christmas wish listing
Posted by u l a n on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 at 9:04 PM.
My friends and I devised a system to lessen the guess-work in Christmas gift-giving. I know thinking of what to give your friends is part of the fun, but we all decided that hassle-free shopping and receiving the gifts that one likes are a better kind of fun.
So, we opened a Yahoo!Group for our circle and used the database to input our wishlists. It has several columns that display the recipients, the gift, where to get the gift, how much it is, and a column that says "Granted!". This way, people can just browse your list and put an X on the Granted column if he or she is getting the item for you.
While there's no longer any surprise as to which items you'll get, we decided to keep the givers' identities secret just so there's a little surprise left to the whole process.
I've gotten gifts for 4 of my friends already and I'm so excited to give them because I know that they'll love them. Of course I can't wait to get mine, too haha!
Most of my friends asked for books. The nice thing about that is I loved going to the bookshops to look for their books. But, of course, when I buy one book for a friend and end up buying a couple for me.
As early as now, my reading list is set up to the end of the first quarter of 2007. (see photo!)
Next week, I hope to get the rest of my gifts ready. I just need to ride the last work wave of the year, which is turning out to be the most hectic. But work is good. I'm not really complaining. It's work that has afforded me all these goodies in the first place. And for that, I'm really grateful.
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So, we opened a Yahoo!Group for our circle and used the database to input our wishlists. It has several columns that display the recipients, the gift, where to get the gift, how much it is, and a column that says "Granted!". This way, people can just browse your list and put an X on the Granted column if he or she is getting the item for you. While there's no longer any surprise as to which items you'll get, we decided to keep the givers' identities secret just so there's a little surprise left to the whole process.
I've gotten gifts for 4 of my friends already and I'm so excited to give them because I know that they'll love them. Of course I can't wait to get mine, too haha!
Most of my friends asked for books. The nice thing about that is I loved going to the bookshops to look for their books. But, of course, when I buy one book for a friend and end up buying a couple for me.
As early as now, my reading list is set up to the end of the first quarter of 2007. (see photo!)
Next week, I hope to get the rest of my gifts ready. I just need to ride the last work wave of the year, which is turning out to be the most hectic. But work is good. I'm not really complaining. It's work that has afforded me all these goodies in the first place. And for that, I'm really grateful.
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