Slow day at work, created my Christmas buy list

peachy13

Listed out everyone I need to buy for and thought of/researched/wrote down a list of gifts for everyone. 

Lot of people getting cases of wine this year.

novella1186

I have a tradition of doing some Christmas shopping at the liquor store every year. That's a gift no one wants to return! 

slothiegal

peachy13 said:

Listed out everyone I need to buy for and thought of/researched/wrote down a list of gifts for everyone. 

Lot of people getting cases of wine this year.

....can I be on your Christmas-giving list?

Ugh seriously though, I need to do this.  This time of year always goes WAY TOO FAST.

holyguacamole79

Can I be on your list, too?

I need to find out my secret Santa and shop for DH some more. I'm also waiting for cyber Monday for some deals.

theartistformerlyknownas

We're doing a homemade gift swap with my family, so I'm making a Christmas tree skirt. Still buying for all the kids... H has already bought his niece some Frozen puzzles, I have some books in my Amazon cart for my 3yo nephew ("Iggy Peck, Architect" and "Rosie Revere, Engineer"), just need to decide on some type of building-type toy to go with them (thinking Gears! Gears! Gears!).

NO CLUE for the other 2yo nephew (don't see him as often, is he still obsessed with Matchbox cars?), the other three nieces (all babies), or H. Urgh.

esstee33

Awwww yiss. All I have to do is get my stepmom some See's candies and some stocking stuff, and I'm done! FI and I even did two of the charity tree cards already, too.  

I would gif patting myself on the back if I wasn't at work. 

lyndausvi

We do not have a big gift list.  We only give to my parents and my nieces and nephews.  Oh and his mom.   We just give her wine.  

I'm giving 2 nieces and nephew a Visa GC to use in Hawaii.  2 others I give locally made jewelry.    Mom and dad I got the airplane ride.

Not sure about DH.  Last year I got him xbox one.  

beethery

I have an amazon list going. Still have to think of things for some of the people who haven't made it on there yet.

novella1186

In case you guys are still trying to figure out what to get me, I enjoy gifs and snark, and I know the perfect place to find them too... 

LakeR2014

novella1186 said:

I have a tradition of doing some Christmas shopping at the liquor store every year. That's a gift no one wants to return! 

I think it would be neat to do a secret Santa Knottie style - each Knottie sends a bottle of wine from their area/region to another knottie (like assign each person another person to send it too)....not sure what the post office rules are on sending alcohol but I always love trying new wine!

CMGragain

Gifts were so important to my late mother.  She obsessed over them!  She was also very critical of any gift that didn't meet her standards.  It is such a relief not to have to shop for her anymore.
Liquor store shopping sounds great!  It is just hard to ship it across the country.
I have rich in-laws.  (I mean R$CH!!!)  What do I buy them?  They are diabetic.

holyguacamole79

novella1186 said:

In case you guys are still trying to figure out what to get me, I enjoy gifs and snark, and I know the perfect place to find them too... 

holyguacamole79

I want to be a bitch and ask for wine for Christmas from my secret Santa.  BUT everyone else in my family (and the Secret Santa pool) is either pregnant or got the woman pregnant.

So I may ask for this

theartistformerlyknownas

CMGragain said:

Gifts were so important to my late mother.  She obsessed over them!  She was also very critical of any gift that didn't meet her standards.  It is such a relief not to have to shop for her anymore.
Liquor store shopping sounds great!  It is just hard to ship it across the country.
I have rich in-laws.  (I mean R$CH!!!)  What do I buy them?  They are diabetic.

Maybe some kind of class? Gourmet/specialty cooking, painting, diving in money like Scrooge McDuck without getting bruises?

VulgarGirl

I'm gonna need to get on your Christmas list...how do I go about doing that?

I've been looking at stuff for SIL, because she's 7 and fun to buy for. No ideas for anyone else yet.

holyguacamole79

@MagicInk, I'm totally having fun shopping for our 8 y/o niece.  She's the most fun of all!!

ShellD13

lolo883 said:

CMGragain said:

Gifts were so important to my late mother.  She obsessed over them!  She was also very critical of any gift that didn't meet her standards.  It is such a relief not to have to shop for her anymore.
Liquor store shopping sounds great!  It is just hard to ship it across the country.
I have rich in-laws.  (I mean R$CH!!!)  What do I buy them?  They are diabetic.

Maybe some kind of class? Gourmet/specialty cooking, painting, diving in money like Scrooge McDuck without getting bruises?

I second this Experience Gifts are the way to go for folks that have everything they need!

H and I are trying to switch it up where gifts are concerned for his kids - they have too much "stuff" so we are going the experience route too.  He is planning on making a day trip out of taking his daughter to see her favorite OOT sports team with lunch and dinner thrown in for good measure and an OOT/overnight snowmobiling trip for his son.  I'm looking at taking SD and one of her friends to a local Painting class/Paint Night.  I'm still trying to come up with something for SS.

novella1186

holyguacamole79 said:

@MagicInk, I'm totally having fun shopping for our 8 y/o niece.  She's the most fun of all!!

We "adopted" an 18 month old little boy for xmas and got a wish list from his mom. Honestly, that's the stuff I'm most looking forward to shopping for. It's so easy when they're that little, and the toys are so fun to pick out! 

jdluvr06

novella1186 said:

holyguacamole79 said:

@MagicInk, I'm totally having fun shopping for our 8 y/o niece.  She's the most fun of all!!

We "adopted" an 18 month old little boy for xmas and got a wish list from his mom. Honestly, that's the stuff I'm most looking forward to shopping for. It's so easy when they're that little, and the toys are so fun to pick out! 

Dh and I did that last year! We "adopted" a teenage boy and girl though. It was fun but kind of sad because of some of the stuff on their list.

holyguacamole79

This actually reminds me to look into "adopting" a less fortunate child this Christmas.  I love shopping for gifts for kids who wouldn't get one otherwise.  

VulgarGirl

We decided to adopt a family at work this year. Wifey's work does a few families each year, so I kicked the idea out to my peeps if they'd be up for adopting one family (since we're a small group) and everyone was excited about the idea.

We've also been doing a food drive, if you bring in non-parshiable food, we'll give you 10% off whatever you're getting done. 

Sugargirl1019

We need some more Baileys, Pumpkin Spice Kahlua and some vodka because, well, I drank all of it. And I need more. Secret Santa pleeaassee! Here's my address!

esstee33

LakeR2014 said:

novella1186 said:

I have a tradition of doing some Christmas shopping at the liquor store every year. That's a gift no one wants to return! 

I think it would be neat to do a secret Santa Knottie style - each Knottie sends a bottle of wine from their area/region to another knottie (like assign each person another person to send it too)....not sure what the post office rules are on sending alcohol but I always love trying new wine!

It's illegal to mail alcohol, but there are ways around it. It you package it well-enough that you can't hear the glass clanking (and, really, if you intend them to get there in one piece, I srsly hope they're well-packaged), you can just box it up regularly and most of the time they won't even ask you what's in it. If they do, you can just say something generic like "Christmas gifts" and that'll probably work. 

I used to be a Redditor and they had beer gift exchanges so people could get rare beers from distant breweries. I don't recall any of them ever having issues with it.