It’s Two Days Till Christmas and WHAT?! Last Minute Gifts for Kids that Make the Gift-Giver Look Guud.

this year I desperately tired to steer away from the plastic kit(that'll we'll have to step over or on) this year: children's books & dvds about anatomy, money, science...watches, spirographs, gardening kits.

can't say they've been totally thrilled so far but I'll let the grandparents supply the foolishness. lol!

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I kinda want to buy that Logo game now. lolz. the Baskin Robbin's logo is djinnius, IMO.

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Wow, Christmas creeps up on me every year. It's December 25 all the time; why do I get surprised when it's so close?

I know that everyone likes plastic stuff pressed out in 中國, but there are other gifts, better ones. Ones that last for more than a couple of hours and don't end up clogging a landfill.

Actually, the best gift at Christmas is your continuing loving presence in their lives. Every Christmas with me is odd, as I get all my small amount of Tagalog back because my Filipino friends in school got me through many Christmases away from PV and my family. So, let's have Christmas in the Philippines from Coca-Cola (Phils)! It's all a happy ending upbeat sort of thing. Possible side effect: may cause excessive lacrimation. May interfere with reading subtitles. Take appropriate precautions.

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OFW's; you see them everywhere, all around the world. They work, often in hospitals, in your town. You see them; they're shy, but they smile genuine smiles when they're helping you. You see them, you talk a little with them, dealing with their accents, then you go home and sort of forget them. Well, here they are, at Christmas, their biggest holiday of the year. Merry Christmas, OFW around the world. Balikbayan sa Pasko susunod na taon? I hope that's close; never really got the hang of Tagalog, but I tried.

Well we our brood of nieces and nephews pjs and books, dang children's books cost me 100 bucks. We got 7 under the age of 18 and 8 over the age of 18 only the ones under 18 get a gift. The ones need to be giving us gifts LOL. But pjs and books works out great and two teenagers get gift cards. I got books this year w/ theme of Seattle so all the stories take place here. I thought that was cool.

Since I live 8hrs from my nieces :( They get whatever they want for me. My youngest niece wanted an Inkoos pink bear. Ugliest thing I ever seen. Apparently, it's hard to find because I looked everywhere for it. I finally had to bit the bullet and go to Amazon. I realize that I was financially assaulted, knew that as I was tying in my credit card #, but it's all worth it to hear her little voice saying "Thank you Auntie Christie for my present" I almost make me want to cry.

I've bought most simulating and educational toys for my kids. I managed for find a brown doll in store for the girl.

Hubby bought a hand crafted doll house for the girl, but we are not going to give it to her yet. She's in the destroy toys face and I think she will appreciate it more in a year or so. Hubby is really excited about the doll house since it's not mass produced, but actually craftsmanship. He likes wooden toys and old style toys for the kids. Lots of quaint little stores here in Europe who sells stuff like that.

Hubby is getting me a mink coat from Birger Christensen in Copenhagen, Very nice.

I've bought him a bunch of video games. TBH, I wasn't sure of what to buy him.

Thanks for the review. I've been trying, desperately, to find a gift for my 2 year old great-nephew. The kid has everything...

When I was a small child, if someone warm and kindly slid 2 - 3 large into a red/green envelope and handed it to me, I would have been all smiles and the giver would have looked 10+ good to me.

Or more Legos; can't have too many Legos! Four of the huge bulk brick sets will run you about two bills, to carry the above nomenclature forward.

This year my son wanted the Skylanders Spyro's Adventure video game and numerous little figures that you buy separately that you place on the portal (included w/game) that transport the characters into the game to access the different areas and abilities. The starter set for the game is $60 @ Target, and you can get 3 character expansion packs for $20 each, or single character packs for $8 each. Did I mention that there over 30+ of figures to collect?

We dropped $200 on the game and 4 of the 3 character packs, bought everything on Thanksgiving Day online from the warmth and comfort of home, so I have been relaxed the entire time. The gifts are wrapped and hidden where he can't find them until he wakes up Christmas morning to see if Santa Claus decided he was a good boy this year and brought him anything from his always growing Christmas list.

My hubby being a gamer I got him the video game and strategy guide that he wanted. No clue what he got me for this year, but nothing tops my Kindle 2 he got me last Christmas.