Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for November 19, 2024

Money and let him and the kids go get what they want.

Ah yes, another Christmas approaches.

When you’re an adult, you can pretty much get whatever you want, unless someone knows you well enough to get something you didn’t think you needed.

The only difference between men and boys is the size of their toys, I am a prime example!

Thus sayest the biggest kid of all.

I am providing feedback on the procurement process.

Orrrrrr, teach your kids to not be greedy and grateful for what they get.

I wonder what Zoe, Hammie and Wren would do with gift boxes filled with enough dollar bills to buy three average toys? I mean, their parents are going to spend the cash anyway, so let the kids go to the after-Christmas sales!

I want to see the Dad emote

One Christmas my older daughter had asked for a specific doll. Christmas morning arrived, and she & her sister both enjoyed opening their gifts. Later in the morning we asked her if she got everything she wanted. She smiled brightly & said, “No, but I loved everything I got.” That’s when my husband & I remembered the doll; we had bought it but forgot to pull it out of hiding!

He is the likely person paying for it so he should be able to emote.

HUMBUG. Already “THAT” time again? :-(

Cash is always the right size and the right color. No one ever returns cash.

My wife tells me to just go buy what I want for Christmas so she doesn’t have to mess with any returns. She isn’t sure of what woodworking or mechanic’s tool I need next.

And because they’re in a time warp, the kids will be exactly the same age as they were last Christmas.

As Bertrand Russell might have put it: I emote; you complain; he/she whines.

“I’m not a whi-ner!” – Leonard Hofstadter ☺

If I get Reese’s, I’m happy.

The wife and I put things we want in an on-line “wish list” throughout the year – and share it with the kids – it is generally related to our hobbies or travel. We double check the list in October and remove things that are not applicable any more. Since we don’t live near our families, we don’t know what the latest “trends” are so we send the kids/grandkids money and let them do as they wish – much easier than dealing with sending the wrong things.

People who meticulously plan the Christmas Holidays are the ones most doomed to have everything blow up in their faces

I try to be happy with every gift I receive because they are given in love. One year my daughter couldn’t afford to buy me anything so she gave me a homemade video. Another year she gave me a deep freeze. It’s all in perspective. I was really unhappy with the video but I learned to get over it, I eventually grew up.

Every year, there is a bottle of fine Scotch under the tree for me from “Santa”, which I bought myself, and share with family through the remainder of the holiday season.

Good one Darryl.

I always get the right gift as I buy myself whatever I want/need. I really don’t need anything, but I really love Christmas and the whole holiday season……

The past year I gave books to my son who is in his mid thirties now, both books were collectibles. An old books bookstore I used to frequent is now online only, time to browse their inventory.

“….in a whiny voice.”

As an inveterate collector of odd things, my solution to my perfect gift is to buy it when I find it, add it to the appropriate list of treasures, and stick it in a gift cupboard where the family “shops”.

He’s whines but in a manly way.