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Sat, Jul 6th, 2013, 04:41 AM #31
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I got a tin picture back in the 80"s in a used pizza box -one xmas from a family member -this same family member then gave both my kids at their weddings a flame pot - meanwhile my daughter lives in a condo -cant use it in -sold on kijij and got 10.00 bucks for her -they are very small
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Sat, Jul 6th, 2013, 05:27 AM #32
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Sat, Jul 6th, 2013, 08:53 AM #33
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Ok. Maybe not what you were expecting Mr. Danger, but the worst gift was money.
As a kid, we would get a birthday card with $5,$10,$20. What makes it the worst gift was what the parents made us do.
1. The gift must go in the bank. We must walk to the bank and the kid must go up to the teller to deposit.
2. A thank you card must follow immediately. It must have a hand written comment. It was hard for kids to think of what to write.
3. If parents and kid forgot the card, we must immediately pick up the phone to call to apologize and to thank the giver for the gift. This resulted in a 20 minute conversation about how is school and how big you are getting. For a kid, 20 minutes on the phone with this conversation was torture.
4. We never got to spend the money on cheap candy and junk -- just what a kid wants to do. Parents said, everything we needed, they would provide -- this meant things like broccoli.
Wasn't I an ungrateful chid?Last edited by Shwa Girl; Sat, Jul 6th, 2013 at 08:54 AM.
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Sat, Jul 6th, 2013, 12:08 PM #34
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Sat, Jul 6th, 2013, 12:39 PM #35
Bwahahahah. You'd hate me. I make my kids do all of the above.
Toys are all theirs to play with (and believe me they get a lot) but money goes into their savings account. One day they will be thankful to have a lump sum of cash to help pay for a car or a trip or something substantial.
I'm also very big on thank you cards!
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Sat, Jul 6th, 2013, 03:52 PM #36
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Sat, Jul 6th, 2013, 04:40 PM #37
That is really awful. My partner told me very recently that his mother forgot his 16th birthday. I don't have children myself, but I frankly have a hard time understanding how one could forget their own child's birthday. I wish your family had been honest and apologized instead of trying to make you think that *you* had the days mixed up! Not cool.
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Sat, Jul 6th, 2013, 04:42 PM #38
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Sat, Jul 6th, 2013, 04:51 PM #39
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Mon, Jul 8th, 2013, 12:28 PM #40
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Mon, Jul 8th, 2013, 12:42 PM #41
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Speaking of the weird gifts that kids want to give parents from tv commercials... it was a "frying pan" specifically made for flipping pancakes. Yep, my Mom got that doozy because my Dad listened to me. We used it once, didn't let the pancake cook enough on one side, so when we went to flip it the batter was runny enough to go all down into the coils of the burner. And that, was the end of that.
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Mon, Jul 8th, 2013, 02:27 PM #42
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i love all the stories of hopeful children getting mom a gift that might mean oodles of treats
so cute, and i honestly don't blame the dads for going along with it. how do you tell a kid that their gift for momma might not be her dream gift, when it is clearly something the kid has been dreaming of every time one of those tempting infomercials came on tv.In 2020 I had 100 FREE Grocery pickups! Subscribe to PC Optimum Insiders & get 25,000 PC Optimum pts
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Mon, Jul 8th, 2013, 02:31 PM #43
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Mon, Jul 8th, 2013, 03:18 PM #44
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^^ oh my gosh, I LOVED my spirograph when I was a kid!
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Mon, Jul 22nd, 2013, 07:57 AM #45
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worst gift I got was from one of my best friends for my birthday.
She got me a nail clipper for my cats..
I opened it and was like oh.. um... thank you for thinking of my cats, but I actually already have clippers for them.
She understood and returned it, and in exchange she bought me a Hairbrush.
She's always very strange about gifts.. this year she gave me a bag of Cadbury Creme Eggs.
Yum but kinda weird LOL
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