Gift Poll - just for fun

[explorer2001]

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year?

Who do you really like giving gifts too?

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year?

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year?

What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year?

What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts?

[lurknomore]

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year?
DH is a scientist.  Every few years I find an awesome piece of antique lab equipment.  This year I found a flask stand that has the original handblown flask with it.  It's almost 100 years old.  Also, DH's niece goes to the same college DH did.  I had her pick up wing sauce and a tshirt from his favorite bar in town (from me).  He's going to die!

Who do you really like giving gifts too?
My kids.  DD1 totally gets the whole Santa thing.  I think DD2 will this year too.  Christmas morning is so fun!  (We only do one gift from Santa, everything else from us, but still...)

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year?
At our house, Santa brings the thing you want the most.  DD1 asked Santa for a Monopoly game.

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year?
We're doing a white elephant exchange with my dad's family.  My sisters and stepmom LOVED 50 Shades of Grey.  I got this book as my exchange gift...



What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year?
My dad and step mom are still giftless.  They are impossible to buy for every year.

What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts?
We have adopted a family through a local organization for the last few years.  The more interactions I have with them, the less impressed I am, so we opted out this year (and apparently a lot of others did too b'c they sent an email at Thanksgiving BEGGING for people to adopt the 12 remaining families they had).  I had planned to donate that all to our church for the village in South America where the church does its mission work, but I haven't heard anything about that either yet.  So yes, I have money earmarked.  But as of right now, IDK where it is going.

[hopenotlost]

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year? My favorite will be the handgun safe to my husband because I know that's what he really wants.

Who do you really like giving gifts too? My daughters

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year? The most MM gift would be the fitbit I bought DH yesterday.

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year? A trash can to my mom. She wanted it though. Not sure if it is silly or just practical.

What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year? n/a

What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts? We always give gifts to Toys for Tots. DH is a former Marine, so we have a soft spot for T4T.

[ddi741]

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year?  The tablet we bought my dad

Who do you really like giving gifts too?  My H, I love buying him stuff

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year?  the Optigrill we bought my mom. Got it 40% off Kohls.

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year? I got my H some bandanas. he uses them when he works to wipe the sweat off his face. He has one so I bought him six more so he has one for every day of the week.

What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year? The GC we got my sil.  I hate giving GC but honestly we had no idea what to get her.

What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts? Adopting a senor via the Salvation Army, and donations to a few different animal related charities.

[irene adler]

Dec 17, 2014 12:30:12 GMT -5 explorer2001 said:

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year?  I got DH a fit bit.  I think he'll really get into it. 

Who do you really like giving gifts to?  I love shopping for our star tree kid and for secret santa gifts.  

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year? I am regifting some gift cards. 

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year? I am dressing up a six pack of craft beer for my brother as reinbeers. (pipe cleaner antlers, googly eyes, etc.)

What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year? I don't know what to get my dad.  

What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts? We are buying some bags of dog food at costco to take to the local shelter. 

[Pom]

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year? Mr. P is giving my great niece a Turtle pin that was his mom's. ::sniff::

Who do you really like giving gifts too? Nieces and everyone!

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year? see Turtle pin.

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year? A fun "wine sign"...

What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year? Well oldest niece just broke up with her fiance, so that is sad, I am giving his gifts to others.

What are you giving to charity? Cash- We did it our end of the year giving all last weekend...Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Toys for Tots, ASPCA, Boys and Girls Ranch, St Jude's, Texas Children's, local charities, food banks, CASA, etc... and a few others throughout the year.

[drloretta]

Dec 17, 2014 12:30:12 GMT -5 explorer2001 said:

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year? A personalized kids book. I got one for DD and one for my niece. It's so cute!

Who do you really like giving gifts to? DD, my niece, and my mom

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year? Hand crocheted rainbow Christmas trees

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year? See above

What is the hardest worst gift you are giving this year? Gift cards. I feel like it's such a cop-out

What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts? I got some things for 2 kids on my church's giving tree. I love shopping for little kids this time of year. 

[Deleted]

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year?
 The wine I'm giving my sister


Who do you really like giving gifts too?
My sister is a lot of fun to shop for


What is the most MM gift you are giving this year?
 BIL is getting a LSU Snuggy that was on sale.  


What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year?
 Besides the snuggy, dad is getting candy cane suspenders in his stocking


What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year?
Dad is getting boring old slippers.  He's so hard to shop for.


What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts?
 I sent some goodies to my local humane society.

[shortstax]

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year? - A personalized pie plate for SIL. It say's "Mary's Masterpiece" and I know she's going to love it!

Who do you really like giving gifts too? - My H and DS

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year? - My son's bike. I received a GC to amazon as an incentive at work and used it to buy the bike.

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year? Back in the early 80's my small hometown had a marketing campaign called "Thumbs up Townname!" It had this cheezy red and yellow thumbs up design and was plastered all over town on bumper stickers and pins. It became "retro cool" in highschool to wear one of the pins, and my brother and I have been passing a pin back and forth for year. Well, fast forward to Nov. and an organization in that town is now selling Tshirts with that old slogan/design to raise money for a mural in town. I totally bought my brother a shirt. He's going to FLIP! (neither of us live in that area anymore.)

What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year? - My dad. I still have nothing. It might come down to a GC and fancy chocolate covered oreos, but I have this weekend to come up with something better.

What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts? - I bought 2 pairs of shoes for our angel tree girls at work. Other than that, we don't have any end of the year donations this year. We actually doubled our cash donation budget this year, but sadly most of that was used up with memorial donations. There were a lot of deaths in the family (and close friends) this year

[jinkies]

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year?

A photobook I made for my nephew  




Who do you really like giving gifts too?

The kids are the most fun to shop for




What is the most MM gift you are giving this year?

Not sure if this is MM or just tacky, but the xmas my daughter was 1, she got 2 very similar trains. One has been sitting in a closet unopened for 2 years, and I'm giving it to my 1-year-old nephew this year. 




What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year?

Mugs I got for my coworkers with silly work-related sayings on them




What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year?

I'm finding that it's sad to shop for my grandparents. Their health has really declined in the past year, and I find myself struggling with trying to get them something small that also conveys how special they are to me. I don't know how many more christmases I will have with them. 




What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts?

I am not doing any donations-as-gifts. I am participating in a few different adopt-a-family things between school, work, and church.

[tine]

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year?
I made calendars on Shutterfly for both DS's great grandmas with pics of DS and cousins that I think they are really going to love.

Who do you really like giving gifts too?
DS. Got him a b-ball hoop and some other books/toys. I also love when I find something really good for H or my mom which did not happen this year.

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year?
The calendars

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year?
no silly gifts.

What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year?
I usually spend a lot of time picking our H's gift but we're both exhausted this year and bought our own gifts. So I guess the fact that I didn't buy him a gift is the worst.

What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts?
I usually adopt a family/children for xmas but this year I didn't do it. With buying the new house, H finishing school and interviewing/getting a new job, I really haven't had the energy for xmas

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[mbcdefg]

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year?
I bought MH the Sephora cologne sampler. A few days ago he said something like, "I need new cologne but I wish there was a way I could sample a whole bunch and then pick the best one." So hopefully he likes it! I also got him a beer-scented Yankee Candle, which I think he'll find funny.

Who do you really like giving gifts too?
I like buying for the kids in our family, and for the kids of our very close friends. Kids always get excited for gifts. We bought hockey tickets for MH's young cousins ... we'll take them to a game and then let them sleep over. Hopefully they'll enjoy that. Plus their mom has been kind of stressed lately (there are three other kids in the family) so hopefully this gives her a small break.

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year?
Thanks to shaynaatl, I got 10 free personalized note cards + envelopes for my mom.

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year?
I think I'm going to get my sister a cola drink and a lemon-lime, because we've been giggling about that Friends Christmas episode lately: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mi0EnuF4B0

Should I go all out and also get the toilet seat covers, the condoms, and the wiper blades and new car smell (like Rachel, she doesn't have a car)? IDK how our mom would react to the condoms though, especially since Sis has a new boyfriend :-#

What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year?
The gifts we got FIL last year are still sitting unopened in his apartment. Ugh. MH just bought him an identical pair of jeans to the ones he always wears, and a grocery store gift card.

What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts?
I brought a toy into work for a toy drive. And, unrelated to Christmas, I donated to a friend who is raising money for a playground in memory of her late child.

[hulley]

Dec 17, 2014 12:30:12 GMT -5 explorer2001 said:

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year?   I think my favorite is the Harry Potter Box I put together for DD. Socks, a blanket, assorted Gryffindor stuff. She'll love it. 

Who do you really like giving gifts too? DD. She is fun to buy for, and I do 12 days of Christmas type gifts with an Elf (but not elf on the shelf). She's 16 and loves clothes and those are super easy for me to buy for her. I also like buying for my mom, though, because she wants such cheap, basic things, so I can almost always buy everything on her list. 

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year? Two polo shirts for DH. $0 after Kohl's Cash that I got from buying one of MILs gifts. 

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year? I wrapped up a box of movie theater box candy for DD. I filled the box with little bite-size taffies. 

What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year? I'm not gifting anything to my dad. He and I have had a rough year. This is the first year since we got back in touch 5 years ago that I'm leaving him out. His wife also left him this year (for related reasons) and I know it's going to be hard on him, but it's not my job to make it better for him. 

What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts? I always make an extra cash donation to the animal shelter and I am contributing to Toys For Tots through a collection box at work. Oh, and this weekend I am volunteering to set up a "toy shop" where in-need parents/families can go "shopping" for gifts for the children in their lives. I love this so much more than just handing generic "6 yr old boy" box of stuff. I think it gives them some ownership in the process and is less condescending, if that makes sense. 

[mskitkat]

What is your favorite gift you are giving this year?
My baby sister is getting a compass locket and a print that says "Life takes you to unexpected places. Love brings you home." Baby sister spent last year living in Honduras, and will most likely find another 3rd world country to live in next year. She basically wants @mx 's job.

Who do you really like giving gifts too?
Baby sister is the easiest to shop for, so her! I'm never worried about it like everyone else

What is the most MM gift you are giving this year?
I got my mom the classic Mystery Date game. Much less than I would normally spend, but it's going to make her so happy.

What is silliest funniest gift you are giving this year?
My BiL wanted this Christmas gift exchange to be all homemade gifts. I don't do crafty, so he is getting some popsicle sticks, wood, a glue stick, a paintbrush and some paint. Most of these items are sourced from work, so it's free!

What is the hardest worst gift you are giving thus year?
Real gift for BiL and middle sister. They have a lot of disposable income, so they have everything they want. I'm giving them a date night with a bottle of wine and a GC to one of those wine and paint night things.

What are you giving to charity? Are you doing any charitable donations as gifts?
My company did a holiday toy drive, so I went to target and got a whole bunch of fun toys. I think I spent more on that than I spent on any single gift for anyone.