Showing posts with label fruit for christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruit for christmas. Show all posts

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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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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It’s Christmas, Blame The Government!

3:10 AM

I dated this guy for a while. He liked to blame everything on the government. It didn’t matter who was in government at that time. He could blame Republicans and Democrats with equal enthusiasm. I was okay with it for a while, because it seemed like they were screwing up but then his criticism began to get really dumb.

His mom had just had hip surgery and she was going to be in a wheel chair for a while. It was near Christmas so I thought I’d take one of those nice Christmas Fruit baskets over for her. She loved it and was wheeling herself into the living room to talk to me when she accidently bumped the wall. My boyfriend went off blaming the government for making substandard wheelchairs and for approving the design of his house. Three days later, my car started acting up and I asked him to drive me to the mall so I could shop for my Christmas Holiday Gifts. He blamed the government for my car problem and then drove to the mall. It took us fifteen minutes to find parking and he blamed the government. I was really beginning to feel sorry for the government and thought I might end up sending Christmas gifts to city hall, they deserved a Christmas gift basket at the very least.

I had to pick out Christmas gifts for my anti-government boyfriend and my mom. Mom would be a piece of cake, but what could I get for him? I guess everyone is thinking he’s some guy stuck in the seventies with big hair, i.e. a hippie but he is actually a huge Red Sox fan. So I thought I could buy a nice Red Sox jersey for him. He was a pretty huge guy and they didn’t have his size. And it was the governments fault. As much as I hated doing it, I broke up with the guy before Christmas. It was because of the government.

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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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In Her Shoes To Buy A Christmas Gift

3:17 AM

I had one of those long weekends with nothing to do and I ended up watching old movies. Not old, old movies, just ones that are on Cable T.V., the old movies that you can see for free on T.V. I was watching ‘In Her Shoes’. It was fun to watch and I remember thinking if my sister would be upset with me for trying on/using her shoes, not that I can. We don’t wear the same size.

The thing is my sister loves shoes. I think she has more shoes than she does clothes. The other problem is she hates the shoes I pick out but I love the ones she gets. All this means that I can’t buy shoes for her as a Christmas gift. This is a huge problem since everyone knows what to get her, a pair of shoes, but I can’t buy them for her. One way would be for me to take her along when I go to buy my Christmas holiday gifts and ask her to just pick her favorite. But I really don’t like doing that.

So how do I get around to picking a nice pair of shoes for my sister? The answer to that is I don’t, I just give her the money for it. And I know it sounds awful giving someone money on Christmas but I have found a nice way to deliver my Christmas gift. I buy a Christmas gift baskets and put any shoe shaped ornament/keychain in it. Then I get a shoe catalog or magazine and put a decorative envelop for the money inside it. When I put it all together like that, it makes a really great and unique Christmas gifts. She gets shoes from me and everyone’s happy.

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Patterns For Christmas Shopping

3:09 AM

I don’t know which is harder; finding unique Christmas gifts, staying in budget or making Christmas gifts at home. Since I’ve managed the first one successfully, the second one partially and the third one not at all, I’d have to say you can almost always find unique Christmas gifts. The trick is to know where to look and what to look for.

Normally the place to look for nice Christmas holiday gifts would be anyplace your friends and family visit frequently. With so many new things out on their shelves and the frequent visits by your loved ones, they will have picked something or a few things that they really like. So I suggest you take a stroll around the mall with them. By the time you’re done you’ll come away knowing what has appealed to your friend.

The second thing is staying in budget. Your friend or family member might have picked out around twenty things that he/she likes but you can’t buy them all. So to decide on what would make a unique Christmas gifts for a particular individual, look at their entire selection. You’re likely to spot a pattern. I did this with my mom. She is pretty old fashioned and is beginning to settle into her role as a grandmother. She took me to about a hundred stores for Christmas gift baskets, holiday candy and chocolate. So it was a bit obvious she wanted chocolate, preferably gourmet chocolate. And she wanted it wrapped nicely. So when I went shopping on my own, I bought a really tasty fruit bouquet for her. It was like a super Christmas fruit baskets and I knew she’d love it.

And as for the third thing, making your Christmas gifts at home, you’ll need to Google ‘Making Christmas Presents At Home For Dummies’

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Buying Christmas Gifts At Optimum Efficiency

3:02 AM

I have come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as optimum efficiency. Everyone makes plans to work at optimum efficiency, doing the laundry at optimum efficiency, using fuel at optimum efficiency, completing office work at optimum efficiency. The reason I don’t think there is any such thing as optimum efficiency, is that no one notices if you’re working at optimum efficiency. If you get your work done before time, you will be judged as having ‘nothing to do’ and will subsequently be given something to do.

Like me and my Christmas shopping. I used get my Christmas shopping done at optimum efficiency. I had my Christmas gifts wrapped and well hidden a week before Christmas. I had mailed any and all greeting cards I was planning to send out. I had placed orders for various Christmas gift baskets to be delivered. I had made sure my gifts were just what everyone wanted. I had taken a lot of time and even more planning to buy the best and most unique Christmas gifts ever. By the third week of December I would be ready to sit comfortably on the big sofa and say, ‘Christmas, Bring it on’

And since I dared Christmas, it accepted. I had my family pour in to see me, announce their delight that I had finished my Christmas shopping so early and then ask me to wrap their Christmas holiday gifts. They would remind me not to forget the bow. I longed to tell them that the whole point of completing my Christmas shopping before hand was so I could relax and enjoy the holiday festivities. Not so I could wrap presents for Judy, Ann and Chuck. So like I said, there is no such thing as optimum efficiency. If you finish your Christmas shopping and wrapping early, you have your family’s Christmas shopping and wrapping to fall behind on. I now take as much time as possible to buy Christmas gifts and I am a proud Christmas slacker.

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The Scent of A Christmas Present

2:57 AM

Last weekend I was watching an episode of Mr. Bean where he went shopping. There was this scene where he walks into the perfume section and nearly suffocates because of the fumes. I’m not a big fan of Britain’s humor but I like Mr. Bean and his antics. I can actually relate to him suffocating from too much perfume.

I have a colleague who wears so much perfume we can still smell her fifteen minutes after she has left the room. At first I thought she must use a lot of perfume, like an entire bottle everyday. I was wrong. I went shopping for my Christmas gifts a few days ago and wandered to the perfume section. There were so many scents in the air that I felt a little light headed. There was a sales girl showing off a perfume to some women. She said one squirt of the stuff and the scent would last for three days. If used consistently, it wouldn’t even wash out. I was rude enough to ask her what I would have to do if I wanted to change my brand. Would I need to bleach my clothes? I don’t think perfume makes a very good Christmas gift.

In my opinion it says, ‘Here, you stink. Merry Christmas’. I visited all my usual stores, they get great stuff. Most of my widely complemented unique Christmas gifts come from them. I was done with the day’s Christmas holiday gift shopping by lunch. But I had been saving the time because I needed to look for a new store. It was for Christmas fruit baskets. I usually ordered them online but this time I had a coupon. Christmas gift baskets were a major part of my Christmas holiday gifts. They were what I usually gave at work. In fact we even sent them out as corporate gifts. It took me an entire thirty minutes to find the store. It was really pretty inside and they had so much more variety than I saw on the website. I redeemed my coupon and got a box of chocolate strawberries for free. On my way back to my car, I passed the perfume section again. I thought, ‘What the hell’ and bought the everlasting perfume for my colleague. She was delighted to receive it.

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