>>712746346 (OP)>family friends are new(ish) parents>say that they'd love for their children to have a Nintendo Switch for Christmas>Mom buys it for them>two years pass>ask what they play on it>"Oh, we gave it away to a friend. Our children grew bored with it."We only gave the kids basic gift cards and cash after that. We gave them nice toys and treasured hand-me-downs before that and the same thing happened to them.
A similar cycle occurs with many other people too; it's like people don't care about the value/meaning of items. If you no longer want a gift, at least offer to return it to us like we do to you (which you immediately accept).
Oh yeah, to answer the OP question:
>whatever the current fad is