Thinking charitably (and what is a gift exchange if not charitable), the other family may have picked out the secondhand gift as something your son would like, a unique, even considerate gesture. But maybe they’re just inconsiderate gift-givers. Such is the risk we take when giving and receiving gifts.

A “cheap,” secondhand Christmas present threatens to upend a family’s traditional gift exchange; a family’s “gay black sheep” is tired of trying to heal his

"One family just gave my son something that looks cheap and probably purchased at a secondhand store (and this isn’t the first time)."