Christmas Presents...whatcha going to buy?

[ashenflowers 5]

I'm not doing much this year.... my money is being spread to too many places right now so I won't have much leftover. My fiancé and I won't be spending it together, but we will be spending New Years together, so that'll be nice

Last year though I baked some cookies and sent them to my fiance and his parents with the recipe attached to a little card. They liked them. He topped it though and sent me a homemade Advent Calendar with pictures of he and I behind every flap.... lol It was cute.

[Danu 19]

We've decided not to get each other anything either as I'm moving down just shortly after the new year, so for belated xmas gifts we get each other Thats going to be the best present EVER!

[Rhiannercakes 14]

We have no plans yet.

I'm looking forward to having a very quiet Christmas.

[Sprailenes 47]

I don't know..

I'll tell you on December 24th when I pick it up. I work best under pressure.

[redmen99 1]

We got a PS3 earlier this year, thanks to the help of a friend who traded in some old games, so we could get it at a discount, so our plan was to get Rock Band for each other for Christmas. Well, that same friend found Rock Band 1 for $50 with the microphone, a guitar and the drums and was nice enough to pick it up for us, so now I have no idea what we are going to do. Hell, I don't even know where we will be spending the holiday. And I've never had a full sized tree up at my place since I've had the cats, so it might just be the fiber-optic tree again this year... Maybe....

Edited November 2, 2009 by redmen99

[SapphireDreams 71]

For once I have TOO many ideas! I'm so excited to go shopping for him!

His birthday is December 30th, so at least I can use my ideas for both occasions!

[darkchilde794 5]

This year will be our first Christmas -- in our first house and hopefully, as newlyweds! I am sooo excited!

Anyhow, me and the hunny agreed not to buy presents for each other for holidays/birthdays but rather save the money for a trip sometime during the year. So I have no real gift in mind but I am definitely excited to make some wonderful "Christmas memories" with him. I will force him to make gingerbread ornaments with to hang on our tree and Ill make us a good Christmas day breakfast as we would be spending the holidays with his family this year.

I also really love the ornament idea -- maybe Ill try my hand at making our "first ornament" together. And because I am giving the fiance a scrapbook of four years of memories together for our wedding (hoping for a November nuptial), I cant do that for Christmas. Maybe Ill copy some of the people's ideas and make a homemade calendar. I definitely will be having a lot of free time this December!

[Hugglebuggles 60]

For once I have TOO many ideas! I'm so excited to go shopping for him!

His birthday is December 30th, so at least I can use my ideas for both occasions!

I know what you mean! He's never been very good at communicating what he wants or needs, so in the past I always had a hard time finding a nice gift without him linking me to something online. The gifts he got from me were always so predictable. Now that we live together its so much easier to notice things he could use or things he would enjoy. This year I have a million ideas.

December 30th is a sweet birthday! Its like having New Years be a 3 day long celebration!

[DeadPoolX 9]

I'm thinking this toy or maybe this one instead.

[Krikit 1,163]

He topped it though and sent me a homemade Advent Calendar with pictures of he and I behind every flap.... lol It was cute.

That's such a great gift!

I'm thinking this toy or maybe this one instead.

For your wife?? lol

[Udella&Wiz 325]

Can't reveal what Don's getting since he regularly reads VJ!

We'll be at home in VA, we haven't made it home to Canada for Christmas since being married 2 yrs ago - didn't have AP the 1st year and the 2nd year I was working. Even the previous year when we were engaged...we drove down to VA on Christmas Eve day.

We decided early on that we would not be playing the 'whose family gets to have us on Xmas day game ever. We'll be at home for CHristmas and then we'll travel before or after for other family events. It's important to us that we have our own new family traditions and our families respect that I think. My husband's boys come over later in the day and my daughter is already with us and we eat lots of food and vegetate.

This year, we're considering going to see Sherlock Homes during the day since it opens Xmas day.

Present-wise

Older son - monitor + assorted smaller items

youngest son - GPS + assorted smaller items

daughter - no clue, so far a bathrobe

Keeping in mind that we have 17, 18 and 19 yr olds (come January) so fewer(more grown-up) but useful presents are always appreciated

Edited November 2, 2009 by Udella&Wiz

[ScooterMac 2]

I can post at least part of Spoom's, since he already knows about his "big present" - I got him a GPS for his car, since he'll be driving around in his new town in the next few weeks (hopefully)! I always, always, always overdo Christmas, with him and with my family (and my godchildren). I just love finding stuff people will like and watching their expressions when they open it I'm trying to scale back and budget more this year, because our wedding is in January (and because Spoom doesn't like the idea of me taking on a 3rd job just to buy Christmas presents *lol*), but I love buying stuff for my friends/family.

This will be our first Christmas together, and I'm super excited about it - I don't think we'll set up a full tree or anything (kitties love to nom on Christmas trees), just excited to spend Christmas together Since he'll have activated his K-1, his parents will have to come here to visit...so we'll spend Christmas with my family this year (our big family gathering is - conveniently - down the stairs and to the right...no shoes/coat required!).

And after Christmas, it's only 29 days til our wedding

[Peachey 10]

I already got varba one gift, and I think I know what else I'm getting him. We're not spending a whole lot on each other since I'll be moving.

I got his mom name for Christmas and she sent me a list.

I got my brother's name in my family and I'm getting him a leather tool belt.

[SapphireDreams 71]

For once I have TOO many ideas! I'm so excited to go shopping for him!

His birthday is December 30th, so at least I can use my ideas for both occasions!

I know what you mean! He's never been very good at communicating what he wants or needs, so in the past I always had a hard time finding a nice gift without him linking me to something online. The gifts he got from me were always so predictable. Now that we live together its so much easier to notice things he could use or things he would enjoy. This year I have a million ideas.

December 30th is a sweet birthday! Its like having New Years be a 3 day long celebration!

I totally agree. It's so much easier to see things that me might need or like now that I live with him. I'm excited to start shopping for him!

December 30th is a good date, but kind of sucks because he gets all his gifts combined a lot of the time! I try not to combine, but it's hard not to!

[bowflex 0]

Hi everyone! I know it's a bit early, but since I'm a huge Christmas fan and thought there's definitely a bunch of others around here like me, I thought it might be neat to share what we're all planning on getting our SO's or little ones for Christmas

This will be our first Christmas with a normal, not Charlie-brown-like tiny Christmas tree, so I'm getting pretty stoked about it and have already started shopping. For David, I'm getting him a new keyboard since I sort of accidentally fried his nice new one a couple months ago with coffee; a DVD player since our old one has pretty much stopped working, and possibly this: http://www.extremebodyworkout.com/ as a "together" present because he seen it on tv a few weeks ago and really liked it, which will also give us a way to work out together The doggies are like kids to us, so they're getting their own stockings as usual, and I'll probably buy them a new bed and wrap it up to put under the tree.

I'm actually on my second round of P90x, been going since June 1, it's AWESOME and you'll love it

As far as the gifts go my wife and I have usually just bought something for both of us over the last few years. Last year we bought ourselves a house so I'm really not sure how we're gonna top that one Lol.