Christmas gifts for grown ups

[Christ_empowered]

In your family and with close(r) friends, do you still do gifts, or do you stop at a certain age? What about other relatives (nieces+nephews, grandchildren, etc.) ?

 

[Wrg1405]

I do.

My kids buy me funny things. Last year a I got a set of socks that had the days of the week on them.
Mind you it's confusing because if I put on pair that has Thursday on them and it actually Tuesday which one is correct?

 

[Christ_empowered]

lol.

my family got me a SmartPhone last year, so I can be one of the KoolKidz.

This year, I got my mama a big tin of colored pencils, a handheld pencil sharpener, and a bunch of adult coloring books. I got mah dad a book with outsider art, a ViewMaster, and some grown up ViewMaster reels (Frank Lloyd Wright architecture).

We don't do gift exchanges with the cousins at this point. I guess that stopped when I was a teenager at some point (?).

 

[Papa Zoom]

We give gifts. I buy my stuff and give them to my wife to wrap. I'd buy the stuff anyway. She does the same. That way we get what we want. The grandkids have lists. My daughter orders, I pay. I like. As a kid, I never liked Christmas. Not the presents part anyway. As a young father, I hated the gift exchange.

 

[Barbarian]

We still send gifts to the kids. This morning, a package Mrs. B. had sent to Seattle was returned for national security reasons. Seems the post office at the Medical School did not put the "don't worry, this is not a bomb" stamp on it when they sent it out, and it was being returned as a result. The odd thing was it about four days. It would have been out of the system sooner if they had just delivered it.

Mrs. B. was not pleased. "I'm going to the post office! Do you want to come with me?"

"No, I don't think I want to be within a block of the post office when you get there."

They promised to have it there by Christmas.

 

[wwjd_kilden]

I buy gifts for my stepsisters (but not their kids), aunt and uncle + their kids which are about my age (but not the kids kids), my parents, my grandma and a few friends. In total thats about 15, so I can't afford starting buying presents for the *counts* currently total of 8, soon to be eleven(!) kids spread among these people :p )

 

[Edward]

In your family and with close(r) friends, do you still do gifts, or do you stop at a certain age? What about other relatives (nieces+nephews, grandchildren, etc.) ?

I do, do the gift thing still, but just on a much abbreviated level than when I was married and the kids growing up.


I actually do not think giving gifts goes against the (real) spirit of Christmas, after all, wasn't the birth of Jesus God the Father's grand gift to mankind?!

Me and my brother are going to exchange gifts this year. But I'm not buying gifts for all of my extended family here.

I'm pretty sure that I'm going to order a brew your own beer starter kit for my brother. He drinks about 4 to 6 six packs a week, and it's cheap beer, ugh.

Think that's appropriate, Brothers & Sisters?

 

[wwjd_kilden]

Now I'm not a "thou shalleth not drink" kind of person, but to me it sounds like he is drinking a bit much, but you know him better than me though (how he handles the drinking and how it affects his health). Also, I haven't got a clue how strong that beer would be.

That being said ... argh! Now i want beer!

 

[Edward]

Now I'm not a "thou shalleth not drink" kind of person, but to me it sounds like he is drinking a bit much, but you know him better than me though (how he handles the drinking and how it affects his health). Also, I haven't got a clue how strong that beer would be.

That being said ... argh! Now i want beer!

Yeah, that's the thing. I wouldn't want to gift him a stumbling block. I'm undecided if he's an "alcoholic". He does drink a lot (by my standards), but no hard liquor, and very rarely more than one six pack a night.

But he's laid carpet for 35 years or so and is all racked up with rheumatoid arthritis because of it. It relaxes him after work and makes him feel better. That's hard work.

But no drinking before work or drugs. Eons ago when he was younger, her put away a fifth of jack at night. But won't touch hard liquor now.

He does insist on 6% beer, so he can feel better. DIY brews are 10% or more I've read. So my thoughts are a home brew would, a) save him money, and B) he'd drink less for the same effect...?

But like I said, I wouldn't want to make a stumbling block for him, so ask the Brother's & Sister's their opinion.

 

[Angel]

I buy everyone in my family and Matt's family presents.
My favorite gift is the one for my Grandmother. It's a sweater that says, "Santa, I can explain" :D :D