Christmas present!

[billybags]

Well there you go, some bright spark has bought my husband a hand held tetras (brick) game for Christmas. He mostly does his exchange in the bathroom and I'm thinking "he's a long while" yes he is, he has got addicted to this game again. I will never see him now. he is in brick mode.

What unusual presents have you had?

[Darthvadar]

Well there you go, some bright spark has bought my husband a hand held tetras (brick) game for Christmas. He mostly does his exchange in the bathroom and I'm thinking "he's a long while" yes he is, he has got addicted to this game again. I will never see him now. he is in brick mode.

What unusual presents have you had?

Ha Ha!!!!....

Typical man. Billybags... They never grow up!...

Mind you, I can't afford to talk... I gat a talking Darth Vadar doll, and a Star Wars keyring that speaks six lines rom six different characters from the films!...

Yep... I AM getting worse!...

Darth...

[looneytunes]

Billybags, that is TOO funny.  I guess tetra is better than some things though! 

[hurlock1]

I got a "iPAQ Pocket PC" for hristmas. I've been trying to get it to do something since Christmas. My mp3 player bit the dust and after a good bit of fooling with the "pocket PC" I was able to find the expansion card and put some Mp3s on it. (The memory on the device has 48 mb of memory) and the expansion card (SD) is 2 GB. It hooks up to the internet via WIFI. but I have never been able to hook up to WIFI. I guess I could go to McDonald's and see if I could hook up there, but in reality, I really have no business at McDonald's. I think that it was a gift to my brother and he couldn't figure it out or whatever (It was brand new) and it has probably been in a drawer for however long, so he sent it to me. The thing needed charging, which I finally did and was able to do some stuff with it. I listened to my Audio book yesterday at Dialysis. I think that it would be great if they had WIFI at the center and being a WIFI virgin, I could hook up to WIFI for the first time. If nothing else, I have spent Hours and hours trying to figure out the operation of the danged thing. I have gotten An Ebook reader, but I haven't gotten any Ebooks. (They're expensive) They have Audio books at the library and I can rip audio files to my computer and convert them to MP3s and put them on the stinkin' Pocket PC; all of which takes time, but all I got is time, so I guess it's doing what it's supposed to do.
Oh well. . .
jmz

[Rerun]

I got "True Grit" for Christmas and have watched it twice so far!

[billybags]

hurlock1, that sounds a little bit technical for my liking, get a brick game, mind you, you will have to install batteries, would that be a problem. HaHa

[fc2821]

hurlock1, hang in there buddy. By the way you are very resourceful, figuring how to make what you have work for you. 

I wanted a digital SLR camera for Christmas, got a view finder version instead. I appreciate what I was gven, the thought and all, but I still want a SLR which is what I am use to (flim though).  Guess I'll have to buy it myself, but how log shuld I wait to do so? Don'tvwant to offend the gift givers (my step daughter and her husband).

[dwcrawford]

This is going to sound like complaints but it IS NOT.  This is hilarious to me (and some other people in my social group) as it is an annual discussion among us (and a lot of laughs) what this one person gave us.

Our friend is 85, female, multi divored with no children (other than an obnosious dachshund) and one of the wealthies people I know ( 5 plus million that we know of) and ultra stingy.  She shops all year for Christmas gifts for others and starts telling us all in August what she wants us to give her (usually gift cards, etc).  She buys on sale only and now I'm going to tell you this years gifts to me (she takes a shopping bag in the Present room and fills it up for each person).

A sheet set (full size)... I don't have a full size bed in the house but it was new (but low thread count - hey never said I'm not a creature of comfort).  Salvation Army resale?
A "snuggie" .  which I kind of wanted but when I put it on to test I immediately could smell under arm B.O. so I threw it in the trash.
A cookie jar without a lid  (flower pot).
and a thing I don't recognize... that's plastic looking, round with some little sticks in it.  It has no packaging label.  Actually it looks like a giant condom but it is 8 inches in diameter and not very long (must not be for me if it is what I said).  I'll give it to anyone who can name it.

Anyway... not a complaint.  It amuses me.  Thought it might amuse you.   Other years have been funnier.  Now I have to call some other people to see what they got.

[del]

fc2821 I have an SLR (film camera) and would like to have a digital one but didn't ask Santa for one LOL. Maybe for my birthday next spring!!  I got a BIG stand mixer - 800 watts of power!! I have made a few things with it. I over beat cream cheese icing and meringue.  Guess I'll learn I don't have to beat it as long with this one as I did with my little hand mixer!!

[fc2821]

del, what type of film SLR do you have?  I have a Canon.  Started using SLR  35 mm film cameras in 1973. I have many lenses and filters.  Use to proces my own film, black and white and color.  Man am I way behind the times.

[hurlock1]

I got "True Grit" for Christmas and have watched it twice so far!

What a great movie! They finally got ol' Ned Pepper! I hated to see La boeuf (Texas) get killed in the end. In 1969 I thought that I was in Love with Kim Darby. I'm gonna' look around for that movie.

[monrein]

I got the gift of precious time with some people I care about a lot and another present of  energy to enjoy doing things with them every day.  We also each got a bunch of stuff, some useful, some necessary, some wanted and some totally superfluous and irrelevant to our lives.  We decided together that those items will be donated new and unused to charities that can redistribute them to people who could use or enjoy them. 

[Deanne]

and a thing I don't recognize... that's plastic looking, round with some little sticks in it.  It has no packaging label.  Actually it looks like a giant condom but it is 8 inches in diameter and not very long (must not be for me if it is what I said). 

Dan, your friend is hilarious! 

I think this is one of those scent things. If I'm right, then the round plastic thing is a container that was supposed to come with scented oil in it. The stics are supposed to diffuse the scent into the room.

I got a bone-shaped picture frame with a bracket-thing on it to stand it on a shelf. However, the bracket-thing is so long that there's no way to stand it up. It's from a friend who said she likes to do crafts, so she "decorated" it by covering it with glitter. Now I have gitter all over the house and an ugly picture frame lying flat on a table because it doesn't stand up. I can't throw it out -- my friend made it for me.

[jbeany]

Ooooh, I can't stand "sacred trust" gifts.  It's a gift.  Once you give it, you don't have the right to expect the recipient to keep it forever!!!!  I do try hard to give gifts that are going to be enjoyed by the people who get them.  But if they don't, I sure hope they don't keep them around forever to clutter up their lives.

My positive on that was finally getting brave enough this year to ask my worst sacred trust gift giver for a receipt so I could exchange the gift for something in the proper size.  (I quit wearing baggy, over-sized clothes when I started on my weight loss - didn't need anything to encourage me to regain!)  Bless her heart, she not only took all the tags off the clothes before she wrapped them, she threw out the receipts.  She did get me things marked Large, not 2X - which seemed encouraging, until I got them home, tried them on, and realized she'd gotten me large men's clothes!  Ah well, at least I tried!

Dan, we need a pic of the mystery object!   

[willowtreewren]

My 6 year old granddaughter made me a bead bracelet. She made one for Carl, too, and a necklace for her mom. She knitted a little scarf for her little sister and drew many wonderful pictures for her dad. Those gifts are treasures and treasured.

[billybags]

willowtreewren, I agree they are little treasures. When my husband had a heart attack a year ago our grand daughter made him a bead bracelet and he had to wear it all the time he was in hospital. It had a dangling heart on it. Every time he has to go into hospital he has to wear it. She all ways asks him where it is and makes sure he wears it. Bless.

Dan your posting was so funny. My friend called to see me yesterday she had been to the sales and spent a couple of hundred pounds on presents for next year. She asked me if it would be ok if she wrapped them, I told her she was sad. I can not believe that people do that. I wonder what she has bought me.

[cariad]

Ooooh, I can't stand "sacred trust" gifts.  It's a gift.  Once you give it, you don't have the right to expect the recipient to keep it forever!!!!  I do try hard to give gifts that are going to be enjoyed by the people who get them.  But if they don't, I sure hope they don't keep them around forever to clutter up their lives.

I feel exactly the same way, jbeany. My husband and I have had arguments about this. When we first moved back to America together, he had this wooden thing (first clue - I had no idea what it was) that his brother and sister-in-law had sent him from their honeymoon. They had been married almost 10 years by the time we had this conversation. It was meant to be a banana tree sculpture/objet d'art thing, but it had broken during the move. My husband insisted it was still usable (yeah, in that its use was to sit there and be looked at) and that he couldn't throw it out because his brother had given it to him. I won that battle, eventually.

Gwyn and I had an interesting conversation a few weeks ago while watching that show clean house, that depicts hoarders trying to clean up their lives. It was about a woman whose husband had died very young in a car accident, and how she couldn't throw or give anything of his away. I asked Gwyn if he would have that problem if I were to die, and he said yes, definitely. I asked him what he would not be able to give away specifically, and he said my jewelry box. That's when I told him that I was sick of that jewelry box, that it was falling apart and that I have no emotional attachment to it whatsoever, I just don't have the inclination nor spare cash to replace it. 

[paris]

For our 25th wedding anniversary, my Mom sent us a lovely gift --  a bag of marbles!  She couldn't come to the party (we lived 9 hours from her) so I waited to open her gift with all the people at the party.  How do you explain a bag of marbles along with the silver dishes,etc?  My husband said "I told you your Mom lost her marbles", which wasn't funny to me at the time.    She did lose her marbles in the end. 

I agree Jbeany; when you give a gift, you give it with no strings attached.  If they don't like it, I hope they pass it one to someone who does. Or give it to a charity.   

[Des]

I got the exact same bottle of bubble bath that was in the pamper basket I gave my mom for her birthday in Jun... not like it BUT the exact one. I know because I battled to remove the pricetag. 

Oh, and a "back scratcher" - too weird. I don't think I need a back scratcher.?

I love any present. Even a stone my kids painted green is on the front porch. I really did not know what I was suppose to do with it.. so it is just sitting there.

But I only cried about my wedding ring when that was stolen. I am not very sentimental,  materialistic or too attached to my stuff. But hubby keeps EVERYTHING. He is very sentimental about stuff.

[Darthvadar]

Oh the old present saga...

Right... Bear in mind that I have a severe nut allergy, never drank alcohol in my life, AND I'm a wheelchair user...

Some of this Christmas's 'treasures'...

About twenty boxes of biscuits, chocolates, and cakes... Three cheese boards... ALL of which carry a nut allergy warning!!!...

Several bottles of assorted booze...

But the one I'm STILL trying to figure out... This morning, an old friend (85 year old man) from a charity I'm involved with called in to wish us a happy New Year, and to "Deliver a belated Christmas gift" to me... And what was this gift???... It's a €500 gift voucher for... Wait for it... It's worth the wait... A five hundred euro voucher for... A BYCYCLE!!!... I kid you not... A frigging bycycle!!!... What in the name of all that's sweet and holy am I suposed to do with a freaking bycycle???.... 

I despair of some peolple... I really do!...

Thank God I can offload it to a charity!....

Come on Folks... Tell us of your 'inspired' gifts... It might make me fel better!!!!....

Darth...

[billybags]

Darthvadar, I am sorry, but I can not stop laughing, a bike, its sods law isn't it. Why don't you sell it and buy some thing you really want. Excuse me while I laugh again. chuckle chuckle

[Darthvadar]

Billybags...

You're not the only one laughing... Mum's convulsed!...

I'm coughing and spluttering... (Asthma always makes me cough when I laugh!)...

Honestly Billybags... Some people amaze me!...

Hubby still playing with his new toy???.. On the plus side, it keeps him out of your hair!...

Darth....

[plugger]

Typical man. Billybags... They never grow up!...


Darth...

Maturity is over-rated!  I did get a book - they make good doorstops.

[dwcrawford]

HEHE Darth... plugger could be another "smart you know what"  Get used to it.  Can you handle two of them.  lol

[Rerun]

I usually get 2 or 3 Starbuck's gift cards!  I'm on fluid restriction!  I just say thank you and then re-gift them.

I did get from a friend, two "Snuggie Sacks" for my dogs.  I put them in front of the fireplace and the puppy (Tia) loves it.  The older one (Pebbles) lays on top.  They are so cute.  As soon as I can find my camera I'll take pictures.  They are made out of fleece.