Sharing Christmas presents ideas

SugarSpun

Siren137 wrote: »

Anything with a monkey on works as well (his nickname is monkey boy!!)

I hope your OH and my OH aren't the same OH - mine is also nicknamed monkeyboy, and has a princely collection of monkey related items.

Mine always gets a mix of surreal and occasionally useful things: this year he's getting -

a set of antique insurance papers (for a pig)
Creepshow on DVD
a hoverdisc
a hologram chamber
a multitool pen
a NASA poster (the title at the top is Exploring Uranus :rotfl: )
a Tshirt
an echobot
an Elvis duck
aftershave
pirate stickynotes
underpants with Swarovski crystals on them :rotfl:
a couple of books

What I'm proud of is that I spent just under £50 on him.

rainmac

Blokes are hard to buy for I think, much more so than women!
This year I have got my OH:
365 facts in a jar - found facts on pc, pasted into word, printed off and stuck in a jar). This is a silly pressie for his desk at work
Brain Trainer Desk Calendar (ordered from Play.com for £5)
A talking picture frame - got for £6ish from grabitnow. Going to put a pic of the kiddies in it
T-shirt from play.com sale for a fiver
Tiger Woods wii golf game (2008 - been reduced as just released 2009)
A terramundi jar for a rainy day saving fund
Bought a plain canvas and going to print kiddies handprints on it
Ordered the new JK Rowling book from play.com
Got a few silly things to stick in a stocking with some chocolate coins. Still to buy are the stocking and coins.

rainmac

SugarSpun wrote: »

I hope your OH and my OH aren't the same OH - mine is also nicknamed monkeyboy, and has a princely collection of monkey related items.

Mine always gets a mix of surreal and occasionally useful things: this year he's getting -

a set of antique insurance papers (for a pig)
Creepshow on DVD
a hoverdisc
a hologram chamber
a multitool pen
a NASA poster (the title at the top is Exploring Uranus :rotfl: )
a Tshirt
an echobot
an Elvis duck
aftershave
pirate stickynotes
underpants with Swarovski crystals on them :rotfl:
a couple of books

What I'm proud of is that I spent just under £50 on him.

What's an echobot? Am I being thick...?

SugarSpun

I found the echobot in the Firebox half price event earlier in the year. It's a motion sensitive beastie, you record something on it, and then whenever the sensor is triggered it says whatever you want it to.

mary43

antique insurance papers (for a pig) - thats the one thats got me intrigued....................lol

Kandipandi

scattymam1 wrote: »

I find it realy boring shopping for my husband. I always seem to get him dvds and they are just boring to wrap and open and not that exciting so last year I did him a movie hamper with one dvd and added all his fave nibbles like pringles, a couple of bottles of beer and some minstrels and then with his transformers dvd I made a transformer dvd I found all things transformer related(cheap bargains on ebay mostly), I added transformer car freshners, transformer chocolates, transformer bubble bath, etc; made it a bit more fun for me and he liked it all. It helped bulk out his presents a bit too.

I love that idea!! Thanks i always buy DVD's for my hubbie now i will give this a go!:T

kacy1988

well for my artner. i have no idea about this xmas. previously he has had tattoos, pugle sticks(big cotton bud looking things they had on gladiators), skydiving simulator thing, dvds, smellies, food hampers, games, toys,
now i'm running out of ideas

SugarSpun

mary43 wrote: »

antique insurance papers (for a pig) - thats the one thats got me intrigued....................lol

Ebay is my friend.

I was devastated when the vintage wooden leg I wanted to buy him went beyond my budget - it didn't occur to me that anyone else would want it but there was a bidding frenzy!

I also lost out on a smallpox vaccine tube dated to his birthday, only in 1939.

rwaite

For my other half for Christmas i found a DKNY watch a couple of months ago on Amazon. They were really really reduced. It was a bargain. It's worth a look if you're thinking of buying a watch. xxx

rwaite

I got this one - http://www.amazon.co.uk/DKNY-NY1313-Digital-Rubber-Detail/dp/B000NJF3CI/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=watch&qid=1221766497&sr=1-22

A bargain compared to what it would have been. xxx