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Vanity: Need gift ideas for the 15 year old boy who has everything
12/14/11 | Huntress

Posted on 12/14/2011 10:09:57 PM PST by Huntress

Dear FReepers,

Can you help me? I'm wracking my brain trying to come up with a Christmas gift for my 15-year-old nephew. He's a great kid, but he doesn't lack for material things. He's into sports, martial arts, weapons, and video games. He's also an enthusiastic reader. Does anyone have any ideas for a unique gift that might appeal to him. I'm looking to spend around $50. If you've got any suggestions for books, I'm always on the lookout for those. But I typically buy him books whenever I come across something in my own reading I think he'd like.

Thanks.

Huntress


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1 posted on 12/14/2011 10:10:06 PM PST by Huntress
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To: Huntress

Have him feed the homeless for a couple of hours.


2 posted on 12/14/2011 10:11:44 PM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, then he must learn under the worst of times.)
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To: Jonty30

I was also going to be a jerk and say a job.

Joking aside.

My opinion is that teens appreciate gift cards. They can hang out with friends and get the chance to use them while they are at the mall or otherwise socializing.


3 posted on 12/14/2011 10:16:22 PM PST by pennyfarmer (Even a RINO will chew its foot off when caught in a trap.)
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To: Huntress

15? I know what he wants, but it’s not legal to buy it. ;-D

If he likes video games I recommend “Skyrim” if he doesn’t have it already. It’s available on X-Box, Playstation and the PC.


4 posted on 12/14/2011 10:16:28 PM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Huntress

Contribute $50.00 in his name to The Wounded Warrior Project.

Show him some pictures of our wounded soldiers missing limbs.


5 posted on 12/14/2011 10:16:36 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Jonty30

IBIS (In Before It Starts)

This is gonna be fun...


6 posted on 12/14/2011 10:18:08 PM PST by BigDaddyTX (Don't Mex with Texas)
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To: Jonty30

He’d probably get a nice case of the flu, great gift idea.


7 posted on 12/14/2011 10:18:39 PM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Huntress

Get him a nice, blank, hardbound book. Inscribe it with words to the effect of ‘This is your future, yours to create, yours to document, yours to decide how to live. You may need additional volumes. Create for yourself a life such that you would be proud to have people read it in your old age, and document it here.’

It is a challenge, provokes thought, and will provide for him a place to record himself for himself as he grows and learns...


8 posted on 12/14/2011 10:20:51 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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Either of Rush’s books are good.

Also, “Starving the Monkeys” by Tom Baugh is a good book.


9 posted on 12/14/2011 10:21:58 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Huntress

Get him a used Ruger 10/22 and a Hunter’s Safety course.


10 posted on 12/14/2011 10:22:19 PM PST by Washi (Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse, one head-shot at a time.)
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I want him to come visit me in the nursing home when I’m old and decrepit, so I’m looking for something that he’d actually like.


11 posted on 12/14/2011 10:22:42 PM PST by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: Smokin' Joe

That was great


12 posted on 12/14/2011 10:25:39 PM PST by Haddit (Heartless)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Good idea.


13 posted on 12/14/2011 10:27:46 PM PST by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: Huntress

When my sons were this age I got them a hip-type tool box and put a good tool in it (like a hammer).

Then every Christmas after that they got another good tool (screwdriver, crescent wrench, etc.)

Every man needs a good set of tools.


14 posted on 12/14/2011 10:28:03 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Huntress
To quote something I saw recently:

"Why was this something that you thought we would care about or should know?" : )

15 posted on 12/14/2011 10:29:15 PM PST by jmax
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William Bennett’s book....Being a Man (I think that’s the title)


16 posted on 12/14/2011 10:29:24 PM PST by goodnesswins (Call your Congress Critters...HB1996...end the environ. atty's raping of the system)
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17 posted on 12/14/2011 10:29:34 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: Huntress

A girlfriend! ;0


18 posted on 12/14/2011 10:30:02 PM PST by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumbass Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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To: Huntress

Double up the $50 and get him an intro flight at your local general aviation airport.

It will allow him to see the world as it really is, from a few thousand feet above ground. Once he personally experiences the ability to control an airplane in all three dimensions, he will never be the same.

There’s nothing like a dose of physical reality to shape one’s perspective...


19 posted on 12/14/2011 10:32:15 PM PST by Tigerized (Occupy Wall Street? Go find the real culprits in the Capitol Building...)
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Give him a $50 Amazon.com gift card. Let HIM figure out what he wants to buy.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/gc

20 posted on 12/14/2011 10:32:23 PM PST by TChad
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