I dunno yet.
I’m an only child so I don’t have any brothers or sisters to buy for. My parents don’t seem to want anything.
I’ll have to think of something for my best friend even though he doesn’t like me getting him stuff, he’s been a great friend, I feel this year I should get him something.
I’m gonna try and spend a few days writing a song for my mother when the school semester is over. I think that’s the best present I could give her.
BTW, WB Euty.
I tend to give edible things, gift boxed cheese, etc.
It’s a hint to my relatives that I don’t want anything permanent in return.
The worst presents are things of value that I’m supposed to display and cherish and never give away.
Like Hummel figurines of barefoot Jack and Jill with a bucket of water. Thanks a heap, Grandma, but I’m not being guilted into keeping that stuff any more.
My brother-in-law adores good ham, so I’m drop-shipping him a Smithfield ham for Christmas. He’s a retired electrician and is impossible to buy for! Everything in my price range he buys for himself anyway. Frustrating, because he’s flat-out the nicest guy in the world and I’d love to give him something great. I’m still scouting out other ideas.
I’m giving my sister a hard-to-find book on local historic houses, a replica Faberge pin she loves from a museum store, a snuggly long robe (she’s as tall as I am, and they’re hard to find), and several crossword collections. (We’re both crossword fiends; family joke.)
Plus other stuff I’m still debating.
One friend is getting a silver Celtic cross, another a collection of candles, another Pooh sweatshirt (she’s a huge Pooh fan), etc. etc.
And another an entire batch of homemade baklava, because she lived in Greece and misses it.
Welcome back, Euty, and thanks for the thread, too. All of a sudden Christmas seems fun again.
Veb
This explains a lot to me (your fellow crossword fiend).
Next question; You do them in ink, right?
PS: Euty, drop by the hugs thread yet!
[sup]GOTTA RUB IT IN![/sup]
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:::blinks in puzzlement:::
There’s another way? (I’m very good at reading through my cross-outs and blots, though.)
Veb
…must be the holiday season…the MPSIMS’ Three Wise Men are “back together” again!
Welcome home, Euty!
…as for us:
“my family is so poor, every year we exchange glances…”
I think we will try to give gift certificates, and also the neighbor and I are making greeting cards to give as gifts. I want to make Christmas as simple and stress free as possible this year, but I always like to have extra presents on hand in case we have unexpected guests.
Hi, Euty. Nice to see you droppin’ in.
I suck at buying presents. Every year, I get people books, or CDs, or candles, or something some other damn thing they can just as easily buy for themselves at the mall, and probably wouldn’t have in the first place, given the option. So this year, I’m giving money in everyone’s name to Heifer Project International. This is a gift I feel good about giving. I may make a habit of it.
My sister and I are giving my dad a new phone with big number-buttons, and also instant-dial buttons to program phone numbers in. They’re gong to ten-digit dialing where we live, and my dad has short-term memory problems, and he’ll never remember to dial the additional digits otherwise.
My dad also has no connection to the Net, so I know he’ll never read this.
Beyond that…? I have NO idea.
Yea, Euty!
You are very well respected and loved in these parts.
Okay?
To the question:
Fruitcakes!
The Corsicana variety that accept whiskey. I stopped giving 'em once 4 years ago and got complaints. Everybody’s kid uses the red tin containers they come in.
This year it looks like Spider Woman’s choice–gift certificates. I tried to get a crib to Anchorage and the shipping was almost the cost of the crib. So gift certificates it is…REI, Penny’s, Bean…look, here’s the place you like to shop. Go for it.
The gifts don’t matter. The people do.
Never marry into a big family. You have been warned. Thank ghawd the grown kids no longer exchange presents!
The immediate family is taken care of. Fella bilong missus flodnak and I are giving ourselves a common gift, a digital camera. Flodjunior is getting the biggest present: a new PC, to replace the hand-me-down machine he has now, plus six new games to replace the preschool games he’s pretty well outgrown now. (He’s 6 and in first grade now.) I’m also making him a sweatsuit in orange and blue, his favorite colors. Flod2k will be ten months old, and probably won’t care as long as he gets to eat the paper, but I’ll be sewing a fleece sweatsuit for him, and we’ll also give him one of those little cars he can ride on or push while he’s getting the hang of walking.
We will be giving/sending the grown-ups we still exchange with portait photographs of the family. My sister and bro-in-law have wanted a special glass of some sort to finish a collection; I left some money with my mom when we visited this summer and she bought it and wrapped it for us. I want to give something extra to my parents and to my brother and sis-in-law, too, but have no idea what. They’re in the States so it has to ship well. (Maybe order something on-line and have it shipped to them? Something edible perhaps? It’s a thought.) Then there are my brother’s three sons, ages 18, 13, and 9. Not easy ages at all 
The kids on this side of the Atlantic are 15 (twins), 11 (the only girl), 8, 7, and 3. I’ll almost certainly pick out clothes for the 11yo, since she’s outgrown toys and I know nothing of her taste in books. The youngest boy is car crazy. The others, I do not know.
I count nine presents I still have no idea what to do about. sigh
I missed you, Euty!
This year we have had a lot of unexpected expenses, so I won’t even be able to buy anything for the kids until mid-December. I know what I’m going to buy, but my hubby lurks on this board occasionally, and my older son sometimes reads over my shoulder when I post.
My son and I have been raiding my craft supplies to make home made gifts. We are also working on ornaments to give to each resident of our local nursing home. We need to have 100 of them made, and will probably be done by next Sunday. We have gotten over half of them done already.
It seems like the Christmases when we are broke always turn out to be the most fun.
My list is way too long to post here, but hubby is getting a beard and mustache trimmer, a new leather jacket, and one of those little 5-inch color TV thingies. If I have enough money left, I may get him a new silver chain for the charm I bought him a couple of weeks ago.
We make gifts for our friends which this year it will probably have to be baked goods since we didn’t get started early. For the family, what we are doing is buying a gift for everyone, including yourself, for <$5. No wrapping, no names. You put it into the stockings hung on the fireplace. We did this last year and it was so much fun. I don’t like the gift giving because it is so false, this way it makes it fun.
Also, welcome back Euty, we missed you.
My hubby lurks occasionaly (hi Red Baron!) so I won’t post what he’s getting.
My mom is getting a cross-stiched eyeglasses case and a pair of hairsticks both handmade by me as well as a photomosaic puzzle.(she loves puzzles)
My dad is getting a T-shirt from the Darwin Awards site (his favorite site)
The grandmas are getting hand decorated vases.
The hubby and I are pricing “Internet Appliances” as an idea for his mom. She’s dying to surf the web but can’t afford and doesn’t need a real computer. Hubby’s dad has offered to cover half the cost if we do the legwork.
My college roommate and I have a gift-giving tradition that we started about nine years ago. We spend a whole day baking cookies (about 60 dozen) and give them to all of our friends. This year, we’re both living in the same city again after about five years, and looking forward to the bake-fest.
I haven’t yet decided what to get my family.
(Hi Euty! Hope all is well in West Warwick. I was in beautiful North Providence for Thanksgiving. Welcome back!)
Yep. Larry, Moe and which do you prefer, Shemp or Curly?
My wife and I haven’t done too much shopping yet, but we’ve found some nice antiques for my mother (metal kitchen implements from the early 1900’s, she collects stuff like that) and some nice wooden Christmas ornaments for my stepfather.
I suck royal ass at buying gifts. Fortunately, my wife shares my gift-buying deficit, so we’re both in the same boat.
However, I do have a killer gift for her the Christmas, but I can’t say what it is just in case she reads this. So ha!
I brought this thread back up to brag. 
I finished my 6-year old cousin’s present today - a belly dance outfit for a Barbie Doll! Here it is