Post your Christmas gift ideas here.

[Rain Man]

A fun and inexpensive gift is a customized wallet from Dynomighty. I bought myself one earlier this year, and it was fun to design and to use.

Here's mine (with a little wear). It's a photo that I took last year on Easter Island. You can also print two or three photos on the inside of the wallet as well, but I got fancy and did a collage, so I won't confuse you by showing the inside. But the bottom line is that it's cheap, fun to make, and creative.

I was also poking around on odditymall.com. Do NOT do a search on that site for "condiments". http://odditymall.com/

[Rain Man]

I like the color of your walls.

People either like it or they think we're insane. We like it.

[TLO]

People either like it or they think we're insane. We like it.

Maybe I'm insane too. I first read the OP wrong, got all confused, and tried to delete my message. You were too quick on the draw though.

[Baby Lee]

People either like it or they think we're insane. We like it.

Is that particular shade Gaz Tequila Rose?

[Rain Man]

Maybe I'm insane too. I first read the OP wrong, got all confused, and tried to delete my message. You were too quick on the draw though.

If you want to buy someone the paint as a Christmas gift, I can probably look up the color.

[Rain Man]

Is that particular shade Gaz Tequila Rose?

I tend to think of it as "checkdown pass in two minute drill purple rage face".

[cdcox]

I was also poking around on odditymall.com. Do NOT do a search on that site for "condiments". http://odditymall.com/


This is what I hope for everytime I pull the SkyMall catalog out of the seat pocket.

[cosmo20002]

A fun and inexpensive gift is a customized wallet from Dynomighty. I bought myself one earlier this year, and it was fun to design and to use.

Here's mine (with a little wear). It's a photo that I took last year on Easter Island. You can also print two or three photos on the inside of the wallet as well, but I got fancy and did a collage, so I won't confuse you by showing the inside. But the bottom line is that it's cheap, fun to make, and creative.

I was also poking around on odditymall.com. Do NOT do a search on that site for "condiments". http://odditymall.com/

Your thumbnail looks weird to me for some reason.

[Katipan]

http://www.firebox.com/product/6706/Melting-Toht-Candle

http://media.fbxcdn.com/pic/p6706_column_grid_12.jpg

[mr. tegu]

We got a soda stream kit from Kohls for $58. That was a great deal.

[Rain Man]

Your thumbnail looks weird to me for some reason.

Weird technical glitch or weird creative composition? I took an avant-garde approach to it.

[mr. tegu]

Weird technical glitch or weird creative composition? I took an avant-garde approach to it.

Did you not see what he did there?

[Rain Man]

Did you not see what he did there?


:doh!:

My wife tells me that she's jealous of my nails. They're naturally round and glossy, with no ridges. They're really one of my strongest features, which may explain why I didn't date much when I was young.

[Kyle DeLexus]

http://www.firebox.com/product/6706/Melting-Toht-Candle

http://media.fbxcdn.com/pic/p6706_column_grid_12.jpg

This is pretty cool.

[JD10367]

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[BucEyedPea]

Kid on a trip to Turks and Caicos.

[Window Licking Whiner]

several years ago I bought my wife (she was gf at the time) one of these:

http://fabulousfurs.com/panther-couture-collection-faux-fur-throws/p/11000PANTH/

4 years later and she still uses it every single day. She loves the thing, and it's held up really really well. It can be washed if it gets dirty

[Boise_Chief]

Thanks... just spent two hours on oddities mall

[DMAC]

several years ago I bought my wife (she was gf at the time) one of these:

http://fabulousfurs.com/panther-couture-collection-faux-fur-throws/p/11000PANTH/

4 years later and she still uses it every single day. She loves the thing, and it's held up really really well. It can be washed if it gets dirty

Three hunnit fitty dollas for a throw blanket?????!!??11

http://t.qkme.me/3tm4cj.jpg

[Rain Man]

Thanks... just spent two hours on oddities mall

It does indeed have some fun stuff on it. I'm trying to figure out who in my life can use these hangers:

http://odditymall.com/animal-clothes-hangers

http://odditymall.com/includes/content/animal-clothes-hangers-thumb.jpg

[Rain Man]

Three hunnit fitty dollas for a throw blanket?????!!??11

http://t.qkme.me/3tm4cj.jpg


But it's panther fur. I think they're endangered. You're going to pay a lot for endangered species fur.

[DMAC]

But it's panther fur. I think they're endangered. You're going to pay a lot for endangered species fur.

Faux is faux.

[Window Licking Whiner]

Three hunnit fitty dollas for a throw blanket?????!!??11



http://t.qkme.me/3tm4cj.jpg


Worth every single penny.

And it's fake fur. But it is incredibly soft. If you can afford it, your wife or whomever will love it.

They also do deals sometimes, you can find the blankets on sale for like 150

[Rain Man]

Faux is faux.

I don't think faux is endangered at all.

[blaise]

Last year I got my wife a monthly gift box from LoveWithFood. It's organic snacks and samples. Like $10 a month. She liked it. I think after 10 months or so it started repeating things but it was pretty cool.

[El Jefe]

several years ago I bought my wife (she was gf at the time) one of these:

http://fabulousfurs.com/panther-couture-collection-faux-fur-throws/p/11000PANTH/

4 years later and she still uses it every single day. She loves the thing, and it's held up really really well. It can be washed if it gets dirty

Lord have Mercy, $350.00 for a faux fur throw blanket? Must be nice to be rich.

[big nasty kcnut]

I want a wireless headphone by dre and a new computer tower for my dad!

[Rain Man]

Last year I got my wife a monthly gift box from LoveWithFood. It's organic snacks and samples. Like $10 a month. She liked it. I think after 10 months or so it started repeating things but it was pretty cool.

Hmm, that's pretty intriguing. Might be a good stocking stuffer.

[Window Licking Whiner]

Lord have Mercy, $350.00 for a faux fur throw blanket? Must be nice to be rich.

If you think 350 is rich, you might want to start aiming higher my friend.

[Window Licking Whiner]

Hmm, that's pretty intriguing. Might be a good stocking stuffer.

Since you guys are tehpoor!

Here http://www.steinmart.com/earth-therapeutics-aloe-moisture-socks-two-pack-zid25-23531353/cat-25-catid-50?pla=pla_23531353&camp=ppc:PLA&kpid=23531353

Great stocking stuffers

[kepp]

My wife and I have started something I like over the past couple of years. We just buy something we like and then thank the other for the Christmas gift.

[Amnorix]

Obviously there is jewelry and designer handbags and that crap, but one less obvious one thing that is always appreciated by my wife is "things that help her get/keep/stay WARM".

Things that have gone over well in the past like:

1. Heated mattress pad for the bed (huge win for New England winters!)

2. nicer, warm slippers.

3. good coats. More expensive than what she would typically buy for herself. Not fur, but North Face or whatever.

4. (her request, I would never have thought of this) alpaca wool socks and a some kind of poncho type thing. Ordered the stuff from, errr, Peru? Someplace in South America. Somewhat pricey, but not completely ridiculous.

My wife is pretty practical, so what ends up happening is special occassions are opportunities to buy her something that she wants, is useful, but she wouldn't spend the money on herself for.

[Frosty]

My wife and I have started something I like over the past couple of years. We just buy something we like and then thank the other for the Christmas gift.

We do that for everything but Christmas. I'm currently a few birthdays ahead, in fact. :)

However, her family has always done 'adoptables", where we buy stuff for us and/or the kids and they'll buy them from us and then give them to us as gifts. It kind of sucks losing the element of surprise but at least you get what you want.

[cosmo20002]

:doh!:

My wife tells me that she's jealous of my nails. They're naturally round and glossy, with no ridges. They're really one of my strongest features, which may explain why I didn't date much when I was young.

Yes---your actual thumbnail at the end of your appendage.
I guess I'm only used to seeing mine and maybe I'll notice a females if they are painted all fancy. Mine look like horrible compared to yours. You could maybe be a hand model or something like George Costanza.
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[Frosty]

1. Heated mattress pad for the bed (huge win for New England winters!)


My wife loves our heated mattress pad. In fact, she uses it year round.

[cosmo20002]

Obviously there is jewelry and designer handbags and that crap, but one less obvious one thing that is always appreciated by my wife is "things that help her get/keep/stay WARM".

Things that have gone over well in the past like:

1. Heated mattress pad for the bed (huge win for New England winters!)

2. nicer, warm slippers.

3. good coats. More expensive than what she would typically buy for herself. Not fur, but North Face or whatever.

4. (her request, I would never have thought of this) alpaca wool socks and a some kind of poncho type thing. Ordered the stuff from, errr, Peru? Someplace in South America. Somewhat pricey, but not completely ridiculous.

My wife is pretty practical, so what ends up happening is special occassions are opportunities to buy her something that she wants, is useful, but she wouldn't spend the money on herself for.

Women are absolutely obsessed with being warm. I'm surprised any females at all live north of Texas.

[Window Licking Whiner]

Women are absolutely obsessed with being warm. I'm surprised any females at all live north of Texas.


Yeah my wife is always cold. That's why that blanket is such a homerun. She uses that thing like a child uses a binky

[Pennywise]

I'll take one of these Santa...

[BucEyedPea]

What the heck is THAT?

[ClevelandBronco]

Faux is faux.


Sure, but how many fauxes do they use in one of those things?

[BucEyedPea]

Since you guys are tehpoor!

Here http://www.steinmart.com/earth-therapeutics-aloe-moisture-socks-two-pack-zid25-23531353/cat-25-catid-50?pla=pla_23531353&camp=ppc:PLA&kpid=23531353

Great stocking stuffers

For my kind of stockings!

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/44/96/d0/4496d03ff61149356a506b5907ca602b.jpg

[BucEyedPea]

Sure, but how many fauxes do they use in one of those things?

Depends on how much faux outrage exists.

[gblowfish]

Here's something Claythan can enjoy....

http://www.dailydot.com/lol/scrotum-warmer-hoax-indiegogo/?fb=dd

[Pennywise]

What the heck is THAT?

A hellified lawnmower.

[BucEyedPea]

Really? Whatever that is.

[Pennywise]

Really? Whatever that is.

You pull it over tall grass and it makes it shorter.

[sd4chiefs]

Must have.

[Window Licking Whiner]

Depends on how much faux outrage exists.

LMAO

[Rain Man]

Must have.

That's a good one, but I think I prefer the puking reindeer sweater.

http://odditymall.com/puking-reindeer-ugly-christmas-sweater

http://odditymall.com/includes/content/puking-reindeer-ugly-christmas-sweater-thumb.jpg

[BucEyedPea]

You pull it over tall grass and it makes it shorter.

LOL okay. I guess something that big is needed for the job. You must have a yard that rivals a cornfield.:p

[Dartgod]

Here's something Claythan can enjoy....

http://www.dailydot.com/lol/scrotum-warmer-hoax-indiegogo/?fb=dd

For him, this might be more practical.


Make Out Practice Pillow (http://odditymall.com/make-out-practice-pillow)

http://odditymall.com/includes/content/make-out-practice-pillow-thumb.jpg

[SAUTO]

We got a soda stream kit from Kohls for $58. That was a great deal.

How is it?I've always wondered.

[Window Licking Whiner]

How is it?I've always wondered.

waste of space/money. It's one of those things that seem like a good idea, and you'll use it for like two weeks. Then 4 months later and you havent used it since...

Oh and the bottles that come with it, those things melt in the dishwasher so you will have to replace them all the time.

My advice, dont get one.

[Window Licking Whiner]

For those of us with 'cold' wives/gfs/women in our lives. Here is another gift that is a homerun along the lines of keeping them warm.

http://www.plowhearth.com/sale-uggandreg%3B-australia-fluff-flip-flops-ii.htm?aff=6443&gclid=CLCXtvLkysICFcvm7AodARQA3w

[DMAC]

For those of us with 'cold' wives/gfs/women in our lives. Here is another gift that is a homerun along the lines of keeping them warm.

http://www.plowhearth.com/sale-uggandreg%3B-australia-fluff-flip-flops-ii.htm?aff=6443&gclid=CLCXtvLkysICFcvm7AodARQA3w

My wife would laugh me out of the room if I got her those.

[CanadianChiefs]

waste of space/money. It's one of those things that seem like a good idea, and you'll use it for like two weeks. Then 4 months later and you havent used it since...

Oh and the bottles that come with it, those things melt in the dishwasher so you will have to replace them all the time.

My advice, dont get one.

Same thing happened at our place. Used it often for a month or so, hardly used it again. It's not bad at all, I just think we ran out of flavour packets and were too lazy to get new ones. The coke flavored one sucked but I really enjoyed the lime one.

[CanadianChiefs]

Same thing happened at our place. Used it often for a month or so, hardly used it again. It's not bad at all, I just think we ran out of flavour packets and were too lazy to get new ones. The coke flavored one sucked but I really enjoyed the lime one.

To Add: the bottles are supposed to be hand washed, that's more of you either not knowing that or being lazy and throwing them in the dishwasher.

[TinyEvel]

For those of us with 'cold' wives/gfs/women in our lives. Here is another gift that is a homerun along the lines of keeping them warm.

http://www.plowhearth.com/sale-uggandreg%3B-australia-fluff-flip-flops-ii.htm?aff=6443&gclid=CLCXtvLkysICFcvm7AodARQA3w

My wife is walking around the house saying "Oh I wish I had some UGG slippers."

True story: I said, "I got them for you years ago, you never wore them and we gave them to Goodwill!"

:banghead:

[Simply Red]

FLESHLIGHTS!!!!!!!

[mr. tegu]

waste of space/money. It's one of those things that seem like a good idea, and you'll use it for like two weeks. Then 4 months later and you havent used it since...

Oh and the bottles that come with it, those things melt in the dishwasher so you will have to replace them all the time.

My advice, dont get one.

The bottles say right on them to NOT put them in the dishwasher.

[mr. tegu]

How is it?I've always wondered.

As with anything of this nature (and soda in general) it is all about your personal preference. I really like them as does my wife and dad whom we bought this one for.

The feel, texture, and fizz is the same but the flavors are not going to be the same as Coke or Dr. Pepper. They have their versions of those drinks as well as all the other flavors of soda so it really is just a matter of discovering if you like the flavors they offer. The two I mentioned are my favorite. The orange is also pretty good.

I definitely wouldn't jump into it without tasting some of the flavors. I only invested in ours after tasting some at a store. If you know someone with one or see it at a store give it a try. You definitely won't find it gross and you may really enjoy it. It is a cheaper and "healthier" alternative.

[TimeForWasp]

Funny you brought up gifts. At work they came up with this stupid secret santa shit all the sudden and I felt stupid to bow out so have been trying to think of a gift. I actually drew the boss.

$20 limit.

After some thought, I decided to get a $20 Lowes gift card.

But I'm gonna make him work for it. I am going to send him on a mission. A letter with a hint to go to another spot to get a hint to go to another spot to get a hint to go to the gift. The gift will be huge. A box in a box in a box in a box in a box. Then a comment saying " you didn't think it would be here did you?" then send him to the glove box of his snow plow truck to get the gift card. He makes me work. It's his turn.

[Baby Lee]

As with anything of this nature (and soda in general) it is all about your personal preference. I really like them as does my wife and dad whom we bought this one for.

The feel, texture, and fizz is the same but the flavors are not going to be the same as Coke or Dr. Pepper. They have their versions of those drinks as well as all the other flavors of soda so it really is just a matter of discovering if you like the flavors they offer. The two I mentioned are my favorite. The orange is also pretty good.

I definitely wouldn't jump into it without tasting some of the flavors. I only invested in ours after tasting some at a store. If you know someone with one or see it at a store give it a try. You definitely won't find it gross and you may really enjoy it. It is a cheaper and "healthier" alternative.

I'm a big fan of Izze, but it's a tad pricey. Also, I have a good juicer. How does the sodastream do with the basic job of carbonation, and how easy is it to just carbonate fresh fruit juice, or at least mix carbonated water with fresh fruit juice?


http://creaturecomfortsblog.com/ccwp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/izze-sparkling-juice-2.jpg

[Rain Man]

Funny you brought up gifts. At work they came up with this stupid secret santa shit all the sudden and I felt stupid to bow out so have been trying to think of a gift. I actually drew the boss.

$20 limit.

After some thought, I decided to get a $20 Lowes gift card.

But I'm gonna make him work for it. I am going to send him on a mission. A letter with a hint to go to another spot to get a hint to go to another spot to get a hint to go to the gift. The gift will be huge. A box in a box in a box in a box in a box. Then a comment saying " you didn't think it would be here did you?" then send him to the glove box of his snow plow truck to get the gift card. He makes me work. It's his turn.


Have you gone to odditymall and searched for "condiments"? You could save $8 and your gift would be talked about forever in company lore.

[Rausch]

I work at a prison.

There is no "Secret Santa" in prison.

Well, there is, but it's not a fun day...

[Window Licking Whiner]

To Add: the bottles are supposed to be hand washed, that's more of you either not knowing that or being lazy and throwing them in the dishwasher.

handwashing? I'll be sure to let my wife know. lol

[Window Licking Whiner]

My wife is walking around the house saying "Oh I wish I had some UGG slippers."

True story: I said, "I got them for you years ago, you never wore them and we gave them to Goodwill!"

:banghead:

lol.

[mr. tegu]

I'm a big fan of Izze, but it's a tad pricey. Also, I have a good juicer. How does the sodastream do with the basic job of carbonation, and how easy is it to just carbonate fresh fruit juice, or at least mix carbonated water with fresh fruit juice?


http://creaturecomfortsblog.com/ccwp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/izze-sparkling-juice-2.jpg

It does carbonation really well and it holds the fizz a good amount of time even after numerous opening and closings of the bottle.

You carbonate before mixing in the flavors so you would mix your juice with the carbonated water. I imagine people on out there have tried what you are suggesting so you may be able to get more firsthand information on it.

[WilliamTheIrish]

Obviously there is jewelry and designer handbags and that crap, but one less obvious one thing that is always appreciated by my wife is "things that help her get/keep/stay WARM".

Things that have gone over well in the past like:

1. Heated mattress pad for the bed (huge win for New England winters)...

Where did you purchase this?