion and still say no thank you for the gift. Malabama: Is there some other way that you can get them to hear you without being rude without being unkind?

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