All I Got For Christmas Was....

We don't really exchange gifts among the adults in my or in Mr. B's family. Mr. B and I rarely buy things for each other on holidays either but this year he got me a little pocket digital camera I'd been eyeing. I love it, love it, love it.

Mo made out like a bandit.

The biggest gift was just being left alone for the day to be a little family of our own.

That is by far the best gift for you, I know.

(and the camera was probably nice too!!)

I got clothes, some money, couple little things, and gift cards to Best Buy, which I can spend in a split second. It doesn't matter to me what I get though. My mother goes overboard.

Bella, do you have Filene's Basement out there? I got my sister a CK cashmere sweater there for $70. Or look online, maybe Ebay. Spending full retail on one is kind of useless.

Sort of useless, yeah, but the money was a gift so it was free so why not?

I never do stuff like that. I never buy things like that so it would be a special gift to myself.

But I haven't decided yet.

And no, we don't have a Filene's Basement here, but it sounds like I might like it.

Well I had an interesting think happen, most of you might know that the Mrs Husker runs a foodbank and we're heavily involved in that stuff this time of year. So anyway there was a special family that we were helping outside the general way people get help at the foodbank and they were sort of like a Christmas family. So I called my buddy at asked if he wanted to help me make a delivery (be a Santa's helper and he said yes).

We he showed up at the foodbank he said where's they toys and stuff for the kids? (while we were loading the food and things) I explained in this bag, and we said wow thank not a whole lot husker! I explained it's the best we could do on short notice and resources we had. Then he said you know that scrooge thing you've had going on? And I said yep.
We'll let's go get rid of it. So he pulled out a couple checks and said let's head over to the bank and I cash these and this will fund some fun shopping for the kids.

Well I have to tell you guys, since my leg situation I really don't get out much for shopping time and especially since the other work I did to get the other food and things together I was pooped. But man I had a blast buying toys and other gifts.

When we went to deliver the stuff it was kind of a special time, my buddy takes the dad aside as says - hey if you want you can hide some of these toys to be from Santa!

It's like a Marshalls or TJ Maxx. The one I go to is in a higher income neighborhood and sells a ton of designer stuff: Kenneth Cole, DKNY, Burberry, Diesel, Seven, Lucky. It's a hidden jewl. I think I've bought all my clothes there for the past 3 years.

You're right on the free part. I may go splurge on a home theatre receiver at Best Buy now that I have free money there. Spend what I was going to spend myself on this thing, plus the gift cards, so I can get a better one.

Slappy, I just figure, that's what people expect you to do with certificates and what not, because with cash you can use it to pay bills and stuff but with a gift card...you have to buy something fun!!

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most retail stores in the continental US will not honor a gift certificate if its been torn up...

That's a great story, husker!

It was like one of those "It's a wonderful life" times

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You are so right!

Good job, husker. We bought basic household necessity stuff for a family whose house burned down two weeks before Christmas. Our best friends replaced all the burnt Christmas gifts for their three kids.

That was a WHOLE lot more fun than visiting our relatives!

Maybe next year we should forget about the in-laws and help TWO families instead. Yeah.

i got a Zen nano mp3

im a happy little turd right now.