[Brian_K_White]

"My dad gave me a gold brick. It's sooo heavy."

[bloopernova]

Those gifts listed were the few times I saw him. He didn't pay child support, so I grew up hungry. I just wanted a normal childhood.

[Brian_K_White]

What the hell does that have to do with this topic? The problem you describe, now, is totally different and it wouldn't matter what the gifts were, whether they were things most people valued or things that ended up being flops or things you liked or didn't.