Need Christmas Gift Ideas

[matty1001]

I would recommend the iPod (but im bias being a mac junkie ) SUper simple to use, just plug it in and all the music is immediataly update and transfrerred none of this cut and paste malarkey!
Plus with the iTunes software is is almost seamless and has little or no problems (iv never had a problem for two years with mine, but there are cases of problems but only in a small minority.)
Plus the battery is a built in rechargeable one, although this will decrease over time it took my iPod mini a year and a half (with about 6hours use per day) to die on me.

 

[MPJ]

I was gonna suggest iPod but I see I was beaten to it several times.

If the full blown iPods are out of budget might I suggest the iPod Shuffle. It\'s like a mini iPod, doesn\'t hold anywhere near the number of songs as a full blown but it\'s incredibly tiny and quite inexpensive. My wife loves her Shuffle.

 

[Gin1906]

Thank you all for such wonderful ideas... I settled on the mp3, picked on up today I can\'t remember the maker but rated really high on several sites.. it has a screen to see the songs, rechargable battery, 1 gig memory, super speed download thing (not a techy here)

Ok, so I am adding a link if you want to take a look! This is the MP3 I got Torrie

its white and orange too! lol Plus it was on sale, for $89 I picked up the last two in the store, one for each girl.

I have a list of books that I am going to tuck into her book store gift card. I think that will be about perfect.

Really thank you all again. I know it is kind of silly to ask strangers for help for your own child, but you all had great fresh ideas!!!

Merry Christmas
Ginny

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by Gin1906
I know it is kind of silly to ask strangers for help for your own child, but you all had great fresh ideas!!!

Merry Christmas
Ginny

Ginny A pleasure to help.
And never worry, sometimes you have to be like Blanche Dubois and rely on the Kindness of Strangers.(*)











[size=-2](* Mind you then don\'t come much stranger than me.)[/size]

 

[Fizl]

If you want to get some stocking fillers, how about some things like little hair accessories, brooches (very trendy at the mo - at least in the UK), chokers that sort of thing.

Shaz

 

[Bill]

Get her the Johnny Cash CD

 

[lono]

The most perfect gift that I can possibly recommend is this:

I\'ve never met a single soul who doesn\'t love Calvin and Hobbes. Those who have never read it invariably say \'I\'ll take a quick look\' and are still there scanning through hours later.

The best and most charming comic shorts ever, in a huge and luscious triple tome, suitable for all ages. There will never be a more perfect gift.

Oh, and Torrie is gonna get beaten up in the playground for not conforming and having an iPod. Just thought I should warn you!

 

[finn17]

A man after my own heart!

I\'ve never met a single soul who doesn\'t love Calvin and Hobbes.......

The best and most charming comic shorts ever

Bet it\'s not available in the UK? If it is I will have to go and kick Mrs finn up the butt and tell her she does have to buy me a crissie pressie after all

 

[Beelzebrush]

Big fan of Calvin and Hobbes too

That set looks excellent!

 

[lono]

It\'s certainly available in the UK. Has been for a while, and at a very reasonable 60 quid at Amazon.co.uk.

If that sounds pricey bear in mind it is absolutely gigantic (each book is about 35cm x 35cm x about 4 cm wide) and weighs about a ton. You can\'t actually read with a book on your lap for too long or it cuts off the blood supply to your legs completely!

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by finn17

I will have to go and kick Mrs finn up the butt and tell her she does have to buy me a crissie pressie after all

[David Attenborough voice] And here we see the resultant injuries to Mr Finn as he recovers in hospital.
[/David Attenborough voice]

 

[goblinLB]

im 14 now and last year for xmas i got a digital camera with a station dock i didnt use much till i found CMoN then year before i got ipod ipod was brillaint could use for paper rounds and everything and the batterys buggered now but its been 2 year i still use just have to have plugged in to mains all the time i listen to the hogfather audioboook

 

[Gin1906]

More great ideas!!! Gosh guys I have a budget to keep! lol The jewelry is a great idea, I have gotten her a couple pair of earrings, I have to be careful what I get her she has horrible metal allergies, if it contains even a trace of nickel she blisters and welts

Johnny Cash, we actually have a couple already, I have been downloading music from the Internet *(Thanks Finn)* in preparation for her MP3 I got.

Oh and thanks to you all, my Hubby will be getting a MP3 player as well

Speaking of Hubby, He has been collecting Calvin and Hobbs for years we have all of the books, but not the nice boxed set. I looked into it when it first came out and it was very expensive. Not sure how much it is now, but Will probably not get that one.

I had this visual of Mr. Finn, kicking Mrs. Finn in the butt...then of Mrs. Finn, beating him to a bloody pulp with a rolling pin.... OUCH

Thanks again,
Gin

 

[finn17]

Hehe..

To minimise bloodshed and mayhem....I have just bought it myself as a Christmas present to me.

But thanks for the heads-up Iono

 

[Swordwind]

A pair of socks. With someone elses name on them.

Or how about hundreds of lizards? Girls like swarms of things right?