Gift cards - that's what I've had to resort to.
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Toddson - Dec 20, 2011 10:05:33 am PST #4428 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
lisah - Dec 20, 2011 10:09:03 am PST #4429 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Because you can't get nothing and you don't want stuff from ThinkGeek. Dang it.
Charitable contribution in her name?
erikaj - Dec 20, 2011 10:09:26 am PST #4430 of 30001
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
my brother does that, too. Not to me, but my mother is gonna pull her hair out.
Ginger - Dec 20, 2011 10:17:51 am PST #4431 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Give them all socks.
SuziQ - Dec 20, 2011 10:17:59 am PST #4432 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
ISTG, people, next year I'm doing the cards and all the Christmas stuff in AUGUST. I can't deal.
I finished shopping early this year and I have to say it is annoying me. I can't stop looking and adding little things here and there for the kids (they don't need MORE). I'm also going a bit nuts waiting for them to open their presents. I'm tired of keeping the secrets. Heck, I even bought K-Bug's birthday present already and that is over 3 months away. Gahhhhhhhhh.
Zenkitty - Dec 20, 2011 10:22:13 am PST #4433 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Socks, gift cards, and a goat from Heifer.
amyth - Dec 20, 2011 10:28:04 am PST #4434 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Socks, gift cards, and a goat from Heifer.
The trifecta of perfect gifts for the hard-to-buy for.
lisah - Dec 20, 2011 10:37:27 am PST #4435 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I am so ready to go but it's too early!
erikaj - Dec 20, 2011 10:44:03 am PST #4436 of 30001
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I think my mom did buy Bro some socks.
Steph L. - Dec 20, 2011 10:54:17 am PST #4437 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Also, when someone asks you what you want for Christmas/birthday/whatever, (and someone is me and you is my sister), and you say, oh, I don't want anything! or oh, I don't care, anything is fine... that's not actually helpful, okay?
Next year my bro and SiL get a goat from Heifer. Because they do the "I don't know...anything I want I just go ahead and buy...just get me whatever" thing. And so then I do get them whatever, and then feel like my love/worth as a sister is measured in the fact that I bought my bro a water bottle with Cthulhu on it instead of, I don't know, an iPad.