• Thalestr@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    My sister got me a weighted blanket a few years ago. I love it and use it every night.

    Best given was a laser distance measurement tool I got for my dad who works in construction. He uses it all the time and has for years.

  • LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
    7·
    1 year ago

    Back when I was about 15, I was invited to a Christmas Eve gathering by a friend of the family, who had a young kid, maybe 7 or 8, and I had a gift picked out for everyone but him. I spent a long time combing through gifts at the mall but I really didn’t know all that much about him. I settled on one of those 3D wooden puzzles, a roadster.

    Come Christmas Eve, and I’m anxiously awaiting people opening my gifts hoping I’d chosen well. The kid gets to my gift and turns to his parents and says “Wow, you got it after all!” They were dumbfounded. Turns out he’d been asking for that exact kit but they had passed it up. I felt like a million bucks that night.

  • memfree
    5·
    1 year ago

    I received a custom mechanical keyboard where all the letters were in Alienese. It was the most thoughtful and no-one-else-would-appreciate-it present made specifically for my tastes that my heart nearly burst.

  • TawnyFroggy [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    My Mom never stops talking about the christmas message I got her from Will Friedle from Boy Meets World on Cameo. I didn’t explain to her how easy cameo is because it would lose some of the magic. She feels so special, and it makes me feel happy.

  • Nath@aussie.zone
    5·
    1 year ago

    I got a Commodore 64 in 1985. I know that’s not going to help anyone this year, but I can’t think of a gift any other year that had me more excited. My kids are getting a switch and I hope they’re as excited as I was.

    Best I’ve given would be a Chromecast - it was $30 and my sister uses it daily, years later. I can’t think of a better return on dollar spent gift for usefulness.

    • selokichtli
      2·
      1 year ago

      I wholeheartedly hope your kids will appreciate the Switch, but c’mon, a Commodore 64 in 1985 is very hard to top. I got a PSX in 1997, half of it paid by my own savings, and I don’t think I’m even close to you, Mr. Commodore 64.

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      The PS4 I got half of for my youngest (we split the cost because otherwise their gift would have been too expensive compared to the rest of the kids) has gotten so much use, so much love. Sure your kids will love the Switch.

  • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
    39·
    1 year ago

    In 1988, my wife cut her knee-length hair to pay for a chain for my heirloom pocket watch. I sold the pocket watch and bought some expensive ivory combs for her long hair. It was a disappointing Christmas until we realized the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.