I’ve been dating someone for a couple of months, and this is what I’ve gotten him (so far): A small bottle of cologne, a clock inside a tire and rim (much cooler-looking than it sounds), and a large contraption that has a salt shaker on top and a pepper mill on the bottom (he loves black pepper and I feel very strongly that only fresh-ground black pepper has a place on this earth). I may or may not get him a couple of other things this weekend but haven’t decided on anything in particular.
When he asked me what I wanted, I blurted out “diamond earrings”, because 1)I couldn’t think of anything else at that moment and 2)I’ve always secretly wanted a pair.
What are you giving and/or getting?
I’ve got a hard shopping thing with my husband. He’s very nonmaterialistic and we are trying to get rid of much of the junk in our house. I will probably check out his amazon.com wish list and get him a book or a CD. Nothing big!
But he’s got it even worse because I hate christmas and I hate getting presents. If I want something I’ll buy it myself, so if I don’t have it that means I don’t want it, unless it’s too expensive for me to buy for myself (the Maserati, for instance). If I can’t afford it he can’t afford it! And of course it would be really inappropriate for anyone outside the family to give us something we couldn’t afford for ourselves.
(Actually there are things I would like. Gift cards for pedicures/facials & other self-indulgent things like that, things on my amazon.com wish list. But I won’t get them because he thinks gifts should be surprises.)
Mr. Legend and I always give each other the same gift on every occasion: not to have to shop for anything else during such a stressful time. After a holiday, if there’s something one or both of us really, truly wants, we’ll get it, but we don’t buy each other gifts, per se.
I got us tickets to see Garrison Keillor last week - he did his “Good Enough Christmas Show” with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall. I’ve also picked up a Bill Hicks DVD, and I’ll probably grab one other, undetermined item. Perhaps something musical.
I bought my boyfriend of a year and a half a nice set of steel brake lines (sexy, huh?) and a shave set, one of those with the bowl of shave soap and badger hair brush. I might get something else small and cute, but I think I might be too broke for that.
My Hubby had lost his wedding band this summer (probably while cleaning out the hay baler), so I got him a replacement for Xmas (I drew his name for gift - giving). He’s very tickled. He did not draw my name, so I won’t expect anything from him. We’re kind of like the Legends, above. Peace and quiet beats any gift, hands down.
Mr. Wild specified a set of meditation robes and is getting that. I might pick up something else small but I doubt I’ll have time. He’s getting me silk yarn. This is an advance on our usual habit of just each buying our own damn present sometime in November and calling it a Christmas present, but we have to play civilized and put something under the tree as we’re having Christmas with his folks. We do spoil each other but not usually at the appointed times.
My baby is getting a small pile of books, some hand made crafts from 10,000 Villages, and a nice bottle of scotch. I should be in her good books for a long time
Some … parts … for the inside of a computer, I don’t know what they are. He printed out the part numbers and I ordered them. Also, two books, one of which is the next in a series that he loves so I am pretty sure he is expecting it, and another that I came across that seems perfect for him so that will be the surprise element of the gift.
We got a Gameboy Advance SP for ourselves, along with three games (Namco Museum, Risk/Battleship/Clue, and Life/Payday/Yahtzee). I feel like a 6-year-old but damn if I don’t love that thing. The Gameboy is really more for me than him. My husband wanted it so I could play the Gameboy and he could play his Xbox (I get a little growly when he sits and plays Xbox all day).
We’ve already exchanged presents, so: I got her a foot spa, to ease her tired pregnant-gal feet. I also got her two pendants, one with the Chinese character for “mother” and one that moved her to tears: it’s a little silver pendant of a family of four holding hands, and their arms and legs form hearts. Background: our first attempt at getting her pregnant failed, and we started going through the process of adopting from China. On the day the last piece of paperwork arrived completed, she took a pregnancy test, and it was positive. So, now we’ll have two kiddos, when we hardly even expected one. This Christmas will be much happier than the last one, by a long shot.
She got me some stuff off my Amazon list: season three of Penn & Teller’s “Bullshit!”, the “Sesame Street Old School” DVD set, and a book called “Great Lies To Tell Small Kids”, because I love seeing what I can make little kids believe. snicker.
We haven’t decided yet, we always plan to buy something together but haven’t actually gotten around to it for the last 3 years. So far, we’re talking about a new TV or a trip either to Cabo or Hawaii. We’ll see if it actually happens.
