What's on your holiday gift list this year? World Peace, good health, etc., don't count

horseless carriage said:
The marketing people will be knocking on your door Gary. Giving cash, so vulgar. Fact is, cash can be spent on whatever the recipient wants. I've yet to hear of an unloved envelope of cash gathering dust in a cupboard or drawer somewhere
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Yeah, no complaints yet
 

Georgiagranny said:
Pish and tosh! Never mind the humbug stuff. You could volunteer at a hospital visiting little kids or somewhere that's serving meals to the homeless or delivering meals to homebound elderly. You could even spend a few minutes visiting with somebody you're delivering a meal to; they'd be so grateful to see another human and hear a few kind words.

Buy yourself an already-decorated little tree, take it home and outta the box, fluff it up, plug it in. Instant Christmas.

I have my Best Aunt's ceramic tree that she made years and years ago. I only have to plug it in.
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That would be great! But I will spend the Holidays just like I spend all the other days. I'm the only care taker for my lady friend, and by the time I make sure I give her the proper meds 4 times a day (15 different meds) and her insulin shots 2 times a day, do the laundry, do all the cooking and cleaning, and run some errands, I'm kinda out of time for those extracurricular activities you suggested. If I'm lucky, like today, and the weather is good, I'm able to ride my Harley up to the drugstore to pick up some of her meds.

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas
 
For the past ten years we've asked our kids to only give us gifts that are consumable or experiential. Nothing we need to find space for or dust.

They're pretty good at finding interesting jams and preserves, setting up mother-and-daughter pedicures (in one case father-in-law and son-in-law pedicures), subscriptions, amazing vegan cookies, and so forth.

We also set up several fun grab bags that include stealing at Christmas. $15 limit. Crazy socks is a riot. Another is consumables (but not candy). We're doing fun holiday (any holiday) dish towels this year, and I don't know what else. We'll nail it down on TG.
 
I used to attend Christmas dinners that included a card game. The card game determined who got which wrapped present. The gifts were little things like snow globes and chocolate bars. It was great fun.

Then people started bringing nicer gifts, and it wasn't fun any more. Those who won something cheap or silly felt disappointed. I got stuck with an amarillis bulb, and spent the next week trying to find a home for it.
 
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