((HUGS)) to Consolation.
((HUGS)) to musicprnt, too. I totally understand.
My favorite gift was an iPad - it was the most beautifully wrapped gift under the tree. It said to Mom from Santa.
This year I am hoping for one thing only… a card from D that tells us we will be grandparents in 2016. That would be a most wonderful gift.
Mine is easy. Very expensive things. We are having our front stoop done at the moment. $8500. Cha Ching
You $$$eriously beat us in the contest for most expensive gift, LOL.
Consolation, hugs.
musicparent, fingers crossed for a less stressful next year for you.
I really just want experiences and not more stuff. Would live the kids to make a mix CD or flash drive of music. Would also love some meals cooked by them.
Mainly, just want to spend time. Am also hoping my folks get into the 55+ community they’re wait listed at.
Sorry for everyone currently going thru rough times; hope things improve.
I have wanted a new smartwatch - a Pebble Time - for a while, but have been patiently waiting for Christmas so I’d have something to tell Hubby when he asked what I want. So, a few weeks ago he asked, and I told him a few things, including that.
But then he went and put it on the debit card for our shared account, and it came through on the bank statement (which I reconcile) already. Doh! (Sometimes i really do think I’m married to Homer Simpson.) So, no Christmas surprise for me. You can’t unsee something like that. Now I have to act surprised (and also ignore the fact that he could have gotten it for a much better price).
Haven’t had this problem since that one time when I was a kid and I snooped and found my not-yet-wrapped presents in my parents’ closet. That was a yucky Christmas, and I learned a big lesson. But this time it was inadvertent! So what I really want now is at least one nice surprise.
Sweet eat, why not just say you saw the order? Your hubby could learn a lesson.
When I was a teen, my sister and I found 2 robes in the attic, one pretty blue and the other a red. Neither of us liked the red. So, during a meal we had a discussion about colors. The big surprise? When we opened the boxes with robes, we both had blue!
DH is notoriously hard to buy for. We always agree we are going to just do stockings and maybe one gift, but he always ends up buying me other stuff. Last year he bought me a beautiful pair of earrings and matching bracelet from David Yurman (D2 must have supervised that). It makes me nervous because I should not ever have nice earrings. I always end up losing one of them.
Nrdsb, take them to a jeweler. Two words: screw posts! I
I hear I’m difficult to buy for bit I’m really not. We’re on vacation right now and I asked hubby for a pursr and some shoes I saw while we were here. He found a coat and gloves he’s been searching for now for years at home. We agreed stockings and something very small.
For me you could never go wrong buying me a cookbook, anything from Williams Sonoma, wool socks, long sleeve pretty colored top, tea and accessories or casual lounge wear or jammies.
Re post 65 and hiding presents-- Couple years ago H bought a new TV and covered it up out in the garage. Right next to the Christmas gift wrap (like nobody would find that!)
Haven’t gotten Mother’s Day, birthday, Hanukkah or anniversary gifts from DH in about five years. Not as bad as one might think at first glance. Anniversary has evolved into a really nice dinner out or a B&B, which is fine with me. We have tried to travel more now that we don’t have to work around school schedules. September and April are lovely times to see places. Carpe diem – neither of our mothers were able to get out of the house after their early 60s, so I want to live the hell out of my life while I am able to do so!
But even so, woe betide me if I don’t also get something for DH! He is REALLY hard to shop for. I’d get him good headphones and travel gear, but he has a bad habit of losing this stuff on his frequent trips, and he really beats himself up about that. Just got him several casual shirts since some of his are positively ratty.
I went to NYC this weekend for the wedding a a former colleague of mine. She and her H had been married 27 years, divorced for 17, and remarried Saturday night. Lots of fun, and while I was up there, I saw Allegiance, went to a couple of museums, hit three fabric stores and saw LIMOM and mythmom. The weather was fabulous and I walked all over Manhattan. Stayed with BIL and SIL in NJ on Thurs. and Friday, and in the UWS Saturday night. Made an apron for my niece in NJ and she absolutely loved it, which made me really happy, since she has been home sick from school for a week & 1/2. Was good to see her smiling. I figured this would be my gift for the year! 
I don’t need anything else now.
I also figure that since DH doesn’t grumble about me buying quilting supplies, that also covers the “gifts” category.
Wish we could figure out some way to tone down the gift-giving among my sibs and extended families. They don’t have $$ to do so, but they all feel like they “should.” Just doing nieces and nephews leaves out one family who doesn’t have kids.
But my absolute dream gift would be house cleaners every two weeks. That would free me up to do more of the deep sorting/chucking that needs to happen.
This year I am being less of a Grinch then usual and have asked for puzzles that the kids and I love to do together and I want to get both a beanbag cornhole set and an outdoor ping pong table. I guess I must be feeling more social!!
Counting down, sounds like a really nice weekend. My H is a good man. He is terrible at gift giving. I swear he breaks out in a sweat just entering a store. I’ll buy my own gifts, it’s fine. He does other things well.
This might be under good buy of the day. On cyber Monday, I found a really good deal at l’occitane, something like 6 gifts for $100. I told my D that she could give them to the ladies on her gift list and I’m one of those people :). Win, win. She got a great deal, it was sent to my house where she will be. And I got a really nice gift lol!
I have a pandora bracelet. It gives anyone who can’t think of anything to give me an easy thing for them to buy. I have a lot now but that’s ok. I hate having everyone tell me I’m hard to buy for ;).
But I could switch to David Yurman jewelry!
(Darn! Just started looking for a l’occitane good buy! - you win on that one!!!)
@abasket – I think L’Occitane may run an annual clearance sale each January. I recall snagging some decent markdowns on basics (shampoo & conditioner). They send emails constantly but I don’t recall thinking their Cyber Monday sale was that great of a deal. I have hit email fatigue with them and may have just ignored it, at my own peril.
I don’t know if the deal I got from l’occitane was that great or not. They had these ornaments with travel sizes in them for $14, they were buy 3 get one free. Then there was a $10 gift card and I think hand cream if you spent $50, and then if you spend $35, you could buy another set for $35, plus I must have bought something else. Anyways, they let me stack promo codes plus free shipping. Anyways it came out that she got 6 small gifts for $99 plus tax (plus the $10 gc). She usually buys the grandmas and sisters and aunts bath and body works so this worked for her.
I haven’t received it yet, I’m hoping everything is nice.
And yea l’occitane sends tons of emails.
@deb922 – that is probably an excellent deal for gift giving. I am a cheapskate (well, one who likes their lemon shampoo!) so I am happier finding a great sale on a 16 oz pump bottle of conditioner. I was thrilled to find two of the 16 oz refill bags of the Verbena shampoo for $36 at the outlets last month. Even their outlet stores don’t offer much of a savings.
Just looked online and those ornaments are adorable and perfect for travel kits. I seem to have derailed this ‘what you want for Christmas’ to ‘what deal can I find’? Back to subject at hand.
Chocolate would be at the top of my list.
I saw the ornaments too - so cute!
sigh
I guess I am hard to buy for.
Just received a beautiful delivery of Lily’s as a lovely thank you gift.
I detest Lily’s! and this is how it goes for me.
I love the person and feeling and the vase, so not all bad.