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guntrip [Edit] [Delete] 63 replies 10:31, 20 December '07

what are you getting your parent(s)? how do you decide on what to by them?

i usually get my mother something/things i know she wants and something/things i think she'll like. i gave her a guillemots CD last christmas and she really liked it. this year i've bought her The Crane Wife by The Decemberists for similar reasons. i think it helps though that my mother is totally rad and loves music and stuff.

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what's a digital photo frame?

nice_squirrel @myfirstmine | 20 Dec '07, 10:34 | X
- Displays digital photos
  
  via wireless connection
  
  DanielKelly @nice_squirrel | 20 Dec '07, 10:35 | X
  - wow, really?
    
    that sounds really futuristic.
    
    nice_squirrel @DanielKelly | 20 Dec '07, 10:36 | X
    - Yeah
      
      Not all are done by wireless connection
      
      http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=digital+photo+frames
      
      DanielKelly @nice_squirrel | 20 Dec '07, 10:38 | X
      - imagine having like
        
        portrait sized ones all over a room, set to chance every three or four minutes. you could totally bewilder senile relatives!
        
        guntrip @DanielKelly | 20 Dec '07, 10:39 | X
        
        Haha
        
        Have you ever read Farenheit 451? What you've described is in there, except the entire wall does it
        
        DanielKelly @guntrip | 20 Dec '07, 10:40 | X
- that sounds really cool
  
  maybe I can get my mum one of them next year.
  
  nice_squirrel @myfirstmine | 20 Dec '07, 10:38 | X
- I got a digital photo frame
  
  but it's for both my mum and dad because I am poor. And I didn't pay anything for it.
  
  ^5.
  
  harru @myfirstmine | 20 Dec '07, 11:47 | X
  - erm...
    
    I'm not sure how to react to that.
    
    harru @myfirstmine | 20 Dec '07, 13:01 | X
    - Why does your mum get much more expensive things?
      
      What if your Dad finds out he got short changed? I bought my parents a digital photo frame between them. They'll have to take it in turns. Luckily they live in the same house.
      
      shimmetry @myfirstmine | 20 Dec '07, 15:05 | X
    - I got my mum
      
      a Borough Market bag, and two jars of chutney from there.
      
      I still don't know what to get my dad. Any suggestions? He likes cooking, racing cycling, cats, Wales, seaside-type interior decoration, post-punk music and serial killers.
      
      nice_squirrel | 20 Dec '07, 10:34 | X
      - digital photo frame
        
        memory card full of lolcats.
        
        guntrip @nice_squirrel | 20 Dec '07, 10:37 | X
        
        haha
        
        I don't think he's ready for lolcats. He's taking a computer course for old people at the moment, and apparently he's having a bit of trouble using the mouse. He enjoyed me showing him cats on YouTube though!
        
        nice_squirrel @guntrip | 20 Dec '07, 10:39 | X
    - DVDs and books
      
      I usually have a pretty good idea of whether or not they'll like something.
      
      A few years ago I got my mum and mp3 player and she had no idea what it was, but pretended to be happy anyway
      
      DanielKelly | 20 Dec '07, 10:35 | X
    - My Mum got an amazon wishlist this year
      
      so click click click and I was done. We all get my Dad the same thing every year, a book about trains. Seriously he gets really sulky if we but anything else. I've tried a couple of years to be creative, but I've now learnt to STICK TO THE LIST!
      
      starshaped | 20 Dec '07, 10:36 | X
    - .
      
      Dad: Bacardi and Bourne trilogy
      Mum: jigsaw puzzle and some fancy coffee
      
      IndieAndy_Jones | 20 Dec '07, 10:41 | X
      - next year, I too will buy a digital photo frame!
        
        IndieAndy_Jones @IndieAndy_Jones | 20 Dec '07, 10:41 | X
    - I'm taking mine out for a meal in January
      
      That should cover it.
      
      bamos | 20 Dec '07, 10:41 | X
      - McDonald's or KFC?
        
        As ever my dad said he didn't want any presents, but that of all the presents he didn't want he most didn't want any more books.
        
        His loss, I'm giving £8 to Oxfam in his name to buy textbooks for poor children in Africa. Plus a CD, plus some Crap Trump cards, they have categories like "Internet resale value" on them.
        
        keiths_tele @bamos | 20 Dec '07, 10:44 | X
    - i got my dad this
      
      http://www.firebox.com/product/1048?src_t=sbk&src_id=hammock
      it even has a beer holder!
      
      sean | 20 Dec '07, 10:41 | X
      - Deluxe or Stripey?
        
        DanielKelly @sean | 20 Dec '07, 10:42 | X
        
        My dad's getting The Damned United
        
        and probably something else if I can find something suitable. If he wasn't a diabetic who drank too much the something else would be a lot easier.
        
        I've got an organic Christmas pud and a bottle of mulled wine for my mum, but they don't really count as I won them in the office raffle. I got her the Peter, Bjorn and John and Pipettes albums last year, but I'm not sure if she liked them. Bit stumped this year.
        
        joeymahone | 20 Dec '07, 10:46 | X
        
        Something about a digital photo frame
        
        Everyone's male relatives should be getting the Damned United this year. I might put forward a petition to make it law, or something.
        
        bamos @joeymahone | 20 Dec '07, 10:48 | X
        
        I don't think my dad
        
        would understand it, would he?
        
        nice_squirrel @bamos | 20 Dec '07, 10:51 | X
        
        i don't
        
        even know what it is.
        
        guntrip @nice_squirrel | 20 Dec '07, 10:56 | X
        
        The best book ever written.
        
        Something for everyone. But you probably wouldn't like it.
        
        bamos @guntrip | 20 Dec '07, 11:16 | X
        
        Chris Rea tickets
        
        and a framed photo of my sister and I.
        
        Sycophant? Me?
        
        medulla | 20 Dec '07, 10:47 | X
        
        I bought my dad
        
        The Beatles Blue and Red albums and my mum a Lancome Miracle box thingy majig
        
        LordLuciusBanter | 20 Dec '07, 10:48 | X
        
        I've bought my dad a hollyoaks babes calendar
        
        satsuma | 20 Dec '07, 10:50 | X
        
        Manfriend
        
        of your Mum, Dad or yourself?
        
        medulla @freerangefrog | 20 Dec '07, 10:54 | X
        
        fuck, that's a point
        
        I need a present for my mum's BF too.
        
        joeymahone @freerangefrog | 20 Dec '07, 11:03 | X
        
        I generally find experiences better than material stuff
        
        Like indoor sky diving, or theatre tickets or a mini holiday. Plus I can get involved too. I've tried giving my parents stuff like mini radio shows dedicated to them but they just don't like my music at all. Damn them
        
        reusch | 20 Dec '07, 10:58 | X
        
        for my dad: nothing
        
        for my mum: some no7 face cream stuff.
        
        Ibzo | 20 Dec '07, 10:58 | X
        
        why aren't you getting your dad anything?
        
        Elaina_Casoolare @Ibzo | 20 Dec '07, 11:00 | X
        
        because he's going to germany
        
        on friday for a couple of weeks. i might get him something after.
        
        Ibzo @Elaina_Casoolare | 20 Dec '07, 12:57 | X
        
        ....
        
        I get my Mam: some CD/DVD she'll never listen to/watch.
        
        Dad: some book he'll probably never read.
        
        It's a tradition.
        
        monpot | 20 Dec '07, 11:00 | X
        
        I have to make them write lists
        
        as I never know what to get.
        
        Dad - Drop The Dead Donkey DVD, I'm Sorry I haven't a clue CD and some whisky.
        
        Mum - body shop stuff, some bits from Lakeland, diary, calendar, chocolate orange.
        
        shucks | 20 Dec '07, 11:12 | X
        
        I just bought a couple of these:
        
        http://www.kittywigs.com
        
        chuff | 20 Dec '07, 11:28 | X
        
        :D
        
        incredible
        
        nice_squirrel @chuff | 20 Dec '07, 12:55 | X
        
        OH MY GOD.
        
        Amazing.
        
        fihiki @chuff | 20 Dec '07, 17:29 | X
        
        mum..necklace
        
        dad...CD, can't remember what one now though... for his birthday i got him a mushroom log
        
        Slicky | 20 Dec '07, 11:51 | X
        
        this
        
        for my dad... uber cool
        
        http://www.roullierwhite.co.uk/branding-iron-for-steaks-770-p.asp
        
        jontosh2001 | 20 Dec '07, 11:55 | X
        
        My mum - A snazzy digital camera.
        
        My Dad - Some pants and t-shirts from Primark and a bottle of Whisky.
        
        Mr.Idea's Mum - A DVD girt-set of Julie Andrew's Musicals.
        
        Mr.Ideas's Dad - A Man United trivia book and a bottle of Whisky.
        
        My presents last year were much better but since I stopped being a student I have less money and less time to shop/make hand-made Christmas cards.
        
        I_Have_An_Idea | 20 Dec '07, 12:00 | X
        
        .
        
        Dad - A fucking great hamper full of smelly cheeses, chutneys and the like from The Cheese Hamlet in East Didsbury, all wrapped up olde style. Looks decent.
        
        Mum - Nice silk scarf, and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.
        
        Step Mum - Stuff from the Body Shop.
        
        usa_nails | 20 Dec '07, 12:11 | X
        
        I'm taking my parents to Claridge's in the New Year
        
        they both agree that at their advanced age they have everything they need and so conventional presents are unnecessary.
        My dad usually gets something either golf-related or history-related and my mum gets something cooking or gardening related.
        
        doctornovocalcords | 20 Dec '07, 12:57 | X
        
        ...
        
        Mum: Can't even remember, and I bought it half an hour ago.
        
        Dad: The Robert Plant vs Alison Krauss CD. I figure he was once cool enough to like Led Zep, and is now square enough to like country. It can't fail.
        
        Stealthy | 20 Dec '07, 13:00 | X
        
        dad - a book
        
        and hopefully a rory gallagher cd
        
        mum - 2 books.
        
        sarkyfox | 20 Dec '07, 13:12 | X
        
        Rory Gallagher is the
        
        fucking man!!
        
        Lo-Pan @sarkyfox | 20 Dec '07, 13:31 | X
        
        I KNOW!
        
        some people, who shall remain nameless, but may have names that sound similar to the sentence 'pay me in jumpers' have no idea who he was.
        
        sarkyfox @Lo-Pan | 20 Dec '07, 15:14 | X
        
        Dad - autobiography of some golfer and some golf balls that are posh
        
        it doesn't make any difference though cos he's still chuff at golf.
        
        My mum I got the band of horses album (Cease...) and a necklace and I'll maybe get her some smelly stuff from Molten Brown if they cut their prices in half.
        
        nickthescene | 20 Dec '07, 13:18 | X
        
        iPod shuffle and speaker set
        
        £49 John Lewis. BARGAIN
        
        gazbid | 20 Dec '07, 15:11 | X
        
        I bought my mum a gnome.
        
        Therefore I win.
        
        Feefle | 20 Dec '07, 15:16 | X
        
        My mum
        
        two tickets to see Santana in June.
        
        marilyninthesky @Feefle | 20 Dec '07, 18:36 | X
        
        Nothing
        
        because I hate them. I do need to get something for my sister though. I'm thinking maybe the Muscles album.
        
        Zapsta | 20 Dec '07, 18:47 | X

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