I think I need a Christmas mental makeover-

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

Maybe it is just me.... my kids keep looking under the tree and getting all excited about what is in the gifts- they are not looking at the tree going "where is everything?".....

Probably not something you want to do, but Susan has just wrapped empty boxes to put under the tree. It is a nice touch to make things more festive from the start.

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I won't object if anyone wants to buy me a Wii.

I also have no objections if someone wants to buy BTD a Wii.

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Probably not something you want to do, but Susan has just wrapped empty boxes to put under the tree. It is a nice touch to make things more festive from the start.

OMG you are brilliant.

If this is a mental block for me- the "lack" of gifts under the tree- wrapping empty boxes and then putting the gifts in among them may fix that for me...

I may in fact want to do just that!

[katiesue]

My mom called last night. She's getting Madz and her cousin sugar tongs for Christmas. They are going to be so thrilled Christmas morning

[katiesue]

Nephy - what about the ole box within a box trick. Wrapping a the gift in larger and larger boxes. More to open, makes it harder to guess as the shapes are disguised, and it will take up more volume under the tree.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by katiesue

My mom called last night. She's getting Madz and her cousin sugar tongs for Christmas. They are going to be so thrilled Christmas morning

Sugar tongs? Wtf? There must be more to this- spill, please.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by katiesue

Nephy - what about the ole box within a box trick. Wrapping a the gift in larger and larger boxes. More to open, makes it harder to guess as the shapes are disguised, and it will take up more volume under the tree.

17 boxes is my personal record.

[Prudence]

I got a pack of cards in a series of boxes that started out with a large box that formerly held multiple boxes of Tide laundry detergent.

[katiesue]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Sugar tongs? Wtf? There must be more to this- spill, please.

She took the girls to a high tea this fall. (neither of them had fun nor drank any tea). They had never seen sugar cubes and apparently were fascinated with them. So she decided they needed sugar tongs for Christmas.

[blueerica]

I was laughing with a class mate while watching an old video clip in Consumer Behavior. This kid opens his Christmas present and... it's a Nintendo 64. Kid starts wigging out and screaming. I'll have to find it later when I have a little more time to search for it...

Anyhow, I just thought it would have been funny if it was stuffed with socks and underwear. I had that happen to me, and while it's funny in retrospect, I was pissed then. It was one of the neighbor's old boxes... Grrr... At any rate, I did get an NES the following year, but that's not the point.

How funny would it be to give your parents the box filled with total nonsense, and then give them the Wii separately, later? I giggled about that thought pretty hard in class... Then again, I have a penchant for finding mild cruelty to be pretty funny.

(Now, back to my regularly scheduled class...)

[wendybeth]

Erica, your post reminded me of when my future MIL gave me a present. I opened the present to discover a hand held vacuum container. I was thrilled, because I had cats and messy nieces and nephews and I could have really used it. When I opened it, I discovered a leather mini skirt inside. (I was pretty techno-punk back then, so she thought that would be something I'd want). I was really kind of disappointed, as was she- the skirt cost triple what the vacuum would have.