The Worst Christmas Gifts for My Daughter (And A More Important 2025 List)

We made mistakes with money at Christmas time... and our "10 Biggest" for 2025

Dear Fellow Expat:

Mistakes were made.

Two days after Christmas, I instantly regretted the handful of gifts our family gave Amelia.

Today, I want to briefly count those down… before getting to a more critical list of the markets for 2025… (Our “10 Biggest” Market Thoughts for 2025.)

Let’s get to it.

Worst Gift No. 5 - Pop It Electronic Game

We didn’t get this one for her.

So, thank you to whoever did this to us.

This is a memory game, I think.

No clue. We’ve smartly ensured that there are no batteries in the house, so we don’t have to listen to it. This looks like it makes a lot of beeping sounds, and the box says it has a speaker, which makes me very cautious.

Without batteries, it only makes clicking and snapping sounds.

It sounds like a device a coworker uses to calm down from their anxiety, except, it also makes everyone else in the office want to run out the window.

Kids should be playing with rocks instead of this…

This box says that it was made in China, and I believe it.

I’m worried th…