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- rockonski
Hi Guys,
Just wanted to tell you what I want for Christmas:
NOTHING.
Seriously, I don’t need more things and more clutter. I don’t need you to spend your hard earned money on me. Take your money and pay down your credit card or something. It will make me happy.
If you insist on getting me something, I ask that you make it insubstantial.
If you insist on getting me something material, I ask that it be used or second hand. For instance, a book you already own and feel I may like.
If you insist on getting me something new I ask that you make it something that will help our environment. For instance, I drink tea, so a tea infuser would be good thing for me and the planet.
If you insist on getting me stuff this is a good hint:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registr…
Warmth,
tonikP.S. Save the planet.
- -sputnik-0
hey, the last book on your amazon list has this sentence in its review:
"Art. FLATNESSISGOD presents a thorough exploration of the basic practiceof seeing and consuming the second dimention."
dimention? dementia? dimension?
lol! nice..in an editorial too!
- blaw0
a donation has been made in your name to the arthur guinness fund.
- MLP0
then give me everything you get. i'll be into it, or i'll sell it on ebay.
- mg330
I would love to come to an arrangment with my family that we don't get each other gifts, but instead donate to a charity, get things for children that don't have much.
My mom still asks me for a Christmas list, and it's tough to think of things I need. It's tough because for years when I'd give her a christmas list, I'd never get anything from it. I've told her to stop buying me clothes - she buys for what I would have worn 15 years ago.
She won't give gift certificates, thinks they are impersonal.I also have a terrible time shopping for my parents (I've got four, both mom and dad are remarried) and most years it becomes a challenge to find the most acceptable thing for the sake of getting something. I try to put thought into it, my Dad is the easiest as we have many interest in common.
My Mom told me to get my stepdad a John Denver greatest hits CD.
She also told me to get him this last year, and I did not.I can't figure out why he wouldn't just go get it himself after nearly a year has gone by without it.
- rockonski0
mg33,
i sent this to my family in the hope that they understand that this is what i wish for xmas. i hope they can my my wish come true.
- seed0
Anything I can actually use I pretty much have to buy myself.
- mg330
Never seen that camo book rockonski. Have you looked at it before? It's huge! It's all about camo? Awesome.
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I'm not saying my Mom is a bad shopper/gift giver. It's just that our tastes are very different.Example:
I told her that my girlfriend needs a kitchen apron. "Nothing fancy, nothing with pictures or words or anything."
She replied, "She wouldn't want one that says 'Kiss The Cook?"Me: "Uh, no."
Her, jokingly: "That's no fun, you guys are boring."
- HelixDnB0
Only thing I'm thinking about getting is a wacom tablet.
Other than that, I'm having the rents save for a combined christmas/graduation present:
http://www.go-l.com/laptops/holl…Can't wait til L gets their investor support sorted out and get myself one of those badboys to use on the road for gaming/audio production.
- mg330
I'm the same way seed. I don't have all I need in life, but I'm comfortable.
This past weekend, I was looking back at pictures from growning up.
There was one of my sister holding up a curling iron that relatives had gotten her.
Now, I'm not rich, I don't have everything, but things like that, you just go out and buy them, don't you?
Relatives getting toasters, coffee makers, things like that, I'm too preferential to even tell someone to get me that.
I read product reviews, I get advice from people, and when I've locked into something, that's what I want, not the alternative to it.It's like asking for a dual espresso/coffee maker, and getting just the coffee maker.
- rockonski0
mg33,
DPM, that camo book is amazingly beautiful. you have no idea. it's entirely about camo. and it weighs a tonne.
re: mom
that's what mom's are all about. i had to make my mom cry to make her stop buying me clothes. and she stopped for a while, and then she does it again, but she got me this nice lambswool argyle sweater, second hand and everything.
i wish i hadn't made her cry though.