i honestly want nothing other than to enjoy the holiday with my family and friends. if something thoughtful comes my way that would be great*. my son is leaving to go hang out with the communists in china on christmas eve so everything may feel a little off kilter.

i really cannot deal with the insane consumptionfest that christmas has turned into anymore and unlike most people who say that i really mean it. i'm gonna send cards, cook meals and watch it's a wonderful life and christmas vacation without commercials.

*man with the blue scarf by martin gayford.

With the trips, I really don't get to buy anything for myself anymore. It's a pretty spartan life. So I think the wife and I are looking forward to an excuse to get some stuff we've been wanting.

Know anything about letter bombs? We could deal.

I haven't asked for a Christmas present since 1995. Typically, I get a pair of kicks, some socks/underwear, and a handmade scarf.

Have no idea what I'll be giving just yet, other than some new batteries for the glowing cardinal that my cat loves so much. The rest will be decided in a frantic spending jag at some predetermined stores/sites sometime after 12/15.

I'm lucky since I have a girl I won't have to worry about sending her to college: Sharia Law and all that.

I do support Baby Gar's education though and look forward to your offer of three goats, six chickens and 2 acres of raw opium poppy for the arranged marriage.

Haha Bloor. Chuckletime!

I've already told him to try to knock in back, because she'll be so worried about being "pure" for the under the veil inspection.

And I don't give a fuck what you offer, you're not getting more than 2 goats.

This idea of liquor has been in my head since you started the thread. I should've asked FemDerris' dad for a nice bottle of scotch. He's the kind of guy that if I asked for something modest he'd go research crazy and then talk to some expert and then get something insane because "the guy at the store said it was one of the best".

I think I'm going to get a Wes Freed print from the Truckers show I went to in October at the Buckhead Theater. He's done a lot of stuff for this tour.

excellent. Glad to see you made it to the show. I was in SoCal that weekend and remember bringing up that the DBT show was the same night as the UGA/UT game in Athens.

My wife and I are doing the whole "not getting each other gifts" thing this year. Also, we're not asking for anything so, if there's cash or presents for us from the fam, we'll just consider it a blessing and on their own resolve. That said, we're also probably gonna be doing the *tongue-in-cheek* "I'm a Christian who cares" thing, and donating money in our families names to an outreach. Unresolved at this time as to which one. Now, as far as our niece is concerned--all bets are off. Probably a ton of Dora junk, and Disney animated movies, since she's getting into those.

Most of the time, the presents we get for my folks just end up in the basement or unused (see ipod for dad Christmas 3 years ago). So, we figure why not parlay that money into something worthwhile. Like giving people water, or food, or shelter. As a side--definitely not knocking what others are doing. Just a personal place we found ourselves drifting to.

i asked my mom for underwear

true story

we po

Can't stay away from Chick-Fil-A, huh?

well played

More proof that baby gifts are not really for the baby, but for mom and the giver.

I don't even know what to ask for, or what I'd want/need, at this point (mail-order brides and/or actual relationships excluded, of course)...

Being saved by the fact that my family be "we po"-thinking folks, so I can get away with inexpensive/crafty gifts. This enabled me to buy the second powered speaker for my living room / portable DJ set-up as a Black Friday gift to myself.

Other than that, trying to get as many tax deductible items in before 1/1 that I can...

shera and i just lol'd

I tried to talk Femgar out of getting a Christmas tree, using the "Baby Gar will pull it down/break the ornaments" logic. TEARS. Good times. Good times.

i spent ten bucks at a hardware store and got this cute lil thing

Aldi's has Charlie Brown Christmas trees for $8



Todd FTW!

And a nice "Wow!" goes out to honkeykong with 5.5 years between posts.

I put a strand of lights in a lamp that is currently not working.



As for gifts, I'm asking for robots, a new turntable and probably something kitchen-y. I'm giving tickets to Ron White to a friend (hoping she'll take her boyfriend and not ask me to go), jewelry and a Kindle for mom, Mythbuster stuff for one brother, the most awesome gift ever for the other (if he still lurks here), something for ayah (not what she wants) and I don't know what for dad.

Asking for: gift cards to somewhere for I can get a new printer, a few books:







and most of all (cue dramatic music) for reason to win out for once, unlike right around this time last year. Phil, Fu, Deena, Dana and Gar know what I'm speaking of. Developing...

All I want is some sort of traditional Christmas type foods. Being in Korea that shits hard to find. I missed out on Thanksgiving where the best I could do was some pumpkin pie, but I want some good non Korean stuff this holiday.

He will, too. I had to hang all that shit higher up the tree this year, and even cut a few lo branches back.

We went big this year. Size matters.

We're still rocking a mini-table top artificial tree for fear of the pull down. I think next year we'll go big real tree because the girls are understanding more and more each day.