Christmas presents

[MrCrowesGarden]

My wife gave me some fancy jeans that she wants me to wear.

$200 jeans?

My folks got me this. It's the robot pencil sharpener of kitchen utensils.

My girlfriend's parents got me that! (although I do a lot of grilling in the summer, so it makes sense.)

[cardinalkarp]

I almost bought that spatula myself.

[go birds]

My wife gave me some fancy jeans that she wants me to wear.

Jncos?


Yea I'm with y'all. I think I've gotten to the point where i kinda despise Christmas. Like stlewis, I usually have to throw out the ole "this is great! I can totally use this wallet!" Then it goes right into my collection box filled with wallets and car flashlights.

Christmas is so fake these days and its just such a hassle

But like doc said, the kids do make it somewhat worthwhile. My niece told everyone she wanted Arnold palmers and poptarts for Christmas, so that's exactly what I got her....7 gallons of Arnold palmers and 10 boxes of poptarts. She was legit so excited....more about that than her iPad mini. The look on her and everyone else's faces was priceless.

I paid for it with the money I keep on a money clip I bought myself over the summer.

[Freed Roger]

At this point in life, I'm pretty numb to the size and scope of the gift-giving thing in our house and wife's side of the family. The kid enjoys her gifts, but would probably enjoy them just as much if she received about half of them. I'd rather spread out the fun over the year, than overwhelming at Xmas..

Best thing we do - My siblings and older nieces/nephews pool forgo gifts and pool money for charity - which we take turns designating. Typically it goes to someone we know who is struggling, or the scholarship fund we set up at our old high school in memory of our Dad, rather than a public charity. Several family members are teachers, so they always know people that can use some help. Some good stories have come out of this.

/humblebrag

[lukethedrifter]

My wife gave me some fancy jeans that she wants me to wear.

$200 jeans?

I think they were $100 jeans on sale for $80.

[sighyoung]

My wife gave me some fancy jeans that she wants me to wear.

$200 jeans?

I think they were $100 jeans on sale for $80.

Give your wife credit. They were $200 jeans on sale for $80 because some guy bought them, wore them to a nightclub one night, then returned them to the store for a full refund the next day.

[sighyoung]

I got some nice gifts--my daughter decorated a Christmas plate for me, and got it fired at a local stoneware maker. I also got a Samsung Galaxy player, which lets me play around with something to see if I want an Android smartphone later on. And my wife got me a NY Times cookbook, so I get the hint.

I will say, though, that my new sister-in-law got some really crappy presents for my kids. Nobody even expected a present from her, so I'm glad she got something, but sheesh . . . She got my son a hat and gloves that would fit a three year old, and he's fifteen. She got a snap purse for my daughter at a dollar store, and a zipper inside it broke off instantly. It is so cheap you can smell the sweat of third-world slave labor as soon as you open it, and it seems so carcinogen-laden that the EPA will declare it a Superfund clean-up site in June. A card would have sufficed, so I don't get it. The kids will write thank-you notes, and are usually very appreciative, but it's hard to blame them for chuckling. Last year, my sister-in-law bought my daughter an umbrella.

[phins]

I always do really well on my wife's side. I was a [expletive] though at one point and I feel bad about it. I had asked my wife for a hybrid pitching wedge because I've found using a putter grip and chipping in a similar motion as putting has helped me quite a bit.

Anyway, she draws a map on the card and makes me look for my gift and I feel reay stupid with the whole house watching me follow this map when I finally find it I'm not as excited as I should have been. It was a 4 iron hybrid- a nice one though- and she said is that the one you wanted? I should have said yes and been smart, but I said no I wanted a pitching wedge, but this is great too. You could tell I hurt her feelings and it was a dick move.

[Freed Roger]

I always do really well on my wife's side. I was a [expletive] though at one point and I feel bad about it. I had asked my wife for a hybrid pitching wedge because I've found using a putter grip and chipping in a similar motion as putting has helped me quite a bit.

Anyway, she draws a map on the card and makes me look for my gift and I feel reay stupid with the whole house watching me follow this map when I finally find it I'm not as excited as I should have been. It was a 4 iron hybrid- a nice one though- and she said is that the one you wanted? I should have said yes and been smart, but I said no I wanted a pitching wedge, but this is great too. You could tell I hurt her feelings and it was a dick move.

I don't know [expletive] about golf, but a woman giving a man a gift related to his hobby is almost always a bad idea. It's like a man trying to buy a pair of fancy shoes or other [expletive] piece of clothing for a woman. Even if you are close to hitting the mark, it's still not going to be right. And if her/you got the golf club/shoes etal right, it would have been because she/you were fooling around with your/her best friend. So that golf club gift sounds like a winner.

[heyzeus]

I got some nice gifts--my daughter decorated a Christmas plate for me, and got it fired at a local stoneware maker. I also got a Samsung Galaxy player, which lets me play around with something to see if I want an Android smartphone later on. And my wife got me a NY Times cookbook, so I get the hint.

I will say, though, that my new sister-in-law got some really crappy presents for my kids. Nobody even expected a present from her, so I'm glad she got something, but sheesh . . . She got my son a hat and gloves that would fit a three year old, and he's fifteen. She got a snap purse for my daughter at a dollar store, and a zipper inside it broke off instantly. It is so cheap you can smell the sweat of third-world slave labor as soon as you open it, and it seems so carcinogen-laden that the EPA will declare it a Superfund clean-up site in June. A card would have sufficed, so I don't get it. The kids will write thank-you notes, and are usually very appreciative, but it's hard to blame them for chuckling. Last year, my sister-in-law bought my daughter an umbrella.

Was that the year of that Rihanna song? Is so, she probably just assumed all the kids wanted umbrellas.