A mixture of fecklessness, expensive drug habits and other outgoings. Though you have a point - I make the same mistake every year.
I just never know what to get people. I have one sister whom I only see a few times a year (since she left her nice boyfriend for a possessive fatty) and one whom I lost contact with until a couple of years ago, and that's it family-wise. I barely know thm really, and my lifestyle means I feel uncomfortable around the latter sister, who's very uptight and clean-living.
As for my friends, they're easier to cater for, but I asked my ex / best mate what she wants because she really deserves something special for having helped keep me alive over the past year or so.
So fuck it - she'll get posh booze or something. And probably complain and accuse me of having bought it for myself. As is her uniquely charming way.
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