Best Christmas gift you'll be giving.
 

We'll have to do another thread next week about "best gift received", but for now, let's do this one. I am one of those people who honestly really does love giving more than receiving, so:

1) What's the best gift you got for somone this year? It doesn't have to be big, or really expensive. Just special - the one you're most excited to give.

2) What's the best gift you got for someone - ever? And why?

1) I bought hubby The Duke's of Hazzard Season 1 on DVD. Cheesy - yes. Really, really cheesy - of course! But HE is going to LOVE it. It's a huge part of his memories growing up, he still makes references to the show (well, they're mostly about Daisy, but whatever...)

I bought "America: The Book" for my sister-in-law. I don't even know if she's heard much about it (they don't have cable), but I know she'll find it hilarious. She loves to read & as soon as I perused my brother's copy, I knew she'd love it.

2) Hubby collects Labatt beer stuff & he had been searching for this motion bar lighted sign for years (it's like one of those pictures where the water looks like it's moving.) I found it last year on ebay & didn't have to give my right arm for it, so I bought it. He was thrilled.

Last year, one of my coworkers and I were talking about books, reading, the Bookmobile & stuff about when we were kids. She mentioned that she loved a certain book so much growing up called "The Top of the Pizzas." She had one ragged old copy & the book was now OOP. So I found it on the net & gave it to her for Christmas. Now, I knew she'd like it, but holy sh*t! She about peed her pants, started jumping up & down, called her husband, ran around showing everyone at work. I won't ever forget her reaction, and how great it felt to make a person so happy with so little.

This year I put myself on a real budget, and the gifts that I did get aren't particularly unique but some stand out more like:

• A mini Christmas tree with mini ornaments for my grandfather in FL which he LOVED.
• A little Dubya doll filled with catnip for my cat! LOL
• A remote controlled mouse for my cat.
• A Guns n Roses unauthorized documentary for my brother (which I hope doesn't suck).
• NESN's new Red Sox video for my brother.

Well this wasn't cheap but I figured it was worth it...

I bought my mother a digital camcorder.. She's going on a trip around the world for two months and I figured as it's a once in a lifetime trip she should capture a few memories. (Thanks to a certain Ledgie for giving me the idea. Also thanks again to the same Ledgie for making me broke now!!)

I also bought myself (does that count?) a new electric shaver because I've decided to go clean shaven again after a couple of years with some fluff on my face and I'm sick of using razors..

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1) What's the best gift you got for somone this year? It doesn't have to be big, or really expensive. Just special - the one you're most excited to give.

I have two.

My mother is a big Lucy fan, so I got her the new "Lucy and Desi Scrapbook." They had it for you to look at in Barnes and Noble and it's awesome. It actually resembles a scrapbook and you can remove and read the different "scraps," which are reproductions of actual Nielsen ratings lists and photographs and a bunch of other stuff.

I got my best friend a pair of leather pants as a gag because he's always riding me about mine and how he hates them. :laugh:

2) What's the best gift you got for someone - ever? And why?

Every year I buy coats and bring them to homeless shelters and give them to people who need them, so I think those are the best gifts I've given.

I am not giving anything special this year.

I got my little cousins both gift cards and I got one something from Old Navy and one Bath and Body Works lotion.

I got my friend a gift card to Filenes and just some stocking stuffers.

I got my Dad the most stuff of course. I got him 2 shirts, 3 blankets/throws(He was complaining about his the other day. If he only knew how many he was getting.LOL) Dunkin Donuts gift certificates, A Dunkin Donuts Mug, a flashlight. I just need to pick up on Wednesday a box of chocolates and some Dunkin Donuts coffee. I think I might get him a pair of gloves, too

That's all I really need to get. I have nobody special in my life so I guess I save some money.

I can't talk about all the badass gifts I bought just yet, 'cause some of 'em are Ledgies, I'll let them post later what I got them....but I think my kittie got the best gift of all this year- of being able to urinate again. Three days in the kitty hospital, all jacked up on morphine with a catheter in his weiner, an IV in his paw, one of those cone thingies on his head, and $700 later, he'll be fine. This all happened Thanksgiving weekend. No "if he were my cat, he'd be dead" jokes please. He's my baby, I'd do anything for him. I just did. :nod:

Or pay off your Mac debt! :thumbsup:

Me either. We are not big gift givers here. We just like to sit around and eat and watch Christmas shows.

I would have to say my mom is getting alot from me this year~~a blue polar fleece robe, navy blue lounge pants and top accented with light blue flowers, an angel from artist Jim Shore's Heartwood Creek series~she's the summer angel, lo-carb chocolates from Russell Stover, a nesting doll I picked up in NYC and some stocking stuffers.


Best gift ever given wasn't a Christmas gift but a birthday one to my mom~~a mother's ring.

Ok I forgot to add that I did make a few packages for some Mac friends of mine including a few Ledgies. ;)

The last of which was mailed yesterday. The mailers look like gift wrap. :nod:

I love to send packages for friends. :D

My grandmother isn't really doing well lately. A couple years ago my grandfather died right after Christmas and last year she moved from Louisiana back to Michigan, which is where all her/our family is. Ever since all this happened, though, she hasn't been doing well... she's starting to go downhill mentally. She hid one of her car keys somewhere and now she can't remember where she hid it and when we're talking to her on the phone she'll totally change the subject. The other day she called my mom at work to tell her it was snowing. :( But a while ago she said she wanted a CD of me doing a couple songs for Christmas and it's going to be a little late, but I would really love to do that -- and do it well -- to send to her. I really don't know how much longer she'll be around, but if I can make a difference in her life, however small, with music... it's the least I could do.

Last year's gifts for my mom were cool. She and my grandmother both are all about practicality so I try to find things that they can use and last year my mom's mixer and her coffeepot died within weeks of each other. So when my dad and I went shopping we got her a new mixer, a new coffepot, and probably some other stuff I can't remember... and she opened it on Christmas and she had no idea what was coming. :)

Easy...
 

The list of gifts purchased for a disadvantaged child who may not have had a joyful Christmas...

Brian j.

Last year, My friends neice and her 3 small children, plus some other family kids, were staying at my friends house cause they lost their apartment. My friend doesn't believe in buying things for christmas, the consumerism and all. I agree with her, but I was home for Xmas, so i went and bought and wrapped some presents for them so they'd having something fun to open and such. That was satisfying.

The best gift I ever gave was taking an underprivleged little 6 year old girl shopping for winter clothes, and seeing her face when santa called her up on his lap and gave her the barbie computer she's always wanted.

For my lil one this year, I bought her a barbie camcorder. I think she's gonna love it! That's one of her big ticket items this year. I'm sure she'll have me in my jammies more then once on video.... :o

I bought my sister-in-law a Dooney & Bourke handbag. Every time we have gone shopping for the last 8 months we had to go to the handbag department so she could covet them. Last night we had my nephew's birthday party and somehow the subject of Dooney & Bourke came up. She said "I'll never own one, but man, I love those purses!" I cannot wait to see her face when she opens the package!!!!

The best gift I ever gave was probably the several times I have bought gifts for children from the Angel Tree. Unfortunately I didn't do it this year, but next year I'll buy double.