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Kevin R. Paglia
Wandering Member
Post Number:
228
Registered: 07-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 03:22 pm: |   |
I finished Christmas shopping before Thanksgiving and today I sat down and wrapped every last one of them. It brought to mind one, immutable (that's a fun word, I have to use it more often) fact- The worst thing about Christmas for me is wrapping the presents. I'd much rather throw the presents in a brown grocery sack and packing tape it shut. I had mu wife help me so she knew what I bought for the kids (since I do all the shopping) but it was a struggle asking; one one side she wraps ten times better than I do but on the other she gets upset about howmuch I spend. Of course this year I actually came in under budget. . . So far.
Kevin |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2484
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 03:46 pm: | |
Paglia,
You are a disgrace to the male species. No man even starts shopping until
Dec. 22nd or 23rd. What the heck is wrong with you? Take all that stuff back and get in line with the rest of us. What if wives around the country heard about you? Jeeze! |
Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
2729
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 08, 2006 - 04:45 pm: | |
christmas shopping - what day is it?
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Kevin R. Paglia
Wandering Member
Post Number:
229
Registered: 07-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 10, 2006 - 03:12 pm: | |
"You are a disgrace to the male species."
My wife say's I'm such a girl. The real reason I finish so early is because I hate crowds and after Thanksgiving the only thing all the stores have besides Walmart ar two in the morning is a crowd.
Kevin |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2167
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 04:27 am: | |
And another thing...
The MALE version of gift wrapping requires many roles of gift wrap, a couple of cases of scotch tape, a little dog hair (a man's signature), and a twelve-pack.
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Joyce Scarbrough
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Post Number:
982
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 06:55 am: | |
Dennis, you left out the funny pages and duct tape. 
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Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
2731
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 07:45 am: | |
Kevin - don't get down on it - some of us guys are better at some things that some women. I do the wrapping. My wife's wrapping looks like Bill's. So, I fold, tape, snip and tuck. when I finish mine look like a finely tuned machine did the wrapping. You know how you can never put an unassembled piece of furniture back into the box after you discover a piece is missing and want to return it? Well, my wrapping is just as precise as the way that piece of furniture arrived in the box.
I still wonder how they get all those pieces in that box.
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Kevin R. Paglia
Wandering Member
Post Number:
230
Registered: 07-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 09:38 am: | |
My boxes and regular shaped things look like I wrapped them with my eyes closed, but the irregular shapped things (Like this year I bought my youngest two a bowl with straws that link to the bottom so they can drink their cereal milk) look like I wrapped them with my eyes closed, trying to use only my thumb and pinky while balancing on one foot as my wife tickled the other foot.
I hadn't tried the dog hair trick yet, does that help keep the tape from sticking to your fingers before you can get the tape from the dispenser to the package?
Kevin
Ps. I always go through the "did I get the right gift" paranoia. So if any of you have this let me know and tell me how wonderful it is. I got my wife (an accountant who looks out a window at a five story parking garage all year round under flourecent lights and who suffers from mildly strong depression for the first few months of the year, every year. And who has expressed some interest in this product to see if it helps) a sunlight simulating lamp. The floor model ones looked hideous to me so I got her more of a set it up on the desk or next to the bed to read to thing. It's not one of the cheaper ones. It claims to be able to help with season depression. So do any of you have one and use it, can you/did you feel a diffference vs years before having one? |
Bill Nelson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2486
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 11, 2006 - 10:16 am: | |
I'm getting my wife a stuffed Buffalo head. It'll look cool over the fireplace.
I'm also getting her one pair of panty hose, a leaf-blower, a new ratchet-wrench,two rolls of Scotch tape, a chamois glove for washing my truck, and
a new apron. Man, she's making a killing this year. Oh, I forgot,also a
renewal subscription to Sports Illustrated and Playboy. |
LA
Unity Member
Post Number:
2235
Registered: 12-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 09:56 pm: | |
With this being the first year without our tradition, and the first year Mom has lived with us, she asked me tonight when we were planning to do our Christmas thing. Well, see, the thing is, we don't do a Christmas thing. We bought one of those prelit trees last year, but with the additional belongings in the house, we don't have any place to put it unless we get rid of the dining room table and eat standing up until after the holidays. We tend to get each of the kids something, but we don't wrap up or wait for any specific day. Matter of fact, LG got one of those really cool loft beds with the camouflage wrap around and tent, slide, ladder, and basketball hoop. And would you believe that since we put it up, we've not had a single issue getting my hyper-active child to go to bed? He can't wait to go to bed now. LOL. The babe (who will be 7 soon) got practically a new wardrobe--since all of her pants somehow suddenly shrunk 3 inches too short. The teen girls both are getting new CD players, and perhaps a new paint job on their rooms. But we don't wrap or wait. We just have never really been into the whole Christmas commercialization.
So, Mom is heading over to Aunt D's to spend the holiday weekend. I think that will be better for all of us this year. I've had a really tough time through the month, crying at the drop of a hat as it is. I just don't think I can handle Mom and getting through the holiday in one mental piece this year. Next year...we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
So, allow me to say pfft to you shoppers. Other than getting a couple of gift cards, which I will do around Midnight on Thursday when I get paid, my shopping is done.
LA
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2951
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 18, 2006 - 11:35 pm: | |
LaurieAnne,
I don't do Christmas either, so don't feel alone. I haven't done it in so long, because there is just me, and no one else, that it doesn't make much sense to go to all the expense, the time taken for decorating, the pain associated with getting up and down ladders and lugging out the tree and all the other stuff, that it seems useless to me to even try. And no one ever comes around to see me, and I don't have anyone to give presents to since I quit sending things to my daughter and grandkids because they never even sent me any notes, emails or even a call to say thanks for the thoughts or the gifts sent. And my brothers and all their kids are too far a way and I hardly know them anyway, so would never even have a clue to get them anything that they remotely wanted or needed, so again, no use.... and every one else I know is in the same financial shape I am in, and we just don't do gifts, for obvious reasons (money) and time.....
BUT...... I most certainly do wish everyone of you all the Merriest of Christmas's and the Happiest of New Year's..... and may all your tidings be good ones.
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