| 1. | A whole collection of random maple leaf stuff as they are a HUGE fan. |
| 2. | It wasn't for a birthday, but when my best friend got married, I gave her one of the toys she used to play with at my house when we were little. It was a little tiny bear. I had a little rabbit, and we used to make clothes and toys for them in grade school.
I'd saved most of the things she made, like a little book and clothes and a little bed, and gave them all to her. |
| 3. | Not sure. |
| 4. | An 80's outfit for my little sister a LONG time ago, when we were very young. It was complete with leggings and an oversized, black and white printed top. |
| 5. | More than buying, I always like to make something special for the person like a personalised OOAK card, a painting, a cake or a colourful banner, apart from getting one of two gifts that the person really wants or would love. There have been occasions where I have gone all the way for someone and I have enjoyed it so much. Sure, buying stuff is always fun and all but I like to take a moment and show the person how much I appreciate them and what they mean to me, because bdays are all about celebrating the birth of someone dear to you. |
| 6. | Hummmm.....*thinks*.....a flight in a 1940's tiger moth for my dads 50th. |
| 7. | No idea. |
| 8. | A tiffany's necklace for my mom |
| 9. | I bought Bandito a sound engineering course |
| 10. | i bought my mom a childrens ring (a ring with her children's birthstones in it). |
| 11. | Dang, I have no idea. I've knitted lots of scarves for people for birthdays and Christmas and graduation. Gave my sister a really cool opal necklace for her graduation. |
| 12. | Depends whose point of view you look at it from. I bought my brother a paintball gun last year. I thought it was great but I doubt next door would agree as their shed took a bit of a hammering. |
| 13. | it was more for x-mas.. I can't even remember I blew so much cash that year but everybody liked everything cuz it was something they liked but it was unique.. and they weren't able to find it themselves |
| 14. | I have no idea. |
| 15. | somethign my mom had been trying to find for a few years |
| 16. | A massage for bf's thirtieth this year. |
| 17. | Hmm. This is hard. Though it wasn't a birthday present (it was close to) I got Laurence a zippo lighter engraved with the superman logo on one side, and a cryptic quote on the other from a song we loved at the time. |
| 18. | I bought my little sister a tree planted in her name last year. |
| 19. | Last year I gave my beau a mobile from the Museum of Modern Art - and flew to Germany to give it to him. But the present wasn't shipped from the Museum in time, so I had to have the catsitter ship it to Germany after the fact. He did, but he thought "mobile" meant "mobile phone" so he tripled the value of the gift. It got stuck in customs. My fiance almost had to spend a day going down to the customs office (in a different town) to retrieve the present. I also had to tell him exactly what it was and how much it cost...it was very embarrassing. |
| 20. | Lots of Whiskey |
| 21. | A Magnum PI hawaiian print shirt and day or driving lessons in a Ferrari |
| 22. | Not for a birthday, but I got a buddy concert tickets to the show that represents our friendship. |
| 23. | I buy the perfect present for my friend Crystal each holiday. |
| 24. | Oh I don't know. Actually I do but it's too personal. ;) |
| 25. | I didn't buy it, but I secrectly researched and wrote a 400-page genealogy of my family and gave it to my dad. |
| 26. | a gas grill was probably the most expensive, but i can't imagine it being the best. the best would probably be something i made. |
| 27. | I'm terrible at remembering birthdays. Best Christmas present was when I bought one of my mother's favourite old dolls from Ebay and gave it to her. $400 well spent. |
| 28. | I bought my mother a crystal ball one year. Although I don't really believe in the magical properties of it, it was a really suitable gift because she had just ended a 22 year relationship and it seemed like a meaningful gift, her future full of promise. Plus it is beautiful and catches the light.
I am also a big fan of handmade gifts like home-knit scraves, etc... I give those to people I care a lot about- people I want to invest a lot of care and time in. |
| 29. | I bought a book for someone, but now I can't for the life of me remember what it was. |
| 30. | i got my dad a book on the bellerophon called 'billy ruffian'. for the rest of the year he kept telling me what a great book it was. |