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I just finished all of my christmas shopping! I am so happy. Now all I have to do is get 4 essays done by Monday. Posts: 1015 | Registered: Aug 2004
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Psh! I was done with Christmas Shopping in, like, '87.
I wish more people would be like you, though, Allegra, and buy their stuff relatively early. Even we who don't celebrate Christmas still have to go to the store in December, and I like shopping better when I can still move through the crowd.
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I've found, like, one and two thirds presents out of at least seven that I'll have to get. And I've been trying, too! I just got back from searching for stuff, and I didn't find anything. I am so bad at guessing what people want. I wish I could get my shopping all done early--like in October--but then what guarantee would I have that the people I bought the stuff for wouldn't go and get the same stuff for themselves in the meantime? Bah! I love Christmas, but I'd be so much happier with it if this whole gift-giving tradition were abolished.
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I am giving few gifts this year, but all for people I really really care for.
Secret Santa (mailed), Tom & Christy & Sophie (mostly given last night, but Sophie's big present is still being worked on), and two left to send:
- my brother, who is getting the 3 plastic robin's egg blue bowls I've collected for him over the years from second-hand stores. These were what we had our cereal in as children, and we mourned the loss of them. I found some, although it took about a dozen years to track down three. He'll be so excited. I'm including one of our mother's ornaments, too.
- my mentor from college is getting baked goods for him, his wife, and his dog. And an ornament from my mother, who adored him. I finish the baking today. (Yay!)
[ December 17, 2004, 09:29 AM: Message edited by: Sara Sasse ]
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I have not been able to shop. This is not good, but I hate shopping so it isn't bad either. My wonderful husband has taken care of Santa and our presents to the kids. He tells me "it is good therapy" to wrap, so that will be my part.(dishes and laundry are also good therapy, he tells me)
(an aside)Sara, about those bowls. I can totally relate. My grandmother moved to an assisted living place, and forced me to take these weird green glasses that I drank from at her house for forty years. There were four, and I protested, saying I needed those glasses to be there for me when I visited. She has had those glasses, i believe, since my mother and uncle were kids(1940s) I had them for ONE DAY and broke one. Soon after, two more bit the dust. One is left and I put it in my fancy-dish cupboard. I TOLD her she needed to keep them!
Your brother will be SO excited. I know I would be.
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Sara, the bowls were an awesome idea. You and Liz have reminded me of the glasses that we use at home. When Mr. Opera and I got married I wanted to get rid of them, but now I love them. Most of our glasses (and yes, we use these for company) are the old McDonald's ones from the early 80s with the Muppets, etc. on them.
I think it's my best gift ever. There was only one bowl left a few years ago when mother moved out, and she gave it to me. He was so jealous but so brave about it. I went ahead and kept it so I could find three to match.
This comes up all the time in a sibling-tease sort of thing: "Wow, you got a promotion? That's awesome." "Yeah, but you have the bowl."
They are tiny and cheap and worth next to nothing intrinsically, but they look like the blue bowl of summer sky over the fields near our home. My mother used to put after school snacks in them. Actually, she would put a handful of M&Ms in each, but my brother's school bus arrived home 15-20 minutes before mine, so he'd run home and eat his, then tell me we were supposed to share the ones in my bowl. Took me years to figure out.
I'm so glad I posted here. That's the perfect touch.
[edit: Aw, I should make some homemade granola, too. (dpr has a recipe in another thread, I think) He loved Mom's so much that he'd hide containers of it behind the furniture.
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Half a bag! And a sealed container of granola marked: "Found behind living room sofa, 8/02/83."
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