A lot of the replies to this question points to the fact that there’s no way you’d mention it without looking ungrateful but why?
What is the purpose of a gift?
Is it to make you feel good and so you can be appreciated or is it to make the receiver feel good & special ?
Thread https://twitter.com/myss_bee/status/1248284063552634882

If your aim is the latter then why are you upset when they tell you they love it but would prefer something else next time. Are you giving for the sake of giving or you want your gift to be something they’d truly like? I get d place of being grateful and saying it intelligently

But when a person now has to do plenty mental gymnastics and checking for appointed time to tell you that oh they’d have appreciated this other thing, won’t they just free.
And then when you ask them months later, they don’t even remember where they put it.

I’m just saying what I think sha, that gift giving should be about the receiver and what they’d like or need. Not what you like or for you to feel good or to fulfil an obligation...

Your thoughts?