Gifts are one of the cornerstones of the holiday season, nestled right alongside such December novelties as Christmas music, luminous tree lightings, and long-awaited family reunions. Regardless of how much you choose to spend on your gift, the thought behind picking out the perfect present for a loved one is ample proof of how much you care for them. While most people delight at buying friends and family members gifts for the holiday, some zodiacs loathe the idea of receiving a present in person, balking whenever they’re handed a gift and encouraged to open it.
Virgo
In your mind, Virgo, if you needed a specific item such as a high-end vacuum cleaner or plush sweater, you’d simply go to the store and purchase it yourself. Seeing little rhyme or reason for the entire tradition behind gift exchanges, you can’t help but think everyone would be better off buying their gifts rather than searching for someone else’s. Through this, you’d at least be able to purchase a present that you want, instead of being saddled with a present you don’t even need.
Scorpio
You hate being the center of attention, Scorpio, growing rosy-cheeked and embarrassed whenever you’re thrust into the limelight. As an extension of this, there seems to be something almost inorganic and forced on you about the entire gift-giving tradition. It doesn’t matter how extravagant the gift you’re receiving is, you find yourself putting on a mock expression of glee every time you tear through your wrapping paper, lest you offend whoever is giving you the present in the first place.
Capricorn
You spend a decent portion of your time in the office, Capricorn, working your way toward the idyllic future you’ve long fantasized about. Having spent so many hours clocked in at your desk, by the time the holidays begin, you feel the sudden need to splurge on all your gifts, bestowing your loved ones with top-shelf presents and costly stocking stuffers. Unfortunately, because of your generous nature, you naturally express frustration whenever someone hands you a more mediocre gift in return. Feeling slighted and hurt, you don’t fully realize that not everyone is as great at gift-giving as you are, viewing every pair of tube socks and custom-made mug you receive as a direct insult made at your expense.
Pisces
You don’t necessarily hate receiving gifts, Pisces – you’re just indifferent to them. To you, material goods are meaningless commodities that have little bearing on your life or immediate circumstances. According to your pragmatic worldview, neither money, technology, nor expensive clothes will unlock the secret to blissful happiness, with true purpose and ambition coming from within.
