What do you want for Christmas?

Hi pergie! I think these kinds of gifts are the best, the very best! Memories are worth everything and last a lifetime while 'stuff' gets old, lost, broken or outdated. I just responded to another discussion very similar to this one because I feel as strongly as you do about this. It hurts my psyche to see the Christmas stuff being put on the store shelves even before Halloween! It seems that all the stores have more and more space dedicated solely to Christmas stuff each year. I wouldn't be surprised to find year-round Christmas stuff stores one day. Time spent together or doing what makes our loved ones happy is worth more than another scarf or tie. When I responded in the other discussion, I mentioned giving everyone a gift of a holiday, a vacation, just time to get away and enjoy, relax and forget about the day-to-day grind because that kind of gift will last as long as our memoriess do. (I was going to say "forever" but, well, you know how it is, we get older and forget more stuff all the time. LOL) Yeah, I like spending these days before Christmas in my kitchen, baking the cookies, cakes, breads and pies that I give to my loved ones (at least the ones that make it until Christmas ), not in the stores, trying to avoid the pushing, shoving shoppers and picking through all the glittery, pre-packaged and overpackaged stuff. You definitely have the right idea. One year, I gave my parents each a gift of me for a day... a day of doing whatever they wanted me for... cleaning, shopping, cooking, just sitting and talking, playing card or board games, whatever. They LOVED that gift!

I think u had a wonderful idea. I know they will all enjoy it & if they are like the most of us they have too much stuff to start with. Good for u, for using your NOGGIN', LOL.LOVE & HUGS TO U, MY FRIEND.

I think they are great ideas, and everyone will really love them.

I think your choice of gifts are extrodinary! Those are the gifts that can be truely appreciated and remembered forever. I think there is nothing better than a thoughtful and personal gift. An experience that you may not have normally had. I would love any one of those gifts and if I had just one of them I would feel so honored that I wouldn't expect another thing from anyone. Nothing would really compare anyway. Some of the gifts that I have held closest to my heart have been the ones that weren't expensive nor trendy. I cherish the pictures my children drew for me or the ornaments they took so much time on making for me. The best Christmas present I ever got was the first Christmas I spent with my grandmother after being reunited with her around the age of 28. We had been estranged since I was around 7 years old...long story...but anyway I had nothing to remind me of the family when I left home...it had not been allowed that I take anything. That Christmas my grandmother had put together a scrapbook for me! It had pictures of me as a baby and of her with me...of my mother as a girl..it even had pictures of the side of the family that had raised me! I was so happy I was in tears. The funny thing was that I had made her one too! One of my children as infants and of the years that we had been apart. It was a wonderful Christmas.

hi.., all i wanted for Christmas is something that cannot be bought by money..., i just want my family to be whole again.., if that is for sale in any store somewhere.., I will selle vrything I have even myself just to be able to buy it..=(

what i only want this christmas is to earn a lots of money to buy those thing i really wanted to have this christmas. I want some new gadgets like cell phone, lap top, and many more. But i am nt sure if this will going to happen since we are in a crisis now. How sad this life could be.

I love the idea. For many it is a suitable plan. Last year I wrote, printed and framed poems for my dad and his wife. We try to get together as family, as our presence is more important than presents. There are some in my family that need actual physical presents, and others that I am gifting in this way. I am on an earning mission to have enough money to send my daughter and son in law to a bed and breakfast on a date of their choice. It is near their home and run by an author and it would just be great. I have ordered my hubby equipment for his favorite activity, as the stuff he has is over forty years old, and fell apart recently. I cannot say what, he comes on MyLot from time to time. I would love to have useful stuff or meaningful experiences rather than just more to fill closets and drawers. My daughter and son in law limit presents both at Christmas and birthdays. They tell the girls, "At Christmas we want to celebrate that God loved us so much He sent Jesus" and "At your birthday we want to celebrate that God loved us so much, He sent us you." The girls get one set of clothes, a book, and a toy. It is enough.

I'm not doing gifts this year. I'm too broke. I asked my parents for some very high quality fleece clothing because I'm moving to the yukon and for the bus ticket to the yukon.

Thats great, I love gifts like that, last year I bought my mother a day at the spa for mothers day, its also like buying good memories for them. Good idea! I dont want to sound all cheesy but all I want for christmas is to see my baby niece open her presents, last year she was too young to notice that anything was going on christmas day but this year I think she will love it, and since I dont have my own kids I get to spoil her instead!

yes, it is a great holiday. many shops will have a discount saling. yeah, you can choose some products. but be careful of being cheated by this.you know, if the shop show a high price and give you a discount, but the actual price is more high than its daily price. so when you want to but something in this holidays. you need to think a second. Be careful..

Hi! That is so COOL!!! I think that's the best gift one could ever have... A day at a Spa, wow what a treat! I think you have the best ideas.

Probably I would appreciate it! But then I want something tangible, something I can keep to remind me of the giver. It doesn't have to be expensive. It can be something crafted by the giver. It's just me, just wanting something I can hold!

Hello pergammano! All I want for christmas is... my two front teeth! Lol, kidding aside, I have simple wish on Christmas and that would be that our family will be together again, we actually live far from each other and we tend to go home once a year, and with Christmas as the most important holday of the year, I would like my family to be complete again. Cheers!

i want extensions for my hair!! i never had really long hair, never. i always wanted, but it just doesn't grow.. can't wait to have extensions

I think that is awesome! And like you I think we are cluttering our lives way too much! I like the experience. I travel alot and also have adopted that theory when I travel. I am not buying any more "stuff"....I am using my photos to capture the memory...then scrapbook them so I can look at them all the time. Great idea's you have! I bet they will love it!

Maybe this year, why not have everyone in the family make something with their own hands...even if that involves buying "stuff" to make it with? That way it would seem a lot more personal. cd

I want nothing stuff for Christmas because lately here comes a Chinese new year, and at the time the stuff would become more cheaper=P