The best gift

[Nosferatuness]

With Christmas approaching I was going over the gifts I received over the years for birthdays and Christmas and for just because.

What was your best? Please name a few and why it was the best.

 

[Trombonus]

With Christmas approaching I was going over the gifts I received over the years for birthdays and Christmas and for just because.

What was your best? Please name a few and why it was the best.

This years gift certainly ranks up there. 20th Anniversary Movie Edition Optimus Prime.

Last year I got Transformers Cybertron Starscream.

And one year as a kid in England I got Metroplex

I also recieved an N64 when it came out, but I didn't get a game with it so it doesn't count. This years gift is probably my favorite for now.

 

[kendo1]

Socks.

I like getting socks.

 

[kendo1]

Made of alpaca wool.

 

[HappyLlama]

Oops!

 

[3113]

Oh, this is easy. The best seasonal gift I ever got was....

A Proposal

My husband proposed on Christmas Day. Not because he'd planned to, but because I got him a really great gift that year and, being competitive, he had to outdo me. So he gave me the ring a week earlier than he'd intended.

I think I can safetly say that saying "yes" to that proposal was one of the best and wisest things I've ever done--and that I more-or-less got a husband for Christmas that year because of it.

And that my then-boyfriend won the contest and out-did me on the gift-giving front that year

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Once I got the Barbie dream house. It was so badass.

A couple of years ago, someone gave me a huge candy cane. That was a lot of fun.

 

[SeaCat]

Well I can't claim it as a Christmas present, but it is absolutely incredible.

Today for my birthday my parents and my wie gave me a hand made Toledo Steel Gladius. (I was informed they had ordered this over a year ago.)

Absolutely beautiful.

Cat

 

[TE999]

My best Christmas present ever was a 1954 Chevrolet Bel-Air my Dad bought for me the year I turned seventeen. Took me totally by suprise.

Some old woman owned it and it was still cherry. I was on top of the world.

I drove that beauty till I went in the Air Force and sold it to a buddy of mine. He wrecked it one night driving drunk. I never forgave him.

What I wouldn't give to have that car and those feelings again. Hell, and to be that age!

Ah, memories.

Peace.

Tom (TE999).

 

[elsol]

Received:

My dog, half-pitbull & half-bulldog, 90lbs of attitude under the delusion that he's a lapdog.

Given:

Hmmm...

I would go for the 'Of the Month' Stuff.

Chocolate of the Month Club... big points there.

Flower of the Month Club... HUGE POINTS there 'cause the girlfriend forgets every month so it's always a surprise and the delivery is to her office and every month the other women do that 'Oh how wonderful... you got flowers... again... don't you think he's sort-of, I'm not saying anything bad, I'm just saying that it seems like he only really ordered you flowers once."

 

[Guest]

my ex made me chicken soup when i had my tonsils out It was sweet cause she lived in another country and showed up with the soup at my front door.

 

[AppleBiter]

My brother came home for Christmas the year before last. I didn't know it at the time, but that would be the best Christmas gift I could've asked for -- that my entire family was together for the holidays.

This year, my son will be an early Christmas present and I can't think of anything better than that.

 

[Misty_Morning]

A set of diamond earings that I had been wanting....

two years later, he gave me something even better.....a divorce!

 

[TheeGoatPig]

The best gift I ever got was when I gave a gift.

I used to work in retail, in the seasonal and toy departments. My ex girlfriend worked there too (that's where we ment). There were these big teddy bears on display, three left. She said she wanted one, and hoped to get one before they sold out. Well, she didn't buy one becuase two of them sold before the day was out, and I had the third one stuffed away for her. I can't believe I snuck that thing out of the store right under her nose.

Christmas came, she stopped by my house (we were still firends for a year or so after she broke up with me), and I had her close her eyes as I went to get her that bear from my room. When she opened her eyes they opened all the way. That look on her face was one of the happiest I have ever seen.

The best gift I ever got was the look on her face when she saw that I got her that teddy bear. That was one of her favorite possessions even when she stopped talking to me a year and a half later.

 

[Just-Legal]

The best present I ever got was from my grandmother. She *listened* to me.

I'd been arguing with my parents for a year about whether or not I could have a SNES. Their basic reason was I'd want games buying constantly, and we couldn't afford them. Every time I tried to explain that I really wouldn't, and I wouldn't be on it all the time, and it might actually stop me from bugging my dad to let me use his work PC, they refused to listen.

Once I tried talking to them about it when my grandmother was looking after me, and she sat me down (I still believe with the intention of talking me out of it), and asked me to tell her exactly what I was trying to tell them.

I had a good friend down the road who already owned a SNES. He'd sold the machine because he was getting a SEGA (And I would have bought it from him but his mum sold it to a cousin) but hadn't been able to sell many of the games, so he was going to give them to me - his mother had agreed and everything. He had about 20 titles, mostly silly ones but ones I enjoyed. The system I wanted was on offer in a store for christmas, a very reduced price, bundled with the two games I really wanted that he didn't have.

My gran was stunned, and told me that I'd obviously sat and thought about this. I said I had, and that I was perfectly happy to have it for a joint christmas/birthday present because I knew it was still relatively expensive. My dad came back to take my Nan home and I thought nothing more of it.

Christmas came around, and we picked my nan and grandparents up, and I suddenly heard a lot of arguing around the car. My dad was clearly unhappy with my Nan, (mum's mum), and I couldn't figure out why, until I saw a very familiar shaped box wrapped in Mario wrapping paper pulled out of the boot. That was it, I was in floods of tears and refusing to let my Nan go for the whole holiday. I'd resigned myself to never getting it, had started saving to buy myself a cheap second hand one - as she knew, because she was saving my money for me - and there it was.

There was only one condition - that I not play for ages on an evening, and that I still went to bed at the same time. And I did.

I still have that SNES. I still play with it. And every time I do, I can still hear myself explaining how Mario Kart worked to her.

I miss my Nan.

Edited to add: It was a joint christmas/birthday present, and I was perfectly happy with that. My sister spent four months winding me up that I wasn't going to have another present to open on my birthday. Unknownst to me, a week before my birthday, mum gave Nan one of the game cartridges, and she wrapped it up so I *did* have something to open.

 

[English Lady]

The best gift I ever got was when I gave a gift.

I used to work in retail, in the seasonal and toy departments. My ex girlfriend worked there too (that's where we ment). There were these big teddy bears on display, three left. She said she wanted one, and hoped to get one before they sold out. Well, she didn't buy one becuase two of them sold before the day was out, and I had the third one stuffed away for her. I can't believe I snuck that thing out of the store right under her nose.

Christmas came, she stopped by my house (we were still firends for a year or so after she broke up with me), and I had her close her eyes as I went to get her that bear from my room. When she opened her eyes they opened all the way. That look on her face was one of the happiest I have ever seen.

The best gift I ever got was the look on her face when she saw that I got her that teddy bear. That was one of her favorite possessions even when she stopped talking to me a year and a half later.

Beautiful - my best gift every year is the look on a persons face as they open a gift the love. My daughter is a particular joy. I remember specifically when wegave her a magic hats barney and her face just lit up

I remember one year making a gag gift up for my grandad with my Aunty and sister. We got a little wooden cage (for keeping letters in I think) and my aunty shredded up some yellow paper at work for straw and we got two big sugar mice to sit in it.


Grandad would always say he wanted two mice in a cage for Christmas and his face when he opened it was a picture. Actully, I'm tearing up thinking about it. I miss my grandad.

He gave me one of my best presents which was a beautiful red leather stamp book. It had delicate tracing paper lines to tuck my stamps in so I didn't have to use hinges, which ruin a stamps value. I was well into my stamps as a child. It was just exactly what I wanted but Grandad knew it without being asked -he just knew what I would love.

*sniffs*

 

[Guest]

A pair of running gloves. It was a very thoughtful, unexpected gift. I mentioned once that my hands freeze while I do my daily run during fall/winter time.

 

[Nirvanadragones]

She wrote me a poem which took my breath away, because I could feel what she said, in every part of my soul.

She drew me an angel. I marvel at her ability to capture detail - so much passion and emotion in one drawing. She's an incredible artist.

She wrote a story for our baby girl. A story so gentle and full of love. I have no words.

She gives herself. More than I ever thought I could have in Love.

 

[oggbashan]

Home-made

My best Christmas present was made by my grandfather the year before he died.

It was shortly after WWII when new toys were almost unknown and secondhand, outgrown toys were worn out by several owners. I used to have an old battered tricycle that had been destroyed in an accident with a horse and milk cart (another story) but before that Christmas I had very few toys.

My grandfather, helped by my elder brother and sister, had been beachcombing for months to get the raw materials to make toys for his younger relatives and neighbours' children. He would spend hours in the garden shed with the faint noise of sawing, planing and drilling. We children were forbidden to look inside.

On Christmas Day every local child had a wooden toy made by my grandfather. I had a shining bright red locomotive that I could sit on and push along with my feet. It wasn't a tricycle - it was better than the worn out tricycle that had been destroyed. It was new. It was mine. It had never been anyone else's. (Even my clothes were secondhand.)

My sister had a doll's cot. My brother had a toy fort with hand carved wooden soldiers. All three presents were beautifully hand-painted when paint was very difficult to get.

My locomotive was my favourite toy for three years until I grew too large for it and it was passed on to a younger cousin. By then my grandfather had died but I never forgot his special Christmas present.

Og

PS. The toy locomotive was destroyed in a shed fire about thirty years later while waiting repair. Its memory is still fresh.

 

[Boota]

My best gift ever was my first guitar. My parents bought it for me for Xmas, but were nice enough not to make me wait until the 25th after picking it out on December 1st. Tomorrow is my 22nd anniversary of playing guitar.

It was a yellow Lotus stratocaster copy with dual humbucker pick-ups. Played exceptionally smooth for a beginner guitar. I traded up for a B.C. Rich Warlock a few years later, but every once in a while that old Lotus showed up in the music store. Someone else learned on it and passed it on. If I ever see it out there again I'm buying it back.

 

[privyjo]

Ravensburger jig-saw puzzle of world maps given to me by my son - will be 75 1/2 x 108 2/3 inches when fully assembled - has 18000 pieces