I love it too!
Posted on 12/25/2007 6:27:43 AM PST by Kaslin
The author could simply try to remember what Christmas is really all about if it offends him that much. He should be thankful that he even has the ability to receive gifts, or that he has people who love/like him enough to give him one.
A gift is that — a gift. And if getting a good one is that big of a deal to the author, how about having a spirit of forgiveness when it doesn’t happen?
I thought the last article was humorous. This is just sad.
I love it too!
I’ve long ago given up on the idea that the gifts I receive are things that I really can use or want, though occasionally I’m pleasantly surprised. As has been pointed out earlier, that’s not the purpose of gift giving, and it’s really “the thought that counts.” (Though sometimes I do mutter under my breath, in the immortal words of Archie Bunker, “I wish you had thought of something else.”)
I have a friend (though I think of her more as a persistently longtime acquaintance), who I swear must go out of her way to find the tackiest gifts, albeit unintentionally.
She’s got plenty of money, more than she’ll ever use, and yet she usually gives me Christmas presents culled from the Dollar Store or the irregulars bin at the local discount warehouse. One year I got the ugliest clock imaginable, which consisted of a China-made metal sculpture of a nude woman about to serve a volleyball or something. When I unwrapped the package, I couldn’t help but blurt out, “Well, it’s interesting.”
She replied, “Funny, I gave the identical clock to another friend of mine and she said the exact same thing.” The gift-giver still was clueless.
Re-gifting is an art form
Nobody wants this sort of drama at Christmas time, Tallman. If you can't accept a gift gracefully it's a greater offense than receiving a too-tight shirt from someone who loves you.
I would say to this imbecilic writer that he states loudly and emphatically...”PLEASE DON’T BUY ME GIFTS, if they are going to give me nothing but anguish, turmoil and bitter feeling towards you. MY gift’s to YOU are going to be perfect in every way and if you can’t do the same then don’t bother”
Yea, might teach him a lesson.
I’m glad I read this:
1) Because I can see I’m not the only navel-gazing Christian alive and
2) What an ass I look like when I do the same
Thank you, brother Tallman!
Of course dad is exempt from this rule.
Merry Christmas.
My MIL buys crap all year long from the deep discount tables then puts it all on her bed just before Christmas and picks stuff for each of us, without actual regard to wants or taste.
She gave my two year old a Kaboodle with a mirror and that same year, forgot my four year old totally.
When the next year, we tried to send her a list for the kids, she sent a poison pen letter stating, “I’m not going to buy what you want me to buy. I’m going to buy what I want” Mind you, we included things on that list like coloring books and crayons because she is worth a cool mil yet is so tight she squeaks.
Tell me again who she loves. It is only herself.
Apparently none of you have kids with a bad gift giving Grandparent.
How do you explain the six pairs of matching socks to your five year old when the other kids get toys?
I’m getting her back this year. She gets the movie “Hairspray” I get to keep the special edition disk with James Marsden singing to me.
God love the old broad!!!!
Sorry to hear that.
Merry Christmas netmilsmom.
Merry Christmas, my FRiend.
We cover the gifts for her now. Buy stuff and bring it along so the Grandparents look good. It works.
Ok so who ended up with THE fruitcake this year?
You can only protect them kids so long! L0L
Merry Christmas :0)
Merry Christmas! Buy your child a toy, and tell her it’s from her grandmother. And the socks. Kids always need more socks; I think mine eat them.
My mother sent me the same velour sweatsuit she sent me last year! I will tell her it’s the wrong size (which it is) and exchange it for something different after I find out where she bought it.
Not possible in my case. My brother gave me a “George W. Bush Countdown til Out of Office” Calendar. I would rather have had the $12 it cost.
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