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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2013 16:06:04 GMT
I am often asked 'What would you like for Christmas dad' and the same question by one or two others, without the suffix of dad. (Whew!) And I usually say, 'I dunno, buy me something you think I would like'
In past years I was rarely asked, and rarely disappointed. I used to get a box of 50 cigars from the one girl and maybe something for the garden from the other. The cigars would (with luck) last me a whole year.
Now I seem to be getting the sorts of thing that you KNOW are bought on the way round somewhere (not from my girls I would add, they usually put some thought into it)
I STILL have biscuits from M&S I was given last year. There are 8, yes 8 bloody bottles of port in my cupboard, but no one has suggested some decent cheese to go with even one of them. I have socks and shirts I have never worn, and more than one pair of slippers.
Please dont' think I am ungrateful, that is far from the case, but why oh why can't people just say 'Look mate, if there is nothing you particularly want hows about I bung twenty quid into a charity' . That would make me so much happier, and I think cause the givers less stress.
Any thoughts?
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Post by ARENA on Dec 17, 2013 16:14:16 GMT
(1) I don't mind getting Amazon tokens.
(2) I suggested to Mrs A that we (the whole family) instead of racking our brains as to what to buy each other, did just as you suggest and send the money to a charity. She scowled over the top of her glasses.
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Post by scorp on Dec 18, 2013 17:04:56 GMT
My brother has been in the habit of bunging me 5 or 6 1/2-dozens of claret - only I have them a bit stacked up so he has thought again - and delivered a parcel about (old money) 4ft by 3ft by a foot - I have not the least idea what's inside it!
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Post by mickeymo1 on Dec 27, 2013 20:08:29 GMT
Does my family really think I need at least three bottles of after shave every Xmas?
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Post by ARENA on Dec 27, 2013 20:11:05 GMT
My youngest gave Mrs A & I a coffee-table book about Venice.
Inside............two first class holidays to Venice (WOW)
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Post by scorp on Dec 27, 2013 21:56:19 GMT
For a week this parcel, about 4-foot by 3-foot by another foot sat there - finally I ripped off the wrapping - it turns out to be a massage unit (what is shiatzu? - I thought it was a breed of dog) - from my excellent brother. I'm looking forward to getting to grips with it - or maybe it getting to grips with me!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2013 15:20:24 GMT
My youngest gave Mrs A & I a coffee-table book about Venice. Inside............two first class holidays to Venice (WOW) What a lovely thing to do MrN bought me a mini Ipad, I'm thrilled with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2014 10:02:25 GMT
The best present I have ever had came from a friend. She is penniless but gave me two photographs she had taken of me cooking with my granddaughter aged 3, framed in frames from a charity shop.
Something money could not buy, and I will confess I wept.
And one of my seretaries called in after Christmas with - you have guessed it, a bottle of port!
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Post by goldielox on Jan 3, 2014 9:34:11 GMT
Mr G has bought me an i-pad................................HELP!
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Post by Prue on Jan 3, 2014 9:46:52 GMT
My sister gave me a bar of soap shaped like a cow. Or some kind of animule
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