Showing posts with label christmas gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas gifts. Show all posts

Surprising Mom on Christmas, It’s Harder than It Sounds

5:12 AM

Around Christmas time you hear most people call out ‘Merry Christmas’ to each other. We do that too, when we’re outside. In the house, we constantly keep reminding each other to act natural and look inconspicuous, like we have nothing to hide. That’s because we have a seriously shrewd mother. And surprising our mom with Christmas gifts is hard.

As children she always hid our Christmas holiday gifts and we didn’t know until Christmas day what we were going to get. If anyone was lucky, they’d have a faint idea of one gift but that’s the closest we ever got. And our Christmas gifts were always great. Mom not only knew what we wanted, but she also managed to smuggle it in the house and wrap it with out us so much as seeing the corner of a box. So when we grew up and started college or jobs, we thought it was only fair we get the world’s best most unique Christmas gifts for mom, and not let her find out about them till Christmas day. Oh yeah, I’m talking major payback time for mommy. So while we plan, purchase and wrap mom’s Christmas gifts, we try to be as subtle as possible.

But mom knows, mom always knows. We’ve tried all sorts of headquarters for our ‘Surprise Mom on Christmas’ plan, our house, my sister’s apartment, my brother’s place, my place, the beach, the bar. Sometimes I think mom must at some point have worked for the FBI. Luck and common sense aren’t exactly on our side either. Last year we ordered some Christmas gift baskets and one of them was for mom. There was a mix up and they delivered it to our house instead of my place. So basically mom received the delivery of her own Christmas gift. She still acted surprise though. The year before that, my brother called my dad and left him a long message on the answering machine. The message was entirely about mom’s Christmas gifts. He conveniently forgot that our parents live in the same house. Mom heard the message before dad did. In the years before that, mom has one way or the other managed to stumble upon our Christmas gifts for her. The sad part is she doesn’t even try to find out what her Christmas gifts are and she still finds them. We are lame at keeping Christmas gifts a secret. So this year, my mom already knows about the necklace my sister is getting for her and the coat my brother got for her. I’m getting her a fruit bouquet that I ordered online. Mom doesn’t know about it yet, I think It doesn’t need to be wrapped and it will arrive a day before Christmas. I change the password on my computer every day now. I hope I can keep it a secret from my mom till Christmas.

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Cheering Up The Boss On Christmas

4:52 AM

I’m one of those fortunate people who have a really great boss. I mean the guy literally remembers’ everyone’s birthdays! He knows if someone’s mother is sick and will ask about her health. He’ll know who just had a baby and ask how the wife is doing. He works us to the bone, but the work gets done because he has such a great attitude with us.

I think the formula behind it is simple. As long as our boss is happy and confident in us, we feel like everything is going great. So this Christmas is beginning to look like a real bummer at work. My boss is not well. He had surgery and although he’s back in the office, the surgery, medicine and drugs have made him down right miserable. We all can’t wait for him to get back to his jolly old self. It’s a bit funny you know; everyday someone will go in and try to cheer him up. We’ve brought him about five Christmas fruit baskets so far. When he yells at us and tells us to get back to work, we don’t mind. He’s been a great boss all these years, what’s a little crankiness? He’ll get back in to the Christmas spirit soon. He usually starts the secret Santa thing. He loves buying and receiving Christmas gifts, so his mood is going to get better as December progresses.

So far the number of people who have been thrown out of his office is six; I’m going tomorrow with a few Christmas gifts for him from the whole office. I mean it’s just a little post surgery misery, and Christmas holiday gifts can cure that. One of the unique Christmas gifts I’ll be taking for him tomorrow is a fruit bouquet. About five of us pitched in to buy it for our boss and I know it’ll really improve his mood. Surgery or no surgery, fresh fruit with chocolate sauce can melt anyone.

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A Great Christmas Gift For The Picky Chocolate Lover

4:40 AM

I seriously love chocolate. I know everyone thinks stuff like the discovery of fire, and inventing the wheel is huge, but I think the people who found cocoa beans deserve a Nobel Prize too. I mean one of the best things about the holidays is that people send chocolate like nuts! I get lots and lots of chocolate around Christmas. In case I feel like I haven’t received enough chocolate I’ll go out and buy myself some.

I guess it’s easy to guess which Christmas gifts are my favorite, chocolate ones! I mean I like the other stuff too, but I just prefer that people get me Christmas gift baskets full of something chocolaty instead of Christmas gift baskets with cheese in them. I mean hello, I’m not a mouse you know! Since I like chocolate so much, I also gift a lot of chocolate. Most of my Christmas holiday gifts are chocolate gifts. And while I graciously accept any and all kinds of chocolate stuff, my sister, who is just as much of a chocolate fanatic as I am, is absolutely picky! In fact, she’s practically a snob to most chocolates. Getting her unique Christmas gifts is hard, there are only a few select types of chocolates she’ll eat and I want her gift to be a surprise. This year I’m going to deviate a bit from an all chocolate gift. I’m buying a fruit bouquet for her, it comes with chocolate sauce, the fruit is dipped in chocolate and I think she’ll absolutely love it. I’d like to see her pass over the fresh fruit with chocolate. I know she won’t be able to and if she does, I’ll accept a refund.

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The Teenage Mind At Christmas Time

5:40 AM

I am the mother of two teenagers. I see my kids in the morning when they’re chugging down their breakfast, I see the top of their heads as I drive them to school and they're on their cell phones tweeting away about God knows what and we occasionally run into each other near the TV set.

All of this changes completely around Christmas time. My kids will deliberately walk into the kitchen while I’m cooking and hold long, loud and pointed conversations with their friends on the phone about their Christmas gifts. What they want, what they really want and what they can’t live without. Basically they’re trying to tell me what Christmas holiday gifts to get them, and the order of preference. For kids who avoid the kitchen like the plague, and whose fingers are still typing away at imaginary keyboards in their sleep, they make way too many calls in my kitchen. You’d think they’d have realized by now that I don’t ever get them the stuff they ‘can’t live without’. It’s too ridiculously extravagant and expensive. I just don’t think teenagers need that kind of stuff.

You could literally feed a third world country for a month for the price of those designer bags or cell phones. I never thought it would be this hard to teach my kid humility. I only get them the Christmas gifts they want and not the ones they ‘can’t live without’. If they can’t live without things like handbags and digital camera, they have bigger things to worry about. Hopefully one day they will learn to appreciate unique Christmas gifts for the sentiments they’re given with and not the price tags they carried. I think the problem is they don’t really know what they want. The TV tells them what to buy. I’ve been buying Christmas gifts for my kids for years now. They love everything they get and no one can say they didn’t get the one present they couldn’t live without. My daughter even loves the Christmas gift baskets I buy. While the whole wide world is out there telling my daughter to buy torn jeans and charm bracelets, I’m introducing her to more wholesome gifts like the fruits for Christmas. I’ve received Christmas Fruits from my mother for many years now and I really cherish the gift. It’s one gift I know my daughter will absolutely love.

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Christmas Gift Surprise; I Will Have the Last Laugh!

5:20 AM

Last year I spent Christmas at my sister’s house. She has three kids aged between three and ten. And those kids are fast not to mention oddly squishy. They can crawl under and into just about anything when they’re looking for the Christmas gifts. So last year when I arrived at my sister’s place I was already in stealth mode. For those of you not familiar with the Hit man Game, stealth mode is basically me sneaking around my sister’s house trying to hide something. That something would be Christmas gifts.

I moved into the house when the kids were out playing and my sister helped me hide my Christmas holiday gifts. This wasn’t easy because all the good places were already housing my sister’s Christmas gifts for her family. I actually had to hide some of my smaller Christmas gifts under a loose floor board in the attic. Then there were the Christmas gifts waiting to be wrapped. They included most of my Christmas gifts for my sister so she found out what I was getting her. All surprise was instantly killed and I realized that my hours of shopping for unique Christmas gifts for everyone would amount to nothing when it came to my sister’s gift.

I suspect she even took the one gift I had managed to wrap and shook it to get an idea of what’s inside. Brought me memories of kindergarten, my teacher used to tell us it was very rude to shake a gift before opening it. The house looked more like ‘Operation hides Christmas gifts’ than anything. What I didn’t like was the fact that none of my gifts for my sister would be a surprise. There was only one way around it; super stealth mode (not featured in hit man). I went online and searched for something that could be delivered to my sister’s doorstep as close to Christmas as possible. It had to be something that didn’t need wrapping. There were a lot of Christmas gift baskets out there but they would deliver at least a week before Christmas and the wicker baskets were too big to hide anywhere. I finally stumbled on to these fruit bouquets. They were available in a lot of sizes. They were pretty unique and beautiful to look at. I ordered the small size and asked a neighbor if she’d store it for just one night. Everything worked out! My sister couldn’t close her surprised mouth! She absolutely loved the gift.

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Christmas Fruit Baskets: An early Christmas gift for my three year old

5:16 AM

Last year I was baking some Christmas cookies and watching my three year old play. I was momentarily distracted when I had to answer the door. When I came back into the kitchen, my three year old had snuck over to the counter, climbed a chair, by passed the cookie jar and found one of his Christmas gifts.

When I cam back to the kitchen he was sitting on the floor peeling the wrapping off. I was absolutely shocked. I had hid it behind the cookie jar for the very reason that he’d be more interested in the cookies than what was behind the cookies, should he ever manage to reach either one of them. So as I stood in the kitchen in utter amazement, my son continued to peel away the wrapping. He was only three and there are just so many things you can say to a three year old.

I took the gift from him and hid it again. He didn’t cry about not being able to open an early Christmas gift and I thought he was ashamed at being caught sneaking early Christmas holiday gifts. I sat him down on the sofa and asked him in a very reasonable voice if he really thought his Christmas gifts would make him just as happy if they weren’t opened on Christmas day. His answer left me speechless. He said I should let him open one or two and we could both find out if he was happier that way! I was actually shocked that an answer like that had come out of a three old, my three old! I tried to reason with him, I told him how hard mommy tries to find unique Christmas gifts for him and that she wants to give him lots of nice surprises on Christmas day. He told me I was trying to concentrate his happiness.

We talked for an hour and it ended with me telling him it was wrong to open Christmas gifts before Christmas day. Two days later I received two Christmas gift baskets from neighbors and I was just going through them when my three year old asks me ‘Mommy, will that present make you happy even if you’re not opening it on Christmas day?’ rats! I tried to explain to him that they were early Christmas gifts. He said he’d like to trade all his Christmas day gifts for early Christmas gifts. I can’t believe he hasn’t even started school yet. After another hour of discussion I decided he could have an early Christmas gift like mine. I thought fruit baskets for Christmas would make a nice early Christmas gift and I found these wonderful edible Christmas gifts made of fruit, they were called fruit bouquets I ordered him one. It had fruit cut like flowers and dipped in chocolate. He graciously shared it with me and told me he was very happy with an early Christmas gift and to ‘keep ‘um coming’

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Getting In The Christmas Shopping Mood

10:04 PM

At work there are generally two types of bad situations. One is when you don’t have anything to do and the other is when you have too much to do and you just can’t get started. Now imagine any of those situations in December, with the weight of your Christmas shopping list crushing you. If you’re anything like me you’ll be staring at a blank screen and just wondering why on earth you got out of bed. The answer is obvious; you kept dreaming your Christmas gifts were chasing you.

My Christmas nightmares start when thanksgiving ends. I think I could do about ten sequels to ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’. I’m chased by wrapping paper and scissors alike, when I have my routine falling dream, there is a festive background instead of the sky. There is only one way to make these nightmares disappear, I have to woman-up and get down to buying my Christmas Holiday Gifts. I know that once I get into my Christmas Shopping mood, the shopping will be done in mere days. The problem is getting into the mood. For me it starts with finding a really great gift. During my search for unique Christmas gifts, the second I find something really extraordinary the Christmas sprit, shopping or otherwise, fills me. I am immediately inspired and I zero-in on the best deals with in miles. I find the best Christmas gift baskets and Christmas ornaments at great prices. I find a nice dress for the Christmas party and even better shoes to go with it. Then I find something for my mom and most importantly my boyfriend. It’s all about getting inspired.

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Back To The Realities of Christmas Gift Shopping

9:55 PM

Christmas is in twenty four days, that is less than a month and surprisingly (not really), there is still unfinished Christmas shopping. I still have tons and tons of Christmas Gifts to buy. I read somewhere that people mostly begin shopping for Christmas gifts after thanksgiving. Since I had already bought some gifts before thanksgiving, I was definitely feeling smug. But all smugness is now gone, it’s December! Now that there is the added pressure of less time, I realize I haven’t in any seriousness started my Christmas Shopping. On top of all that, my list actually got longer because I missed a few people at work.

It’s beginning to turn into another stressful Christmas. The stores have run out of my favorite metallic wrapping paper. I love that stuff so much, it makes ordinary stuff look extraordinary. It comes in handy if in a serious time crunch I don’t manage to find unique Christmas gifts for some people. I just wrap the ordinary Christmas holiday gifts in metallic paper. People look at the wrapping and are flattered.

Something I’ll always be grateful for is Black Friday and Cyber Monday. I was wondering if I should have bought my Christmas gift baskets earlier but I came across some great discounts on Cyber Monday so I’ll be saving a ton. In fact, I’d say Cyber Monday made it a bit easier for me to find some really Unique Christmas gifts. I’m going with my usual chocolate fruit for the people at work; it’s the only way I’ll manage to stay in budget.

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Getting Christmas Gifts For The Baby

5:01 AM

All year long I was determined to have my Christmas gifts bought and wrapped by mid December. Now that November is almost over, I find that I haven’t even made a list of all the people I need to buy Christmas Gifts for. I’m in serious trouble. So I went online in the middle of the night after I failed to fall asleep. I spent an hour typing out the list of people I’d be buying gifts for and then printing it. I could’ve written it out but I have a habit of losing the list in two days. I needed back up.

During my online search for Christmas gifts I found that there are two types of very confused people out there. There is the type who wonders if they should get Christmas Gifts for the baby. Since the baby won’t remember getting anything, they wonder if it matters. Then there is the type of people who are absolutely losing their minds because they can’t find Unique Christmas gifts for their dog! If that isn’t two ends to a very broad spectrum I don’t know what is. I think you should definitely get a gift for your baby. Because the baby is going to grow up some day into a teenager who’ll need proof that you loved him/her from the day he/she was born. As far as the dog is concerned, sure if you love your pet, get it a gift. I kind of always thought the whole Christmas holiday gifts thing was more of a human to human deal.

I didn’t have much luck with the online shopping that night but I did place orders for some nice Christmas gift baskets for the people at work. It’s going to be a very long December.

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A More Appropriate Look For Christmas

4:59 AM

The one thing you don’t want to do around Christmas time is hurt someone’s feelings. We all avoid it, people are generally nicer on Christmas and I think it’s a really good thing. Of course it can lead to awkward little problems. I know this woman a few blocks away. My son and her son are friends. She used to have this really important corporate job. She quit it later and became a dedicated stay at home mom.

She may have had a great career, and she is certainly a terrific mom, but she just doesn’t do food tables. I’m not one of those stepford house wives and I certainly don’t upholster my own sofa. I’m about as ordinary as they get but even then I can’t bring myself to accept what she does to her food on Christmas. For a woman who has such excellent taste in Christmas gifts, I can’t get my head around what she does to the food. She dresses her food up! Her chicken has pigtails and her potatoes wear little shirts! And since we’re all so determinedly nice around Christmas, no one can tell her that food dressed like humans is kind of freaky.

But I’ve decided to do something about it. I owe her one. She’s a thoughtful person; she spends a good two months looking for unique Christmas gifts for everyone. She gets Christmas gifts for people she hardly knows, even the trash guy! You don’t get nicer than that. So I’m going to be sending her inspiration by way of Christmas gift baskets. I know where I can get some great Christmas fruit baskets and I’ll be sending her one two weeks before Christmas and one the day before. They make good Christmas holiday gifts and fantastic center pieces. I’ve centered a lot of my dinner décor around it. I know being as smart as she is, she’ll get the clue.

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I’m Not For The Cheesy Christmas Gift Baskets

4:57 AM

It’s getting really close to Christmas now and people have rolled up their sleeves to get down and dirty with the Christmas shopping. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are coming up. I’m still looking for some new Christmas gift baskets, I need something really original. Thankfully a lot of stores have rolled out their Christmas specials so it’s getting easier to narrow down the choice.

I have almost decided which basket I’m going to buy but I’m still looking around to see what new ideas for Christmas gift baskets are going around these days. And I found something new, Cheese baskets! I mean seriously. Are these people kidding? Baskets full of cheese? That’s like here, a smelly Christmas gift basket. It sounds like something I’d get for Mickey Mouse and since he’s not on my Christmas list I’m not buying one. Understandably people are found of cheese.

I mean if it weren’t for cheese we couldn’t eat our crackers and there wouldn’t be any cheese pizza. But baskets full of cheese are not my idea of unique Christmas gifts. I read somewhere that food items are going to be really popular Christmas Holiday gifts this year, maybe that’s what led to these cheese baskets. But there are better foods to put in Christmas gift baskets. People may like eating cheese but I don’t know how many will appreciate a whole basket full showing up in their Christmas gifts. It’s better if you just get Christmas fruit baskets. They come with chocolate. I’d like to see cheese top that!

So while I support innovation and all that stuff, I think people need to put a little more thought into what they decide to make into Christmas gift baskets.

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Christmas Gifts Of Real Value

4:50 AM

I’ve heard a lot of people say a lot of different things when they open their Christmas gifts. Like my brother, among the many Christmas Holiday Gifts he received from me last year, there were also three pairs of woolen socks. So he took them out and is like, ‘What’s wrong with ones I’ve been wearing for the past two months?’ what I have never heard people say is, ‘Really! You spent that much money on me? I’m so cheap I’d never spend that much on my self’

I came across something on the net that suggests people think their Christmas gifts cost less than they actually did. Here’s what I think; as long as they like the gift, who cares? Let’s say I get a huge Christmas gift basket and fill it with coupons. The basket might cost something like $75 and the person I give it to would hate it. That’s $75 down the drain.

The person I get the gift for might think, ‘She gave me coupons?’ they’ll think it costs something like $15. Or I might use my brain and get them one of those nice Christmas gift baskets or a take my pick from the variety of Christmas fruit baskets out there and the guy could go, “I love fruit! Must’ve cost a fortune!” and they don’t cost that much at all. I think the real value in buying successful Unique Christmas Gifts comes from how much the receiver likes their Christmas gifts. People really tend to ignore how important it is to get something that your loved ones will like. Companies count on this to sell their new shiny toys and gadgets. And that’s what can devalue Christmas gifts. Buying the newest most expensive things doesn’t spell great Christmas Holiday Gifts; but getting that people gifts that they like does.

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The True Value Of Christmas Gifts

4:24 AM

I’ve discovered that there is a science behind gift giving on Christmas. You can’t just walk into a store or browse to a website, say ‘Hey the guy across the street would really like this’ and make your purchase. Apparently people all over the world buy Christmas gifts this way, but it’s wrong! Or so I’ve read in an article based on some book that’s been published by Princeton Publishing Press.

Turns out there is this thing called Value and satisfaction per dollar. Seriously? Because buying Christmas gifts for Mom, Dad, your brother, sister, husband, kids, grandma, grandpa, aunts, uncles, people at work, and people in your neighborhood wasn’t hard enough. Now you need to stop and think about satisfaction per dollar. Now when we look for Christmas gifts online, we should Google Unique Christmas Gifts with high satisfaction per dollar. I kind of always thought it was the thought that counts. I disagree with the article, mostly because it ignores sentimental value of Christmas Gifts. I get my mom Christmas gift baskets.

She loves those things. I don’t really care how much I pay for them. I buy them because I know my mom will like them. I don’t know if my mom ever goes poking around to see how much I spent on her Christmas Holiday Gifts, but I spend generously. It doesn’t matter what the value is. People don’t spend hours online and days dragging themselves through malls to find something that says, “I bought a lot of satisfaction per dollar for you. Merry Christmas” they go looking for Unique Christmas gifts because they want to get something the receiver will like. If people actually have time to go find out how much their Christmas Holiday Gifts cost, or what they are worth in monetary terms to them, then I don’t know what the world is coming to.

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The Smell oF Christmas In December

3:52 AM

People throw the phrase, ‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas’ around a lot. I think the phrase, “It beginning to smell a lot like Christmas’ could do just as well. In fact I think it would be more universal. Have people ever really paid attention to how great Christmas Smells? All those wonderful cookies being baked, the gingerbread men, the peanut crunch and the hot chocolate. To me the smell of Christmas is more appealing than the look. The whole house smells edible.

I shared this thought with my brother and he says he too can smell Christmas. He can smell Christmas gifts and Christmas wrap. He predicts when mom is about to buy a new Christmas ornament or a very special Christmas gift basket. That isn’t really smelling Christmas, as much as it is smelling Christmas gifts but he’s lying. In all our attempts to find our Christmas holiday gifts, hidden by our mother, he has never really been successful at finding anything. Maybe it’s the tape brand we use. But all jokes aside, I do love the look of Christmas but I like the smell too. It could have a lot to do with my mom being a really great cook.

One of my other favorite Christmas smells is the scent of gourmet chocolate. We have a lot of gourmet chocolate around the house at Christmas time, but what I really like is the fruit covered in gourmet chocolate that my great grandma sends us. It’s like taking two of the greatest things on earth, i.e. fruit and chocolate, and making them into one. It beats all the Christmas holiday gifts that we get by a long shot.

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Pass The Christmas Fruit

3:23 AM

At Christmas Dinner, you hear a lot of stuff like, “pass the gravy” or “Pass the yams”. At our Christmas table all you hear is “Pass the Fruit”. We eat our Christmas dinner with quiet determination and then we all move on to our beautiful Christmas fruit.

I don’t know who invented Christmas gift baskets or Christmas fruit baskets but the guy/girl was a genius. I personally think they deserve to go to heaven. They’ll have the people who invented chocolaty stuff to keep them company. My family sends out these really great Christmas gift baskets as Christmas gifts. They’re fruit and covered in chocolate. People absolutely love them and they often reply in kind. They send us similar Christmas holiday gifts. So at our dinner table, we enjoy our wonder Christmas spread, the really great chicken that mom makes and the mashed potatoes and that think savory gravy. But the minute we’re done, all we can think about is the fruit covered in chocolate.

We all personally think the fruit is begging us to eat it. Unfortunately since we all love the fruit so much, instead of passing the fruit when someone asks, we say, “Get it yourself!” As far as the fruit is concerned it’s every man/woman/ child for himself/herself. Grandma used to think it was silly. She would point out vehemently that we were arguing over fruit. My brother would point out we were actually arguing over chocolate covered fruit. But we only needed Gran to try it once; she crossed over to the fruit side immediately. She now joins in and says, “Pass the Fruit”. Gran is old and she has a walking stick. If we say “Get it yourself” to her, she pokes us with it. Since she’s old and we love her, we pass the fruit.

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Good Christmas Gifts are hard to find

2:56 AM

For a lot of years I thought the secret to shopping successfully for Christmas holiday gifts lay in a nice balance between the number of shopping mall visits and online purchases. I never really stopped to think how often lady luck had been on my side during all my online shopping. I’ve always had a one in fifteen chance of getting ripped off while shopping online. Now that I think back to the earlier days when the internet was my first choice for finding unique Christmas gifts, I do remember several tings that looked highly suspicious.

The worst thing is these scams hit harder on Christmas when people are looking for their Christmas holiday gifts. That’s like Scrooge gone cyber. What kind of people try and scam others on Christmas anyway? So this happens a lot with stuff like Christmas gift vouchers. The ones that have those extended expiry dates and stuff can be a total scam. I received a Christmas gift basket a few years ago and it had some of these ‘fabulous’ gift certificates in them. I only managed to use one; the stores wouldn’t pass the other three. I thought it was because of where I was shopping, like a location thing, but now I know better. Personally I don’t think gift certificates are a nice thing to put in Christmas gift baskets. I prefer giving Christmas fruit baskets that I can purchase from very reliable people on the internet. There are some companies out there that are dedicated to saving online shoppers from being ripped off. It’s good to know someone is on our side. So be careful where you shop online, apparently you can now get your pocket picked or your credit card pinched online too.

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Online Christmas Gifts: A Word Of Caution

2:17 AM

I was busy buying my Christmas gifts online like I always do. I shop at some very particular sites, they’re reliable in that they have really good stuff and bring in unique Christmas gifts for the online shopper. And although I am satisfied with them I decided to surf the net anyway and see if there was anything new. I came across this article saying that a lot off the Christmas gifts or any gifts that people buy online turn out to be fake. It’s really common in gift certificates and vouchers. And can happen with big name companies.

I was completely amazed. I remember a really long time ago, I had purchased some online gifts. They never made it to my doorstep. Since they didn’t cost much, I thought it was because of the holiday rush and I didn’t really do anything about it. I never thought for one minute that my gifts might have been fake. It makes me all the more glad that I now know exactly where I can shop safely online.

The article said something about always being careful about what kind of deal you’re getting. If something is too cheap, then it’s probably fake. The whole too-good-to-be-true thing. I thought this might be for really expensive and highly priced goods, but it can happen to almost everything like the very popular Christmas gift item, Christmas gift baskets. Yu could end up ordering one, an expensive one and might never show up at your door step. So I’m really glad I have my reliable list of stores to buy Christmas holiday gifts from. I know for a fact that if any of really important Christmas holiday gifts were not delivered I’d have something close to a heart attack.

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Truly Giving Christmas Gifts

3:39 AM

Around Christmas time, a lot of charities go into over drive. They work all year round and Christmas is show time for them. We have several charities working in our locality and we try and contribute to as many as we can and not just in monetary terms. We put in a lot of time and help out with the arrangements. For a few years, the charities have been teaming up around Christmas. They divide the work and that way they have more funds for different things. One charity takes over Christmas dinner, another takes over the Christmas gifts for the kids. Someone else provides for Christmas trees. They all come together to give the under privileged a better Christmas.

When people see the charities working together like this, it makes them want to contribute more. A lot more people put in time to help generate funds. There were some really unique Christmas gifts for the kids last year thanks to the collective effort by everyone and people brought all sorts of Christmas gift baskets and Christmas fruit baskets for the big Christmas dinner. Our neighborhood was really proud of our efforts last year and we’re hoping to do something even bigger and better this year.

I think it’s the true spirit of Christmas, giving and sharing and while we are all busy buying Christmas holiday gifts, we should think of others. A lot of people might say it’s hard to be charitable with the times being so tough and all, but I disagree. We make allowance for everything else. It was in this spirit that I had three fruit baskets delivered to the Christmas dinner being hosted by the charities.

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Chocolate Fruit and Hot Cocoa on Christmas

3:31 AM

Our neighborhood looks like the perfect Christmas post card in December. We have snow piled on houses and icicles hanging from tree branches and lots of Christmas lights. Once the Christmas holidays begin, the place is full of kids running around with their sleighs and having snowball fights.

I don’t get to enjoy much of the scenery as I’m locked up in my room wrapping, labeling and coding Christmas gifts. My husband thinks it’s very unhealthy for me. Two years ago he made an incredible effort and helped me out with a lot of my work. We had the wrapping, labeling, coding done two days in advance. We had scotch tape stuck to our holiday sweaters and ribbon tangled in our hair. But as we sat on the sofa together and watched the snow fall, I felt absolutely tranquil. To add to this perfect picture, a group of kids showed up to sing Christmas carols. They were kids from around the block and my son ran to join them. We stood in the door way and listened. The kids were cute but rather off tune. My son hadn’t helped much since he didn’t know all the words. It was cold and most of them were shaking as they sang.

Although I was tired from all the work I had put into wrapping the Christmas holiday gifts, I felt the urge to make something for them, as a nice encouragement. Like hot cocoa or something. I went into the kitchen and whipped some up. I hadn’t got around to baking any Christmas cookies yet so instead I brought out the beautiful fruit bouquet I had received from my sister. She had sent it in place of the usual Christmas gift baskets that she sends. It was a really unique Christmas gift and I thought to share it with the kids. We all stood out in the cold, with the snow falling lightly and enjoyed the Christmas fruit and hot chocolate. I owe that wonderful experience to my husband.

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The Gift of Fresh Fruit On Christmas

3:25 AM

A year ago a group of farmers held a fruit exhibition in our local area. Everyone was crazy excited about it. We wanted to see some seriously fresh fruit; some people were even under the impression that there would be fruit trees. They weren’t disappointed.

There was a lot of fresh fruit and a few fruit trees as well. And while some of us wondered how they got the trees all the way here, what most of us wondered was, what were these little old ladies thinking when they decided to do this. All the farmers at the fruit festival were petit little old ladies. They looked so grandmotherly that you just wanted to hug them. And they had excellent fruit. Everyone bought a lot of it and for the rest of the week we received Christmas fruit baskets from a lot of the neighbors. There was even a local business there that bought the fruit. They made some really nice fruit bouquets and I guessed they were stocking up for the Christmas orders. Their Christmas gift baskets are very popular and I often buy them for Christmas gifts.

The ladies themselves had some really terrific fruits baskets on display and were even demonstrating how to arrange fruits in a basket to make your own unique Christmas gifts. Since people never tire of fruit as Christmas holiday gifts, they had a really huge audience and an even bigger profit from their produce. I bought some excellent oranges and gifted half to my mom who has recently taken an interest in making jams, the rest of the half were made into orange juice and devoured by my family.

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