RE: Dare I even post...Holiday wish lists?
I want my husband to observe our no gift rule this year. And not sneak around it by giving me a big happy December 17th present. We are taking a vacation this month and another trip in February. That is where the present $$ should go :) And he totally surprized me with a new set of rings at the end of September. As I would rather not have no savings after the vacations and that pesky college tuition is paid for, I might actually get totally annoyed if he gets me anything larger than a CD.
I never tell other people what to get me anymore, as I know what I will get, regardless of what I ask for:
-Mom and Dad will go in together on a spa gift certificate and then my mother will want to have something to wrap so she will buy me something insanely random like a Law and Order board game.
-My out of town relatives will send checks which I will then fabricate presents that I bought with the money for each thank you letter and have to be careful to not thank them for buying me the same thing for the second year in a row. In reality, the money will be split between savings and school books. "Thank you Uncle Fergie for the generous gift. I will think of you every time I crack open my new 'Delving Deeper into Managerial Accounting Fundamentals for Finance Majors that despise Accounting book. I hope that you are doing well."
-My MIL will send me an outfit that is purple or some other color not on my list of colors to wear which will be about 5 sizes too small. Maybe she has not realized that I have gained weight in the last three years, but regretfully her failure to notice does not make the extra pounds fit into my old size. Rounding out the fun will be something scented, some food to assist me in my goal of gaining even more weight and some sort of gift card or check. And it will all be accompanied by a letter wishing that we would come and spend Christmas with her and her nutty new husband.
-J's grandparents will dig around in their basement and give me something that I will have to research to figure out what it is. There will be a price tag from 1978 on this item.
-My friends will all bring me enough homemade food and wine products to get really fat and really wasted. Some how our no gift rule gets eradicated by little gift baskets with homemade cheese or norwegian cookies or homemade beer or random wine. I will then rush out and try and reciprocate with bottles of port or homemade bagels. It is a vicious cycle.
-T will give me a hug and a kiss. :)
So long as my MIL does not send more puppets, I will be ok. :P
Katie, mama to a pair of boys.