scottyrocks
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No surprises. Ask me what I want and buy it for me. I promise I will be excited when I receive it. Cash or check is my second choice.
I hate to do this to my grandmother but....
no more "priceless collectibles," please. Just because it says collectible under it doesn't make it so.
Appliances. We have gotten toasters, waffle irons, and I think it was a burrito maker over the past few years. And they were all from Wal-Mart. People, use some imagination please. What will we get for next year, light bulbs and toilet paper?? :eusa_clap
Sounds like she got it on Home Shopping Network. My mom was addicted to HSN. She would order tons of clothes, jewelry, bags and other stuff that she never used. After she died I found much of it still in the original boxes along with the receipt or invoice.
Soap.
All my life, people have bought me scented, coloured, foamy, flower shaped, or otherwise whimsical soaps. Some of them I have enjoyed, many of them I have never opened and gave away. Still others I have tried and hated (though the thought was nice). As it stands, I have so many I couldn't possibly use them all. So please, if I am on your Christmas list and you are wondering what to give me, spare me the soap!
Coal. I don't want coal.
I once got an empty Action Man (G.I. Joe) box for christmas.
My dad told me it was a deserter
..................I'll get me coat!
Something tells me you get that a lot
lol
That's what happens when gifts are given purely out of obligation rather than out of a sincere sense of actually wanting to give a gift. That's my biggest gripe about the whole holiday season -- it's shoved down our gullets as something we HAVE to do instead of something we WANT to do. Bah humbug.
Oh, and if I'm given more As Seen On TV product bought from an endcap display at the discount drugstore on the morning of Christmas Eve, I shall surely scream. (If by some chance my sister ever sees this, yes I'm TALKING TO YOU.)
You don't watch enough of it...That's funny because most of the "As Seen on TV" products I've NEVER seen on TV! lol