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  • #1742
    pampootie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,441 ✭✭✭pampootie


    I'm nearly finished my Xmas shopping, just my nephews and a few more bits for my brother to pick up. I find when you work in retail its better to do it early while you've still got goodwill towards your fellow man left.


  • #1743
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    dfx- wrote: »
    I hate Secret Santas...
    I don't mind secret Santa between friends, but I hate work Secret Santa. You end up getting someone you don't like or know. And then some people use it to get nasty digs in. ( I saw a fat girl get a packet of slim fast one year).


  • #1744
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Frigging impossible isn't it?

    Was thinking iPad mini, but I'm not that rich. Anway, he can get those things through work no problem.


  • #1745
    Ella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Ella


    I think everyone in here should buy me a christmas present :)


  • #1746
    Kylan Odd Cowboy
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Kylan Odd Cowboy


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    Frigging impossible isn't it?

    Was thinking iPad mini, but I'm not that rich. Anway, he can get those things through work no problem.

    How about something completely different then? Like an experience type of thing. Two of you go off for one of those falconry trips, and bring a picnic. Or a helicopter ride with champagne I saw on deals :p
    Or a sailing trip where breakfast and lunch with bubbly are included like this (I don't necessarily mean buy the deal just as an idea?)
    http://www.livingsocial.com/cities/513-cork/deals/534524-west-cork-sailing-adventure


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  • #1747
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    If I had ceaseless funds I would buy him this:

    http://www.hartmanns.ie/show/watches/tag-heuer-watches/gents-tag-heuer-monaco-steve-mcqueen-blue-dial-and-croc-strap_33674/page/3

    I might have a look at some experiences.


  • #1748
    Kylan Odd Cowboy
    Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Kylan Odd Cowboy


    I saw a james bond watch up on a deal recently
    I duno was it really connected or just "hey skyfall is out let's stick 'james bond' as a title"


  • #1749
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,785 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    I don't mind secret Santa between friends, but I hate work Secret Santa. You end up getting someone you don't like or know. And then some people use it to get nasty digs in. ( I saw a fat girl get a packet of slim fast one year).

    The last time I had to do one, I got somebody on a different shift in an office (I was in a lab) doing a separate job.:confused:


  • #1750
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    dfx- wrote: »
    The last time I had to do one, I got somebody on a different shift in an office (I was in a lab) doing a separate job.:confused:
    Ugh, you end up getting them something neutral like a bottle of wine or box of chocolates, which they'll just pass on to someone else in another secret santa.


  • #1751
    Lucyfur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,513 ✭✭✭✭Lucyfur


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    I don't mind secret Santa between friends, but I hate work Secret Santa. You end up getting someone you don't like or know. And then some people use it to get nasty digs in. ( I saw a fat girl get a packet of slim fast one year).

    Fork. Off.

    Seriously? Jeez, that's horrible :(:(

    I have NO IDEA what to get himself. Absolutely no idea.


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  • #1752
    Cerulean Chicken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭Cerulean Chicken


    Lucyfur wrote: »
    Fork. Off.

    Seriously? Jeez, that's horrible :(:(

    I have NO IDEA what to get himself. Absolutely no idea.

    My boyfriend is impossible to buy for, wants nothing, has everything. So I ordered him a load of funny tshirts/hoodies from tshirthell.com, done! He's buying me pretty shoes and a dress, because he works every day in December so this year I've given him the easy option, he'd have himself killed trying to get me presents whilst working every single day. We're gonna go for "Our Christmas" for dinner then some night and dress up all snazzy, what he doesn't know though is I'm going to book a fancy restaurant half an hour away instead of the local one we usually go to, yay :)


  • #1753
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    Lucyfur wrote: »
    Fork. Off.

    Seriously? Jeez, that's horrible :(:(

    I have NO IDEA what to get himself. Absolutely no idea.
    Oh yeah it's true.

    My sister told me some other humdingers from her work place but I can't remember them from the top of my head. Not quite as bitchy as the slim fast but yeah.

    My OH just tells me what he wants. Way easier, cos he is so difficult to buy for without hints. (And nerdy stuff is surprisingly expensive. One year he asked for the complete flora of France, 150 euro!)


  • #1754
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,329 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    When people ask me what I want, I just tell them a small voucher for Eason's or an all4one voucher. It suits everyone really!


  • #1755
    Lucyfur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,513 ✭✭✭✭Lucyfur


    See, my fella won't eat fancy food, so restaurants are a nightmare, and there's getting a babysitter. And as for clothes...sweet baby jesus...''I don't like the shape of those buttons...'' and the like.
    He doesn't drink, doesn't smoke and doesn't want to go to a football match.

    oihfkwehnbfiubg2uirfhv3iowefjwenjfol *pulls hair out*


  • #1756
    shalalala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭shalalala


    The OH wants money to spend on his comp. Just so he can spend even more time with it and not me (he actually has chosen his comp over me a good few times). I am all like HELL NO.

    Stupid ****ing cramps. JUST KILL ME NOW


  • #1757
    Cerulean Chicken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭Cerulean Chicken


    Mars Bar wrote: »
    When people ask me what I want, I just tell them a small voucher for Eason's or an all4one voucher. It suits everyone really!

    I say Penneys or All4One vouchers, and never more than €20. My aunt forgot to get me a present last Christmas, I don't care or mind at all, myself and mum were just hoping she wouldn't realise weeks later because she'd be devastated, she always gets presents for all the kids, but I was overlooked somehow :o


  • #1758
    Honey-ec
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,844 ✭✭✭Honey-ec


    Anyone I ever get in a work Kris Kindle gets a Newbridge silverware tree decoration, and has done for donkey's years. I don't like anyone I work with enough to be bothered trying to be funny/creative...


  • #1759
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,368 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Someone got me two pairs of pyjamas one year.


  • #1760
    Cerulean Chicken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭Cerulean Chicken


    shalalala wrote: »
    The OH wants money to spend on his comp. Just so he can spend even more time with it and not me (he actually has chosen his comp over me a good few times). I am all like HELL NO.

    Mine bought himself a €2,000 computer two years ago for Christmas, very feckin nice to himself isn't he! I always call it his real girlfriend.


  • #1761
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I saw a james bond watch up on a deal recently
    I duno was it really connected or just "hey skyfall is out let's stick 'james bond' as a title"

    He already has James Bond's watch

    http://www.omegawatches.com/gents/seamaster/300-m-chrono-diver/22258000

    I got an engagement ring, he got that. :)


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  • #1762
    Lucyfur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,513 ✭✭✭✭Lucyfur


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    He already has James Bond's watch

    http://www.omegawatches.com/gents/seamaster/300-m-chrono-diver/22258000

    I got an engagement ring, he got that. :)

    Annnnnd, my Mr. won't wear a watch, or any jewellery either. His face when we were trying on wedding rings was a picture :D


  • #1763
    shalalala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭shalalala


    Cerulean Chicken wrote: »
    Mine bought himself a €2,000 computer two years ago for Christmas, very feckin nice to himself isn't he! I always call it his real girlfriend.

    Was it with money he was meant to spend on something to do together?


  • #1764
    Cerulean Chicken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭Cerulean Chicken


    Lucyfur wrote: »
    Annnnnd, my Mr. won't wear a watch, or any jewellery either. His face when we were trying on wedding rings was a picture :D

    Same, doesn't wear any type of jewellery, he'll tolerate the wedding ring for a few hours on the actual day and that'll be it :)
    shalalala wrote: »
    Was it with money he was meant to spend on something to do together?

    In fairness no it wasn't, it was his "reward" to himself for his first year in a demanding job.


  • #1765
    shalalala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭shalalala


    Cerulean Chicken wrote: »
    In fairness no it wasn't, it was his "reward" to himself for his first year in a demanding job.

    Well that is okay so! My OH is a different story all together so.

    If I were to get married I would want them to wear the ring all the time. Let everyone know that he is taken :)


  • #1766
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    shalalala wrote: »
    If I were to get married I would want them to wear the ring all the time. Let everyone know that he is taken :)

    Most of my male friends report that they get hit on more if they're wearing their wedding ring.

    You may want to rethink your position!

    My husband wears his all the time, and I love that he does, but if he didn't want to that'd be his choice.


  • #1767
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    I just need some time to knit a few more things and I have Christmas pretty much sorted! Got something for my boyfriend, he's too stalky for me to say what though :pac::pac:

    Don't have any idea what to get my brothers, who haven't spoken to me all year ¬_¬


  • #1768
    shalalala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭shalalala


    Only one kind of woman goes after a man that she knows is married. I am in the type of business that it is the first thing I notice about a man. When I am single it is "no ring then fair game" and I know a lot of people like that. So I would like people to know that he was off the market.

    PP get them nothing?! They cannot be arsed to pick up the phone then why buy a present for them?


  • #1769
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    shalalala wrote: »
    Only one kind of woman goes after a man that she knows is married. I am in the type of business that it is the first thing I notice about a man. When I am single it is "no ring then fair game" and I know a lot of people like that. So I would like people to know that he was off the market.

    PP get them nothing?! They cannot be arsed to pick up the phone then why buy a present for them?

    I'm confused, what if he is in a long term relationship but not married?

    Nah I'll get them something small, just no idea what yet! we'll be spending Christmas together anyway!


  • #1770
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    I don't mind secret Santa between friends, but I hate work Secret Santa. You end up getting someone you don't like or know. And then some people use it to get nasty digs in. ( I saw a fat girl get a packet of slim fast one year).
    That is horrible!

    I'm also trying to sort out xmas presents. I only have about 4 to buy because I'm doing secret santa with friends and have a small family but it's still impossible.


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  • #1771
    Lucyfur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,513 ✭✭✭✭Lucyfur


    I don't get my brother anything, he doesn't get me anything. We've a mutual understanding :cool: I haven't seen him in 6 years but we still manage to be pretty close. I'm delighted I don't have to get him a gift. He's another Mr Impossible.

    On the wedding ring thing, I really hope my bf wears his:) He plans to, but if it's too uncomfortable for him, I don't mind him not wearing it:)


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