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Christmas gifts...Vent
Every year I get my mom and aunt a sweater or jewelry. Jewelry or a sweater. A sweater and jewelry. And for my dad, a book...or...books, plural. Boring. I mean I don't care if I think the gifts themselves are boring (hello, I have dishtowels on my wish list) but it's that it's the same thing every year.
I've already got them several DS-related gifts so I kind of wanted to get them something non-DS but I've got about $30 left to spend on each so I'm having a hard time coming up with ideas.
I'm not asking for ideas, I'm just venting!
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w -- BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w -- BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d -- BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
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Re: Christmas gifts...Vent
I know what you mean! It feels like Christmas has become the great gift card exchange in my family. It kinda takes the fun out of it.
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I agree
If it makes you feel better, I end up getting my Mom/MIL sweater/earrings/necklace/scarf combo every year.
My mom asks me like 500x what I want for Xmas and I want to jsut say "nothing" I'm not 15 or even 20, if I really want/need something, I've already bought it myself and there's no way you'd buy me something ridiculously expensive and extravagant like an Ipad or $600 purse b/c that's just a silly way to spend money. But, seriously. ... I don't need another $40 sweater. And, worse is when my mom shops for me and nothing fits so then I end up having to spend the little bit of free time I have at malls/stores, returning clothes I never wanted in the first place.
My sister actually just solved part of this problem for me by getting a Kindle for my parents - now I can get them a cover. Of course I learn this seconds after I buy 2 "old school" books for them, but whatever, I know they'll read them and it may be good especially since they'll be "sharing" the Kindle (my Dad's not good at sharing, lol). So they are done, whew! Now just my aunt and I may be completely done. I'm going to try really hard to avoid a sweater...
Kathryn, yeah when people buy me clothes, they never fit. And I rarely return them because I don't get around to it. That's why I like gift cards
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w -- BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w -- BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d -- BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
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Oh sing it!
My ILs are going to be downsizing from 2 houses to one in the spring when FIL retires. They have more than enough random stuff in both houses. We are giving them monogrammed towels and bowls to replace the ones that my MIL broke over the summer and I made a photo mug for my FIL- and that's it. It feels strange to not be wrapping up a few things for each of them individually though.
@Kathryn- my mom definitely wishes that I would "hold back" when it came to shopping and let her buy me something I really want/need and then put it away for Christmas. This year I told her I wanted a furry vest and what did she do, go out and buy me one and give it to me BEFORE Xmas!
@chrissyp- is it flameful to confess that one of the reasons we are skipping my MIL's sister's "Christmas" is because I don't want to have to exchange anything w/ any of them? They do a Secret Santa and I don't even want to do that!