christmas shopping

[mollykins]

I have a feeling it's going to be one of those threads, but i'm going christmas shopping soon.

What should I buy my dad for christmas?

It needs to be something that's between 5 and £10 but it can't be any of the following which rules out nearly anything possible;

~chocolate (he's too fussy and even if he doesn't like them he just shoves some in his mouth then screws his face up and leaves the rest)
~a mug (he has to have china cups, which I've never found with any of those slogans on)
~clothes (including slippers and accesories such as jewelry) (he's so fussy, and he just got a new pair of slippers and he's allergic to lots of metals and wouldn't wear jewelry anyway)
~alcohol (he has tonnes in the cupboard and even if I got someone to buy it for me, my budget doesn't extend to buy the kinds of things he likes)
~CDs or DVDs (he never watches or listens to them.)

[supersuezy24]

Molly my idea was brilliant about the teabags, think of all the lie ons you can have next year not having to get up and make him tea

[redcrx]

boxtops, ive done that for years with some friends, saves the stress of worrying about what to get each of them, plus all the extras like postage can make even small gifts very expensive

[annie0000]

Get him something he actually uses then - e.g. razors, shaving foam, pens, a voucher for the barber, some ingredients for a meal, car mats.

A goldfish
A mouse mat
some logs for the fire
a can of petrol

[society]

Poor Molly.. Why do you all stress her out so much. This could interfere with her studies.

[mollykins]

We have a gas fire. MY goldfish tank is full. I'll have to sue brithday money seeing as he's stated that I will spend 25-30 pounds on him in total.

[ummmm]

What kind of parents 'states' what should be spent on them...

Weird weird folk in some parts...!

[sherrardk]

What are you getting for your mother?

[mollykins]

Mum's easy to buy for, that's why I haven't asked. Depending on how much it is, I might get her sherlock holmes, on dvd, we were going to go see it at the cinema together but we never did, and i saw it round a friends and though it was good so that's what i'll probably get.

[annie0000]

Is it possible that he is just winding you up Mollie? What would he actually do if you bought him nothing, or something from the pound shop?

I let my kids do their Christmas shopping in thepound shop, they think it's great - I give them a Fiver each - they get a present for me and their dad, gift bags to put them in and spend the last pond on themselves. One of them once bought me a string of green Christmas trees decoration beads that he thought was a pretty necklace! I couldn't care what they buy, it's the thought and imagination they put into it that i appreciate.

[mollykins]

He'd probably flip out if that was all I'd bought him, although one year I gave my mum a pound to get some of the chocolate liquers from there to give to him and I got him some new shuttlecocks because the one's we were using were getting tatty.

[squarebear]

Fascinating...

[zzxxee]

hat and scarf set

[marval]

Just say you are not buying any Christmas presents this year. You are going to give the money to charity, because their need is greater

[lilsecret]

After all that Molly suggests shuttlecocks! Priceless . . . .

[jaydah]

Son's g'ma takes his weeks wage packet for her birthday; so I wont buy her nowt - greedy btich !

[mollykins]

I said that's what I bought him before (2 christmasses ago it must have been) but we don't need any new one's yet.

[zzxxee]

get him a wallett you should be able to get a nice leather one from argos for under a tenner

[ummmm]

Have you made your mind up yet?