<p>So… let’s share! What is everyone getting thier College kids for Christmas? :)</p>
<p>2nd semester tuition. For Chanukah.</p>
<p>Tuition yea, & perhaps will allow him to take up the GameCube to college, if we get a Wii for the house. The Wii would be a joint present for him & his sister to share in HI.</p>
<p>All my son has requested is money toward an iPod. Apparently he has been told an iPod is a necessity for a music student so he can be constantly listening to the music he is learning. There isn’t such a thing as discount price iPods, is there??</p>
<p>Digital camera, college blanket, coffee maker and a few small items. It’s kind of tough to come up with ideas with her being away. I much prefer to have her mention something in passing and me write it down (or I’ll forget!) than to come right out and ask her. I’d like some things to be a surprise.</p>
<p>I’ve only gotten my Ss one thing - a mousepad with a picture of them making a horrendous face. A couple of years ago we were on a cruise and on “dress up” night, my sons and their cousin wanted to have their picture made together. All three wearing black suits with ties sat down in front of the photographer. They said, “Now be sure and count to three!” On the count of three, the photographer snapped the picture of the ugliest faces you have ever seen! I bought the photo and now they will have it for a mousepad.</p>
<p>My daughter got an early Christmas present of a digital camera. She was going abroad and needed a good camera. One down two more to go!</p>
<p>Susan if you google “i-pod, student discounts” there appears to be some sort of discount on the Apple site. Don’t know if you have to be the student or faculty member to buy one.</p>
<p>After trying it out at my friend’s house and falling in love with it, I am giving my son an Al Carter “Rebounder”. It’s a heavy duty mini-trampoline that folds for easy storage.
Fortunately, he’s got a single, so he can jump without annoying anyone else!</p>
<p>It may seem odd but these things are incredibly fun and really good exercise.</p>
<p>Susan,
check your kids college bookstore. I know my son’s college computer store sells ipods for less than costco - its the cheapest place I’ve seen them.</p>
<p>Both kids are getting the entire series of West Wing. It comes in a neat box with some extras. My husband wasn’t thrilled they were each getting their own set, but with one in grad school it isn’t like they live in the same house anymore.</p>
<p>College son - Snowboard and racquet ball racket. I was going to get him an inexpensive racket. He just started playing this year at school, but I found one at Dick’s for $165 off the regular price. It’s much much better than the one I was planning to get him, but for the same price. YAY!!! (I get really excited when I find a bargain. 
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<p>susan, watch the apple website for refurbished ones, they usually offer the same warranty and are cheaper!</p>
<p>I’m getting mine Broadway tickets and cash for a night out with a friend. Something he loves to do and living on a student budget, a real treat. I also try to get a “fun”, gag like gift, this year is is a wrist DJ mixer that I found on a British toy site-only about $10. I also do a goody pack for him to take back with stuff that he hates to buy but needs, gloves, scarf, hat and socks which he always loses so needs another set, and I also try to get a good book to read. About $600 on him and his two brother, about half that on the younger kids. My husband and I limit our gifts to $100 each, and my wish lists for the kids are all $10 items, and they limit their stuff to that price for their siblings. Still an expensive Christmas. Oh, yes, one of the big hit gifts for my older son was a roll up snow board–really just a piece of very pliable plastic that you can use to go down a hill. He had a blast with that thing back at school and it took up no space to keep, so he could even stuff it in a backpack and whip it out between classes. It was a cheapie purchase too.</p>
<p>Now this would bee good for those parents who are really proud, or for yourself, if you liked yourself A LOT. <a href=“http://www.wrapables.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=C14025&viewdetail=1[/url]”>http://www.wrapables.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=C14025&viewdetail=1</a></p>
<p>Thanks, everyone, for the iPod suggestions. Time to do some online checking… :)</p>
<p>MASH fans out there? There is a complete set of MASH (all 36 DVDs with all 11 seasons, including the 2 1/2 hour finale, movie that inspired it, bloopers, etc.) for the coupon price of $125 at Costco. I purchased it earlier for my D for her Nov birthday but returned it & repurchased it for the reduced coupon price. We love MASH, even the sadder episodes but especially the heartwarmng ones. It’s sort of an early Christmas, late Bday gift.</p>
<p>For some little extra presents, you can check the tee-shirts (and other goodies) at Cafe Press (<a href=“http://www.cafepress.com)%5B/url%5D”>http://www.cafepress.com)</a>. Just search for whatever topic you want. My older son is in law school, so I used that as a search topic and found a perfect shirt for him as a 1L student (it says: “Sorry. Can’t. Gotta Study.” which sort of defines his life right now). My younger son (2nd year college student) is at this moment traipsing through the jungles of Africa (Madagascar to be exact) living in a tent and following a colony of lemurs. This is research being conducted by Dr. Patricia Wright, who is an incredible person (she’s also the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” grant). My wife is there as well. So, for him I found a shirt at Cafe Press from savemadagascar.org with a photo of lemurs on it and the quote: “I was mauled by lemurs and all I got was this lousy shirt.” Stupid? Yes, that’s the point!</p>
<p>Also for t-shirts, check out threadless.com</p>
<p>coronax2~</p>
<p>OMG, that cereal bowl is GREAT!!! My older two girls are always saying that their younger sister “thinks she’s everything and a bag of chips.” Now, they can say that she thinks she’s “everything and a bowl of cereal!!!” <em>lol</em> LOVE IT!!!</p>
<p>I will do my annual plug for the ol’ plush viruses. My son has quite a collection now, but rabies is new this year, and since that’s the microbe that ignited his intense passion, I think I’ll have to add that one!
<a href=“http://www.giantmicrobes.com%5B/url%5D”>www.giantmicrobes.com</a></p>
<p>B- Now THAT is cool!!!</p>