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Nov 10, 2019 - 10:20 AM
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joan hue
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So, what are YOU asking Santa for Christmas the year? Or if you have a significant other, what are you ASKING him or her for Christmas? (When is gets really cold here, I may ask hubby for a round trip to Palm Springs. Never been there.)
My brother has a leg injury, so he asked me to send him some wanted items that he could buy on line. Mall shopping is out. I asked him to buy me Silvestri’s CD for Avengers: Endgame and to also buy me the DVD for the movie Whose Life Is It Anyway. I saw that movie centuries ago and want to see it again. Seems like TCM hasn’t shown it in a long time.
My husband is one of those rare breeds who will go out to malls and buy me nice jewelry and even clothes that “usually” fit. Most of our “guy” friends don’t want to do that anymore. I am also open to some nice bottles of red wine.
Are you excited about GIVING a gift? There is one gift I’m thrilled to give to my son-in-law. He is full-time in the Army, and he loves General Jim Mattis. Mattis just published a leadership book called Call Sign Chaos: Learning To Lead. His family lives here, and he visits several times a year, so we bought the book, and Mattis wrote a lovely personal inscription inside of it.
Okay, fess up! “Greed is Good.” What are you asking for, and do you have a gift you are excited to give?
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Im gonna give bruce Marshall an end command for xmas (so he cant fk up anynore threads!). 
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I usually have a list of soundtracks or Blu-rays that I list and end up ordering them myself online for my wife to wrap. This year so far that means the new Bride of Frankenstein and Invaders cds.
She has no collector gene, but she does enjoy reading when on holiday so a couple of recent novels are part of the stocking fillers which also includes a box each of liquorice and 'magic wands' (more liquorice with fizzy/sour sherbert filling) - that's a whole box the kind you see in stores from which they sell individual pieces. Stocking fillers are important because she likes lots of things (not especially expensive ones) to open. Knowing I have those items ticked off I set off to a local mall (Meadowhall, Sheffield) and walk around hoping that I spot something perfect. On the best days I often find the first thing or two I see ends up being what I get after a hours of tramping around.
Occasionally though something falls into my lap. A couple of years ago I got tickets to see the Pet Shop Boys. She doesn't collect music but I do remember her playing one of their cds in the car a lot years ago, and for her the occasion is better than something to put on a shelf. Nice thing about this was, the tickets were opened on the day, but the concert wasn't until February. It was like she got the present twice.
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Nov 11, 2019 - 8:35 AM
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Rameau
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Actually giving is the most fun, because any gift you get is hardly ever what you want. I can think of many Christmas's where a month later I can't remember any presents I got. I have a good deal with my nephew, he buys something he wants & I buy something I want & we just swap gift tags, no surprises, but you get something you want. Another thing, I'm 69 (just), & anything I want, I've got, I really don't want any presents. I'll email some ideas to my family (discs & books), & they'll buy me one of those. Another thing, when you're having a clear-out, do you keep presents? I've decided you keep 'em for a couple of years (out of respect) & then get shot of them.
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Joanie i dread to think what you might get me...
Wait, instead of a hand grenade, is it maurice jarre's Is Paris burning? Never did get that and still would like it.
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Hey, even i could pull wearing that. 
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Joan i like that.
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Nov 12, 2019 - 1:47 AM
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MusicMad
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I enjoy giving and receiving gifts but find it harder each year to find items to give or add to my Christmas list. As others (e.g. Rameau) have said at our age we have most things we want ... and we buy those items when we see them at an acceptable price.
I do enjoy surprising my better half on Christmas Day with a gift she's (hopefully) not expecting ... a few years ago it was a bread-maker (oh, so romantic  ... but she had been talking about one off and on for some time) but I've progressed so that in these last three years it's been an iPad and iPhone (to upgrade her existing ones ... so that I could have the old ones ... I wanted an i... to control my music streaming system so both were win-win presents) and last year ... she threatened to strangle me if I bought her another Apple product ...
... so I bought her something containing carats instead
The Apple products get far more wear!
As for this year ... who knows (I still laugh when I recall the scene in Men Behaving Badly: Jingle B***s! (25 Dec 97) where Gary is looking to buy Dorothy a present ... ... yes, I leave it that late to decide.
For me, I list a few CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays ... from which my family select so last year I received CDs of Bacewicz' string quartets and violin concerti, Shostakovich rarities, Spanish piano music and Alan Stivell's Renaissance of the Harp, this last being something then recently recommended to me. All winners ... except the Stivell which is a: once played, not sure I'll bother again, album.
So I'm presently browsing the sites adding items to my list ... perhaps time to add to the Baroque collection (but I'm also tempted by several Blu-Ray concerts, too).
Mitch
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Nov 12, 2019 - 4:57 AM
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leagolfer
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Before any gifts areal tree gets pampering, I buy 3-4 for family members these are not gifts, its not really Xmas without that smell & mess is it, my wife's idea would be that fake-thing in the loft which i disposed one Halloween, Yeah, Wife adores perfumes she makes notes of the most chic-designs as I don't have a clue woman-thing my daughter not much help either, I get a store-assistant too help extra gift-wrap. My Father, loves his alcohol - smokes so its beer - spirits - cigarettes & cigars he'll have his work-cut-out there + I buy him some quality meats beforehand. My daughter loves clothing - trainers other apparel abit of a tom-boy sometimes she says it makes her feel comfortable power-too-her she knows the street-craze, other parts of family I voucher or money in-card including in-laws, experience of resentful whining makes fun-times easier + I don't like shopping trips.
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Oh, I have to admit I hate shopping trips. The only two occasions I go is for my wife's birthday and Christmas presents. That tramping around the shopping mall is mind numbing isn't it guys? These days for my daughter I let her mother buy stuff and it comes from us both. I wouldn't hesitate to get the child (at 28 I might add) something if I saw it and I thought it was perfect. But certainly when she was very young most of my online shopping was for dvds for her, being a Disney fan. Still is, though more for the parks and seeing the movies in the cinema than collecting them on disc.
Joan, I got the wrong sweets or candy as you lot call it, they're actually called Flyers:https://www.amazon.co.uk/FLYERS-Liquorice-Crystal-Centre-Pieces/dp/B004SGFN0Y/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=79852125328830&hvbmt=bp&hvdev=c&hvqmt=p&keywords=magic+wands+liquorice&qid=1573572291&sr=8-1 and the link also has listed there the green box of the other liquorice she likes.
As for the floods. Gosh, yes we have a LOT of rain recently. Fortunately I wasn't in Meadowhall when everyone was sleeping there. I was in Sheffield last night though, just off the Whicker bang next to the troublesome River Don (which burst it's banks in Doncaster to very sad effect for the poor residents), as The Harlequin pub is where my branch or 'tent' of the Sons of the Desert meet every month for fun and frolics with Laurel and Hardy. Back in 2007 the whole area was under water, including the city's premier sf and comic book shop the Sheffield Space Centre.
No problems to report from last night though thankfully.
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