Christmas makes me broker than I already am

I dont know why I have this overwhelming urge to buy people stuff that I really can't afford during the holidays. I mean I am sitting here wondering how Im going to be paying my next bill and yet Im spending money on other people as if it were going out of style. Oh well.... here are a few of the gifts that I have purchased. I know I can put there here to share with the rest of you cause I know the parents are not web savy. I would put the sisters gift up here to, but I'm afraid that she might actually see it, and thus ruining the only surprise I got going for x-mas. LOL

So lets start with Dad...

He is a remarkably difficult person to buy for. He never really says that he wants anything except for tools, and at this point Im beginning to belive that he has Home Depot Outstocked. My parents bought themselves a Bose home theatre system as their x-mas gift to themselves. So my thoughts of getting him an external hard drive for the new laptop mom was going to buy him was pretty much tossed out the window. So I started to think about his love of reading, thought a gift card would do nicely, did that last year. Turns out it took him forever to use it and bought something for someone else, so scratch that idea. Then I thought about geting him one or two of those War/History movie packages, only to find out he has most of them already and no one can remember which ones he has.... too much effort to try and figure it out.   So as of yesterday I am in panic mode... No ideas.. short on cash.. the whole shebang. So then I miraculously come across this.....

 

it is a Blue tooth speaker for the car!!! The man loves to be on the phone when driving, and is not a great driver to begin with. So i quick made a call to mom to make sure she approved and low and behold she loved it!!!  So it was purchased. It is currently in transit to the house from Bed Bath & Beyond, for which i had a 20% any single item coupon. I done good on this one $80.55 was the total including shipping & tax

So now we get into Mother.... 

another difficult one to shop for. I asked her this year what she wanted and she told me new tops for work since she has lost so much weight. i was told that if i bought her anything like what my father has gotten her in past years, she would kill me. so keeping this in mind, i have found a couple of tops for her to wear for work (really hope she likes them, if not Kris will, lol) and I also found these on Bath & Body works...

Mom has a white kitchen. white cabinets, plates etc. She also loves Christmas. I thought that these two cookie jars were just too good not to get. They will fit right in with her Kitchen decor. :-)  Grand Total was $20.00 each. tax and shipping where higher because I ordered some other stuff for some other web-savy people who read this blog... so they will just have to wait and see what Santa leaves under the tree for them.

As for Pat.... still have no damm idea what to get him for Christmas except for maybe a big bah humbug sign.... no wait... already gave him that... no really i did, like two years ago. LOL. I ahve found a few things that i would like to get him, but i know he will quite literally have a tantrum if i do buy him anything. sometimes i dont care if he does have a titty-attack, sometimes i just cant be bothered with the whining so i just give up and dont get him anything. not sure what the verdict this year will be. 

Then the last one we are blogging about today is Donna. She is pretty easy to shop for. She likes most anything we give her. This year its a small gift, but as always filled with love. The lady loves coffee. She really does. Especially her instant Bustello. So at work a while back they had given us these " I am not a paper cup" coffee mugs. They looks just like paper cups but they are ceramic and Eco-Friendly. The overall complaint about them is that they really are just too small. they only hold 8oz, and that is to the rim of the cup. So I found one that is a 10oz or 12 oz one. and that is what she is getting. they are actually pretty neat. not a bad iea overall, just a bit weird at first, it has a rubberized lid. so you kind of get the sensation that you are drinking out of a baby bottle.

 

So overall not too bad on my x-mas shopping. but still spent far more than i should have. there is one nameless person who pretty much blew 2/3 of my budget. that gift we shall blog about later when i have a picture of said person holding their present.