
Holy cow, tomorrow is Christmas Eve! If you haven't done all of your shopping, here are my final suggestions, thrown at you all at once:
Knit like the wind! Socks and hats are good for anyone with feet and a head. Blankets are good for anyone with any arrangement of body parts.
Save time with trivia. Buy just one fabulously wrapped gift, and then invite all your friends to a game night. Instead of giving everyone a thoughtful gift, just hand out your one present as a prize to the winner of your Apples to Apples/Trivial Pursuit/Candyland marathon. The present will seem much better than it is because it was earned (this psychological principle is why hazing makes people think fraternities are cool), and you only have to buy one gift for the whole crowd. It's the lottery scheme of gift-giving.
Write a promise in a card. Scribble down a pledge to do something of value--babysit for a whole evening, take a grocery list to the store and do all the shopping, perform a sexual favor, bake your friend's wedding cake, work a whole shift at your friend's business for free--whatever! You'll worry about it after Christmas.
Give upgrade leftovers. Mr. Waxx bought a new PDA and gave his old one to Mr. G. My dad bought a new car and bestowed his old one upon us. Best material gifts EVER! They're worth a lot of $$, but you bought them a long time ago, and now you're getting a new one anyway, so it's not a hardship to part with them now.
DO NOT GIVE: Potato guns. Jesus H. Christ, the next person who gives my husband a potato gun is going to get a drum set when they have their first kid. Bah humbug!
And now I am off to DRINK! I just found out that the Post Office can't mail a square shaped card for the price of a regular first class stamp, so all my Christmas cards are being returned to me. Dammit, and I usually don't even send them...
Well, let's all toast to this seasonal madness being ALMOST OVER so we can finally relax into the warmth and chaos and mess of the family celebrations.
Merry Christmas! Now get off the computer and eat some cookies!









