There are some people that are difficult to buy for.
You may be stumped on what to get your girlfriends nephews for a present that won’t break the bank but that you can play with too.
Or there are some really cool things out there that just must be shared in the hopes that someone will buy it for us, the postee. Yeah, we are all secretly 7 year olds in that department.
I would like to start off this thread with:Medieval toys for the nearly grown up or just plain fun for kids.
I asked my mom to get me a mushroom growing kit. You can get them to grow plain-old button mushrooms or fancier stuff like shitaki. They’re around $20. I can’t wait!
I might pick up a couple of these “techno spinning tops"”. They seem likely they might be cool little toys. Oh, and anyone is buying for me, hint, hint, MrsFantsyPants
I would LOVE a worm farm, one of those that you can throw food scraps into.
I looked at goodies today for the first time. The littlepoets will get a LeapPad, I think, and heaven only knows what else. I try to find toys that don’t have a lot of parts to lose or step on, don’t make too much noise, and are moderately educational. (Their father gets to buy them all the noisy, non-educational, envy-of-preschool crap.) I also promised to fix up their room really nifty, if and when I get my settlement.
I think I’ll also make about a ton of playdough for them and the neighborhood kids, in a million colors, and provide a big ol’ set of cookie cutters. They LOVE that stuff.
Gonna make stockings, too, so I can spend a fortune filling those puppies up!
I can’t wait to start decorating. My ex threw out my Christmas tree and all the decorations, so we’re starting over, and I’m considering, heaven help me, a white tree. I figure we won’t have too many years left to get away with a really child-like, bright, colorful tree, so we might want to do it now. But man, they’re hideous to me.
For the past couple of years, I have given my friends wives gift certs. to Victoria Secret. A gift for both members. Guys are so much easyer to buy for. My friends get tools.
Okay, I confess: I’ve seen toys aimed at young kids that I’ve wanted to get for myself. This year, it’s the cotton candy maker. Make your own cotton candy! Of course, it will probably work as well as that kid’s pottery wheel I got about 10 years ago … I never could get that thing to work.
We are considering the Pac Man game that you play on your TV, but thanks for the tip on it breaking within 3 months, pipperroo.
I got and “Introduction to Flight Lesson”. (google for one)
I got to go out to a local flight school and go up in a small plane with an instructor and I got to work the controlls for most of the flight. (ok I didn’t do the rudder pedals) I took a 20 minute flight around NJ and it was a blast.
I never could get that thing to work.