Fun questions!
Gift giving- I love giving gifts! So much fun to see the receivers expression when they open them. I try to make or buy something special. I’m always taking notes on ideas for gifts. I like to get gifts too. It’s not so much the gift it’s self that’s important but the thoughts that went into it. I will give gift cards if I know it’s a place that the receiver loves
We don’t do lists here. I try to pay attention during the year so I have ideas. I do ask my son if there is anything special or a particular need he has. Last year it was he was running out of deodorant lol. He is pretty easy to buy for. My husband is not so I do ask him for ideas. Sometimes he gets a specific item or at least it points me in the right direction.
I don’t really have a dollar limit for the 3 of us. We rarely give gifts to each other during the rest of the year so we make up for it at Christmas. For my 2 friends, they usually get the same thing- something I’ve made. Same goes for my 2 cousins.
I would rather give homemade gifts over store bought every time. I feel like when I make something I put much more thought and time into the gifts. Homemade gifts are much more personal.
What’s in my gift closet?? I have kitchen towel boas I made for several people. Starbucks gift cards. Toilet paper (for my son, I always buy household supplies for him). Several shirts for my husband. Vaccum sealer attachment for bottles for my son. Christmas ornament for my husband. And a ton of other stuff.
My list??? There isn’t really a list. I did hint to my husband about a couple of Anna lee dolls and a book about Christmas past. I know what I’m not getting. There is a particular book about WW2 I was interested in, my husband was going to buy it for Christmas until he found out it’s close to $400. We had a good laugh. I told him it’s the thought that counts.
Stockings- We didn’t do stockings growing up. So that was a new tradition when I married my husband. We have those ratty red fake fur type like you wold get at Walmart. I always wanted to make “nice” ones but never did. When we were first married I stuffed them. Now it’s lottery tickets and maybe a special piece of candy. I was spending money on junk or stuff none of us needed. I’ve been in charge of stockings since we’ve been married
Gift giving- I love giving gifts! So much fun to see the receivers expression when they open them. I try to make or buy something special. I’m always taking notes on ideas for gifts. I like to get gifts too. It’s not so much the gift it’s self that’s important but the thoughts that went into it. I will give gift cards if I know it’s a place that the receiver loves
We don’t do lists here. I try to pay attention during the year so I have ideas. I do ask my son if there is anything special or a particular need he has. Last year it was he was running out of deodorant lol. He is pretty easy to buy for. My husband is not so I do ask him for ideas. Sometimes he gets a specific item or at least it points me in the right direction.
I don’t really have a dollar limit for the 3 of us. We rarely give gifts to each other during the rest of the year so we make up for it at Christmas. For my 2 friends, they usually get the same thing- something I’ve made. Same goes for my 2 cousins.
I would rather give homemade gifts over store bought every time. I feel like when I make something I put much more thought and time into the gifts. Homemade gifts are much more personal.
What’s in my gift closet?? I have kitchen towel boas I made for several people. Starbucks gift cards. Toilet paper (for my son, I always buy household supplies for him). Several shirts for my husband. Vaccum sealer attachment for bottles for my son. Christmas ornament for my husband. And a ton of other stuff.
My list??? There isn’t really a list. I did hint to my husband about a couple of Anna lee dolls and a book about Christmas past. I know what I’m not getting. There is a particular book about WW2 I was interested in, my husband was going to buy it for Christmas until he found out it’s close to $400. We had a good laugh. I told him it’s the thought that counts.
Stockings- We didn’t do stockings growing up. So that was a new tradition when I married my husband. We have those ratty red fake fur type like you wold get at Walmart. I always wanted to make “nice” ones but never did. When we were first married I stuffed them. Now it’s lottery tickets and maybe a special piece of candy. I was spending money on junk or stuff none of us needed. I’ve been in charge of stockings since we’ve been married