Things you absolutly DON'T want for Christmas
 

We talk alot about what we want for Christmas. Most of the time recieving isn't the problem.

Please list your 'must NOT haves'



A Pointsettia. I absolutely don't want one. :3_eyes:

I definitely don't want chocolate or anything food related.

Not even fudge?? Peanut butter fudge..:yum:

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At Christmas I make heaps of sweets, including fudge and coconut ice and rum balls etc. I make fruit mince pies and rich fruit cake with plastic icing and frilly bits. I make fancy lollies of other kinds as well, including chocolate with fillings.

The last thing I need is more chocolate! ;)

My family to just enjoy each other's company for once.. :bitching: :stickpoke :lame:

I don't want any more STUFF, period. I've reached the limit of stuff I can fit in my <1200 sf home and my 5'6" frame. The best present I'm going to get this year is a visit to a spa in NM, which starts out with an archeological hike and ends with a massage and mud bath...and I do not plan on purchasing an overpriced robe to take home.

Bullit...it's things you DONT want.

Sorry Alex, tired and in pain from the wisdom teeth extraction.. but you know what I meant

Sorry about your tooth ripping out thingo. Hope you feel better soon. I sympathise with you though. I've got an earache which isn't helping me to be very understanding either. :(

So you don't want any arguing and people pushing each others buttons. I think we all want that. Especially at Christmas.


I do not want a christmas tree.

Instead, I saw this small tropical pine I am going to buy that will continue to grow through out the years.

There really isn't anything specific that I don't want... I just don't want something that I'm never really gonna use!

Please feel free to send me anything you get and don't want!

I'm not getting any presents this year as I can't afford to give them. Excepting my niece and nephew of course, which means I'll probably get a voucher from my sister. If I said I didn't want that I'd be lying.

An STD? Not much chance of that happening, but I don't want one for Christmas anyway.

Ohhh--I don't want an STD either! good call!

I also don't want coronary artery disease or a migraine or anything to do with any police.*

*caveat: unless said policeman is hunky and hitting on me, then, we shall see.

Sweaters that are too small for me. I get them every year.:3_eyes:
1. I am VERY picky about my clothing.
2. I wear a XXXL (some 2x will fit, but very rarely, I have lost some muscle mass since the chair and less yoga, but I still have a 50' chest). NO one ever buys anything that size for me. Why? FuckifIknow.
3. I live in a state that has 3 days of sweater weather a year & have about 8 sweaters.

Brianna may not want some help with her policeman-problem... but we may have to anyway.

hey sister soul sister
 

Me in same boat. I love to get great gifts for my family, and especially nice gifts for my nieces and nephews, but with the recent changes I just can't this year. It's kind of embarrassing.

Then I was delivered a catalogue called Signals that has exactly the kinds of things I like to give, and many things I'd like to get! (There's a shirt that says "Careful, or you'll end up in my novel" that i love)

Let's see...what do I absolutely NOT want? I guess I don't want that one fruitcake that has circled the world for the past 10 years through the joy of re-gifting.

Yeah I hear you... Even though I've put on some pounds as I've got older, it's still true that many "small" shirts and sweaters would hold 2 or 3 of me. So what do I get for Christmas? Large... Large.. Large...

Make sure it's the Grammar Police. She just looooves us, err, I mean, them. :love:

I don't want Sting's newest CD where he plays ancient instruments and sings ancient songs.

I thought I did, and even put it on my list before listening to samples on Amazon. But boy, it's a stinker. Unfortunately, in the 24 hours between putting it on my list and taking it off again, my mom three states away had gone out and bought it for me. She was at my relatives' for Thanksgiving, and later tried to pawn it off on all my cousins there, but was met with much mocking and ridicule. Actually, I imagine the mocking and ridicule was directed at me. She finally had to return it. She gets major point for the ordeal I put her through.

I saw Sting on Public TV last night, a typical "give us money" special, designed to drain funds from Baby-Boomers like myself. Sting, playing an ancient instrument (which sounded like a cheap guitar but looked like something Mr. Spock might have played), singing a James Taylor song, in whose honor the entire shebang was being thrown...and filmed.

Looked good in HD, though, and there were many *killer* performances therein...Dr. John and Taj Mahal, Keith Urban (yeah, I was amazed, too, and with Nicole looking rather fine in the audience, too) and Allison Kraus.

We do not have a "don't want" problem at our house as we sort of wrapped up the gift issue in one fell swoop by buying the 42" plasma tv on Black Friday, using windfall money that had been in custody of the state for the last 18 years without my knowledge...until Selene discovered and liberated it.

Cool, huh?

EEEKS, just listened to some samples on Amazon. I used to love Sting back in college but he has just progressively grated on my nerves since. So full of himself.

I like Sting, and I like classical music. I saw Sting perform Fields of Gold on his mandolin thingy on "Studio 60" and thought it sounded great. I assumed the album was old Sting songs sung with accompanying ye olde tyme instruments. But it's not. Not at all.

For Christmas I don't want

A stick in the eye
lingerie
a gift certificate for a colonoscopy
Boy George
A steaming heap of groat custard
Rock Hudson's rotted corpse
a handgun
An 8X10 glossy of U.G.
more debt
ingrown toenails

I could go on, and on....

a draft card

a bj... oh wait this is what we don't want for Christmas... never mind then :smack:

My brother tried saying that to us in the past, "I'm too poor to get you presents, so don't get me one". I have never bought anyone a present because I expected them to give me a present, I have always bought them as a symbol of my affection. So I regularly ignored my brother's exhortations. I'd like to think he understood.

I love to give. Even if it is a batch of cookies or fudge. The best cooks I know are male friends and have taught me the value of such overtures. Or at least how to make them better.:p

Which has nothing to do with those who want to give gifts to you.

mmmm....... last year I had a couple of collapsed lungs and spent Christmas & New Year in hospital.... if it's all the same to you, I'd like to pass on that one this year.

Other than that, I'm grateful for whatever. It's nice to know that some-one thought of you.

My parents are coming up to see me the weekend before Christmas. So they're spending the money on petrol and a hotel instead of a present, which benefits all three of us instead of just me. And of course for me spending time with them is a better present anyway.

My brother isn't as into presents as the rest of us. If you say to him, "No presents this year" he'll just go along with it.

And that's it on the present front - I don't have hordes of people queuing up to shower me with gifts.

I'm making cards for the above, which I hope shows more love than spending the money/ vouchers they would send me on presents to send back to them.

As I was typing this, my Mum called to say she's booked the hotel. I have something to look forward to now :)

Yep, SG, that is what it is all about. Even in the past, when I have fretted about not being able to get for people what I want to give (and I also tell my family I don't want anything...but they don't listen) Christmas comes and I am with my family, laughing and joking...that's the best gift I could ever get, and I count myself extremely lucky for having it.

Cheers to everyone, whatever holiday you might celebrate, and take time to show your loved ones how much you care.

:)

I don't want my sister's to give me anymore T shirts that are 2 sizes too small or too large and have stupid stuff silk screened on them, like "Save the Manatees" or "I Love Vancouver" (never been there anyway).

I don't want a 22 inch non stick frying pan (I returned the one they gave me for my birthday). I rarely make an omelet for 15 people!

I don't want anymore wierd flavored vinegars or olive oils from the gift shop of the Trappist Monastery in Conyers, Georgia. I haven't used the ones they gave me last year or the year before.

You took mine!

But they look so pretty in the gift shop, sitting there on the shelf. They are just screaming out "buy me, buy me!". ;)

No jigsaw puzzles.
No computer games. (I'm still working on Diablo II, from 2000.)
No clothes. They never fit.
No cookies, cakes, or breads -- they make the clothes I do have fit worse. ;)

Iran.

You know I said I'll take whatever you don't want? That doesn't include Iran. I have nowhere to put it.

I'll take Chris's vinegars & oils though :yum:

I don't want any gift cards for stores that I don't shop at - I don't like the Limited or American Eagle or JCPenny's. I know gift cards are easy for people that are difficult to shop for, like me, but please get them for stores that I would actually use them at. When in doubt - get me one for Target. You can't go wrong with Target in my book - I will always find something that I want there.

Now, if I say that I don't want to be enrolled in the Harry and David Fruit of the Month Club, it is possible that someone will finally get it for me and I will be so happy :). I have been asking for that forever and have never gotten it.

According to my parents, I am not getting anything this year because they have given all year. They paid for my bar prep class... which I told them that it is in their best interest to do so because it could mean the difference between going into a bad home or a good home when I need to put them in one.

S-ok, I can't afford the postage.

This is very true, but perhaps it wasn't the height of diplomacy to put it so bluntly!

PM me your address and I sent you a card and a present. :santa:

I will send you something too SundaeGirl. I can afford something small besides it would be fun!

If you want it.

Do you like candles?

OMG - just come back to this thread. Thank you! I'll PM you my address for a card - would be a hypocrite getting pressies after overtreating myself yesterday & getting my nails done :)

Please PM me yours in return - you might not get a handmade card, but I'll send something.

Wow, aren't people lovely here!

Anyway, just came back to say I worked out a great way to gift something to my family without buying a present. I've done voucher books. I know it's a bit cliched - "Love Cheques" have been on sale for a while, but these are slightly more whimsical. I bought mini-notepads and used labels from work as stickers (odds and sods from half used pages, not usable for work purposes).

Here is a pic from one - the finished book and the label sheet. It's amateur certainly, but I know they'll get the time, effort and sentiment. I still have my Dad's to do - each one is improving so he's the lucky one :)

I absolutely do not want my mother to drive down and visit. No, no, no. Thank you.

I'll take your handgun, then, but I think you really might like it if you try it.

I don't want:

Another case of the Shingles
A steaming bowlful of poop (I actually get one of these on a daily basis. I can't wait until my mother is able to do her own colostomy care)
Any sweaters or clothing. Even if they are in the right size, nobody ever picks out anything I would like.

I don't want a plane on a treadmill.

Don't worry, Steve. It would only be on there until it flew away. ;)

... which would be forever.

I don't want a Christmas card from the dentist, the chiropractor, my car insurance man.. I mean come on, we're not friends. They go straight into the trash.

I love corporate christmas cards - send them to me, I'll take em!

Why, because you don't feel obligated to reciprocate? Kind of a freebie. :D

I agree... On the other hand, I wonder about my vendors at work. I always wonder why my colleague the director of PR gets such nice gifts from his vendors and get nothing from mine?

My Dad was a plumbing contractor, and the local plumbing/gas inspector. The week before Christmas there would be a constant parade of cars, usually station wagons, in and out of the driveway. I think the record was almost 100 bottles of booze. :smack:

Probably what my mother gets me...
Every year she hounds me and makes a HUGE deal about making SURE I give her a very specific list of what I want... then she gets me NOTHING on it.
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In my family, just ask for a covered butter dish, or a Chia Head. You will either get none of those two, or a hundred or so of either one. If the latter happens you have a pretty good ebay market. :p

Well the Dallas family will never let each other live down the year the Salad Shooter came out. Mom dropped hints that she'd like one. She ended up with three, from Dad, my sister, and me. (She kept the one from my sister, on the grounds that she was the only one who hadn't saved her receipt for an easy return. The fact that she had gotten mom the cordless model was just a bonus I'm sure. :angel:)

That is so great; I mentioned the Chia Head because one year my younger brother states " I would like a Chia Head. Now, don't everyone get me a damn Chia Head because what the hell do I want with all of them. I just want ONE Chia Head." As a family, we coordinated the Chia Head giving.

My uncle gives the weirdest shit ever. One year he gave my teenage brother a whistle, like the kind coaches wear. I think that was the same year he gave me a tropical bird mobile. He gives one of my aunts a Chia creature of some sort every single year, though she has never asked for one. Last year my stepkids got to share a little stuffed turkey that makes really accurate turkey noises when you squeeze it.

I'd like to think that it's all a running joke with him, like he's laughing at all of us on the inside, but over the years I think I've come to the conclusion that he really is just an idiot.

My grandmother gives me nutty gifts... I'm the only one that looks forward to them.

My mom was notorious for giving odd gifts. She just couldn't take a hint, didn't believe in children making a list because it was unseemly to ask for a specific gift. One year she said a friend needed a gift for her daughter who was my age so would I pick out a record album that was good. Of course I picked out one I had that I really liked. Well that was my gift that year.

I may have told this one here before, but it is my personal fave, so:

Selene's family likes to make lovingly handcrafted gifts, often out of "plastic canvas" and yarn. We always ooh and aah and make over them real big, then take them home and stick them in a box, never to be seen again unless dragged out on short notice if one of them calls to say they're dropping by.

One year, Selene's mother had clearly run out of ideas. She handed out identical packages to each of the significant family sub-units, and made us all wait to open them simultaneously. We did so, only to find a cloth bag that in turn contained a bag of discount potato chips.

"Its the latest thing, you see," she said. "If you're having people over, and you don't want to just put a plain old bag of chips on the table, you just open the bag of chips, pour them into this cloth bag, and serve them. Save the chip bag, and you can pour any leftover chips back in. Then, all you have to do is throw the cloth bag in the wash!"

We were all dumbfounded...but we oohed and aaahed, then went home and threw it in a drawer and ate the chips right out of the bag they came in. Needless to say, there was nothing to wash afterward.

Does anyone ever get the giant themed tins of, multi-horrid-flavored, popcorn?:vomit: