Chiffer Christmas Gift Ideas that Ain't Whistles & Stuff

[mutepointe]

Bacon of the Month Club:

http://www.delish.com/entertaining-idea ... ck=main_sr

[MusicalADD]

I bought my wife a Radio Controlled toy..... a zombie toy, specifically, from ThinkGeek. Apparently he/it shuffles.

The remote controllers is shaped like a little brain.

(What? She's hard to buy for.)

[emmline]

The kids tell me something they want...a pair of boots, an unattractively gross PS3 game, a coat...and I buy it.
Then I collect stocking stuffers.
The end!

[MusicalADD]

I envy your gift-fu, Emmline.

Do you have any tips for parents / step-parents who already have everything?

[MusicalADD]

Amazon has gift ideas based on my past purchases.
"Kreg" is apparently a maker of carpentry tools. I was trying to figure out why Amazon thought I might be interested in the "Kreg R3 Junion Pocket Hole Jig System" and the "Kreg Jig K4 Pocket hole system" -- then I noticed the word "jig" in there and remembered various MP3 purchases I've made... heh.

I'm surprised Amazon isn't also trying to sell me fishing reels.

[dwest]

I just finished making fifty orange-cranberry cakes for friends, family, and staff. I always forget the fun I have making these each year. Every cake needed the zest of two oranges. We now have small droplets of orange oil all over everything in the kitchen including the walls, ceiling, fridge, stove, toaster, microwave, cabinets, floor, dogs, etc. If I don't see that zester again until next year it'll be too soon. But everybody loves the cakes! In fact I find a large number of people like food, so that is often what we give, like Harry and David's Royal Riviera Pears. I really don't care much for pears but these are a whole different animal.

[emmline]

We now have small droplets of orange oil all over everything in the kitchen including the walls, ceiling, fridge, stove, toaster, microwave, cabinets, floor, dogs, etc.

Sometimes we get dog (or cat) in the food. I think about cinching all three into hair nets when cooking, but they don't care for it.

[dwest]

We now have small droplets of orange oil all over everything in the kitchen including the walls, ceiling, fridge, stove, toaster, microwave, cabinets, floor, dogs, etc.

Sometimes we get dog (or cat) in the food. I think about cinching all three into hair nets when cooking, but they don't care for it.

By end of the day I'm certain there will be dog and cat hair stuck to every droplet on orange oil in the kitchen, and our dogs shed a puppy's worth of hair everyday.

[Nanohedron]

I really like this inflatable toast:



What an utterly Dada bit of "Why?". But I'd like it better if I could come up with an actual use for it. Me, I got nothin'.

And, I don't know whether it's better to give OR receive this one.

[jsluder]

That inflatable toast would make a better Christmas gift if it had an image of the Virgin Mary on it...

[Denny]

receive of course silly


then you can regift it!

[Nanohedron]

then you can regift it!

Yeah, right. For sure you'd want it after I'd blown it up.

[dwest]

Ya need two pieces to hold the inflatable P&J or top with the inflatable creamed chip beef. I use my stove to toat the bread.

[Denny]

then you can regift it!

Yeah, right. For sure you'd want it after I'd blown it up.

sorry, forgot I wasn't normal .... again

[mutepointe]