Right, what are you getting your partners for Chrimbo? <gets out pad and pencil to write down ideas>

[Rhubarb]

C'mon on or mine's getting socks! Tell me what you are buying yours so I can pinch all your ideas and pass them off as my own.

littlerach - disasterously!

Brats beckon - catch this later!

Ooooohhhh yes I could just buy him a strap - well that would raise a few eyebrowns on xmas morn!

Noooo if I bought him that book he would laugh and bet me that I couldn't keep if up for more than a week - which unless a huge pressie was involved would be true!

Eyebrowns????

(but we are the Brown family afterall.)

I bought dp a sea fishing rod, im going to try and get Conn igulddens Genghis Khan book and a few odds and ends from the kids, im hoping for some new clothes to help me feel less frumpy!

Smurf, blimey is all that a budget Christmas??
What do you get when you splash out?

Oooh very nice NP. Where will ye go??

we are going to the lake distric t MD

cant wait! and i hope it snows and i can have a log fire on

So far got a framed pic of our village in the olden days . May also get a ipod docking station and speakers. Have bought ourselves the dc a wii so may get a game to go with it.

DH mentioned that he loves The Game of Life - he will be getting that.

Don't know what else...
His birthday is on the 21st of December too, so I nedd more ideas (WAAAAAAH!!!)

pair of jeans and bottle of rum

Tickets to see Kings of Leon and a picture he saw in the Pedlar catalouge.(He is 30 as well at Christmas so he is getting more than usual this year)

I saw Kings of Leon last year and they were fab

A chrome cover for his battery box. 50 quid for a square bit of shiny metal with a bracket on! But it's the only thing he really wants. ( for a motorbike BTW, in case anyone thinks it's for his duracells )

New mobile, pair of trainers and the new Live Lounge CD.

I don't know yet.

He wants one of those clocks that wake you up gently with a fake sunrise that lights up the bedroom gradually over the space of 2 hours but I know that it will wake me up ridiculously early after 2 seconds and I don't love him that much

A box of jaffa cakes.

he wants the star wars millenium flacon
I'm getting him some transformers and boxset of Bones
he is more of a child than ds

Tickets to see Oasis, guitar hero & some canvas'.

Some books, dvds and xbox games so far - think I have decided on his big present but not yet bought it. Will get some beer, sweets etc as well.

A Jolly Roger flag and a book about how to dig a rootcellar.

So far i have got my dh a mini helicopter so he can fly it round the room and annoy everyone, a money box that adds up all your loose change (so i can then spend it and a box of jaffa cakes - who said romance was dead!

we are treating ourselves to a new hallway carpet (ah the romance!) The carpet we have at moment is horrible granny red colour circa 1978

50th anniversary box of lego ( the one with the gold brick)
Clinique for Men face stuff at huge expense, because he is so vain.

dp has got

3 books on wine/beer making from charity shop (the older the book the better it tends to be) - 1 using tinned fruit, should be interesting (and I use the term loosely )

bottle of rum (and I've stocked up on frozen cherries, which he likes in it instead of ice cubes)

cheap and nasty sweets - the more additives the better, if it's not glowing then he's not interested. (his fave)

a nice little pot thingy ona little stand with chequerboard pattern for his dice (also charity shop)

we promised to cut down to minimum this year. SO I went a little over the top .

Never mind

ok now I've read the other posts.

Mine seems surpisingly meagre in comparison.