If they’re willing to give gift cards, and you can find a bank that lets you open multiple free accounts for one user, you could name the accounts “new deck for summer get-togethers” and “heater to cosy up inside during winter” and such, and give a list with all the accounts info when people ask for your wish-list.
People would still gift you partial payments, as with gift cards, but would gift towards an item/project rather than lock you into a specific store.
Most of the time their argument is that they want me to have something physical to open/unwrap, so bank transfers aren’t going to be any more attractive to them.
Grandparents and aunts/uncles have for generations upheld the time-honoured tradition of sending money and a card. Bank-transfer and a card should be just as good imo. Maybe they can agree to that.
If they’re willing to give gift cards, and you can find a bank that lets you open multiple free accounts for one user, you could name the accounts “new deck for summer get-togethers” and “heater to cosy up inside during winter” and such, and give a list with all the accounts info when people ask for your wish-list.
People would still gift you partial payments, as with gift cards, but would gift towards an item/project rather than lock you into a specific store.
Most of the time their argument is that they want me to have something physical to open/unwrap, so bank transfers aren’t going to be any more attractive to them.
Grandparents and aunts/uncles have for generations upheld the time-honoured tradition of sending money and a card. Bank-transfer and a card should be just as good imo. Maybe they can agree to that.