Do you have a go of the Christmas gifts you buy for others?

NachoBusiness

I do

Depends on who it's for really but bought this electric mocha espresso / semi-percolator device machine thing and sure no doubt I'll will only end up having to show the person how to use it (me be the techo go to guy in my family, believe it or not) and so I may as well test run the thing today.

Makes a lovely cup of coffee, I have to say.

How about your scurrilous selves?

The Randy Riverbeast

Only the sex toys.

kneemos

So second hand gifts basically.

NachoBusiness

Yes.

gramar

I have bought books as presents and read them before I gave them to the person.

NachoBusiness

gramar wrote: »

I have bought books as presents before and read them before I gave them to the person.

I have this week just read Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes (present for the brother).

Was a nightmare trying to read it by only opening each page by 30° so as not to make it too obvious.

everlast75

I'm old enough to have bought CDs for friends and made copies of them before handing them over

Menas

I buy crap presents. No way am I going to use crap things before I give them to others.

TG1

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Was a nightmare trying to read it by only opening each page by 30° so as not to make it too obvious.

Any books I give will have been pre read, I just can't help myself.

I don't tend to test run presents, but I do have an awful habit of buying something lovely months in advance, looking at it on a shelf for a while and deciding I really need it more than the person it was for.

That leads to last minute panic buying of rubbish presents to replace the nice ones I keep!

No but I hope to get a chance to charge the battery pack first.

NachoBusiness

Deleted User wrote: »

No but I hope to get a chance to charge the battery pack first.

Yes, did that on a drill I bought as a gift last year.

Was purely coincidence that I needed to fit a projector ceiling mount that week myself.

NachoBusiness

NachoBusiness wrote: »

I have this week just read Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes (present for the brother).

Was a nightmare trying to read it by only opening each page by 30° so as not to make it too obvious.

I used to do that. Mr M wasn't a bad read either.

I love those 3 for 2 offers,though I saw a place offering 2 for 3 a couple of weeks ago, which seems like less of a bargain.

One for A, one for B, and one for ME!

kfallon

Years ago my younger brother was getting a sega megadrive for Xmas with FIFA as his 'surprise'. Anyway, me and the older brother knew where it was hidden in the house so when me ma would be gone out of the house (usually gone to town shopping) with my younger brother, the two of us would hook it up and play away on it for an hour or so.

This went on for about 6 weeks in the run up til Xmas to the point that when my younger brother got the megadrive on Xmas day me and my older brother had kinda become sick of it. So he's all excited, asking "who wants a game?" and me and my older brother are saying, "Na - maybe later"

We finally came clean about it years later, it still gets mentioned every year in our house at some point over the festive period

tempnam

kfallon wrote: »

Years ago my younger brother was getting a sega megadrive for Xmas with FIFA as his 'surprise'. Anyway, me and the older brother knew where it was hidden in the house so when me ma would be gone out of the house (usually gone to town shopping) with my younger brother, the two of us would hook it up and play away on it for an hour or so.

This went on for about 6 weeks in the run up til Xmas to the point that when my younger brother got the megadrive on Xmas day me and my older brother had kinda become sick of it. So he's all excited, asking "who wants a game?" and me and my older brother are saying, "Na - maybe later"

We finally came clean about it years later, it still gets mentioned every year in our house at some point over the festive period

That's a great story. Those are the kind of stories that make Christmas a special time for families - and mentioning it every year. It becomes part of the family tradition at Christmas

kfallon

tempnam wrote: »

That's a great story. Those are the kind of stories that make Christmas a special time for families - and mentioning it every year. It becomes part of the family tradition at Christmas

It took us a few years to own up to it! Felt kinda bad on Christmas day for my younger brother tho!

everlast75

a story which is told every year at ours is about my eldest bro getting a Scalextric for Xmas and my dad and Uncle hogging it all Christmas day - he never got a go at all.

So for my bro's 50th, you know what we all bought him...

RayM

When I was 9, I asked my parents for a Commodore 64 for Christmas. They spent most of December telling me that it's very expensive (which, in fairness, it was) and that maybe I might prefer to get something smaller (randomly drawing my attention to stuff in toy catalogues, etc). Right up until Christmas Eve, they were subtly dropping 'hints' about less expensive presents, preparing me for disappointment. They were very convincing.

Unbeknownst to me, they had already bought my present in late November (they were very organised like that), and every night, after I went to bed, they'd push the sofa in front of the sitting room door and hook the Commodore 64 up to the television (just to try it out, like... every night). On Christmas morning, I remember being really impressed by their gaming abilities.

Paddy Samurai

Usually I do ,but this year the bondage gear I bought the wife was a killer to get on.I gave up half way through

Hammer89

Wrong thread.

Badly Drunk Boy

kfallon wrote: »

Years ago my younger brother was getting a sega megadrive for Xmas with FIFA as his 'surprise'. Anyway, me and the older brother knew where it was hidden in the house so when me ma would be gone out of the house (usually gone to town shopping) with my younger brother, the two of us would hook it up and play away on it for an hour or so.

I have a similar story except in reverse, or maybe it didn't happen. As recently as last week, my younger brother said "Remember that time I was getting an Atari for Christmas, and I woke up a while after going to bed, and ye were all playing my Christmas present a few weeks before Christmas?"

I have no recollection of this but it very possibly could have happened, although I just tell him that he's always trying to create false memories of his childhood to make us look bad. Still trying to mess with his mind...