What to buy for Christmas

[Maritime Q-Scout]

For the love of God, I've walked the mall 3 times and have zero inspiration.

My folks discovered Amazon Prime so now even the odd little things they'd never buy for themselves they order and are like "it was here in 2 days!"

I'm sure some of you are in your 60s or at the very least act like it.

Wow me with thoughtful gift ideas.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

buy this

https://www.amazon.ca/Foremost-60079...99928769&psc=1

[OMG!WTF!]

Check out the Costco photo center. You can make calendars, metal prints canvas prints water bottles pillows blankets and all kinds of junk oldies love.

[Zevo]

Do they drink wine? Wine of the month club for a few months if they do.

[Lubicon]

Do you have kids (ie grand kids for your parents)? We've done family pictures made into a jigsaw puzzle in the past and I have seen places that take a collage of your pictures and turn them into a mosaic - that looked kind of cool.

[bc-chris]

when my dad got sick one of the first things i did was go and buy a digital picture frame for him and load it up with a TON of pics of my kids. he loved it - it was always on.
my mom still loves it and uses it lots, but i reeeeally need to add a bunch of more current pics to the memory stick

[spetch]

Does anybody know where to find a girls pink large flames jersey? I have somebody who is looking for a kids large pink jersey. Anybody have any ideas where to find one?

[bigtmac19]

One of those monthly (or semi monthly) gift box subscriptions would be cool, so many different things they could be interested in content wise.

One that I keep getting emails about is WeeBox, if you are a fan of Scottish things.

[Swayze11]

Originally Posted by bigtmac19

One of those monthly (or semi monthly) gift box subscriptions would be cool, so many different things they could be interested in content wise.

One that I keep getting emails about is WeeBox, if you are a fan of Scottish things.

I bought the Sarah Baeumler one for my wife and it was one of the worst purchases I’ve ever made. All the items were cheap garbage and not practical

I am sure some of them are okay but that was my only experience with the subscription box

[peter12]

A pony every year.

[Calgary14]

1) gift basket
2) family photos
3) gift cards
4) alcohol

[redforever]

This is what I have done with my children for the last couple of years...no reason why you can't reverse it and do it as the child.

I have a son and a daughter. We each buy tickets to an event, whatever you like, could be theater, a movie, going to a restaurant, you decide.

And then we have a relaxing evening out where none of us has to cook dinner or anything else. We can just go out, catch up on our news, and enjoy our company. So for us, it is three evenings out and we each pay for one of the evenings.

Then we just get small stuff, it could be a bottle of wine, whatever, that much you can figure out on your own.

I do buy more for my grandson as he is not old enough to attend most of these function and would not be that interested either.

[DeluxeMoustache]

The Clapper for the Christmas tree.

And a nice bottle of wine

You’re welcome

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by redforever

This is what I have done with my children for the last couple of years...no reason why you can't reverse it and do it as the child.

I have a son and a daughter. We each buy tickets to an event, whatever you like, could be theater, a movie, going to a restaurant, you decide.

And then we have a relaxing evening out where none of us has to cook dinner or anything else. We can just go out, catch up on our news, and enjoy our company. So for us, it is three evenings out and we each pay for one of the evenings.

Then we just get small stuff, it could be a bottle of wine, whatever, that much you can figure out on your own.

I do buy more for my grandson as he is not old enough to attend most of these function and would not be that interested either.

this is awesome!! very similar to what my dad did for us when i was a kid. he called it "a big day with dad". there would be a card in the christmas tree for each of us kids from my dad inviting us out for a 'big day'. each kid had dad for a day and got to pick what we wanted to do. i grew up in southern ontario, it was the late 70s/early 80s and my dad owned a business - due to the recession my dad worked a TON. we usually only saw him on sundays becuz during the week he was gone for work before we got up and home after we went to bed - so having dad all to yourself for a day was HUGE!!

i'd usually pic an afternoon blue jays game followed by dinner and maybe a movie. other times is would be a later jays game and in the morning we'd do stuff like the royal ontario museum, the science center or planetarium. i remember going to a leafs game one year... heh.. they lost! ha! the most amazing big day was after we moved to bc, and in 1989 he somehow got us tickets to game 2 of the cup final!

these memories (some from 40 years ago) are still so precious, especially now that he's no longer with us.


this christmas, i'll be starting the same tradition with my kids (they are 6 and 4) - it's gong to be awesome!

[Locke]

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