I dont care for Xmas time as much of you know, I consider it a money-suckin holiday that requires too much spending/running/cooking/cleaning and not enough time appreciating whats really special about Christmas. BUT.....every Xmas morning we go to my parents house, out of the 6 Xmas parties we have to attend throughout December, this is totally my favorite one.....my parents give my brother and I one nice gift, our only gift and its always awesome because unlike some people who spend oodles and oodles of $ to try and outdo neighbor Joe and his hundreds of dollars spent on Suzie crap, my parents give truly awesome gifts. My brother opens up brand new Carhart stuff for his "new" fishin shack my parents chipped in for so I'm thinkin life is peachy I'm getting good stuff this year......I get a card.....open it up.....its says.....to my wonderful daughter and son-in-law, a nights stay at an indoor water park of your choice for you and the kids. WTF #1, they got more crap that weekend and I need a bigger house, why do they get another present? #2, its my ONLY present, my hubby and I dont exchange coz well its dumb to give each other lists and go get something-might as well go get it yourself and call it even. #3, my youngest kid is terrified of water, what am I suppose to do w/him? #4, GREAT, now I gotta put my kids in a vehicle and drive over 2 hours away to get to the nearest waterpark coz the one here in Green Bay sucks. #5, why is taking THEM somewhere a Xmas present to ME! sigh......so tell me, what was your suckiest present ever? Coz i'm having a hard time trying to decipher why on earth my Mother would think I'd want to torture myself w/my children for 2 hours in vehicle, then deal w/my youngest fear of a pool/let alone a slide w/water in it for my Xmas present.
A left handed wanking glove when the b*stard who sent it me knows full well I'm right handed. Wasnt happy they didnt keep the receipt so I could go and changes it either. Ian :lol: :lol:
Tina, sorry sweetie ... :cry: :cry: :cry: Maybe you can talk your parents into taking the kids to the water park, and giving you and your hubby a free weekend???
Parents give the best presents ever because even the last detail down to the colour pen they write the card in is thought out its not how much is spent i spent about 300$ on all my presents this yr and they loved them al and how do i know is cos you see it in expression and its obvious when faked!
Ch-ch-ch... Chia. Ha! I received a Chia Pet once in one of those round robin gift exchanges... ya know, where you draw numbers and the first person opens a gift and then the next number decides whether they want the other person's gift or opens a new one. And then the next number gets to pick from any of the opened gifts or opens a new one and so on. It always pays to be the last number in those exchanges.
I got a stand alone manicure set. It was hideously ugly. It was a fake-chrome stand, rainbow shaped, just a bit thicker than say a book cover, then the tools were stuck inside holes throughout the 'rainbow'. Who puts their manicure stands on display? :?: I mean, thats what I want to see, someone's toenail clippers on their bathroom counter. Yeah, pretty stuff. Now, if we talk about round-robin, dirty santa, chinese christmas type gifts...kevin takes the cake on that one...he got a blow up sheep this year at his work christmas party in one of those exchange games. :lol:
