So, it's December now with a scant one and a half fortnights until the big day. What's the forecast for your gifting season?
What are the gifts that your kids are begging for? What are you going to be giving children?
More importantly, what are you asking Old Saint Nick for? And what are you giving to your spouse or other contemporaries?
I'm just curious what everyone else is most hoping for and what they're giving to those nearest and dearest. From the extravagant to the simple, please fill me in.
To be honest, it's kind of hard for me to even imagine something that I want because I have all I'll ever desire in Charms. Hopefully some of your ideas can inspire some want in me that I have been hopelessly lacking thus far this gift-giving season.
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For my live-in girlfriend: Don't know yet. Looking for ideas.
For my nephew: Money for his future college fund.
For the rest of the family: Meh. Gift certificates. Where has my Christmas spirit gone? Jesus!
For me: 42" LCD and an HD-DVD player (and the complete Kubrick collection!)
For my parents, though, a 42" LCD TV.
Thanks for your very detailed answer blankfist. That's exactly the kind of info I'm hoping to squeeze out of this here post!
42 sounds like a magic number this Christmas.
A gym membership because I've been on VideoSift forever.
Me? Well, if you want, I would like a new scoped .30-.30, please.
And yeah, I gave up. Damn DS doesn't want to execute the .cfg file, so I executed it!
BUT......
I'll probably get a few things at Target for the boys; some DVDs, some games and maybe (if there's money left over) I'll get them some neat Gir shirts from Hot Topic. If there's money left over, maybe I'll get myself a graphic novel or two. I'm not saying what I'm getting Soupskin (since he reads the site) but it is nothing near as cool as a glock or HDTV.
If you want a (cheap) suggestion, I am always happy to get lotion from Bath and Body Works but I just recently went there and stocked up with a gift certificate I got for my birthday so I won't be asking for that (though I usually do) us wimmin usually dig that sort of thing.
- My Dad..Soviet Series DVD set
- My 91 year old grandma...donated to the CNIB in her name
- My Brother..not sure thinking of CIV IV
For the Wife I got her a new watch, A bathrobe, and a generous gift card to her favorite shoe store. I also bought her the moonlight book series. She wouldn't tell me anything else.
Both our parents are getting Family photo's of us (because they don't want us to be poor they asked us not to give them anything.) But this is a fairly cheep gift and it's at least something.
As for siblings, they aren't sparing a dime on us so we're holding off any gifting exchanges until I'm done with school and making more then a paupers living.
I'm getting my mom a...*insert blank stare*...I need ideas! She's just getting into the computer and whole e-mail/skype thing. I have a USB speakerphone for her, a KT Tunstall and Coldplay cd she's been wanting, but I could use another gift.
My best friends are getting some gift certificates to American Eagle or Express.
I have a million spoiled cousins so no worries there...
and myself, well I sorta got this computer with the 5.1 speakers as part of my early gift but my parents won't count it b/c it's used for school (yes I know I'm spoiled). Soo I really have my eyes set and room cleared in this house for a Rod Hockey Table. I grew up playing one at the arcade each week with my dad and I've always been wanting one. Not to mention I'm wishing for new Altama boots, I wear the 14" high Altamas for my EMS duties but need something scaled back for everyday wear.
BTW, I figured out what I have to get my girlfriend for x-mas. She's been wanting to go on a vacation for so long, and, to be honest, she works incredibly hard on an incredibly demanding account, so she deserves a break. In any event, we're going on vacation this week. Unenthusiastic yay. She's paying for half, though, which will be my gift. Yes, you heard it right. The vacation she wanted, she's paying half of it and making that my gift.
Anyway, what would I like? Well, a charter membership to Vsift would be nice, if anyone should happen to be reading this who needs ideas (got some familial frequenters of this site myself)...
Otherwise, my family is not too big on the gift giving now that all us kids are all grow-ed up, my grandmother for the last two years has given all her adult apartment dwelling grandchildren giant garbage-bag wrapped care packages of detergent, kleenex, toilet paper, and other household supplies. Basically we just spoil the two younger ones (which is backfiring, as they get older they get more obnoxious), my cousins ages 6 and 9, whom I've found out are getting a Wii, so I think that is what my whole family will be doing on xmas, playing Wii tennis.
I did get a sort of present a much needed internet upgrade (for research purposes... er and VS) a 1mb connection which is still about 1000 times more expensive then services in the West. My parents seem fixated on buying a huge Sony Bravia so they can watch movies, which will be neat, only I don't really know where we would stick it.
Ring bottle opener - http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/756e/ for a buddy
Sony Ebook reader for me off EBay - last gen. $160. It's nice to have a single-threaded non-networked device. I buy my own gadgets..
my mom's BF is getting a ton of stuff from the Shameless Commerce Division of Car Talk - http://www.shamelesscommerce.com/
Our friend who married us is getting an Eye-Fi http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/eye-fi-wifi-memory/ . The plan is to setup a camera to upload to flickr and do a slideshow in realtime at the ChrismaHanaKwanzika party.