<p>good gift for 21 year old son - box of condoms. big box</p>
<p>^^^^^ Uh… I don’t think so, UriA702. </p>
<p>jmmom-- I almost forgot about the hair stripe thing!! That was a good one!</p>
<p>The thing my s liked the best were the pink flamingos in is lawn, with a sign that said “Happy flockin’ birthday XXXX” It was great.</p>
<p>Ooh goodie, S turns l8 on Dec. 31; am listening…will do the modified version.</p>
<p>Question for parents of 15-year-old boys:</p>
<p>How do light colored cargo pants get marks on the pocket that look suspiciously like repeated, daylong attempts to insert a ball-point pen WITHOUT the cap on???</p>
<p>Just wondering. 
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<p>mommusic, I am the parent of a 15 year old boy. I do not have an answer to your question. I have more questions. How does a 15 year old boy lose 3 pairs of shoes in three months? Three, permamently? At different times? Never to be seen again?</p>
<p>Having a serious motivational problem here-- need to do those holiday cards but just cant get motivated. Suggestions???</p>
<p>Skip the cards and have a mimosa?</p>
<p>Life is so much better since I got off the Xmas card treadmill.</p>
<p>Hi SBmom! You pourin’? I try to at least return cards to those who sent them to me-- but this year it really is low on the priority list… I’ll have to see what I can do. Maybe that mimosa will help. As they say, it couldn’t hurt!</p>
<p>Got off that Xmas card treadmill several years ago. Was the only part of the Christmas season that I hated with a passion. (Although I loved receiving them; who ever said I was logical or nice about this issue?).</p>
<p>Holier than Thou rationale: better to spend the Xmas card money on adopting a family at the holidays.</p>
<p>Real rationale: just didn’t wanna do the work.</p>
<p><em>but we do adopt the family, so it’s all good</em></p>
<p>Partial-solution Alternative (for the lazy but unwilling to totally cash it in): Send New Year letter after the 1st. Via email.</p>
<p>and jmmom, it’s more SUSTAINABLE!!! Do not miss getting eco-credit!</p>
<p>smug & lazy, that’s me.</p>
<p>Eco-credit. I will add that to my inventory of virtues.</p>
<p>Smug and lazy. But virtuous. </p>
<p>Funny mitigates a host of sins, IMO.</p>
<p>Some years I have been so late I just end up wishing everyone a Happy New Year. But I’m done this year! <em>smug</em><br>
and DH is still working on the ones he sends to business associates. But he’s doing it with a brandy in hand, so he seems to be enjoying it. ;)</p>
<p>DeniseC–we lost one pair of gym shoes when the kid accidentally left the gym bag out in the hall and the shoes got lifted. I suppose that could happen multiple times.</p>
<p>Do kids still steal shoes and throw them out the bus window?</p>
<p>One year a cousin sent us all valentine cards, it was just as nice to get them then. We usually send ours out between Christmas and New Years, I’ve long since stopped feeling guilty about it.</p>
<p>I love the valentine cards idea. I’ll file that one away for future use! This year, for once, I was EARLY getting cards out. Except…I was talking to my mother the other day and I asked her if she got my card (wonderful pic of the 2 girls)…she said she hadn’t…an aunt and my brother had commented on having gotten theirs…I went back to the excel spreadsheet I’d made to confirm who I’d mailed them to, and somehow I FORGOT to send her a card!!! OMG…I’m blaming the post office and sending a new one tomorrow…oopsie!</p>
<p>DeniseC - I remember one of my brothers losing several jackets every winter - and this happened year after year. It used to drive my mom crazy!</p>
<p>To everyone else - I have to do my Christmas cards as well. We are so far behind with everything - our tree just got decorated today. Our outside is only halfway done as the weather is just not cooperating. Eventually, it will all get done - it’s just frustrating that we’re going to have to rush through everything this week. Mommusic, do you think your H would mind sharing his brandy?</p>
<p>“I remember one of my brothers losing several jackets every winter - and this happened year after year. It used to drive my mom crazy!”</p>
<p>Well, I am there already (crazy). As my kids say, it was a short trip!</p>
<p>Denise, my son TJFS (“The Junior From Space”) actually (1) borrowed and then (2) LOST a pair of MY jeans!</p>
<p>So I am right there with you.</p>
<p>Does your son have absent minded professor style ADD perchance?</p>
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<p>Is there a CommonApp for Christmas cards? I’m procrastinating on mine. :)</p>