Do you know any good gift ideas?
Do you know any good gift ideas?
Hope and change!
The wife and I didn't get ourselves anything, just did our best to enjoy the season.
iPhones and large flat screen TVs. Just charge it, don't pay for it and somehow "someone" pays for it....magic and Merry Christmas
See all those ads that say "No Payments until 2012!", that is how they buy things.
An unemployed cousin gave us a container of Italian seasoning mix last year, which she cobbled together from other common seasonings. Because of her cooking/restaurant background, it was a decent mix.
We weren't expecting anything, but she also didn't want to be pitied.
Please do not let short change disrupt your heart. If you would enjoy offering something to someone, let it be from the heart. A token of appreciation....time spent together, a cup of coffeee...more than anything, enjoy yourself and share what you have be it yourself.
My family now celebrates this time of year by being with one another. It has developed into sharing sotires..memeories of other times together and thigns that we cherish about each family member. To this day we do not "buy" gifts for one another...we have the whole year to give things to one another.
This is the time of year to share the birth of our Lord and Savior. Jesus is the reason for the season.
my mothers family (from Tn) is very poor and they would make each other homemade gifts, you might be surprised well this works out!
I get all my friends and family a 40 of Old English. Country Club for the ones I don't like, Mickey's for the ones I do. Then we spend Christmas Eve getting faded together.
What about writing a letter?
Every year my mother paints a picture on a regular marble notebook that I keep as my training log for the year. It's great because it's pretty and I use it every day. It takes her some time to make.
Maybe bake something they might like. Cupcakes decoracted. Maybe a cake with their name on it. Be creative with this. I've had interesting ones: cinnamon, tea-flavored, chili-chocholate, etc.
Maybe take them somewhere they've never been? A beautiful view perhaps?
Maybe search in a used bookstore for something you think they might enjoy. I like books because it means that you had to think about what they are interested in.
Or make a calendar using your own photographs. My brother does this every year.
Don't spend money. It just makes people worry when people buy stuff when they don't have any money. Your family would rather you not be even more broke.
Thats how Christmas should be celebrated though, no gifts or any materialistic objects. Why spend money on gifts most people disregard and only value the price of it? The best Christmas I had with my family we couldn't afford anything to give each other, times have gotten better but Christmas is now based solely on what we give and recieve we forget that the real gift we all share is that we have a happy family (and even if you dont for one day you are) and that we are alive.
I come from a large but loving family.
There was a new kid every year.
My father had a respiratory disease and one of my brothers was in a wheelchair.
We rarely had enough cash but we got all the necessities of life and no real stress for us kids.
Christmas presents normally consisted of fruit,raisins,peanuts,a chocolate bar and sometimes a comic book, all in an onion bag.
I could not see today's kids dealing with that.
Hard labor. Give them a gift certificate for a free wash & wax of their car or something.
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Read The Gift Of The Magi. Then you will have some idea of what a meaningful present is.
oldenglish wrote:
I get all my friends and family a 40 of Old English. Country Club for the ones I don't like, Mickey's for the ones I do. Then we spend Christmas Eve getting faded together.
you sir, deserve a medal.
oldenglish wrote:
I get all my friends and family a 40 of Old English. Country Club for the ones I don't like, Mickey's for the ones I do. Then we spend Christmas Eve getting faded together.
How is this different from any other night?
If they quit complaining and got jobs, they would be able to provide for their families. They should be full of shame.
Pathetic, the whole lot of them. They make me sick.
A Brit wrote:
The wife and I didn't get ourselves anything, just did our best to enjoy the season.
Dude, in all seriousness, you better get her something. I am not talking about something expensive, but go buy her some candy or something and make her a nice card. You have to do something. Do you need help with ideas?
Self made coupons for sex.