My mother was notorious for returning Xmas gifts to the store where they were bought for exchange. You had better have your receipt handy when gifting my Mom, because she would almost certainly take it back...
An extinct gift might be something like a Velociraptor. Now that would be interesting to return, because it would savage the receiving employee!
I live a few hundred miles south of you, in PA. And I agree with you, the winters are a lot milder. We, normally, have snowless Xmases, but not 40 F. degrees outside.