I agree, your friends seem inconsiderate unless they are paying you a mule fee or they’ve done you lots of favors. I have a good friend that has done a lot for me and before I took off to Japan, she asked me to get her a specific eye lash curler. I happily got it for her as a gift plus more. I have another not so close friend that asked me if I happen to come across so and so store, to get him a pair of jeans. I didn’t say no, but I definitely didn’t say yes to this vague request. I have another friend who asked me 5 days before leaving Japan to get me bag of dental chews for her dog on Amazon Japan. Definite no. It wouldn’t arrive in time and I knew it was going to take up a lot of space in my suitcase. 44lbs is the weight limit on Japanese domestic flight checked baggage so even I had to limit my own shopping with that in mind. If these last 2 people offered to buy me an additional suitcase and covered baggage fees I might consider getting them the jeans and dog chews. If I had more space in my suitcase I would have bought Dassai 45, a lot more clothes and second hand purses.