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Date Posted: 15:04:16 12/30/03 Tue
Author: Brenda
Subject: Thanks for your ideas, Andrea and Colly. She always asks for lists for the kids, but never for Doug or I. Maybe I should just give her a general gift suggestion list for all of us sometime in November. I like to know what she chooses for the kids just so that I don't give those same ideas to my parents or other relatives, but for DH and I, nobody asks for ideas. Great idea, thanks.
In reply to: Colly 's message, "Andrea has a point, maybe you should just give in and give her a small list. It always helps to get soap supplies right? As for the gifts you already got....can you donate the slippers to a woman's shelter, or a hospital or somewhere that they will be used? And bowls are always useful when making soap...and if they accidentally get ruined...no big loss, right?" on 08:23:04 12/29/03 Mon


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[> [> [> Brenda, if this is not too late, I'd like to add on *g*. >>> I went a little long *g* -- Kylie McA, 06:14:44 01/17/04 Sat

I have the same trouble (well, difficulty?) with my dear MIL. She likes to spend a LOT on us and the kids, and firstly we are trying to get her to cut down. Slowly but surely we are getting there *g*. I think a short list of some 'can't have too much of....' gifts like candles, books, a cd etc. is a great idea. Inour house, chocolate of any kind NEVER goes astray and everyone in our family knows it *g*. Or, if there is one, bigger ticket item you and your dh might like together - eg. theatre tickets, movie tickets with babysitting thrown in, a new toaster (if yours blew up like ours, just before christmas *g*). I am also trying to come up with a tactful way to say to DH's aunts and uncles not to buy for us anymore for the same reason. They don't want us to buy for them, and some of them only buy for the children, but some still buy for dh and i. And I don't want to sound ungrateful, but one relative actually gave us glasses for the past three years in a row! We didn't need them three years ago and we definitely don't need them now *lol*. Anyway, good luck :-)


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