Best christmas gift you have received valued < $40?

[Ns1]

I find that as I get older, i don't really want "things" anymore. (besides the fact that I don't have storage for stuff, and I'm starting to get tired of stuff hanging out everywhere.)

If I want things, I'm capable of buying it myself.

However, if someone knows that I really enjoy getting coffee at Starbucks, at least they'll know I put the gift to good use. Or if I like reading books on the Kindle, an Amazon gift card would make me so happy.

If I knew someone liked coffee I would hand pick a coffee gift. Not buy a gift card and call it a day.

 

[jagec]

Blowjob and pancakes - $5 (I ask for this every year )

Wow, those craigslist hookers have really driven prices down.

 

[Jadow]

Master of Orion II about 15 years ago

 

[grohl]

Tools. Socket sets at Sears on BF are nice starter sets.

 

[xSauronx]

most of the gifts people give me are outright booze. sister used to get me national geographic, i really loved that.

 

[Fritzo]

 

[shopbruin]

If I knew someone liked coffee I would hand pick a coffee gift. Not buy a gift card and call it a day.

I don't make coffee at home.

 

[RossMAN]

However, if someone knows that I really enjoy getting coffee at Starbucks, at least they'll know I put the gift to good use. Or if I like reading books on the Kindle, an Amazon gift card would make me so happy.

This.

You're not that old.

 

[AreaCode707]

KIVA gift certificate. Most of us need nothing and giving a friend the opportunity to personally select someone whose life they can change through microlending is, to me, amazing. One of the best cheap gifts I've ever gotten and I've been glad to participate ever since.

 

[angminas]

When I was very young and still celebrated Christmas, I wanted a Millennium Falcon. BAD. But they were $60, a huge amount of money for my family at the time, and that just wasn't realistic.

But on Christmas morning, I got not one, but TWO Star Wars ships! A Slave-1 and a Bespin Cloud Car. There was a note from Santa explaining that it just wasn't possible to get a Millennium Falcon this year. I knew it was from my mom, and I was able to be ok with it, even though I was only about four years old.

On another occasion many years later, my mom walked into a record store and picked me a CD without knowing anything about it. Which one? Pearl Jam's Ten, one I'd been wanting for years.

There are other stories, too. My mom was good at gifts.