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What's on your Christmas list? Do you buy yourself a gift? What are you buying your significant other, DH, DBF, or DGF?
DGF and I are only buying a gift or two for each other. We bought a new Vizio 32" LCD HD TV for our Christmas present. We decided we really didn't need anything and wanted a new TV - HD. I'm buying her some new slippers and a cycling vest(Bike Nashbar - 71% off gore tex) and maybe some wool socks.
I love the Christmas season but don't really do many gifts, I buy something for my mom, dad, and niece...my honey and I don't really bother. Mostly I just enjoy the lights, festivities, and how nice people treat each other.
I'm buying my brother a smoking monkey
oh wrong!Quote:
Originally Posted by zencentury
I am buyin g my mom a pair of Keen shoes.
My poor father a G' Town sweatshirt
and my three brother's will be happy with what they get!
Let's see, someone told me about this thread in existence already..on similar topic.
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...t=20033&page=4
I have this horrible problem with buying myself too many Christmas presents.Quote:
Originally Posted by surgtech1956
I just picked up an Ibex merino wool sweather off Steep and Cheap moments ago.
Maybe I'll give it to DH to wrap up for me! :rolleyes:
I intend to get DH some new rollers. His are more than a bit past their prime.
I want to get my sister a Garmin Edge 705, but they don't have a final release date yet :mad: "First quarter 2008," which is probably corporate-speak for "late second quarter." She lives in Texas and can ride all year round, too (although right at the moment she's still rehabbing from surgery and not riding hard).
So, question for you all. If you were the recipient of an IOU, would you be really, really annoyed knowing that your actual gift might not arrive for three to six months? Should I get her an additional small gift?
When I gave my DH wheels for his bike one year, I couldn't cart them up to Connecticut - where we were spending the holiday - and expect to surprise him. The LBS held the wheels and I gave him a wrapped box to open which contained a picture of the wheels. I think, yes, I did also include some little things in there, too. Knowing me, it was probably stuff like chewing gum, Cliff shots and the like!Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
We've dealt with situations like that by printing out a picture and description of the goodie, and giving that in a card and a consolation prize of a box of chocolate.Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
They know what they're getting, AND they have chocolate to share with you!;)
Unfortunately, I tend to use the Christmas season as an excuse to buy myself too many presents (new handlebar bag, new saddle that I haven't really had a chance to try out). But for others, I got my parents a digital picture frame, my brothers and sisters and I don't buy each other anything, we just have the little kids exchange names and enjoy them opening gifts. My whole army career I worked every Christmas, and never even put up a tree. Now, with a 4 year old, we have to get into it a little more.
I spent one Christmas in Indonesia with in-laws- talk about a back to basics Christmas. No gifts, no trees or decorations. Looonnng church service, followed by walking thorugh the village visiting all day.
A garmin edge would be such a good gift, I don't think anyone would mind waiting for it. I'm wishing for a garmin forerunner and the latest die hard DVD.
As for those worn out rollers- put them up for sale on TE, some of us just beginners might be interested.
vickie
I want a new pair of Danskos in Cordovan and a black pashmina shawl because I can't find mine anywhere! grrrr
I have no clue what I'm getting my husband, not a clue!
My son (6) is getting a Nintendo DS and some Star Wars thing he wants. Oh and he says he needs more knights for his castle because the good guys have no one to fight. Go figure...boys? We typically get him a costume of some sort....he LIVES in costume. But I have no idea what to get. He literally has every costume under the sun.
My daughter (3) is in full-on girly mode this year. She wants baby dolls and pink cowboy boots! Big change from last year when she wanted an RC car and a train.
I'm planning to buy us all new snow shoes but probably not until after the first of the year. Dh is a contractor and won't be paid on the huge job he's doing until mid-jan so I'll likely save that gift and hopefully get in on some after christmas sales.
We give our extended families donations to Habitat, Hefer Int, etc. and i-tunes cards for the neices and nephews.
I'm actually going to brave the cold, snow and crowds and shop today. I figure at most I'll have to go to 3 stores and not a one is in a mall.
I REALLY need to go for a run. I've not exercised since Thursday but its only 10 degrees out and the rec centers are closed on Sundays...? Perhaps the stress of ToysRUs two weeks before Christmas will elevate my heart rate to a sufficient level. :D
I'm buying everyone socks.
Most folks on my list are adults and already have everything they want. Sometimes they have too much "stuff" and complain about it.
So they all get socks and something edible.
Can't go too far wrong with warm wooly socks and goodies.
(and SKnot really neeeeeeds socks, so he's getting 6-packs of matching socks. and underwear. It's traditional that he gets underwear every Christmas.)
I bought myself a pashmina shawl:) , mine's burgundy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ummbnb
My nieces and nephews are all getting books this year (except the college student, who's getting a gift certificate for Powell's). I'll tuck a nice little check in between each book's pages, so they have to read the book, or at least open it, to find the surprise. I love the deviousness of that.:D
The Chief and I always take a day and do holiday shopping together, during which we buy each other the thing(s) we want. This is our solution to several years--when we were first married--of odd gifts that eventually got returned or never used. We make an occasion out of it: the hunt--er, shopping--then dinner out somewhere. Always enjoyable, we each get what we want from each other, and we have a nice day together enjoying the holiday atmosphere. Works for us.
This is a weird Christmas for me. First year in a long time with no SO, DH, or parents. My brothers and I are all tired, and have agreed not to do presents. I will do a present for my one niece who is still young enough to live at home.
I'm thinking of giving myself a short trip to somewhere snowy for Christmas...Christmas in bright, white snow rather than gray rain always lifts my spirits!
But then, I want a new bike next year, so maybe just stay home and save up? Not sure. Strange year, a little bit.
Weird Xmas for us also. Bubba will still be in California, not only winding up the transfer of 135 cases to other attorneys in the DOJ (none of which have the skills or knowledge in his specific area) and in a trial as he heads toward retirement on 12/28. The house down there is pretty much down to an air mattress, his garment box of suits and one bike so it doesn't make sense for me to go down until I can haul him and his stuff up here on that last weekend. Our 20th Anniversary is on 1/2 so I'm really targeting that for being together. Besides, mtkitchn and I put in a lot of hard work to pick out a very special champagne for the occasion.
Fortunately, we don't exchange gifts with other family members except with my parents. This year they're getting gift certs to kiva.org.
Other than that, I bake biscotti or other calorie-free treats.
When I flew to Toronto to visit my family at end of this past Aug., that's when they got their birthday gift/combined with Christmas. I buy for over 15 people and they live at different addresses.
So now, living here in Vancouver I just buy for partner, who is getting a pile of cycling-related gifts since he is real long-term cyclist. I did alot of the shopping in U.S. when the U.S. dollar was weak against Canadian.
It was great fun shopping for him..and I do tend to buy throughout the year and hide gifts. Hopefully not forget where I hid the gifts.
We will be having our Christmas dinner and opening gifts with his adult daughter (28) on Dec. 21.
Then we are going snowshoeing at one the mountain ski resorts in British Columbia. later go on lower land to visit some wineries and sample...
I will have to get the recipes for these calorie free treats. Do you have a good source for calorie free wine? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
Well I got a new laptop for Christmas which I am using now. I know a little early but it was on sale and DH doesn't know a think about computers so he told me to go get it yesterday. LOL
I got him a new brooks b17 saddle for his bike. I hope he is going to like it. I think from reading some of your threads that I might want to get me one s
soon myself. I will wait though and see how well he likes his.
Ds will be getting a new tv for his room so he can play his games back there and I don't have to run him out of the living room or my room all the time.
I think that is more a present for mom and dad. LOL
Yep, just invite jobob over. Sit back and watch. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Starfish
Depending on the whims of the weather gods, I'll see Bubba again in 8 days (or so)! Yippee!
Yeesh, the gratitude of that woman. After I slaved for her ... :p
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For most of the adults on my Christmas list I wound up ordering prepotted bulbs from J&P. Most of them don't need "stuff" and I don't have to go to the Post Office or UPS to do the shipping.
I indulged in my other hobby - dabbling in things Renaissance (I play with the Society for Creative Anachronism). I ordered an Art book that covers an exhibit of Italian costuming during the 1500s. I've seen the book and [U]need[U] it for my library. I've learned that waiting until later could mean these special interest books will no longer be available. My quest is to find inspiration for a costume that won't make me melt in Louisiana summers. Doesn't help that during the Renaissance was the mini-ice age. That and like now, people wore their Best Clothes for portraits - thus we have decent documentation of what the filthy rich wore, in the winter. How about the merchant class, in the summer????
A worry-free Christmas actually. With all the hussle and bussle lately, one can hardly feel the season. Something slow and a relaxed holiday would be nice for a change.