Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for December 20, 2021

He’s gonna be in trouble for not reading her mind

Stealing presents instead?

My wife and I find the ‘Perfect’ gifts for each other year after year. How you ask? We shop for ourselves. She buys what she wants & places it under the tree, I buy what I want & place it under the tree. Come Christmas we open our gifts (not knowing what each other bought themselves) and we’re BOTH happy! “Oh Honey, that’s what I always wanted!!…Thank you…”

My wife keeps asking me what I want for Christmas. I keep telling her that I don’t need anything. She keeps telling me that I am not answering her question.

Took us a few decades, but we finally reached the let’s don’t do that this year stage. Kinda uncomfortable to lose a 60 year old habit, but also kinda nice to be relieved of looking at stuff that is only there to have something to open. We still have each other, and, after the many examples of loss over the past 2 years, that’s plenty to be happy about.

Prayers for those whose Christmas dinner will include empty chairs at the table.

The best gifts are cash and gift cards.

A donation to the Snow Leopard Trust, in your name.

this is exactly why I gave up on what passes for christmas celebrations – it’s all about what one gets, not what one gives.

Typical wife scenario. “I don’t want anything this Christmas/Anniversary/Birthday/etc” “What did you get me?”

We have done it for years, we always get something for us durning the year.

Um, yeah, let me know how that works out for you…

On the other hand, my sister and I, by mutual agreement, have gotten each other the same thing for years now: nothing. Best present ever, again!

We have given nonprofits for the Holidays for some 22 years. Everyone on our list gets a card from the charities letting them know of the gift in their name.