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last minute gift ideas
I need get a little something for my ex-husband and his wife. They are wine dealers and restaurant snobs so I can't afford to get them anything decent along those lines - only want to spend $20 or so. Over the years, I've gotten them wine accessories and cheese platters and wind chimes and I'm just totally out of ideas.
I need something that my hubby can pick up on Monday Oh, and we'll probably give the same gift to hubby's ex and her husband. Any and all suggestions (I think) appreciated. Cheryl
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Gift card to the book store? $20 at least gets a CD or something...
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Not sure if they'd like what we do for all our extended family? We just go to Hickory Farms and buy a few of their sausage and cheese things, not sure if you have one of them around there? There was one in the mall in San Fran so I know they're not just local here. Easy and fairly cheap, and just about anybody enjoys them. If they don't like sausage type meats they have ones that have different stuff in them, lots of different types of cheeses.
I forget where it was from (I don't think it was a HF one, might have been though) but one year we got this big thing of like ice cream stuff. It didn't have any ice cream in it but it had all kinds of "seasonings" and stuff you could put on ice cream - like carmel, and fudge and all kinds of fruit sauce toppings. We thoroughly enjoyed that too .
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Gas cards will always get used.
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Chia herb garden =)
or a cheap fondu set so the richy snooty people could enjoy there cheese and whine
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Best wine deal I know of might be available if you have access to a winery: there's a little 10-20 dollar deal with a rubber cork and a hand pump that will keep a partial bottle corked and vacuum sealed for a fair number of days without it going bad. In this house, nobody agrees on what wine they like, so we often have an open bottle of a particular type serving over 3 days---no problem. No flavor loss, no vinegar. We have given them to all sorts of people who entertain and it is very nice to be able, after a party, to recork a nice bottle so you aren't faced with the choice of tossing expensive wine or slugging it down when you've already had too many. THey also sell extra-stopper kits.
I double checked: Target has 2 of these types. The 10.95 one is great. Get them two. http://www.target.com/Vacuum-Pumps-B...3%3A%240-%2424
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Gifts for an ex. Who'da thunk it.
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Rat poison
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My mom always bought my dad a gift until i was 18 lol
What about pitite fours? (sp) i know hickory farms mall thing has them. little tiny cakes usually assorted flavors couple presents are hard. what about an event gift? two tickets to the zoo, or the planatarian, aviary.. somthing strange... or movies... edit.. i keep thinking of more. lol blockbuster or hollywood video you could do the popcorn tub with a giftcard inside or somthing. I already fergot the other one (doh)
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Candies and cookies are always good
A few years ago someone gave me a microfiber throw, which is nice to have around for cold evenings, and they're not expensive.
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Let's see, your hubby is going out on Monday to buy a gift for your ex.....I think I'd buy him a flaming sack of dog poo, but that's just me.
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Maybe a Cracker Barrel gift card.... Kill em slowly.. By the way you should be canonized...
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A Great Dane.
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lmao
my dad bought two dobermans and put them in the house thinking my mom wouldent be able to get in... they gave he bunches of kisses when they met. silly people. doncha know is easiest to just get along? (esp when kids are involved)
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Well, I was a CVS and bought them a Blockbuster card, and my son says when I get home "dad and Elin don't rent movies." Well, they will now! Thanks for the ideas, tho. Especially that wine bottle thingy Sk8r mentioned - I'll look for that for next year!
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weird sounding or not, I think it's great the the extended blended ex & step families can & do get along well enough that that they feel a modest gift exchange is appropriate for the holidays
I see so many families torn by divorce that are fouled with a bubbling pit of animosity, that this is refreshing to hear/read kudos to all of you for being good parents & showing your kids that whatever the problems were that lead to the divorce, they can be put behind & everyone gets along (at least at christmas) years from now the kids will see this as an important part of their upbringing. "hey sis/bro, remember when mom & dad & stepmom & stepdad used to........ , that was pretty great of our folks, wasn't it?" you're making great memories & teaching good lessons about how the value of family outweighs the bitterness of divorce ok, off of my soapbox
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or you could go with the ever popular CHIA BART!
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I have a friend who called me last night, they had a party with some other friends and she ended up with a chia pet for a gift...she was not amused I however laughed my rear end off
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was it the chia bart?
I'll take it off her hands!
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Trust me, there have been days when hiring a hit-man to take care of our ex's has crossed our minds, but at the end of the day, we all get along pretty well for the kids' sake. Now, my ex-MIL is another story...
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What about some kind if wine art or wine poster to decorate around the house? Something maybe from art.com. Maybe going out side the box . . . Like coffee ? they big coffee drinkers, nothing hits the spot like good cup of gourmet coffee on a cold winter morning.
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