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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:05 PM
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What are holiday gift ideas for someone who is rich
and has to have the best of everything? I'm out of ideas.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:08 PM
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1. Something handmade.
or put a picture of the two of you in a frame.

Or take pics of his/her kids.

At the point of being rich, make the gift personal.

Write them a poem. Or a video montage of their life.

Stuff like that.
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:11 PM
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4. Thanks, that's the way to go. Now if I was just creative!
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 05:08 PM
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26. You don't have to be! There are tons of craft fairs and websites
with handmade items that are lovely. The Hunger Site and even Overstock.com carry items items made by women's groups and small villages that help pay for schools, health care and livestock for the community. The story that comes along with a gift like that is always nice. Fair trade coffee is another good option.
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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:10 PM
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2. how about nothing?
...your company should suffice...
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:12 PM
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7. YEAH! That's RIGHT!
Although, MY company isn't always such a gift! :D
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:11 PM
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3. A kiss to build a dream on....
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Lochloosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:12 PM
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5. Donation in their name to a favorite charity
just in case they don't:evilgrin:
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:13 PM
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8. "A donation has been made in your name to the Human Fund"
great idea!
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 04:32 PM
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13. ROFL
My thoughts exactly. :thumbsup:

"Money for people." :D
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 04:47 PM
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15. .
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 04:51 PM
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19. Now I get it!
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:14 PM
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9. Good idea--especially if it's a leftist website!
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:16 PM
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11. I was going to suggest this.
You can adopt a whale or something in their name, and then they get info about it for the rest of the year.

Win/win
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 04:57 PM
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22. You can adopt animals at the zoo
or at rescue/rehab places or you can adopt a salmon and they can follow it up the river and learn where their fish spawned.

Or a book. :P
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:12 PM
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6. A nice Coffee Table Book
Something about fine wines, vacation spots.. you know? Fancy shit.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 05:01 PM
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23. How about a coffee table book about coffee tables?
that would sell!
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:15 PM
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10. Um...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4373558&mesg_id=4373558

:evilgrin:
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 03:16 PM
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12. RFLAO! That's the one!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 04:39 PM
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14. A pair of work gloves
:hide:
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 04:49 PM
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17. Do they make designer work gloves? I'm not kidding, that's how
bad it is with this guy. They would have to be made of the finest Corinthian leather, hand-stitched by elves, with his initials in diamonds.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 04:48 PM
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16. One word
Spork
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 04:50 PM
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18. What's spork?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 04:52 PM
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20. Spork
Spoon + fork



LL Bean has them
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 04:55 PM
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21. Well, as long as it's LL Bean, it might fly!
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dcfirefighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 01:20 AM
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38. Get a titanium spork
all the rage with the light and fast mountain trekkers. Seriously.
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 05:04 PM
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24. Something edible. It's nice, it doesn't have to sit around, they can share
it if they want and it doesn't matter if they get duplicates.
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 05:09 PM
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27. Good idea. I think I'll put a basket of stuff together.
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 05:14 PM
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32. I'm giving my brother and his wife a movie-night gift basket.
Inside there are boxes of raisinettes, snow-caps, and junior mints along with some microwave popcorn and some cute little popcorn holders. Then I gave them a couple of classic Xmas movies on dvd.
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achtung_circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 05:07 PM
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25. Mud,
it's earthy.
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 05:10 PM
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30. I think one of the day spas around here does mud baths!
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 05:09 PM
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28. Cook them something.
Last Christmas we organized a cookie echange in our neighborhood. We had five families prepare 5 dozen cookies each. We all exchanged cookies. From those we made plates of mixed cookies and gave them topeople. It worked great.
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astonamous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 05:10 PM
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29. Donate to a charity in their name. n/t
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 05:11 PM
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31. I bought my family livestock once!
Well, I made donations in their name to Heifer Intl. You can choose what animal you wish to purchase. Then I made a little card for them with a picture of that animal, with an explanation inside. I bought one brother some ducks, another some chickens, and one brother (who is vegetarian) some bees. They all got a laugh out of it.
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Draill Donating Member (360 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 10:11 PM
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35. We're doing that this year.
heifer.org seems like a really good idea to me. :thumbsup:
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 11:24 PM
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37. I agree. And your gift recipients will be touched.
I thought it would be cute to give a little figurine of a duck to the person, or honey, or something in that vein. I didn't get around to it but that would be cute.
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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 09:53 PM
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33. a little silver bell
to use to call the servants.
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ornotna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 10:02 PM
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34. How about a giant robot
http://www.hammacher.com/publish/10921.asp?promo=to_grownups




:wow:
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-01-05 10:24 PM
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36. Handmade coffee truffles
Any truffles you make by hand with good chocolate and REAL cream (if it doesn't clot at the top, it ain't cream) will beat anything you can buy. Plus you can make a ton cheap, but to buy the amount you can make would cost $$$. Plus, who doesn't like truffles?
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 01:29 AM
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39. get a ski mask
and a sawed-off shotguns

and give them the best armed robbery they've ever had.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 01:50 AM
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40. Here
I spent alot of years never getting my sister or her family anything because I knew they already had everything they wanted and what I could afford wouldn't be good enough anyway.

Until she got cancer. Then I knew it didn't matter if she already had what I got her, it was the doing something that mattered. And the lip balm turned out to be her favorite.

So just give a gift. Any gift.



http://www.ftd.com/5970/catalog/product.epl?product_id=9061
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Seabiscuit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 03:44 AM
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41. Viagra
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 05:17 AM
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42. This is what you give:
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MsAnthropy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-02-05 09:19 AM
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43. Thanks for all the great ideas!
I'm printing this and saving it for the future!
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