Cool Christmas gifts I can't afford.

Ooooooooh...!

That's way cool!

The interactive Pleo dinosaur.

He's cute but, not that cute (over $300 )

This was funny
"....product lifetime guarantee that works out to be about 9 years on a Pleo...."

I still covet a life-sized T-Rex skeleton in waterproof plywood.

Some assembly required.

I'm just glad we got the son a Wii for his birthday two months ago as now you can only find "bundles" that exceed $550... Nintendo says they are at full production capacity but you cannot find a standard Wii anywhere. We paid $250 and split it three ways with the grandparents.

I have a life size raptor skeleton in just that material. Now, if I can just find all the pieces....

My family would always make handmade stuff for Christmas.
But when we had extra money or we still had some financial problems if we wanted something really expensive. They would buy us one expensive gift and all the kids had to share it.
Like Christmas when I was sixteen, three years ago, my mom and dad, we were having issues with money, but my siblings and I a Xbox and we all had to share it.