I know we've talked before about uncluttery gifts, could we revisit some ideas?
I'm taking any and all ideas for gift cards for sons in law.
Asking for ideas for gifts may seem "cluttery", however if i
find just the right thing, it's golden.
Also I'm wondering If anyone would like to share their gift ideas
or their already bought gifts for other family members?
My gifts for dd's:
One would like skis/boots
One would like a dresser she's had her eye on
One is thinking decor for her new condo
One is liking clothes snd shopping
15 yr old is asking for tattoos and piercings- which will have to wait
Til the magic age of 18...
I do enjoy Christmas, but I will not go out shopping all willy nilly,
with no ideas or budget in mind. Gifts do not need to be extravagant
to be thoughtful, loved and used.I don't want to make a spectacle of it.
For me, this does take a fair amount of thought.
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For DH: there was a groupon offer for a full-service, old fashioned barbershop, and I got him a certificate for the cut&shave. Am also making him a lamp from a brass charcoal burner he got in Korea many years ago, which has been languishing in a closet. Will need to think of a few more (small)things.
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For quite a few years DH & I haven't been able to think of anything we want or need. So, for a while we exchanged 1 CD and 1 calendar each. Now we don't even want more CDs, so we just exchange calendars! We go for large wall calendars with travel scenes of a country/countries we've visited or want to visit. For DB & wife who live in ME, we send locally made southwestern goodies. We don't have children, but books go to the children elsewhere in the family. All the adults opted out of gift-giving years ago, but we all donate more to charities during this season. Sorry if this was TMI!
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I thought this fit in this thread:
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DH and I are "serendipity" shoppers. We don't really plan what we want to get for various giftees, and heaven knows nobody helps us out by conveniently wishing-out-loud.
We tend to trip over things on our vacations or during regular excursions. I was out getting some painting supplies, and the store had a gallery of art by its staff, and there was one I thought my sister & her wife would love, so I bought it. Last year they got a bat house. :-)
For "uncluttery" gifts I still think the best things are experiences. Got my parents a gift certificate to their favorite local fancy restaurant once. If we lived nearby, we would just *take* them out, but since they're 3000 miles away a proxy had to do.
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Gift cards are great for some gifts, but too impersonal for others.
Hubby tends to tell me what he can really use, and I get that. Both of us have birthdays near Xmas (him just before and me just after) so that same short list can be used for both. This year he wants a running shirt with reflective stripes on it.
Services that are a treat you know the person likes are a good idea, like cooking classes or a massage or facial.
For the more traditional in-laws we tend to pool together with the other sibling and her husband for one big gift (this year, a new computer- not one of our castaway ones) for the MIL and usually something comestible/drinkable for the FIL.
Among ourselves (the SIL and her hubby and DH and myself) we pool the money we'd of used on gifts and go do something fun together- usually eat at a new restaurant. MIL pitches in with babysitting. SIL came up with this idea a few years ago and I adore it.
My mother lives overseas so she gives me a list of American things she can't get over there (everything from green chiles to king size sheets) and I ship her a big care package. This can be pretty expensive now that air-shipping is the only option from the USA but it's a lovely treat.
My best friend and her husband and I (all best friends since college) decluttered our gift-giving years ago and now we just give to a charity that we know the other one would like. This took off like wildfire and now her parents (who I am also close to) do that as well. Every once in a while one of us will come across an actual object we just KNOW the other will love, so that gets taken into account too, but it's rare.
Off-topic, I tend to do the same thing (giving to charity) in lieu of flowers in memorium of someone. A donation notice and a nice card or two to those left behind, rather than another wreath to wither away.
Last year SIL got MIL a year's entry to the zoo, where she loves to take SIL's baby.
I love the idea of a full service barbershop gift cert... you have me thinking!
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I got a flight lesson for one son in law, via groupon,
and a gift card to a sporting goods shop for another SIL.Posted 5 months ago # -
everyone around us gets soap soap soap and it is all they usually ask for.
i briefly considered baking gifts, but realised nobody would be as happy with cakes when they could have months and months worth of expensive soap instead.
so that makes it pretty easy.today i was given a case of my favourite wine....an early birthday gift.
delighted with it!
good wine is a great gift!Posted 5 months ago #
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