As a teen, getting into guns, shooting and reloading, Santa gave me some shooting related gifts, I remember one year it was a can of IMR 4320. Pretty sure "Santa" listened to what my Dad suggested....
When I got older and started a family of my own, I put in place the gently rule, please do NOT get Dad (me) gun/reloading stuff for gifts. Because back in those early days, it was almost a certainty that well meant gifts of "gun stuff" would be the wrong stuff for what I had. In late years, with my collection expanded to cover a much broader range of calibers and things. it would be more likely that what ever I got would be useful, but by then, our tradition was long established. Dad gets the gun stuff himself, so he gets the right stuff.
One year when it was new and popular I got three (3) sets of the VCR tapes for that historically bad movie, Pearl Harbor. One from "Santa", and one from a nephew, and one from another extended family member, because of my interest in history, they felt it was something I would enjoy. They were right, in principle. Down side was I got 3 copies of a move who's only correct historical fact was that the Japanese did attack Pearl Harbor on Dec 7 1941. Nearly everything else in that particular movie is Hollywood fantasy, They did mean well, though.
