Comments on: Christmas giving and receiving: Open thread

By: madmaxine

madmaxine — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:45:54 +0000

The best Christmas gift I have ever received was a ten-speed bicycle by a man I barely knew, but he knew I was without transportation. I later married him. That was 19 years ago, and we are still married.

By: Blind_Mule

Blind_Mule — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:26:38 +0000

I did’nt get any material gift’s as per my request every year, except my parent’s will no longer accept my request to spend the money on my wife and kid’s so they got me a roll of frisket for airbrushing. I’m just happy to get together with my family on Christmas Eve and my immediate family on Christmas Day, having dinner and good conversation and ribing each other. Everyone is doing good and is relativly healthy thank’s to the grace of God. My Mom and Dad got my 14 year old daughter a MP3 player that she desperatly wanted and knew we could’nt afford this year. That was a great gift to me also, to see her happy and not dissappointed. She told my sister in law that she did’nt expect much for Christmas “cause Mom and Dad have alot of bill’s to pay this year” She was pleasanlty suprised though because we did get her art supplies, this girl has been drawing since she was 4 years old and has’nt stopped yet. She is so talented I could’nt bear not getting her art supplies. My boy’s 27 and 23 also understanding our situation and not expecting anything went through there stocking’s and did’nt even notice the cash we gave them they got there candy and told us thank’s, my wife had to get it out of the stocking’s and give it to them which they refused but they had a suprise in their jacket’s cause I hid their money in them, the 27 year old called and said “That was underhanded I told you to keep it, but thank you.” the other lives with me and does’nt go back to work till thurs. but I’m sure he’ll be suprised as well.

By: 30 pcs of silver

30 pcs of silver — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:08:42 +0000

Best gift received – hasn’t arrived yet. My hubby and I are trying to get pregnant. I pray for the gift of bringing a new life into the world everyday. Oh and a new diamond Movado watch.

Best gift given – Dewalt finish nailer for the hubby.

Worse gift received – Not applicable.

God Bless!

By: fourstringfuror

fourstringfuror — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:14:19 +0000

This year my wife and I opened our home to friends who had nowhere to go for Christmas. My wife cooked an enormous, immaculate feast of bourbon glazed ham, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and all the rolls we could eat. We spent the rest of the day gorging on tasty desserts, enjoying many cups of hot, delicious wassail (made by yours truly), playing games, and chatting with our friends.

Although giving and receiving gifts really isn’t the reason for Christmas, we did exchange a few things. I have never received a “bad” gift, as I am thankful for anything I get from someone who took the time to think of me.

I hope all of you had a relaxing, enjoyable Christmas, spent with friends and family. Even you liberals

By: englishqueen01

englishqueen01 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:43:32 +0000

Best gift received: A pair of Contour memory foam pillows. Slept on them last night – best sleep in ages.

Best gift given: I gave my husband the Richard Thompson box set…he loved it, and since he’s so hard to shop for it’s great to get a gift that fits just right.

Hope you all had a blessed and merry Christmas. I sure did.

By: CharlieT

CharlieT — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:57:43 +0000

Ironically, my best and worst Christmas presents occurred on the same day, December 25, 1990. I was deploying the Gulf War the next day, so being home for Christmas was an extra-special gift all by itself (many of my fellow soldiers had already deployed). Sitting in our living room in Stuttgart dressed in BDU’s watching my 9 year old daughter enjoy her presents was the best present. Worst present – I gave my wife my will and funeral instructions and left my dress uniform all pressed and set hanging on the living room doorknob to be used in case I didn’t come back (I gave her some nice gifts too, I just can’t remember them).

These “gifts” ended up merging into one memory when nine years later my daughter described this scene in her college application essay. She titled it “Dress Blues” and told how she thought it was odd when she saw my dress uniform hanging on the doorknob that I was taking my dress uniform to war. When she returned home after seeing me off, she thought I had forgotten it. The next time I wore this uniform was to a formal after I returned and she told about her confusion on Christmas Day. She ended her piece with the thought that whenever she sees any soldier in a dress blue uniform, it reminds her of that day and of the sacrifices that service members make every day.

By: shooter

shooter — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:32:25 +0000

December 25th, 2007 at 4:45 pm, Kevin K.
Shooter and Zorro: please add me to your group. First tentative suggestion: the USO.

Who else is in?
Lets see if this gets some life to it???

By: Ret7army

Ret7army — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:30:53 +0000

Best gift received?
The love of my Lord and Savior, followed by 2 more, the love of my wife and the Pearl Harbor baby boy (not quite so little anymore)

Worst gift?
Got canned, interesting thread on that starting over at daybydaycartoon dot com

By: gayle

gayle — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:25:23 +0000

Best gift received; Granddaughter soon to be born, having my grown kids home for the holidays, and good health.

Best that I gave; Daughter = baby clothes Son= Taylormade golf clubs

lots of food, music, and love to share!

By: backwoods conservative

backwoods conservative — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:09:05 +0000

On December 26th, 2007 at 8:50 am, et said:

Santa left a new gas guzzling Dodge pickup truck in the driveway this year.

Congratulations on the new truck. And remember, if you can’t dodge it, ram it!

By: mkarnes2007

mkarnes2007 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:02:08 +0000

The best gift I gave was “Super Mario Galaxy.” I know it’s not much of a gift, dollar wise… but it was the perfect gift for the person that I gave it to.

By: et

et — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:50:21 +0000

Santa left a new gas guzzling Dodge pickup truck in the driveway this year.

By: TMoney

TMoney — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:09:18 +0000

Best gifts received – Jesus Christ and a box of ammo.

Best gift given (the hit at our house)- gave each family unit a radio-controlled helicopter. Christmas is for TOYS!

Worst received – ever – Christmas campaingn ads. Thank God I don’t have a TV. But I catch some of them on Hot Air or YouTube.

By: CO of Fort Housewife

CO of Fort Housewife — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:18:01 +0000

The best gift was being able to have my hubby here with us for Christmas. Our daugher received a dancing and singing “Larry the Cucumber” from her Scary Uncle (which is what he wants her to call him) which she absolutely adores. My MIL sent me some Korean pancake mix and some bulgogi marinade, so I made Korean food for the first time ever, for our Christmas dinner. My hubby says it is our new tradition!

God bless all our military and vets (specially the ones who post here!)

Belated Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:50:06 +0000

The best present I gave right now would probably be the bottle of Chanel perfume for my mother-in-law. That scent has some very special memories for her and she hadn’t been able to afford a bottle of it for a long time.

The best present I ever received? Now this might sound silly to some of you, but when I was eight, I got a labyrinth (Tilting table with a maze in it and you guide a ball through). I still have it after all of these years.

I can’t say that I can think of anything to regift or that I wish I had kept though.

And Merry (Belated) Christmas everyone!