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[nny]

Blast it! Why must fathers and older sisters be such a trial to shop for?

(Seriously, guys, what are you getting said family members? ANY IDEAS APPRECIATED.)

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[djcati.livejournal.com]

I have absolutely no idea what I'm getting for my dad. And I don't have an older sister, but I plan to get my sixteen-year-old sister a remote controlled Top Gear car (complete with The Stig), as soon as I find an Argos that has one.

... this probably doesn't help you.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

...no, but DUDE!

XD

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

Dad gets Rocky and Bullwinkle on DVD.

I lack an older sister, but the younger I more or less said, "Tell me what you want" in August to, and then proceeded to buy just that. Surprising, no, but I lose at shopping for her.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Uh. I'm not getting anything for my father or sister. >.> Father = jerk, sister = doesn't need anything, and I've given up on trying to get her things, b/c dad & step-mom yell at me. *no help*

got my brother an amex card w/$25 and donated some money to kiva.org.

[chasing-laura.livejournal.com]

I WANT A TOP GEAR CAR!

Er...

I'm getting my dad a Johnny Cash CD, a huge stripey coffee mug, some ground coffee (sense a theme?), alittle box of mental challenges quiz card things...and a nun bowling game.

Not particularly inspired!!

[agonistes]

My father is getting vinyl -- a Neil Young collection, and The Band.

Also, a block of chocolate. (A literal block. As in you could hand it to a two-year-old and they'd add it to the bin with the blocks.)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I got my in-laws a book called "Eat Britain!" which was written by a friend of mine. I got my mother "A Spot Of Bother" by Mark Haddon because she liked "The Curious Indicent..." & I recommend buying for charity if you're really lost. Like, condoms for Africa. Or a hive of bees for a village.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I got my stepdad a pinhole camera kit...perpetualkid.com has some great stuff :)

[rissabby.livejournal.com]

My older sister bakes. I got her some 1 inch squares of 24k gold leaf to garnish fancy desserts. It's costs about $35 per hundred sheets at my local top-of-the-line art shop, but it's much cheaper from Thailand on Ebay.

If you think your sis would like just 10 or so pieces, I'll send it now, in exchange for a drabble later.

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

Sister? Lush stuff. She trusts my judgement when it comes to her hair and skincare. Not that it's hard being better than her, she was using undiluted TCP on her face at one point, thinking it would stop spots.

Ummm. Pretty earrings? Siblings are allowed to go for the girly, I find.

Fathers are routinely impossible. I usually end up getting mine a new linen shirt, or some socks, or some nice coffee or red wine.

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[genarti]

My dad is way too easy to shop for in some ways, because he loves acquiring trinkets and stuff. Everybody else is harder, for me. (In part because my taste is just enough different from theirs to often make it hard to predict what they'll like and what they'll say "Oh, how... thoughtful!" about.) But this year I think I've managed decently well.

Dad's getting a Threadless shirt -- I am too lazy to find the link, but the orange "Foxy" one. He loves foxes and orange and it's a nifty design. And also a universal remote with big buttons, because he tends to mash at random on our usual remotes.

If it's any help I will add that my mother is getting a pottery sponge-holder (green, with incised vegetal swirls, shaped kinda like a very wide mug with two vertical slits in the sides so that one can put the sponge upright in them), one brother is getting a Threadless shirt that says "If you can read this, make me a sandwich," and the other brother is getting a mug that looks like an owl.

[tropes.livejournal.com]

We are getting my father a machete.

I wish I were kidding. =))

[villainny.livejournal.com]

That's incredibly, unbelievably kind of you. Thanks so much for the offer! I don't think she'd have a use for them, but the offer is absolutely worth a drabble in and of itself, just let me know what you want!

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