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christmas presents for parent(s)
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.
what's a digital photo frame?
Displays digital photos
via wireless connection
wow, really?
that sounds really futuristic.
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
imagine having like
portrait sized ones all over a room, set to chance every three or four minutes. you could totally bewilder senile relatives!
Haha
Have you ever read Farenheit 451? What you've described is in there, except the entire wall does it
that sounds really cool
maybe I can get my mum one of them next year.
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.
erm...
I'm not sure how to react to that.
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.
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.
digital photo frame
memory card full of lolcats.
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!
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
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!
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Dad: Bacardi and Bourne trilogy
Mum: jigsaw puzzle and some fancy coffee
next year, I too will buy a digital photo frame!
I'm taking mine out for a meal in January
That should cover it.
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.
i got my dad this
http://www.firebox.com/product/1048?src_t=sbk&src_id=hammock
it even has a beer holder!
Deluxe or Stripey?
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.
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.
I don't think my dad
would understand it, would he?
i don't
even know what it is.
The best book ever written.
Something for everyone. But you probably wouldn't like it.
Chris Rea tickets
and a framed photo of my sister and I.
Sycophant? Me?
I bought my dad
The Beatles Blue and Red albums and my mum a Lancome Miracle box thingy majig
I've bought my dad a hollyoaks babes calendar
Manfriend
of your Mum, Dad or yourself?
fuck, that's a point
I need a present for my mum's BF too.
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
for my dad: nothing
for my mum: some no7 face cream stuff.
why aren't you getting your dad anything?
because he's going to germany
on friday for a couple of weeks. i might get him something after.
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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.
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.
I just bought a couple of these:
http://www.kittywigs.com
:D
incredible
OH MY GOD.
Amazing.
mum..necklace
dad...CD, can't remember what one now though... for his birthday i got him a mushroom log
this
for my dad... uber cool
http://www.roullierwhite.co.uk/branding-iron-for-steaks-770-p.asp
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
dad - a book
and hopefully a rory gallagher cd
mum - 2 books.
Rory Gallagher is the
fucking man!!
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.
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.
iPod shuffle and speaker set
£49 John Lewis. BARGAIN
I bought my mum a gnome.
Therefore I win.
My mum
two tickets to see Santana in June.
Nothing
because I hate them. I do need to get something for my sister though. I'm thinking maybe the Muscles album.