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Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook
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« on: December 19, 2014, 10:20:52 PM »

My sister (age 21) was at a dinner for school stuff, and the sponsor of the dinner asked everyone if their parents still gave them Christmas presents. She was the only one who said yes.

What about you guys? Do you still get presents from your parents?

Or, if by chance you are a parent with a child over the age of 18, do you still give them presents?
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« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2014, 10:22:45 PM »

Yes (18, still living at home) though this may be my last or second-to-last Christmas with my family as a non-independent adult...
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« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2014, 10:43:05 PM »

It would be rather creepy if they still did, seeing as how they are dead.
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« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2014, 11:15:16 PM »

Yes (30), and I also give them presents. It is standard here to give Christmas presents to your immediate family. People stop giving their siblings birthsday presents when they get into adulthood, but never Christmas gifts. There has gotta be something under the Christmas tree.
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« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2014, 11:25:02 PM »

Yeah (21), because I'm always home for Christmas, which sans this year which has seen me exiled for work is usually my vacation.

I haven't actually asked for or wanted anything in years, yet there's always a little something for me and my sister.
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« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2014, 11:57:43 PM »

I normally get a modest gift card and a new wristwatch from my parents.  Occasionally, somebody will throw in a new billfold.  There is usually one big ticket item, but it's not necessarily given on Christmas Eve.  Pretty much any big ticket item after Labor Day is considered my main Christmas present from them.  My birthday is April 29, so any bigger ticket item purchased after the new year that aren't a part of the Christmas gift cards count as my birthday.  I usually get them a modest gift each like a gift card or movie.  For instance, I got my Dad a Blu-Ray set of all the Superman movies and I got Mom a gift card to Red Lobster, a local seafood establishment so she can use for date nights with dad.  Two or three years ago, I got Dad the complete set of the Star Wars movies on Blu-ray.
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« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2014, 01:06:37 AM »

Yes (30), and I also give them presents. It is standard here to give Christmas presents to your immediate family. People stop giving their siblings birthsday presents when they get into adulthood, but never Christmas gifts. There has gotta be something under the Christmas tree.

That's exactly how it is with my family.
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« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2014, 05:54:10 AM »

They put some money in my bank account but that's it
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« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2014, 05:56:20 AM »

  I usually get them a modest gift each like a gift card or movie.  For instance, I got my Dad a Blu-Ray set of all the Superman movies and I got Mom a gift card to Red Lobster, a local seafood establishment so she can use for date nights with dad.  Two or three years ago, I got Dad the complete set of the Star Wars movies on Blu-ray.

Do you use your parents' money to buy your parents gifts?
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« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2014, 06:01:38 AM »

It would be rather creepy if they still did, seeing as how they are dead.
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« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2014, 08:54:00 AM »

Lolwut
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« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2014, 08:56:41 AM »

Yes, they tend to be less expensive and more practical than when I was a child though. Usually something for around the house. E.g. I got a nice kettle last Christmas.
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« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2014, 09:36:37 AM »


The 10,000 other locations don't count, memphis.  Get with it.
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« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2014, 09:54:55 AM »


Ok, a national chain that happens to have locations in Oklahoma. You happy?
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« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2014, 10:15:48 AM »


Ok, a national chain that happens to have locations in Oklahoma. You happy?

I wish you would have picked a locally owned place. Your love affair with horrible chains is beyond strange.
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« Reply #15 on: December 20, 2014, 10:17:39 AM »

Wikipedia informs me that Red Lobster is based in Orlando. That's very local to Oklahoma. Do you guys have any good seafood in Oklahoma? It's very hard to find in Memphis.
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« Reply #16 on: December 20, 2014, 10:21:05 AM »

Wikipedia informs me that Red Lobster is based in Orlando. That's very local to Oklahoma. Do you guys have any good seafood in Oklahoma? It's very hard to find in Memphis.

I don't eat a lot of seafood and I personally don't go to Red Lobster, so I wouldn't be the best person to ask.  Maxwell or possibly Grant might be able to answer more accurately.
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« Reply #17 on: December 20, 2014, 10:26:10 AM »

Wikipedia informs me that Red Lobster is based in Orlando. That's very local to Oklahoma. Do you guys have any good seafood in Oklahoma? It's very hard to find in Memphis.

I don't eat a lot of seafood and I personally don't go to Red Lobster, so I wouldn't be the best person to ask.  Maxwell or possibly Grant might be able to answer more accurately.

That's ok it's high calorie high sodium garbage.
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« Reply #18 on: December 20, 2014, 11:55:53 AM »

Yes, they do. Usually, it's some smaller practical stuff and one bigger present (last year, it was an iPad).

My mom's the one in my immediate family that loves to shop and buy things for people. My dad really isn't the shopper and I'm typically the one that ends up going with him very shortly before Christmas to buy things for her. My dad's almost the stereotypical last-minute shopper (those who seem to vastly populate the malls the last two or three days before Christmas).
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« Reply #19 on: December 20, 2014, 12:01:17 PM »

They put some money in my bank account but that's it
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« Reply #20 on: December 20, 2014, 12:06:57 PM »

Yes, they do. Usually, it's some smaller practical stuff and one bigger present (last year, it was an iPad).

My mom's the one in my immediate family that loves to shop and buy things for people. My dad really isn't the shopper and I'm typically the one that ends up going with him very shortly before Christmas to buy things for her. My dad's almost the stereotypical last-minute shopper (those who seem to vastly populate the malls the last two or three days before Christmas).

That's very much like my parents.
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« Reply #21 on: December 20, 2014, 12:18:17 PM »

Nope, only when I was a kid - but I gave/give them some.

This year, my mum will get a 50€ dining voucher at one of her favourite restaurants, a 30€ physiotherapy voucher for a massage hour with her physiotherapist and chocolate.
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« Reply #22 on: December 20, 2014, 02:55:48 PM »

Of course. I thought that was normal.

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« Reply #23 on: December 20, 2014, 03:02:19 PM »

Yes my mother just sent me a shirt that is way too big for me Tongue
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« Reply #24 on: December 20, 2014, 04:04:02 PM »

No.  They did when they were alive. 

Also, I give Christmas presents to the boy.  We used to tell him that they were from Santa Claus but he became pretty skeptical about that early on, like around Kindergarten.  Now every time I mention Santa Claus he just rolls his eyes.  The wife and I also give each other Christmas presents, and I send my sister and her son something every Christmas as well.  Usually I shop, but this year I was lazy and just put a couple of Ben Franklins in a card and mailed it to her.  She just called today to say she received it, to my relief.  (I'm always nervous about sending cash in the mail.)

My wife goes wild with it.  Not only gifts for relatives, but insists on gifts for my son's teachers and some of her colleagues as well.  I limit my giftgiving to relatives. 
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