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wolf
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alan68's post on the absolutely fascinating jobs thread got me thinking about presents for the insanity that's only ~four months around the corner. My kid will barely be one; so, I'm not worried about her, though I imagine that's challenging! But.. there's also everyone else on the planet to think about.

So, what presents rock, cost next to nothing, and ideally are somehow fun, productive, or at least non-exclusive with the kid(s)?

Here's my contribution:

My parents go by "babie" and "zadie" to her (pet forms of baba and zada, yiddish for grandmother and grandfather) and my mother-in-law goes by "mormor" (Swedish for grandmother). We made a separate one for her remaining two grandparents. (My wife had something like eight grandparents at her peak.)

Too cheap to buy extra sets of letters if some have been lost/eaten? So were we. M is W upside down.

Cheers,

Steve


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Submitted by wolf on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 10:48pm.

smacmartin
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make food

Everyone on my list gets a homemade treat.......last year i made homemade hot cocoa mix and homemade marshmallows......the year before it was homemade fudge and cookies.....i think people appreciate the effort of gifts from the heart and not necessarily the pocketbook...


Sat, 08/30/2008 - 8:49am

Electriclime
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Make and take

A friend of mine buys decorative bottles/jars at Michael's or wherever and adds olive oil and herbs to make those fancy flavored oil gifts that you would normally see in a store for $15+. She says people really like them.

My dad's side of the family and my parents are the type that have to buy expensive gifts, so we are pretty much stuck buying something so we don't feel cheap; though i have been downscaling the past few years because I just don't believe it's right. I prefer that people put more thought than money into a gift.

I started teaching myself quilting recently and was thinking that may be a good gift idea for next Christmas since it's something that can be somewhat personalized.

Rich C. : Novice baby wrangler and cat herder.
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Sat, 08/30/2008 - 4:30pm

alan68
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Baby's 1st Xmas

is always the easiest because all you really need are a lot of cute pictures of the baby. You can package them in a number of ways, like making nifty homemade "frames" out of poster board, or if you don't have that kind of time or creative side, you can usually find cute frames really cheap at dollar stores. I have very little in common with my father in law, but for father's day one year I gave him a montage photo frame full of pictures of my son at 14 months. "Pappy" said I could not possibly have given him a better gift. But as the years pass, you'll either have to get more creative or get a weekend job and once again grease the wheels of capitalism.

So why don't they call it mooching when the wife stays home?


Mon, 09/01/2008 - 7:49pm

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