I hate spending $$$ to find out a year later that the present has never been used..... the same happens to stuff people give me so I guess it all evens out that we all wasted a bunch of $ for no reason.

i'll take things people get for x-mas but never like for $1000.....Leaf blowers / fancy saws / sweaters / DVD's / Bathtub wirlpool insert thingy....... blaaaa.....

Anyone have any *good* idea's? Maybe I should buy my loser relatives all books on how to save money? It is hard to find something for my parents since they pretty much have anything they want..... Usually I get them a gift certificate for dinner somewhere nice... blaa

 

If any of your non-deadbeat relatives have a nice TV (or maybe the losers too??) then how about a DVD player with a surround sound set-up? You can get one that works for around $200 or less (it's not a Bose but it'll work).

Or maybe one of those big Foreman grills so they can eat healthier and lose weight

 

One year I bought everyone in my family a set of jumper cables. They were small enough to fit into a spare tire hub, it was an unexpected hit.

 

I signed my dad up for a beer of the month club for his birthday once. I didn't realize how big of a hit it would be, but he LOVED it.

 

is there a certain store that they like gift cards always good so they can get what they want!

 

"its not a Bose" hahaha. Bose is horrible man. Astoundingly overpriced, and poor sound. 80% of their revenue goes towards marketing, 10% towards product development and manufacturing, 10% to the Devil.

 

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Buy a box of extra apostrophes, for use in plurals, such as "idea's".

You'll need 'em.

 

+1

Wine clubs. beer-of-the-month clubs, panty-of-the-month clubs, mantie-of-the-month clubs. . . whatever. It lasts throught the year. Folks like that.

Also, don't forget to made-it-yourself gifts. For you Scot, use that digital camera and publishing software, go down to the county office, and do a photographic essay on people waiting for govt. assistance and the fine people that serve them. Make it a calendar for everybody!!!

 

I just picked up one of these for my mom:

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-...asin=B000JID7D0

She's not very computer saavy and thus never really gets a chance to enjoy the pics we take with our digital cameras.

The picture quality on this thing is pretty impressive, and I can fit about 900 pics on the spare 32mb CF card that came with my camera if I resize them to 640x480.

A better pic I found online: