Well intentioned Christmas givers getting on my last nerve.

A little while ago my grandmother gave me 3 lbs of homemade fudge for Christmas, 1/2 of which was peanut butter (OMG). Last week my boss's elderly mother brought me in a big snowman tub of homemade Chex Mix. My other job gave me a gift certificate to a very unhealthy bakery. During the day I work for a small law office and the building we lease space in is above a bank and the bank's branch manager gave me chocolates from an expensive local choclatier. Two of the bank tellers brought me gift bags of homemade candy. This morning I came in and there was a large gift basket of chocolates sitting on my desk from our cleaning company! And I have 5 Christmas parties this week, I'm sure there's more junk to come. I swear if I get another unhealthy piece of crap hung in front of my face while I'm trying to shed these last ten pounds I'm going to lose it!!! I know I should be grateful, thankful, blah blah blah, but it's starting to get difficult to not have "just one piece" when it's constantly being paraded in front of me. Furthermore, I don't want to insult anyone, especially work colleagues. I am bowing out of the bank's Christmas party, which is an all day buffet. I have self control and have done well, but man, no wonder people gain weight this time of year.

You know the weird thing? Everyone knows I had surgery. I've been very open about it. I know no one is being intentionally harmful, but I'm getting irritated. Ok. Done ranting. I just put the chocolates in my file cabinet and I'm locking that **** up. 

Regift them LOL

Or open them and put it in the employee lounge.

I send it all with my husband to work (I own a business, work at home)... he works at a school, he puts it in the employee lunch room and it disappears. LOL

Buhahaha, I already re-gifted the gift certificate to the bakery . They make the BEST canolli's and I knew it shouldn't remain in my possession too long! The Chex-Mix went to my kids. I freakin love that stuff, anything salty and crunchy, mmmm....

I work two different jobs so I'm pretty sure the candy/chocolates given to me at one will end up in the break room of the other one!

Yup, just GET RID OF IT! Gone, Gone, Gone!!!

What type of business do you own? I own a web design and software development company.

I own/do several things. LOL. The one that makes money is OffAssist, a bookkeeping firm - http://offassist.com - Been in business over 10 years.

I also co-founded The Virtual Assistance League (for people that work remotely, owning their own businesses, etc), so I do that for "fun" - it's a membership organization and we have a retreat coming up and all kinds of stuff. I enjoy that, so that's for fun and one day it will break even. LOL

I also do reviews at candysraves.com and video blog (well, one day I will again) at 2minuteswithava.com - those don't really make any money, but are more hobbies :)

Nice, Keith! I do freelance work on the side (full time job is at Penn State) conducting software training and creating software video tutorials. Kind of in the same family of work lol! I so wish that I had web design skills!!

Teachers eat friggin' anything I swear.  There will be the nastiest crap sitting in our lounge and somebody always eats it.  bleh!

Yup. The teachers never let me down... I just tell him "here, take this to work". LOL

Take it to the first party you go to and hand it to the hostess.

(except your grandmother's fudge, but I say that because I want it)