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Title: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: compaqxp on September 25, 2011, 12:27:50 PM: (http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTwJR35DUgm7LUqkNJVwNsObRnrwXIPq7sQE7pe8hAEQfL0STv5mQ)

Yep, as of today you only have three months to shop and get prepared for the ominous holidays! It's only a matter of time before the stores start playing bad Christmas music, tempers flair and your wallet goes up in flames!

The countdown is on...90 days... :popcorn:
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: CG6468 on September 25, 2011, 12:46:15 PM: Thank you!

Everyone here has been adequately alerted. Please make your gifts to me small but in good taste. :-)
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: BlueStateSaint on September 25, 2011, 05:42:13 PM: Quote from: CG6468 on September 25, 2011, 12:46:15 PM
Thank you!

Everyone here has been adequately alerted. Please make your gifts to me small but in good taste. :-)

Same here. Gold coins in $1 denominations are preferred, though .22 LR ammo is also accepted . . . unfired, of course. :-)
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: Texacon on September 25, 2011, 05:50:40 PM: Grrrrr. I hate cold weather. I HATE COLD WEATHER!!!

Glad I live in south Texas but it still gets friggin' cold here. I remember one time it got down to 32 degrees F.

:-)

KC
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: longview on September 25, 2011, 06:40:16 PM: My shopping is done. :tongue:

I don't give gifts to my kids. Instead, I get them something they realllllly want during the year that they otherwise wouldn't have. And the grandkids each let slip what they wanted when I was there last time, so I got it and stored it. No shipping costs this year.
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: debk on September 26, 2011, 08:11:50 AM: Quote from: longview on September 25, 2011, 06:40:16 PM
My shopping is done. :tongue:

That is just wrong!!! :hammer:

:tongue:

Christmas decorations have already been out in some stores around here since the first of September.

I don't have my act together yet for Halloween! Though I have started getting my porch decorated with deep red, rusty orange and yellow mums and yellow and orange pansies. Have to get pumpkins and the Halloween decorations put out.
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: Gina on September 26, 2011, 08:55:43 AM: I am so excited this year about Christmas. I think I have turned a milestone in my age/maturity. Used to be I was all about what gifts I was going to be getting. Now I am SOOOOOO EXCITED thinking about my kids opening up their presents and the smells of Christmas (minus after dinner farts) and just the cold.

I can't wait help hubby hang his Xmas balls up :naughty:
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: SherryBaby on September 26, 2011, 09:08:23 AM: Quote from: Gina on September 26, 2011, 08:55:43 AM
I am so excited this year about Christmas. I think I have turned a milestone in my age/maturity. Used to be I was all about what gifts I was going to be getting. Now I am SOOOOOO EXCITED thinking about my kids opening up their presents and the smells of Christmas (minus after dinner farts) and just the cold.

I can't wait help hubby hang his Xmas balls up :naughty:

I'm the same way, the greatest joy of the gift aspect of Christmas for me is choosing that perfect thing for someone I love.
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: Gina on September 26, 2011, 09:09:17 AM: I always give my hubby some type of non-material gift if you catch what I am throwing :naughty:
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: marv on September 26, 2011, 01:21:12 PM: Wife and I don't exchange gifts. After 30+ years, it gets old.

The only gifts I give, in early December, are the $20 bills to the minimum wage clerks in the checkout lines that put up with grouchy old me at the grocery store the rest of the year.
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: IassaFTots on September 26, 2011, 01:23:50 PM: The boyfriend and I decided not to give gifts. We buy each other the thing we want most, that will benefit us. This year it is a shed and a pressure cooker.

Woohoo, right?

:rofl:
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: Gina on September 26, 2011, 01:41:50 PM: Quote from: marv on September 26, 2011, 01:21:12 PM
Wife and I don't exchange gifts. After 30+ years, it gets old.

The only gifts I give, in early December, are the $20 bills to the minimum wage clerks in the checkout lines that put up with grouchy old me at the grocery store the rest of the year.

What do we get for putting up with ya? :tongue:
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on September 26, 2011, 01:48:37 PM: Quote from: Gina on September 26, 2011, 09:09:17 AM
I always give my hubby some type of non-material gift if you catch what I am throwing :naughty:

Wow, you bring in a stripper and a Korean masseuse for him? Lucky guy!

:tongue:
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: zeitgeist on September 26, 2011, 02:03:46 PM: Quote from: Gina on September 26, 2011, 09:09:17 AM
I always give my hubby some type of non-material gift if you catch what I am throwing :naughty:

Ah yes, non-material green gifts.

Quote

(http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/14313/slide_14313_197651_large.jpg?1317063560750)

There are some great things to â€œadoptâ€ this Christmas (none of which involve children, although we of course support that as well.) On behalf of your gift recipient, you can Adopt a Rainforest, a Tree, a Coral Reef, or even a Manatee.

Or was this not what you had in mind? :naughty:
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: Gina on September 26, 2011, 02:06:36 PM: Yep, gonna rub his tummy with my nose :lmao:
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: zeitgeist on September 26, 2011, 02:08:03 PM: Quote from: compaqxp on September 25, 2011, 12:27:50 PM
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTwJR35DUgm7LUqkNJVwNsObRnrwXIPq7sQE7pe8hAEQfL0STv5mQ)

Yep, as of today you only have three months to shop and get prepared for the ominous holidays! It's only a matter of time before the stores start playing bad Christmas music, tempers flair and your wallet goes up in flames!

The countdown is on...90 days... :popcorn:

Nice Santa. While some may think me a grinch even I like Santa.
^5
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: zeitgeist on September 26, 2011, 02:16:30 PM: Quote from: Gina on September 26, 2011, 02:06:36 PM
Yep, gonna rub his tummy with my nose :lmao:

Yer incorrigible. {Not that there is anything wrong with that. :lmao:}

Shoot, I'd be happy with a shortbus style wink from m/zeit. :whistling:
Title: Re: Get ready! It's coming!
Post by: CG6468 on September 26, 2011, 04:00:15 PM: Quote from: Gina on September 26, 2011, 08:55:43 AM
I am so excited this year about Christmas. I think I have turned a milestone in my age/maturity. Used to be I was all about what gifts I was going to be getting. Now I am SOOOOOO EXCITED thinking about my kids opening up their presents and the smells of Christmas (minus after dinner farts) and just the cold.

I can't wait help hubby hang his Xmas balls up :naughty:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/lowfreeboard/HOLIDAYS/TreeBalls.jpg)