Comments on: Christmas Giving

By: pa

pa — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:16:36 +0000

Tu as tout à fait raison, ma grande. Quel plus beau cadeau que d’offrir du temps à quelqu’un qu’on aime. Ça ne s’achète pas, mais c’est si précieux! Qu’est-ce que je donnerais pour passer une journée de temps en temps avec toi… Mais c’est bien ce que je vais offrir à ma famille et mes amis cette année. Voilà pour les courses et les dépenses folles.
Francine XX

By: Bimble

Bimble — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:32:54 +0000

Cheese is always good. Maybe smoked with ham, or I once tasted a very fine edam + nettle cheese out in Holland on an edam farm.

Or a pressent that is always loved is that of the Garden Gnome. Unlike ornaments they don’t require dusting!!

By: pa

pa — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:18:21 +0000

Belle réflexion…bonne pour toute l’ànnée, surtout avant d’acheter quelque chose qu’on n’a pas vraiment besoin. Nous avons apporté environ 20 boites ou appareils, lampes, etc au Centre d’aide….les choses sont parties en quelques jours parce que c’étaient propre et en bonne condition. On en n’a encore trop, mais c’est des objets de la gman et l’arrière gman. Et des photos anciennes..Que faire?
Donner et rien acheter pendant quelques années?

By: Andrew Denny

Andrew Denny — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:00:05 +0000

“But what do you buy for someone who’s already pretty much got everything?”

Take a leaf out of the Queen’s frugal book. If you ever get invited to Christmas at Sandringham, the expected/usual gift is something extremely modest. A nice-quality pair of socks for the gentlemen, or a small everyday scarf for the ladies, say. But nothing you couldn’t have got in 5 mins from the local shops.

Impressing people with expense, imagination or novelty is considered vulgar in these circles. Impress them, instead, with the care you took to wrap it, and the hand-written label. The gift is in the giving, not the spending. My niece once gave me some cookies she made herself, in a tupperware box. The box, ten years on, is still in regular use and I remember her every time I use it.

By: Mark Baker

Mark Baker — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:01:32 +0000

Whilst many are busy getting legless, I regularly give and receive legs for Christmas:

http://www.copelaos.org/donate.html

Artificial Limbs for the victims of Unexploded cluster bombs and land mines in Laos.

/Mark
@markashtonb

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:51:01 +0000

Thanks a million for mentioning the Phone comp and well done on an excellent post, thinking giving will be pretty tight this Xmas