What Gifts Are You Giving for Christmas 2008?

[ThetaPrincess24]

Originally Posted by TSteven

And just to be clear, I am happy to receive a non collectors bottle of either Maker's Mark or Woodford Reserve any ole time of the year.

So does my dad! He also prefers to receive Jack Daniel's Green label anytime of the year and hubby likes Four Roses any time of the year. I should check into seeing if they make collectable bottles...

[carnation]

We're getting our younger kids something that our older kids loved. We're ordering personalized books (these came off of the Disney site but you can google lots of firms that make them)...you know, the kind where you send in the name of the child, his birthdate, 3 of his friends' names, etc., and they put them in the story.

[AGDLynn]

Hubby stood in line at 7:30 am this morning for the Wii (note I was asleep, lol) so his Christmas will be happy.

Even happier when he sees what I got him.

I have him a few ideas; there's nothing i truly want cause I keep buying myself things (nothing really expensive, mainly decorating stuff for our next house, lol.

It's just my 2 brothers/family and hubby and me on my side. They've got an expensive 2009 coming up so we've decided no gifts; on the other side of the family, we just draw names.

So I'm done unless I'll probably do some kind of family gift (prob food) to take Christmas Day.

[WVU alpha phi]

Originally Posted by carnation

We're getting our younger kids something that our older kids loved. We're ordering personalized books (these came off of the Disney site but you can google lots of firms that make them)...you know, the kind where you send in the name of the child, his birthdate, 3 of his friends' names, etc., and they put them in the story.

I had a book like this when I was younger and loved it. I also remember it had a pic of me on the back cover and I thought it was the coolest thing. Great idea!

[ThetaPrincess24]

Originally Posted by carnation

We're getting our younger kids something that our older kids loved. We're ordering personalized books (these came off of the Disney site but you can google lots of firms that make them)...you know, the kind where you send in the name of the child, his birthdate, 3 of his friends' names, etc., and they put them in the story.

I've seen romantic ones of those where you put your mate and your name in the story, but I've never seen any for kids. that's a good idea!

[carnation]

We've gotten a bunch of those books for the kids over the years--mermaid and ballerina stories mostly, and Pirates of the Caribbean and Winnie the Pooh this year but the best one was the Snow White book I got my husband when we were in our twenties. It had him as the star and his dog and buddies as the supporting cast. I read it out loud at his birthday party ("and then Mr. Carnation screamed, "Snow White! Sapphire is my birthstone too!") and we all had a great time with it.

If you google "personalized books", you can find companies that do them for less than Disney and let you include more friends' names.

[Buttonz]

Originally Posted by carnation

We're getting our younger kids something that our older kids loved. We're ordering personalized books (these came off of the Disney site but you can google lots of firms that make them)...you know, the kind where you send in the name of the child, his birthdate, 3 of his friends' names, etc., and they put them in the story.

I had a Minnie & Me book like this when I was younger! I used to love it!