I am absolutely going to remember this and steal the idea for myself one day. It is excellent.
See, I like the unique-and-specific thing as well. If I get someone a sweater, it's a sweater we've discussed, or share a joke over. I'd also much rather have a gift obviously tailored specifically to my tastes than one that someone put a lot of money and no thought into.
My favorite gift for this Christmas is the gift I'm making my mother: a little perpetual calendar with a picture frame, with a bunch of snapshots I stole from their house on their last vacation, all scanned and resized so that she can change them out whenever she likes, and a promise to scan and resize any more pictures that she likes, in perpetuity.
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Date: 2006-12-02 11:22 pm (UTC)See, I like the unique-and-specific thing as well. If I get someone a sweater, it's a sweater we've discussed, or share a joke over. I'd also much rather have a gift obviously tailored specifically to my tastes than one that someone put a lot of money and no thought into.
My favorite gift for this Christmas is the gift I'm making my mother: a little perpetual calendar with a picture frame, with a bunch of snapshots I stole from their house on their last vacation, all scanned and resized so that she can change them out whenever she likes, and a promise to scan and resize any more pictures that she likes, in perpetuity.