[Rev_Blair]

I went and picked up the final gift today...it was on order. I walked up to the counter, gave the girl my name and $50.00, then headed to the tobacco shop and the off-sale, then came back here. Mrs. Rev wrapped it up with the other crap and took it to the 7-11 post office so it can head out to Saskatchewan for Jan 6.

No more x-mas shopping, not more insane mall parking lots, no more whining children and (rightfully) bitchy sales associates and that friggin' generic x-mas music. I am done.

[ziggy]

Last year my family agreed not to buy gifts as most of us have everything we need and it was getting harder and harder to find something "practical". The last gift I bought my sister was a bathroom scale because that's what they needed. That did'nt go over so good.

I have one buddy in Calgary that shares a tradition with me. We try to outskank the other with a lame gift. This year he gets my broken down micro-wave oven that he has to pick up at the greyhound complete in the original box.

It's worth the shipping cost to know he has to go pick it up and it MIGHT just be a keeper.



My niece gets homemade cd's(free except for the tax on the discs)
My folks are retired, it's allmost impossible to find them something they want or need.


The Sally ann has a commercial on tv that shows a toddler crawling along a bench towards a big present with a huge smile.The scene then shows the kid on the bench with mom and someone else sitting alongside and it's his present. He pulls it away as mom pulls the kid back and the guy walks away with the present.

Powerfull stuff.

[Rev_Blair]

I wish my family would head that way.

[AdamNF]

Well...

I spent most of the week on Amazon.com trying to get stuf ordered so it would get here before the 25th. I still have a few more things to pick up.

[DMP08]

Do you know how hard it is to buy for your mother. I ask for a hint and she says "Anything from you boys [me and my brother] would be fine" Although, as I found out last year, when she says 'anything' that doesn't mean anything. Last year I bought mom a set of rubber gloves and some dish soap.....what? I thought it was funny

[Prairieboy]

My mom isn't the problem so much as my dad. You can only buy him so many tools, because he doesn't even use most of them as he likes the old ones better for the tractors and combines and shit. So we always have to find him something even though he gives absolutely no ideas, it's kinda frustrating, until I found...Uncle John's Big Bathroom Reader. Man, that's the best gift ever...

[Rev_Blair]

I've taken to getting my mother books, DMP. Now that she's retired she reads a lot, especially in the winter, but she hates spending money on hardcovers because they cost so much...that kind of leaves her short of the non-fiction she likes because those rarely come out in paperbacks.

Dad's gotten really tough...he's got Alzheimers. He still makes wine though (kind of funny since neither he nor his wife can have more than a glass every two or three days now...he just gives it away) so we got him some wine making stuff. He still chops wood too, so I got him a good axe instead the 40 year old piece of crap he's been using all my life. My brother got him some new steel-toed boots just in case.

[gaiter83]

I haven't even started.... but I only fly home to NB after Xmas, so I'll go shopping the first day I get there....

[DMP08]

REV! PERFECT IDEA! I just thought about it. My mom has been just flying through murder mysteries lately. For like a year she's been reading a lot. Perfect, I am on my way our right now. THANK YOU!