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I want clothes for Christmas.
Clothes and money.
I NEED clothes.
Everything I have is from when I was like 17/18 and I look retarded.
Minus 2-3 pairs of jeans and a handful of shirts everything else needs to be sold and I need new stuff.
So hopefully clothes and money to put in my savings account.
Like we did as kids, ours get one 'big' gift and maybe a couple of small additions. The gifts have ranged from a bike to a Nintendo DS to a DVD player. My daughter wil ask for things her friends have and she might get one or two if they aren't expensive.
The only other people we have to buy for are his parents and they usually tell us what they want from Amazon and we have it shipped since they are overseas.
We don't buy each other anything for Christmas, we usually buy one thing for the whole family such as a museum membership, or last year it was a new computer since our old one was getting tired and we got an amazing black Friday deal. Clothes, shoes and home goods don't count as gifts in our house !
Does anyone buy for adults? We have 3 children, so we focus on buying for them. We typically don't get anything for the adults in our extended families and some have gotten really ticked off about that. I don't care about getting anything...I'd much rather watch the kiddos open their gifts and get excited.
On my dad's side of the family, we draw names for the kids...I think that's a great idea...the kids buy for one child and they get to pick out the gift, with a price limit. It's fun for them.
We're not the type that buy a lot of toys throughout the year. Books yes. Toys not so much.
We've been criticized in the past for not buying for adults (seriously there are SO many of them). I think that when there's children involved, then it's more about them. I used to make gifts for the adults, but when I saw some of the gifts that I made end up in the garbage, I said NO MORE.
Does anyone buy for adults? We have 3 children, so we focus on buying for them. We typically don't get anything for the adults in our extended families and some have gotten really ticked off about that. I don't care about getting anything...I'd much rather watch the kiddos open their gifts and get excited.
On my dad's side of the family, we draw names for the kids...I think that's a great idea...the kids buy for one child and they get to pick out the gift, with a price limit. It's fun for them.
We're not the type that buy a lot of toys throughout the year. Books yes. Toys not so much.
We've been criticized in the past for not buying for adults (seriously there are SO many of them). I think that when there's children involved, then it's more about them. I used to make gifts for the adults, but when I saw some of the gifts that I made end up in the garbage, I said NO MORE.
Ny ex and i would buy one small gift for eachother but saved bigger things for the year.
We, (brothers, sisters, good friends) decided we are all drowning under too much "stuff". And with times being what they are we also decided we wanted to help someone else. We make donations to various charities in each other's names. We also do not tell how much we donated. So no one feels obligated to match. We wrap up a card or a box with a note "A donation was made to XXX charity in your name". So they have something to upwrap. My DH and I buy presents for each other, but the days of going overboard are long gone.
I have adult children and we do buy for them. In fact the UPS man brought something I ordered from Disney.com for them just a few minutes ago. Woo-hoo! You are never too old for something from The Mouse House.
Last edited by DewDropInn; 11-23-2010 at 11:38 AM..
We, (brothers, sisters, good friends) decided we are all drowning under too much "stuff". And with times being what they are we also decided we wanted to help someone else. We make donations to various charities in each other's names. We also do not tell how much we donated. So no one feels obligated to match. We wrap up a card or a box with a note "A donation was made to XXX charity in your name". So they have something to upwrap. My DH and I buy presents for each other, but the days of going overboard are long gone.
I have adult children and we do buy for them. In fact the UPS man brought something I ordered from Disney.com for them just a few minutes ago. Woo-hoo! You are never too old for something from The Mouse House.
Next time use albris or amazon or ebay to save some money
I have Disney connections and get a very nice discount. Double
(But thanks for the tip, paganmama!)
n/p, i stopped shopping at the big stores years ago when i realized how much i could save. Actually often stuff at albris is used, but most of the time you can never tell . Great place for college textbooks as well.
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