Best ever Xmas present....

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Originally Posted by jimmi5bellies

Worst christmas present was from one of my sons and it is a book about cannabis, he wanted me to read it so that i would get an understanding as to why he smokes it. It makes a great wedge

Could have been worse, could have been a book about cannibals.
Then what would you have done with the stuffing for his Christmas dinner?

[Margaret Pilkington]

The best gift I ever gave was not a Christmas gift, it was for Mothers Day.
I had taken Ma out to visit my sister in Oz. As you all know, I am an inveterate journal writer.
I documented where we went on our six week trip. The things we did, took pictures.
Wrote about it all.
Then when we came back I started to put all the pictures onto Disk for Ma to look at.
Mothers Day was coming and I didn't quite know what to get for Ma......so I asked her....she couldn't think of anything at all....then one day she phoned me and said she had been in Oz all afternoon - she had been looking at the pictures on the TV.
An idea was born. I would print out my journal entries and add photo's and make it into a book. It took quite a bit of doing........I kept messing it up(I was less computer literate then.........it must be 7 or 8 years ago) but eventually my book was finished.
Ma was thrilled with it. Even now she goes through it on a regular basis and she tells me that it gives her great pleasure.
The work that went into this gift was well worth it.

[Eric]

The obvious worst .... snot rags from my great aunt Jane

Best ever Still waiting ... maybe this will be my year

[MargaretR]

I had two 8mm films. One was my 1st wedding. The other was of my son aged 3 months.
I got them put on a video and gave it to my son - he was delighted to see long deceased relatives, some he never knew and some who he can scarcely remember

PS That was a while back - he intends to convert it to a CD now

[entwisi]

15 years old I got one of these



49.99 from debenhams in Blackburn

( I got 50 quid for Xmas that year so it was everything I got that year )

I still had it 15 years later. The cassette door was smahed off, the back all melted from being left in the sun, the tuning bit was mmissing so you had no idea of what freq you were tuned to etc but it still worked despite being completely abused. the same year my best friend back then received absolutley shed loads of stuff ( purple people eater being one of them, he'd broken/lost/ forgotton about them all by Easter.....

goes to show its not how much you spend but what it means that counts

[garinda]

Originally Posted by entwisi

15 years old I got one of these



49.99 from debenhams in Blackburn

( I got 50 quid for Xmas that year so it was everything I got that year )

I still had it 15 years later. The cassette door was smahed off, the back all melted from being left in the sun, the tuning bit was mmissing so you had no idea of what freq you were tuned to etc but it still worked despite being completely abused. the same year my best friend back then received absolutley shed loads of stuff ( purple people eater being one of them, he'd broken/lost/ forgotton about them all by Easter.....

goes to show its not how much you spend but what it means that counts

I remember you getting that, Beat Boy.

Doing your moves, on a piece of lino, outside Woolies.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Eric

The obvious worst .... snot rags from my great aunt Jane

Best ever Still waiting ... maybe this will be my year

Do you have any special requests Eric -have you sent a letter to Father Xmas yet?

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

I had two 8mm films. One was my 1st wedding. The other was of my son aged 3 months.
I got them put on a video and gave it to my son - he was delighted to see long deceased relatives, some he never knew and some who he can scarcely remember

PS That was a while back - he intends to convert it to a CD now

Often it's the personal things where someone has put in some effort which are the best presents -not the exotic or expensive things...

[entwisi]

Originally Posted by garinda

I remember you getting that, Beat Boy.

Doing your moves, on a piece of lino, outside Woolies.

Hehe, not me I'm afraid, it was only when I came back from Uni aged 19 that I had absolutely any conviction to dance^H^H^H^H^H make a fool of myself by dancing and that would never be in full public view....

[Eric]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Do you have any special requests Eric -have you sent a letter to Father Xmas yet?

I'm thinkin' about it ... trouble is all I can come up with is an Oscar Wilde quote Maybe I'd like the monkey's paw .... there again maybe not I believe I'll think along the lines of a gift for someone else .... I know it sounds corny but I really have always got more pleasure from giving gifts, rather than from receiving them. And I don't believe I'm alone in that.

I have Santa's Canadian address: Santa,

North Pole

HOH OHO (I think this is the official postal code for Santa)

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Bee

Worst Xmas present I ever received was a computer chair last year.................

yeh poor do.......shame it wasn't n Electric Chair.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Eric

I'm thinkin' about it ... trouble is all I can come up with is an Oscar Wilde quote Maybe I'd like the monkey's paw .... there again maybe not I believe I'll think along the lines of a gift for someone else .... I know it sounds corny but I really have always got more pleasure from giving gifts, rather than from receiving them. And I don't believe I'm alone in that.

I have Santa's Canadian address: Santa,

North Pole

HOH OHO (I think this is the official postal code for Santa)

You are not alone -i like buying pressies too, it's hard to be original though and these days my sons always just want money and i only have one child to buy for and she has (literally) everything!

Last year I actually bought and wrapped some stuff up for myself - how sad is that... perhaps i'll try writing to the address you cite above.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by mobertol

You are not alone -i like buying pressies too, it's hard to be original though and these days my sons always just want money and i only have one child to buy for and she has (literally) everything!

Last year I actually bought and wrapped some stuff up for myself - how sad is that... perhaps i'll try writing to the address you cite above.

Awww .... about six years ago, when I was going thru a rough time, all I got for Christmas were two cards: one from my ex, and one from a furniture store where I had bought a bunch of stuff

Maybe I'll try the HOH OHO thing too:

File:RuPaulHoHoHo.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Eric

Awww .... about six years ago, when I was going thru a rough time, all I got for Christmas were two cards: one from my ex, and one from a furniture store where I had bought a bunch of stuff

Maybe I'll try the HOH OHO thing too:

File:RuPaulHoHoHo.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Better than the Michael Bublè album which was the last one I got! Do you think they dress up as Father Xmas as well as his "Little" helpers!

[Benipete]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Better than the Michael Bublè album which was the last one I got! Do you think they dress up as Father Xmas as well as his "Little" helpers!

You need help,