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Christmas Ideas

idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
edited November 2001 in General Discussion
I'm not going for the longest post but the bit of Christmas shopping that I got done today gave me the idea. If you've done any shopping or if you already have it all planned out (and if your loved ones don't read this) let's all throw out our gift ideas. Okay, I have an ulterior motive. I'm stuck with what to buy a grandmother that has absolutely everything.Mom&Dad: Taurus Titanium .38, schnazzy coffee maker with "wake up" brewing timer.Brother: "Enemy At the Gates" on DVD, "About Face" by COL (Ret) David Hackworth and a nice sweaterPretty Girl down in GA who is swinging me a new Hoyt bow: Gift Certificate to Eddie BauerGrandma: ????????? (No. She'd never pick up a gun and would have much less interest in shooting one)
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  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm not sure yet about the rest of my family, but I got my wife her big gift already. She's been bugging me for a new bed for the past 6 months or so, so when we saw one in the style we liked for 50% off, I bought it on the spot. When I say 50% off, I mean that the * was $1,900 before the discount. I've got no problem spending $1,000 on a good firearm, but spending that money on a BED made me sick to my tummy. She was thrilled beyond belief though, so it was worth it!Now I know how SHE feels when I come home with long boxes marked "Benelli"!As for the rest of the family, it'll probably be DVD's and books.
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  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Christmas seems a long ways away ... but then it always supprises me when its here already ...Mom & Dad~ Some sort of a monitor st they can here whats going on at the front of their house ... last time I was there I pounded on the door for 20 minutes & Mom couldn't here me cause she was in the back room where she paints, and probably a basket of fancy jellys.Sister~ NO Idea, probably a gift Certificate to a nice reastraunt ... againGrown Childred~ Money ... againAbby (1 yr old)~ Toys & Clothes (Mrs Kimber will take care of it)Mrs. Kimber~ No Idea, but after Thanksgiving she usually drops some hints.
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    ? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Idsman, unfortunately I never had the problem of buying for a grandparent, but two suggestions. If you will be near her during the holidays, a dinner & show with her grandson. If she lives in a cool climate, a PolarFleece vest - circulation degrades as one grows older. Realize perception of 'cool' varies by region. Have vivid memories of what 'sweater weather' means to a Texan - hot summer day in NH!
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  • Ms. BeastMs. Beast Member Posts: 496 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How about a gift certificate to a store, a show and dinner is a great gift if you live near her. Does she have any hobbies? Any favorite foods?
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  • oneminuteoneminute Member Posts: 37 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sister and brother-in-law: Each a membership in the NRA and a introductory handgun course of some kind at a range. A few rounds of .40 for their Glock also.Mom:Some more Longaberger basket stuff and who knows what else. You know how hard moms are sometimes "you don't have to get me anything"Girlfriend: Trigger job, holster, spare mags. for her PPK-S. Jewelry also.A couple of friends that will probably get some cop art stuff.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mrs Rembrandt get new carpet and some furniture, lots of clothes & trinkets with Schnauzers on them ....plus of course...me.Kids are going to get reproduction copies of our family's photo albums including the famed "Hunting Album" that has over 36 years of family hunting photos. Been working on this for almost a year now.
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  • Mark IIMark II Member Posts: 247 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My wife told me that I am getting her a gift certificate to a shopping mall and then taking her there to spend it. And a day at a spa. My Grandmother should expect a new phone with answering machine. Her phone isn't the greatest, and she is never home when I call.My mother would appreciate a few tickets to see the "Lord of the Rings" movie. I just got her the whole set of books for her birthday, and she loved it.My father, as of today, has a subscription to "Gun World" magazine.Sister: don't know yet.Sisters children: don't know yet.
    "To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet an enemy."
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  • j2k22j2k22 Member Posts: 329 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    EATF- you will probably derive more benefit from the bed than she does from the long boxes marked Benelli!
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  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hehehehehehe!Right again, J!
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    I might give my wife the day off from cooking and cleaning on Christmas Day, but since Christmas falls on a Tuesday she's still on the hook to wash and wax my Jeep.
    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    LMAO!Don't let her push you around, Lowrider! Tell that woman how it is!
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A Chapman screwdriver set makes a nice ca. $30 gift!
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  • Patrick OdlePatrick Odle Member Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Usually money for the older children. I used to make wooden toys for my grandchildren,but I ran out of the toys that I knew how to make such as cane- whistles, bamboozlers, dancin-doozies, whirleywhizzers, jumping-jacks, 3 shot rubber-guns, marble-puzzles,basketball free-throw games, exploding penny-banks, and can-jo's. Also they all got too big to appreciate and play with toys. up until then I was almost as important to themas one of ole Santa's elves at christmas time.
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  • hyperspacehyperspace Member Posts: 91 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Girlfriend: Nikon 995 camera.Mom: S&W LadySmith 65 in .357 Magnum.Dad: Ruger Mk-II Target .308Sister: cell phone and service for a year.Buddy: Parkerized Kel-Tec P11. \Christmas shopping is done for the year! And most other holiday shopping for the next year. I just send a card for all the holidays & birthdays, and roll all the gifts up into one at Christmas.
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  • ghotie_thumperghotie_thumper Member Posts: 1,561 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wife: Darn, still haven't came up with anything.Son: New Dean 5 string bass and an amp he's been bugging me about.Daughter: Sending her to Germany for the Summer with her friends. Self: Note to self, spend less on kids next year so self gets something.Sisters: Something if they're lucky. Maybe a gift certificate, yeah, that's it!Brother in laws: Craftsman section at Sears, some sort of new fangled hand tool they always come up with.Sister in laws: don't care what the wife gets them as long as I don't have to shop with her.Father/Motherinlaw: A shiny new police scanner they've been whining about. Back to the Wife: still nothing, darn, could mean trouble. Oh well been there before, and I'll go there again. Jewelry always seems to get me off the hook.
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  • instrumentofwarinstrumentofwar Member Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    blah???...BLAH!!!!anyway with that out of the way, you know this without any thought, iconoclast was right. grandmothers are pretty much all in the same class, when it comes to gifts; they would rather share some time with you, even if it's just drinking coffee, than for you to blow some exeuberant amount of dough on a present. i know with your work time is kind of on the limited side, so pick up something sentimental and go share an evening with her. -FERG(it's cold in kosovo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
    whatever you do, try to look unimportant, the enemy may be low on bullets
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  • TrinityScrimshawTrinityScrimshaw Member Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Idsman, You should be greatful you still have grandparents to worry about buying things for. I wish I had this problem, but if I can offer up any advice, it's TIME. What your grandmother would really like is for you to spend some TIME with her. Make a point to take her out to dinner. Treat her to a day with you, and do what ever she wishes. Just be there for her. I wish now I could go back and do this with my grandmother, whom I took to much for granted.Take care buddy, and head my advice.LT. W.......
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  • Andrew AdamsAndrew Adams Member Posts: 227 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fiance: Leather Jacket and gold "froggie" pendantDad: Reloading pressMom: Give Sister Cash and let her worry about it, as alwaysSister: ???Grandma: Hunting BootsGrandpa: New Hunting Hat and VestFuture Brother in Law: Rare Bootleg Grateful Dead shows on CDThat about does it for me.
    When you want to dial long distance...AT&T, .223, or Jeremiah 33.3?Member:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets
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