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iamanengine · 30-11-2013 06:55PM

Socks.

LoonyLovegood · 30-11-2013 07:00PM

I knit, so that's what everyone's getting this christmas. But yeah, socks. Or a ticket to a match or something if he's into that?

wnolan1992 · 30-11-2013 07:09PM

If you can track down some copies of old Irish TV shows that he used to watch that might be a cool way to go. I remember we got Dad a VHS (now kids, VHS was a media format in ancient times) of Hall's Pictorial Weekly which he really got a kick out of.

Match tickets are a good shout too. If he's into soccer maybe organise a trip to a game for him?

How about a set of drillbits, sockets, spanners, screwdrivers?

LoonyLovegood · 30-11-2013 07:32PM

Do I place a bid on this top or not? http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Gorgeous-Black-Lace-And-Baby-Pink-Corset-Style-Top-14-/261343196810

It's really pretty, but also to small for me atm.

JamJamJamJam · 30-11-2013 09:28PM

CTYIgirl wrote: »

Do I place a bid on this top or not? http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Gorgeous-Black-Lace-And-Baby-Pink-Corset-Style-Top-14-/261343196810

It's really pretty, but also to small for me atm.

Too small for my dad too :L

Match tickets would be good (or probably better!), but I just impulse-bought tickets to a Sharon Shannon gig in January after he just proclaimed that he'd found the best piece of music on Youtube, so they'll have to do instead :P

He'll probably also get socks :P Something like that would suit him really well wnolan! My sister actually did a dissertation on Halls Pictorial when she was in final year (and my dad helped her loads) so that would have been perfect, but I think they tracked down loads of it for that, but it would have been ideal! I might try suss out some programmes and things from a similar era that he'd have watched though... Gooood stuff...

Jhcx · 30-11-2013 11:05PM

I have to buy so much on such a small budget

Junco Partner · 30-11-2013 11:23PM

christmas shopping has been somewhat stress free this year. mother, brother,sister, housemate and granddad all sorted and its not even december.

all thats left now is dad. dads are the hardest.

LoonyLovegood · 01-12-2013 08:09AM

I'm excused from buying stuff for my family, due to my status as "poor ass student". Have to buy for the bf's family, they're going to be tough.

Acciaccatura · 04-12-2013 05:50PM

Happy final day of Hanukkah, everybody!

plot twist: I'm not even Jewish

wnolan1992 · 05-12-2013 12:37PM

This is just brilliant.

pajor · 11-12-2013 12:49PM

JamJamJamJam wrote: »

What do dads like to get for Christmas? We're doing Kris Kringle (spelling?) and I was given him! Food / Drink / Vouchers are banned because they're too easy

Worst in the world to buy for. :mad:

Nerdkiller1991 · 11-12-2013 01:53PM

pajor wrote: »

Worst in the world to buy for. :mad:

We're getting our father some cigar related stuff. Honestly, that was the first thing I thought of, since I remembered that he lost his cigar cutter a couple of days earlier.

suitcasepink · 11-12-2013 05:59PM

How does one have cheap, tasty but easy nice dinners in college?? Like Im actually in desperate need and cant eat Aldi lasagne and take away for all my life

wnolan1992 · 11-12-2013 06:02PM

deise_girl wrote: »

How does one have cheap, tasty but easy nice dinners in college?? Like Im actually in desperate need and cant eat Aldi lasagne and take away for all my life

Spaghetti bolognese, chicken fillets and various pastas and sauces are your best friend.

suitcasepink · 11-12-2013 06:21PM

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Spaghetti bolognese, chicken fillets and various pastas and sauces are your best friend.

It's really sad ive had 2 chicken fillets in my freezer for like 3 weeks but I never think of them until Im actually hungry and its too late to defrost

Might go for spaghetti bolognase though, I feel like that might be a great option
(Not for today coz its too late, but another day..)

decisions · 11-12-2013 06:31PM

While I do live at home I feed myself. Stew is your best friend, load a spuds, bag a carrots a few onions and a few euro worth of stewing beef feeds me for the week.

Curry and Spag Bol are also great to cook in large batches and freeze.

wnolan1992 · 11-12-2013 06:39PM

Probably sounds a bit naff, but you should plan your dinners for the week. Like, this year I started sitting down on a Sunday and writing down what I'll have each night of the week. That way you know what you need to defrost in the morning, rather than suddenly realising you might want chicken and not have the time.

I also find simply googling "15-minute meals" and stuff turns up loads of recipes that are hella easy to make and really cheap. Like, I found this cool curry recipe a while back that I've been meaning to get around to for ages and all it needs is some mince, frozen peas and a few other bits. Like you'd easily whip it up in a half hour for less than the cost of ordering in a takeaway.

Oh, another bit of advice would be get a few decent lunch boxes. Just so you won't be throwing out leftovers due to having nowhere to store them. Two nights' meals for the price of one. :P

suitcasepink · 11-12-2013 06:43PM

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Probably sounds a bit naff, but you should plan your dinners for the week. Like, this year I started sitting down on a Sunday and writing down what I'll have each night of the week. That way you know what you need to defrost in the morning, rather than suddenly realising you might want chicken and not have the time.

I also find simply googling "15-minute meals" and stuff turns up loads of recipes that are hella easy to make and really cheap. Like, I found this cool curry recipe a while back that I've been meaning to get around to for ages and all it needs is some mince, frozen peas and a few other bits. Like you'd easily whip it up in a half hour for less than the cost of ordering in a takeaway.

Oh, another bit of advice would be get a few decent lunch boxes. Just so you won't be throwing out leftovers due to having nowhere to store them. Two nights' meals for the price of one. :P

Going to save everything you say as a file under some witty name that will make me open it, because even though eating lasagne for every meal every day is the dream at the moment, im well aware this wont always be the case.

wnolan1992 · 11-12-2013 06:52PM

Vito Corleone wrote: »

Effort of that.

When you get to my age young man you'll plan everything you do...

:P

pajor · 11-12-2013 07:20PM

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Probably sounds a bit naff, but you should plan your dinners for the week. Like, this year I started sitting down on a Sunday and writing down what I'll have each night of the week.

I've been doing that since September.

Simply stops me eating sh1te.

Junco Partner · 11-12-2013 09:20PM

deise_girl wrote: »

It's really sad ive had 2 chicken fillets in my freezer for like 3 weeks but I never think of them until Im actually hungry and its too late to defrost

I have that problem too. I made a curry this week using fillets that have been in my freezer since march!

peekachoo · 11-12-2013 10:47PM

Came snooping for a creep and yet I recognise an uncomfortable amount of people around here :pac:

iamanengine · 11-12-2013 11:17PM

Everyone to the forum feedback thread for giving of teh feedbackz!

LoonyLovegood · 11-12-2013 11:23PM

Oi, you! How'd the last two go?

Jhcx · 12-12-2013 12:30AM

Lads i must have a broken heart. but This has left me in bits. Now 2013 has been some year of giving and being thankful. but this takes the biscuit and must be the most generous thing i have ever seen a company do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEIvi2MuEk

iamanengine · 12-12-2013 12:41AM

CTYIgirl wrote: »

Oi, you! How'd the last two go?

Pretty happy tbh

EU though could be a disaster :O

You doin alright?

decisions · 12-12-2013 07:22AM

peekachoo wrote: »

Came snooping for a creep and yet I recognise an uncomfortable amount of people around here :pac:

Stick around

pajor · 12-12-2013 10:42AM

One more teensy tiny college hurdle to jump.. and then BOOM.. holidays.

peekachoo · 12-12-2013 04:17PM

decisions wrote: »

Stick around

IM WANTED ♥

decisions · 12-12-2013 04:45PM

peekachoo wrote: »

IM WANTED ♥

Not in that way peek, I though you had moved on :P

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