Your best present?

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[Saint Peter]

I bought myself a five channel Rotel power amp. Fits me like a glove.

Thanks me!!

 

[Hypoxia]

My grandkids each received for their 3rd birthday a screw-in clothes hook from Ikea in the form of a dog's butt end, tail up. They absolutely loved-em and now, years later, still use them.

 

[Bidin~Time]

A few yrs ago, the hubs spent months agonizing over the bumper of his truck developing rust. He keeps his vehicles absolutely pristine so this was a HUGE issue for him. So, I bought him a bumper for his truck. It was a bitch to wrap, but I got all kinds of attagirls with that gift.

 

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[Super-Surprise]

The recipient(s) was/were unknown to me.


The present was red.


It warmed the heart to give it and to receive it.

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A blood donation for the Holiday Season.

 

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[adrina]

My Father, after he got quite ill, took up making those Christmas stockings made from the kits. The very fancy stuffed, stitched and sequined ones where you personalize it with their name stitched across the top. The Christmas before he died, the very last one he made was for my dear friend's young son. The following Christmas when I went to visit my family, he had two kits left he had not made. Mom did not know what to do with the last kits. But I did.

I brought them back home and made them up. One for the my friend and one for her husband. So they would have a family of Christmas stockings. I had never done any of them. It took the better part of the year to complete them. But I was glad I did. I felt like a legacy had been passed and a collection completed.

I doubt I will ever do anything like them again as they are very labor intensive, but I do not regret doing it or spending the time. They loved them and now they have their family of homemade customized Christmas stockings they display every year.

 

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[Froya]

I managed to pull off a surprise party for my parents' 25th anniversary. They didn't even know they wanted one. The looks on their faces when they came through the door and figured out what was going on was more than worth everything I did to make it happen.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Years ago I bought an antique carved gilt wooden horse with real horse hair for the mane and tail. It is a circus tent topper. Recently a friend sent me an autobiographical story she wrote about running off to join the circus and taking clown classes in preparation. Her wife is currently, and has always been, a horse person. After reading her story, I knew the horse was meant to be hers, and told her she had better accept it or else.

 

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[RobDownSouth]

I have a very good friend whose younger brother has terminal (stage 4) metastatic cancer. He doesn't want "anything" for Christmas. My friend wanted to get him something special anyway. She and I brainstormed together and decided "something he'd always remember" would be in order.

We (okay, she...) got him a supercar test drive at Charlotte Motor Speedway. 3 laps in a Lamborghini LP560-4.

I promised her I'd go with her to watch him drive.

 

[Bookishleigh]

While I can't say yet what the present is, I knew it was right. It's nothing horribly expensive, but there is thought and sentiment behind it.

The best present given to me though was not a thing but a place. I've thought of those books a lot as of late, hoping that they and those who tend them have survived the fires without harm.

 

[AlwaysSoaked]

About 11 years ago, I came up with an idea. I didn't know if it was even possible until I did some internet research. I had photographs of myself and my siblings, along with ones of our kids and my parents all screenprinted onto a quilt. The photos ranged from ones that were about 40 years old to very recent ones. My siblings and I gave it to my parents as a gift. It felt meaningful. It came out far more beautiful than I had hoped it would. Those are the best kinds of gifts.

 

[Queefer]

I got my kids a cozmo collectors edition. They've wanted one since they came out.

 

[butters]

hi, Des

well there was the antique box with embossed, possibly grecian, warriors in strange helmets - the box was wooden, the lid was covered in embossed caramel-ey coloured leather attached with old studs. for HarryHill, of course... along with the small but perfectly formed crystal ball, an old penny from the 1800's, the gorgeous small buttery moroccan-leather bound book with the creamiest thick paper filled with hand-written poetry inspired by him.

and then there was the small, about 1" x 1.5" glass block that has laser etched inside it the most perfect, tiny fairy riding a dragonfly - given his writing, it was made for him...his very best present (hands out the sick buckets) is having me here to share our first christmas in the flesh

 

[barefootcowgirl]

I gave someone tuition to Auctioneer's school. He wanted it but it wouldn't have occurred to him that he could actually go.

 

[Comshaw]

The best present I ever gave and received was a cheap set of wooden tree ornaments.
When my wife and I were first married I was still in the Army so my income wasn't much. We drove from where I was stationed home ( about 150 miles) and cut a tree on her parents land. Her mom and dad gave use an old set of lights to go on the tree. Even with all that we didn't have any ornaments to go on the tree. My wife and I were cruising through the local big ol' store looking at things we wished we could buy when we spotted a wooden ornament kit. it had a set of paints, brushes and these two dimensional wooden figures printed on thin wood. We had just enough to buy it. We decided it would be our present to each other. We took it home and spent the next week painting the figures.

We hung them on the tree and that was the only ornaments we had. My wife lamented on not having an angel for the top of the tree. I got out of bed after she was asleep and made a star out of cardboard and silver wrapping paper and put it on top of the tree. She almost cried when she saw it the next morning. .
Those ornaments and that star are still on our tree each year 44 years later.


Comshaw

 

[thør]

My grandkids each received for their 3rd birthday a screw-in clothes hook from Ikea in the form of a dog's butt end, tail up. They absolutely loved-em and now, years later, still use them.

Timeless!

 

[pointless]

i prefer to jerk myself off in the privacy of my own room, thank you very much.

 

[butters]

The best present I ever gave and received was a cheap set of wooden tree ornaments.
When my wife and I were first married I was still in the Army so my income wasn't much. We drove from where I was stationed home ( about 150 miles) and cut a tree on her parents land. Her mom and dad gave use an old set of lights to go on the tree. Even with all that we didn't have any ornaments to go on the tree. My wife and I were cruising through the local big ol' store looking at things we wished we could buy when we spotted a wooden ornament kit. it had a set of paints, brushes and these two dimensional wooden figures printed on thin wood. We had just enough to buy it. We decided it would be our present to each other. We took it home and spent the next week painting the figures.

We hung them on the tree and that was the only ornaments we had. My wife lamented on not having an angel for the top of the tree. I got out of bed after she was asleep and made a star out of cardboard and silver wrapping paper and put it on top of the tree. She almost cried when she saw it the next morning. .
Those ornaments and that star are still on our tree each year 44 years later.


Comshaw

*wipes eyes*

so. damned. romantic.

 

[thør]

A few yrs ago, the hubs spent months agonizing over the bumper of his truck developing rust. He keeps his vehicles absolutely pristine so this was a HUGE issue for him. So, I bought him a bumper for his truck. It was a bitch to wrap, but I got all kinds of attagirls with that gift.

Damn, my kinda woman!

 

[Comshaw]

*wipes eyes*

so. damned. romantic.

Thanks.....

I'm a firm believer in being happy with what you have. Back then we didn't have much, but what we had made us feel rich.

Comshaw

 

[tedsbeds]

Damn, my kinda woman!

I am from New England, home of the Celtics, Patriots and Red Sox. Growing up my brothers saw numerous sporting events in the old Boston Garden. My oldest brother even played his basketball and state finals were held in the Boston Garden. . In 1998 the old Garden was demolished. The Christmas Tree Shop obtained remnants of the garden.
For Christmas that year I bought him one of the original seats with documentation from the Boston Garden.
I believe it is still hanging in his office.