Well...I am still bemoaning the lack of secateurs in my sock.
You can now get some cute but sturdy child size tools for your new great nephew when he arrives, in readiness for birthdays in a few years time - I think they are Joseph Bentleys young apprentice range.
I don't buy pressies. Hubby has everything he wants , and more, and loves shopping so he never "needs" anything. He buys me clothes , as I never go shopping for my own.
I transfer money into the banks of my daughters and that's it. They don't buy us anything because I've told them not to.
I can sort of empathise with Christmas birthdays - mine falls during the Easter weekend quite frequently. As a young 'un I hated being given Easter eggs for my birthday by very elderly relatives
i got a gardening book and some hand moisturiser for Christmas so that'll do
Our family nearly all use Amazon's wish list system and it works a treat. Add stuff to your list all through the year from any website you like. Turn your settings to 'don't spoil my surprise' and bingo! - lots of self chosen goodies at Christmas even from the most hopeless brother in law
That's a great idea with the online wishlist, Daryl!
I don't mind getting things I have no use for if the giver put a real effort into thinking about what I might like. In that case I just quietly put the stuff in the charity bin and fondly remember the giver. What I do mind are gifts that show the giver didn't give one thought to it. These I just quietly put in the charity bin thinking uncharitable thoughts. (I have no, and I mean no storage space in my house. And clutter makes me stressed anyway.)
On a positive note, we went to a garden centre with my mother this Christmas and she bought me a boot scraper for my allotment, which was top of my wish list, so that made both of us very happy. (She's a cat lover - it's so easy to get presents for a cat lover! Especially in our local garden centre.)
I'm on the 28th Verdun so just in time for everyone to be pretty much partied out and cheesed off. My mum always gives me my pressie around October as a wee treat. I was very lucky that most of my folk were/are thoughtful enough to make the effort but there is still the odd dissenter. Just put it in your diary for a month earlier and you'll be safe enough. I hope you have good news soon. If it's Monday I have a great sugestion for a name!
I'm easy to buy for. Garden stuff or kitchen stuff.
OH is trained but Possum still refuses to buy me garden stuff and balks at cooky stuff so this year she bought me a basket of seasonally smelly bath stuff and hand cream. Very nice except I take a bath about once a year if I have long, cold, wet day in the garden. Before you all grimace, I prefer a shower. Not sure about going about in spring smelling like a mulled wine or Xmas cake either.
I either send OH a list or internet links or accompany him to shops and Xmas markets so I get what I will like and find either useful or decorative. No surprises but drastic measures were needed because, unsupervised, he buys me "treasures" such as a mobile phone.............
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Well...I am still bemoaning the lack of secateurs in my sock.
You can now get some cute but sturdy child size tools for your new great nephew when he arrives, in readiness for birthdays in a few years time - I think they are Joseph Bentleys young apprentice range.
I don't buy pressies. Hubby has everything he wants , and more, and loves shopping so he never "needs" anything. He buys me clothes , as I never go shopping for my own.
I transfer money into the banks of my daughters and that's it. They don't buy us anything because I've told them not to.
That makes sense Hostafan. I will never be well off as I don't manage money properly...
I can sort of empathise with Christmas birthdays - mine falls during the Easter weekend quite frequently. As a young 'un I hated being given Easter eggs for my birthday by very elderly relatives
i got a gardening book and some hand moisturiser for Christmas so that'll do
verdun in I hope the new arrival comes soon
Our family nearly all use Amazon's wish list system and it works a treat. Add stuff to your list all through the year from any website you like. Turn your settings to 'don't spoil my surprise' and bingo! - lots of self chosen goodies at Christmas even from the most hopeless brother in law
That's a great idea with the online wishlist, Daryl!
I don't mind getting things I have no use for if the giver put a real effort into thinking about what I might like. In that case I just quietly put the stuff in the charity bin and fondly remember the giver. What I do mind are gifts that show the giver didn't give one thought to it. These I just quietly put in the charity bin thinking uncharitable thoughts. (I have no, and I mean no storage space in my house. And clutter makes me stressed anyway.)
On a positive note, we went to a garden centre with my mother this Christmas and she bought me a boot scraper for my allotment, which was top of my wish list, so that made both of us very happy. (She's a cat lover - it's so easy to get presents for a cat lover! Especially in our local garden centre.)
I'm on the 28th Verdun so just in time for everyone to be pretty much partied out and cheesed off.
My mum always gives me my pressie around October as a wee treat. I was very lucky that most of my folk were/are thoughtful enough to make the effort but there is still the odd dissenter. 
Just put it in your diary for a month earlier and you'll be safe enough. I hope you have good news soon. If it's Monday I have a great sugestion for a name! 
I'm easy to buy for. Garden stuff or kitchen stuff.
OH is trained but Possum still refuses to buy me garden stuff and balks at cooky stuff so this year she bought me a basket of seasonally smelly bath stuff and hand cream. Very nice except I take a bath about once a year if I have long, cold, wet day in the garden. Before you all grimace, I prefer a shower. Not sure about going about in spring smelling like a mulled wine or Xmas cake either.
I either send OH a list or internet links or accompany him to shops and Xmas markets so I get what I will like and find either useful or decorative. No surprises but drastic measures were needed because, unsupervised, he buys me "treasures" such as a mobile phone.............
No bath here too. I had to severely train people out of buying bath bombs and the like.
Oh Frankie are you talking about that stinky shop on the high street that you can smell more strongly than the perfume you are actually wearing?!
Can't stand that place, only ever managed to get within 10 metres before gagging at the stench!