The wish you a happy christmas thread

[petr_solberg]

Good Afternoon Slackers Cool People in the Coffee Corner,

just going through my list of things to do before wrapping up for the year on Friday

and, oh, yep, here it is, task #27,

. wish all the slackers cool people in the Coffee Corner a happy christmas

so,

merry christmas and a happy new year to all.  And if you don't celebrate Christmas, then hope you

have a good time anyway.

Looking forward to more fun in the Coffee Corner next year,

and remember, while I am off for Christmas, play nicely.

Andy.

[Lukas_Weigelt · Accepted solution]

and remember, while I am off for Christmas, play nicely.

GUYS, HE'S GONE! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

P.S. Merry XMAS and a Happy New Year

[petr_solberg · Accepted solution]

ROTFLMFAO

Andy.

[Former Member]

-Avirat

[Former Member]

...And a Happy New Year!!

Welcome to the Future.

'Where we're going, we don't need roads' - Doctor Emmet Brown, on their travel to 2015 in 'Back to the Future' (1985).

[petr_solberg]

Happy Christmas All

Seasons greetings

All the best for 20145

Andy

Message was edited by: Andy Silvey

[former_member182465]

Happy New year wishes to all.

[BenedictV]

Merry Christmas Everybody!!!....Stay on Santa's 'Nice List'

Santa's going to put a Tin Whistle(with an instructional DVD) under the tree for me. Hope I can learn to play a tune by next christmas

Regards & Happy Holidays,

Benedict

[former_member46]

Loving this thread

Good luck all in finding the perfect gift and wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season!!

Gali

[Former Member]

Hi gali, Wish u a very happy new year.

[nishantbansal91]

Hi All Experts ,

Really its seems that we are not SDN member, But we all are Family member.

Merry Christmas to All & Happy New year,

Regards.

Nishant Bansal.

[Former Member]

Thanks Andy! Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous New Year!! Happy holidays to Everyone!! Cheers, Mariaan

[stephenjohannes]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year also!

Take care,

Stephen

[Former Member]

Thank you Andy...! Wish you Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year!!

[Steffi_Warnecke]

Ask her best friend. ^^ Maybe this will get you some clues.

[petr_solberg]

thanks Steffi.

I'll remember that.

A man would never think of that.

Andy.

[Former Member]

Just to be on the safe side: is it not dangerous to contact your wife's best friend to ask questions about her without her knowledge? Or is it only dangerous for the best friend?

Just playing it safe as some instinctive little voice in me is saying "Be careful..."...  🙂

Cheers,

Julius

[petr_solberg]

Julius,

it all depends on the delivery,

if you contact your wife's best friend for a private meeting at a nice restaurant to discuss said subject, then that could be risky

Andy.

[Former Member]

The frying pan or a new iron seems much less dangerous to me...

[JL23]

I just wanted to mention that Diamonds are the girls best friend  and recommend that you try to get the Diamond status again after your big point loss a few weeks ago.

But what I saw impressed even me, you got already two:

[Former Member]

I could tell her to pretend that they are a pair of earrings...

Or go for the safer option of being the first amongst her friends to have a Philipps E350 with drawer integrated board?

[petr_solberg]

I wouldn't do that

I've got that t'shirt

what's worse, a microwave, in my younger naiver days I bought my wife a new microwave, it was the best in the shop, built in rotisserie, everything

needless to say, it went back for a refund

Andy.

[Steffi_Warnecke]

This. ^^ And it's not about secrets, so it should be safe. But I guess, that depends on the woman, too.

[Former Member]

I am in the same trouble as last year and only 24 hours left. Help!

[Matt_Fraser]

Somehow all the excellent suggestions from Steffi, Jelena, etc, from last year never seem to filter down to me in time. I find myself often in the same situation as you, Julius, and Andy, in suddenly scrambling about a day or two before Christmas (or her birthday), and all those little (often not so subtle) hints dropped through the year suddenly go poof! Gone. Blank. No idea what she told me anymore. Panic sets in. I become convinced I'm the worst husband ever. Hmm, how many hundreds of dollars will it cost for pre-wrapped emergency overnight delivery from Amazon...?

[Steffi_Warnecke]

In a time, where everybody seems to carry around a smartphone of sorts, there is no excuse anymore to NOT write it down the instant you get an idea (or big hint).

I think, it's not so much the cost of the fast delivery, but the possibility, that it won't be there on time now. ^^

[Former Member]

For a while I knew what it feels like for freshers with an interview the next day, when they write "Give me the step-by-step procedure asap"...

But I was blessed this afternoon when I intercepted a christmas basket brought by someone who's name I will not mention. Biscuits. Nuts. Chocolates. Wine. Tea... Perfect gift, and it now has a "with love from Julius" card on it 😉

Survived another year..

Julius

[Matt_Fraser]

Lol, brilliant solution!

[marilyn_pratt]

I'm at my desk laughing out loud.  Brilliant and economical too! Although its late in your part of the world for such suggestions, a hand written card with a promise of a meal, a special "surprise" activity, or the like works too. Promissory note.

[Steffi_Warnecke]

Yeah, like a selfmade gift card! I made such a thing once for my best friend for her birthday. A "we go to the cinemas, then diner and all you need to bring is yourself, cause I'll pay for everything" with pictures and stuff. ^^

[Former Member]

I hope it is OK for me to hijack this thread and ask for ideas about an Xmas present for the missus this year?

She wanted 2 new sofas, so we (what I thought was romantic) made a deal that I 1 for her and she buys the other 1 for me. That worked fine and I even went to IKEA with her for 2 hours to look at matching other things. I even went with to Interio Designer but got into trouble for falling asleep on the psychologist couch.

Now via my sister I heard that the missus has concerns about the sofas. There is actually nothing wrong with them except that they can only be delivered in February 2014... so the problem is that she wants to be able to open a present on Xmas eve anyway and be delighted.

Does anyone have an original idea for an Xmas present for the missus which excludes that which she already wanted, the sister won't use it as "abuse report" that her husband did not think of it for her either and she is still delighted.

I was thinking about creating an SCN account for her and giving her 10k SCN points from mine. Or all of them, forever... but I guess that JIVE does not support that. Dumb idea anyway as it will not be well received.

Another option I thought of was a very nice silk sari. Will give her hope for the return of the summer. Does anyone know of a good source for such a thing if I send the spec?

Other Xmas present ideas for the missus are also very welcome. Any ideas are generally welcome as they might also help other people who are in a fix which I managed to avoid in past years.

Cheers,

Julius

[Jelena]

Julius von dem Bussche wrote:


I was thinking about creating an SCN account for her and giving her 10k SCN points from mine. Or all of them, forever...

Ha-ha! Well, at least the SCN account is not a fry pan, so no chance of geting hurt by it being thrown back at you.

As a female, I can tell that a gift of clothes, cosmetics, accessories and such could go either very well or very, very bad.

Personally, every year I hope someone would give me a Panera Bread gift card (no luck so far, maybe my husband should get an SCN account, er? ). It's not that I can't afford it or it's difficult to come by. But for some reason I enjoy that place immensely, so for someone to get such gift for me would mean (a) they know me very well; (b) they want me to enjoy more of those special moments when you walk in through the door and smell fresh baked bagels. (Darn, now I'll have to go there tomorrow!)

So maybe there is something similar that your wife enjoys. Surely you must know at least some things about her.

[petr_solberg]

Julius,

be my guest, I am also a sufferer of this condition.

This year, apart from a number of smaller gifts our christmas present is to go to London for Valentine's weekend and watch Les Miserables.

I don't think we'd go for sofa's as christmas presents, our chimney's not big enough for Father Christmas to get them down, and if he got stuck in there on the way we'd have hell to pay as we wouldn't be able to run the fire in the morning and that would be really unpleasant.

I think Christmas presents for wives would be a good subject for Marilyn's  fail fest because man oh man, I have failed miserably by getting the wrong christmas present in the past. What a challenge this is.

We'll have to take private counsel from Jelena and figure this out as a group therapy thing.

Good luck,

Andy.

[Steffi_Warnecke]

As a female, I can tell that a gift of clothes, cosmetics, accessories and such could go either very well or very, very bad.

Yep. I prefer to buy this stuff myself OR have the exact item I want on a shopping list, so that the others get the right one. ^^ Gift cards always look a bit impersonal to me, so when I give away those, I tend to craft something, that relates to that.

[petr_solberg]

you see, we've got no chance

[Steffi_Warnecke]

Well, women tend to give hints to what they want to have the whole year through. You just have to pick up on them. That why I mentioned the best friend. If you didn't get it, she sure will have. ^^

[petr_solberg]

yeah, I appreciate that top tip Steffi, thanks

🙂

[Former Member]

Julius,

I am just back in the office after the holidays and saw your query. I didn't see this suggestion in any of the replies, so for your consideration for next year's gifting to your wife, I recommend something my husband has been buying me for some years now: a day of pampering at a favorite spa. No worries about the size or color, all she has to do is schedule it, show up and enjoy.

Cheers,

Gretchen

[JL23]

I personally prefer The Grinch and Ebenezer Scrooge, especially as it hits me twice every year, nevertheless Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from me too.

[fred_verheul]

Great post (and comments)!

Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2014!

Cheers, Fred

[Jelena]

Merry Christmas! Also Happy Festivus and Robanuka!

[TammyPowlas]

Happy Festivus to all!

Season's Grievances Festivus Sweepstakes

[midhun_vp]

Merry X'mas to all.

- Midhun VP

[Former Member]

Enjoy !!

[naveen_inuganti2]

Thanks Andy...! Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year!!