profe51
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posted on December 8, 2007 10:08:40 AM new
I haven't bought a single gift yet. Anyone else?
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zippy2dah
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posted on December 8, 2007 11:02:22 AM new
I have only purchased three small stocking stuffers.
Actually, it was four stocking stuffers but I ate one of them.
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mingotree
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posted on December 8, 2007 12:24:50 PM new
Thank you, profe, for giving me an opening for my yearly
BAH BLOODY HUMBUG!
You don't have to shop....just send a large gift to my paypal account....Thank You.
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Helenjw
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posted on December 8, 2007 12:48:47 PM new
From Dr. Seuss
"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?"
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mingotree
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posted on December 8, 2007 02:53:14 PM new
""What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store?""
Ask any kid....does your new electronic gizmo that is so obviously one of life's absolute necessities, that you must have to be happy, that your spineless parents will get you no matter what the cost in money or lost brain cells, come from a store?
The answer is "Yes." Where else?
Ever see the reports of the lemmings flocking to stores at 5 AM the day after Thanksgiving?
It's the HOLIDAYS!!!!
And "holidays" come from stores.
Whatever was that grinch guy thinking???!!!!
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mcjane
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posted on December 8, 2007 04:40:35 PM new
Me neither, bought nothing yet & hate the thought of it.
I always got a laugh out of Archie Bunker saying Thanksgiving dinner grace that started with:
"Once again Lord the Christmas season is at our throats"
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mingotree
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posted on December 8, 2007 05:09:04 PM new
"Once again Lord the Christmas season is at our throats"
LOL! I can just hear him ! Thanks, mcjane !
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Helenjw
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posted on December 8, 2007 05:43:15 PM new
"I always got a laugh out of Archie Bunker saying Thanksgiving dinner grace that started with:"
"Once again Lord the Christmas season is at our throats"
LOL! Amen to that!
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profe51
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posted on December 8, 2007 07:25:30 PM new
Eldest daughter has a new roping horse waiting here for her. He was born here and I trained him. She'll take him back to Tucson after Christmas..Next in line is still up in the air as is the boy and SWMBO. She has almost every household tool known to the Food Network so I'm sort of at a loss...( ) The rest of the family knows better than to expect anything besides my letting them squat here way too long every holiday....
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mingotree
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posted on December 8, 2007 07:31:08 PM new
SWMBO
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MAH645
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posted on December 8, 2007 08:22:56 PM new
Me and Hubby just have a nice Christmas dinner,we buy stuff for each other through the year. The rest of the family we don't ever hear from unless they want something.
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profe51
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posted on December 9, 2007 04:04:03 AM new
She Who Must Be Obeyed
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pixiamom
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posted on December 9, 2007 06:24:05 AM new
LOL Rumpole- one of the best mini-series ever- how I miss him!
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vintageads4u
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posted on December 9, 2007 06:55:39 AM new
Everyone over the age of 12 has a donation to their favorite charity or can do church or angel tree.
Under 12, the parents submit a list of items via email that the children have selected from various catalogs and we check off what we want to get them. Also anyone with children are expected to send a school picture for the frig.
Most everything is done via the computer or telephone. Our Matriarch sends everyone a turkey (whether you want it or not
Then Christmas day we all relax with lots of food, beverage of choice and visiting. No stress and no malls.
Also, we seem to buy each other stuff all year long. Especially my sister and I. You are traveling and you see something that is just perfect for someone and get it.
Beth
Antique Ad Shop
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Helenjw
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posted on December 9, 2007 07:55:38 AM new
Beth, you have described the best way to have a no stress Christmas!
BTW....SWMBO is a sentiment toward wives that has existed for over 5,000 years. Men have always feared their wives and know without a doubt that she must be obeyed! They are careful however not to acknowledge that fact to their wives because they also fear that she will get a big head.
And it's especially important today not to mention that title because it rhymes with "Bimbo".
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mingotree
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posted on December 9, 2007 10:05:31 AM new
"""Also, we seem to buy each other stuff all year long. Especially my sister and I. You are traveling and you see something that is just perfect for someone and get it.""
Isn't that much better, more sincere, more heartfelt, more in the spirit of giving than
being TOLD to do it because it's a certain time of year?
Profe, ""She has almost every household tool "
Doesn't she have any other interests besides the "household"? She must!
Haven't you been paying attention....if not Santa will bring you a chunk of rhino poop and nothing else!
Seriously, you CAN buy a chunk of Rhinocerous poop...lots to go around.....saves the wildlife or something.....
Got any ?
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zippy2dah
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posted on December 9, 2007 11:11:37 AM new
Beth, I am curious. Where does your Matriarch get the turkeys? Are they cooked? Frozen? Raw? That sounds like an interesting option for some of the bachelor meat eaters on my list.
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profe51
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posted on December 9, 2007 11:13:48 AM new
I was kidding mingo, my wife's a gallery owner and artist, the household is sort of down there on her list...
edited to add an 'a'.
[ edited by profe51 on Dec 9, 2007 12:38 PM ]
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zippy2dah
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posted on December 9, 2007 11:19:37 AM new
This is my favorite new kitchen tool. Probably not impressive enough of a gadget for SWMBO but I love mine.
http://www.prepara.com/herb_savor.php
[ edited by zippy2dah on Dec 9, 2007 11:20 AM ]
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mingotree
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posted on December 9, 2007 11:31:10 AM new
profe, I thought so! But ya still haven't bought anything yet, have ya?
You had ALL YEAR to think about it.....
You have no excuse.....
You HAVE to come up with SuperGift...retailers demand it!
Or you will feel... (dramatic music here)
...GUILTY !
Visions of Rhino feces dance in your head with sugar plum fairies.....
You think a nutcracker's "suite" ?....wait until you forget the gift!
Wait, wait ! I think I'm coming up with a new Christmas carol.....help me out here !!!!
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mingotree
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posted on December 9, 2007 11:31:12 AM new
[ edited by mingotree on Dec 9, 2007 11:34 AM ]
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profe51
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posted on December 9, 2007 12:42:58 PM new
She just told me she wants one of those velour warmup lounge around pants and top sets. My mom used to buy those for her every year and she hasn't had a new one since she died quite a few years ago. Anybody know where to order a really nice one? I don't even know what to search for!
Her tortilla machine went over like a fart in church here a few years back. Wimmin......
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pixiamom
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posted on December 9, 2007 01:06:18 PM new
I'd check out Eddie Bauer. Overstock has a nice looking set
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mingotree
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posted on December 9, 2007 01:08:02 PM new
Tortilla machine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the ....?????
Oh yuppers, what we've all been dreaming of !!!! Something we could use to FEED SOMEONE ELSE!!!
Reminds me of the guy who bought his wife a washer and dryer for Christmas and wondered why she wasn't delirious with joy !!!
OK, I approve of the velour outfit er, kinda, try J. Jill.....Coldwater Creek..
.....along with the extremely expensive sexy underwear....somehow I think that would get her thinking you don't just think of her as the food maker.
Anything that is for her alone....hell, a new saddle with her name engraved on it...a new car with her name engraved on it.....
[ edited by mingotree on Dec 9, 2007 01:10 PM ]
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profe51
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posted on December 9, 2007 07:45:36 PM new
been trying to talk her into a new saddle for years...she likes the tired old one she has...she only pleasure rides and I guess it fits her backside to a Tee...good thing, a new saddle would set me back a paycheck at least...I'll check out the links offered, thanks!
She only feeds me and the boy Mingo, and then only when she's not schmoozing some artsy fartsy types or working late in her studio to make a show deadline...WE on the other hand feed the horses, the cattle, the sheep, the goats, the chickens, the turkeys, geese and dogs. The only creatures around here who feed themselves are the cats!
I haven't forgotten that I promised you some foal pix btw. Hopefully before they're too big to be cute anymore...there are three that are still little...
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Helenjw
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posted on December 10, 2007 06:48:33 AM new
"been trying to talk her into a new saddle for years...she likes the tired old one she has...she only pleasure rides and I guess it fits her backside to a Tee...good thing, a new saddle would set me back a paycheck at least...I'll check out the links offered, thanks!"
"She only feeds me and the boy Mingo, and then only when she's not schmoozing some artsy fartsy types or working late in her studio to make a show deadline...WE on the other hand feed the horses, the cattle, the sheep, the goats, the chickens, the turkeys, geese and dogs. The only creatures around here who feed themselves are the cats!
All artists need to be free!
With a saddle you have to depend on a damn horse so give her a bicycle and set her backside free!
Then you can fling open the gates and set yourself free. Let the cat teach YOU a lesson!
And she can schmooze with her nose in the air with those artsy fartsy types.
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profe51
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posted on December 10, 2007 07:14:27 PM new
Then you can fling open the gates and set yourself free
I'd rather eat lint, those gates are my protection, they define for me the limits of the known and therefore understandable world. I've been outside them plenty, to the tune of 20 plus countries...and didn't much like what I saw......thanks for the sentiment though!
Awsome pic, you don't happen to have one of Jessica Alba in a similar getup do you?
Just asking........
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Helenjw
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posted on December 11, 2007 06:37:40 AM new
Only a humorous "sentiment" intended.
No photos of Jessica but here are some more bicycles.
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Bear1949
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posted on December 11, 2007 11:53:09 AM new
Thank you, profe, for giving me an opening for my yearly BAH BLOODY HUMBUG! You don't have to shop....just send a large gift to my paypal account....Thank You.
Hell it seems has Finally frozen over, for once Craw & I agree on ONE thing.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
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roadsmith
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posted on December 11, 2007 09:27:37 PM new
The longer I live, the more I resent the have-to attitude about Christmas gifts. Our family has simplified in an extreme way. Three kids, all married, 3 grandchildren. We all give a gift to the grandchildren. The rest of us (all 8 adults), draw one name each for a gift. And of course each couple buys for their significant other as they see fit. I have a rule, no entertaining in the month of December. We have a nice wreath on the front door, a table-top tree (I'm allergic to pine), and a couple of candles. That's it. If the grandkids are coming HERE for christmas, we'll probably put up a larger tree.
The mad search for the "perfect" gift is a major turnoff to me; all those tv commercials, etc.
We just saw a friend's grandson's Christmas list he sent them (he's 12); hundreds of dollars worth of electronic stuff, and he keeps sending a P.S. message with more.
I know I sound grouchy. I'm just glad there are others here who are not so thrilled with Christmas celebrations as they exist today.
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