Those things are nice but sure not practical year after year. Could you imagine the $ over say 25 years? I asked for the generator I want and good dark chocolate:) I left the gift cards I had already received for the store the generator is at taped to my list.
Oh, I never said it was a practical choice! I mean, who actually needs a new phone every year? Well, twice a year . . . these very same things are the only appropriate items for Mother's Day as well!
One of my husbands co-workers was mortified to find out that my husband was not planning to get me a 'present' for Christmas. We only do stockings, and we mostly fill them with toiletries, and maybe a favorite treat or two. She suggested that he get me some expensive bracelet that I have never heard of (Alex and Annie??), and he said no, and that I would be actually upset to receive something like that (I would). She then said in a huff, "How could she not want to get stuff? Christmas is all about getting stuff? That would never fly with me." He just smiled and said that it was a good thing she didn't marry HIM then, and walked away.
Stockings only are a neat idea. It's probably not something my husband and I would do ourselves, but it's a unique approach.
For what it's worth, I have no clue what Alex and Annie might be, and I'm not even curious enough to open a new screen and do a google search.
I asked for a composter, the one with the barrel that you can just turn. And I also asked to have the zipper on my luggage repaired. I haven't found time to do it, so if he can research that and take care of it--that would be an awesome gift!
Oh, I want one of those composters! I saw them last year at the Farmer's Market ($50 each, very well made), but I said to myself, "I'll think about it and maybe buy one on the way out", and they were all sold out.
She then said in a huff, "How could she not want to get stuff? Christmas is all about getting stuff? That would never fly with me."
Woah these people exist? I thought people only said "Christmas is all about getting stuff" ironically.
What I hear people say all the time these days is that Christmas is about family, whereas when I was a kid, the celebration was firmly about Jesus . . . but it was a time to celebrate His birth with family. I have many memories of my father reading from the book of Luke to all the kids by candlelight.