Which gift is not suggested to give in your country?

Hi! This is really a new "info" that i got from this posts and the replies that followed. I am amazed as well as surprised thinking about the various practices and superstitions. I am from India and I wish i could jot down all the superstitions or practices that we follow here..Lol..

I don't know of any superstitious things about presents here in our country and our place specifically also because I am not superstitious, but I would say I'd accept or give any present as long as I don't find it insulting or offensive in any way. Well, of course, at times I'd give out funny gifts as pranks or jokes to close friends or family members.

LOL. I would hate a clock for a different reason, I can't bear the sound of a ticking clock, the noise drives me crazy! When I stayed at my ex's place her and her mother had to remove all the batteries in the clocks in the room I was to sleep in as they knew how I hated ticking clocks. I don't have any clocks in my bedroom, if I need an alarm I will use my phone to wake me up. We don't have a specific gift that is not suggested in the UK, although handkerchiefs and socks are probably high on a list of unwanted presents!

In my country you are not supposed to give a knife as a present. According to the superstition you "cut off" the relationship to the person who receives the knife. If you have bought a knife for another person you can avoid the superstition if you ask the other person to buy the knife from you. We usually pay a symbolic amount like a few cents, the amount is not important, you just have to buy the knife instead of receiving it as a present. Another thing that you are not supposed to give as a present is a wallet without money. When you buy a wallet and intend to use it as a present you "have" to place some coins or a bill in the wallet before you give it away.

Well in my culture you are not supposed to give the handkerchief, Giving a handkerchief as a gift will cut off your roots. Handkerchief is a symbol that you will be parted forever. Shoes too, Shoe is a reminder of walking, and asking someone to walk means "asking someone to leave". Also sharp tools like knife. In the relationship, it's said not to give something from the fabric like clothes because you may break up soon.

I think there is nothing that is not good gifts here in our country. As long as we appreciate the gifts that was given by our loved ones then there is nothing into it. Sometimes there is annoying gifts that was always been received like picture frames, alarm clocks, displays and photo albums. But the signs of deaths or any bad luck there is no such thing like that.

In my country, we will not suggested to give handkerchief,clothes or perfume to your girlfriend or your boyfriend, because it can make your relationship will break up.. So, we sometime try to believe it, because we don't want that things happened to us, like break up..