Gifts - are we being cheap?

[Lindsey]

Diana, that is a really good gift idea!!!

While shopping last weekend, we found something else to include in the gift to my brother and his fiancee. It's a funny book called The Marriage Dictionary - the unofficial, TRUE meaning of "I Do" I browsed through it in the store and thought it was hilarious! For example:

Chores: Day-to-day household activities that you and your spouse supposedly divide equally, but in reality will be done by whoever gets fed up with the filth the quickest.

Jell-O: One of only two foods your husband has ever learned to "cook" (see Macaroni & Cheese)

Fat: 1. What your new wife will ask you if she looks every time she tries on a new outfit.
2. The chance that you will ever have sex again if you answer the above question wrong.

Lol!!! I hope they get a kick out of reading it too.

[DianaB]

That sounds like a really funny book! I bet they would love it!! I love to read little funny books like that!!

[2tiredmom]

Our families just get together and have dinner. We don't do gifts. It's way to expensive.
But we use to. We also have done where everyone brings a white elephant gift. Which here means something you have around the house that you don't like or use. It can be fun just watching people open up and see what they get. You pick numbers instead of names. And if some one wants a gift that someone else has gotten you can pick one of those. Just and Idea. Hope it all works out for you.

[DianaB]

Linda, we call that game "Dirty Santa". Everyone that brought a gift takes a number. The first person unwraps that gift.....then the second person can either open another gift or take the gift away from the first person. We play where the gift can only be traded 3 times before it stays with that person. The next person can either open a gift or steal from one of the others.......and the person that had their gift stolen can either open a gift or steal a gift. The game continues until the last number......then the first person can either keep their gift or steal someone else's gift.....then the game is done. It's a very fun game!! Also you hide your gift behind you and the person that's stealing has to remember who has the gift in order to steal it. It's fun to play with a large group of people as long as it's not a REALLY large group!!!

[judy]

It's going to be all cash gifts this year. The kids know what they want, and I think they enjoy shopping for themselves. Kass wants One Direction dolls. At $29.99 each, and there are five members of the band , I think that is a waste of money. I will talk to Jessie and, if she says to buy it, I will. I don't want too though!

Kass still believes in Santa so we keep that going. Actually, so does Brandon. They kept telling Jess that if she doesn't buy them what they want for Christmas, Santa will! She informed them that it doesn't work that way! Santa does not give children presents their parents don't want them to have!

I haven't put my tree up yet, and may not bother unless the kids come over. The wreath should already be on the door! I'll take it down today.

[gja1000]

Originally Posted by 2tiredmom

Our families just get together and have dinner. We don't do gifts. It's way to expensive.
But we use to. We also have done where everyone brings a white elephant gift. Which here means something you have around the house that you don't like or use. It can be fun just watching people open up and see what they get. You pick numbers instead of names. And if some one wants a gift that someone else has gotten you can pick one of those. Just and Idea. Hope it all works out for you.

Linda, I have done that at work and it is soooo much fun!!! Sometimes someone gets something good and then it gets taken and taken and taken, so the last person ends up with it. It's lots of fun!

Our immediate family is so tiny that we just buy for each other, but we do not buy for all the nieces/nephews/etc.

[Janet]

We only have the 3 three of us to buy for now. We use to buy for everyone on both sides, then it got expensive so we went to just buying for the kids. The kids are grown now and we don't even get together anymore. It will be just the 3 of us again this year.

[DianaB]

Janet, why don't you see what Diane and her family are doing and get together on Christmas with them. I'm sure that you'd all have a good time together!!

[Janet]

Originally Posted by DianaB

Janet, why don't you see what Diane and her family are doing and get together on Christmas with them. I'm sure that you'd all have a good time together!!

They celebrate Christmas with her husbands family. It's okay....I'd would rather stay home for Christmas. I just miss the extended family.