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Originally Posted by tomwed (Post 968198)

I miss my folks. My dad would always try to find the perfect gift and loved gizmos. One year he bought all the woman an electric tweezer. The way it worked was that you would put it near an unwanted hair and just like in Alien, when you pushed the button, these prongs would shoot out, grab the hair and painlessly rip it out. The thing is that if you aimed it wrong there was a chance it could grab your eyeball. All the woman quietly said �Oh, thank-you Dad, now who wants to go first?�

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Originally Posted by tomwed (Post 968176)

There's nothing wrong with it at all.

You are such a great guy, Tomwed. You are so perceptive and kind and funny too.

AND I feel certain that Santa is gonna be really generous with you.

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Originally Posted by Schaumburger (Post 968203)

A couple of Christmases, my dad bought my mom an edger for the yard and then the next year my dad bought my mom a pruning shears for the bushes. Needless to say he received some funny looks from my mom. But he always had another gift (like jewelry or perfume) for her.

When I got old enough (about age 11), my dad would take me Christmas and birthday gift shopping with him to pick out a gift for her. When I left home to attend college, my younger sisters were recruited for this job.

How many of the guys on TOTV recruit family members to help them shop for the women in their lives? Or do you know your significant other well enough to get them "just what they want?"

One time my husband took our ten-year-old Christmas shopping for me. He ran across a piece of jewelry that cost a good chunk of change and goaded my husband into buying it. It came in a plastic silver Christmas tree ornament that they brought home and hung on our 14-foot tree that was decked to the gills with ornaments. I never even noticed it, and they smirked back and forth for two weeks.

I still wear that ring every single day.

One year, a long time ago, my brother, a man of means, bought my brother-in-law a digital shoot em up game that you could hold in your hands. My brother in law, Michael was thrilled and said "I'm so glad you didn't get me one of those shi..y little watches with the pac man game on it."

Michael opened the present from my brother before he opened the present from my Dad. Wanna gues what my Dad bought for Michael? :)