posted December 22, 2009 01:57 PM         

*The worst, and I mean worst, horrible person I had to buy for was my deceased Step Mother in law, a lovely Libra woman whom everyone adored. She was just terrible about receiving and she knew it!!!
No matter what you gave her, she would just pop out with something negative, it was so weird!!! I had a throw especially made for her, with all the grandchildrens names and and angel on it. I mean, it was costly! She looked it over and said, "well, it would of been nicer in cranberry than hunter green."

One Christmas day, she threw my poor father in law out of the house because ONE, just one of her gifts was a kitchen gadget, and she said that was insulting. She said gifts should be something indulgent that you would not buy for yourself.
*And it had to be name brand or she wouldn't wear it.

My leo daughter is a gem, anything frilly, pink, girly and glittery and she's a happy camper.

My Pisces daughter likes anything she can color or color with, paint, etc. She also loves nostalgia gifts; scrapbooks, pic frames, etc.

Their Cappy dad wants electronics and electronics only.

These are a few, I'll give you guys a turn.

posted December 23, 2009 10:17 AM         

I love to receive handwritten letters and stuff.

posted December 24, 2009 01:58 AM         

i dont really know how to react when opening presents i mean. usually i am just like oh great another sweater but thats just me. but if its something expensive or something i really wanted ill be like wow omg with my mouth open staring at it.

posted December 24, 2009 05:21 AM         

HI DEPPY, my lil sweets. I TOO can be sent into ecstacy with office supplies. Yeah, sweaters are ok, not my style, but sometimes necessary, however, give me a lovely pen which glides instead of merely writes, a brand new journal, some extra notebooks for jotting down things not important enough to grace the pages of my sacred journals, and I am yours.

You are right it is a writer thing. Doncha love the smell of paper, and the promise of the brand new unmarred journal... ahhh, let's meet at Office Depot and have a holly jolly, what do you say?

MissKIss;
You are a Virgo/Sun yes? Like my Mom. Funny how this works, she gives The Best Gift Ever, but is the hardest to buy for. The only thing I've ever given her that she has actually kept, is jewelry, no costume or fakes, it's gotta be the real deal. That she likes. (leo rising) Other than that the clothes are not the quality in which she would prefer, she despises sentimental type gifts. Pics are ok, but no gushy stuff.
Practical gifts dont work either.
No certificates for manicures, tanning or such. She has no interest. Or restaurant gift cards, I can never choose the one she likes. She loves to read, but reads so much and such different subject matter from time to time, I've a hard time keeping up with her, so I suppose a book store certficate would be in order.

posted December 24, 2009 11:20 PM         

I am an aquarius as well and i like anything that is sentimental - like a picture of a great night with my friends in a frame or a book on a subject i enjoy. my best friend gave me an ipod for my birthday last year (can't live without my music) and that was one of the most thoughtful presents because i love music - anything that comes from the heart and is thoughtful- no matter how big or small - is what matters most (i also have venus and mars in pisces).

Also, hands on stuff is fun - like build your own planetarium or make your own candles kit but i do prefer the sentimental stuff.

my aries father likes technology and track suits(lol) and my virgo mother likes anything pretty and girly (a scarf or a pretty pottery), suprisingly nothing practical but more aesthetically pleasing.

posted December 25, 2009 02:17 AM         

I got my mother, a 30degree capricorn, with a pisces ascendant and a sagittarius moon a book by my favourite author, that she's read many titles from aswell, second hand from me. This one is Hogfather. The author is Terry Pratchett. Hogfather sets christmas, so it's suiting.

I got my father, a pisces, with an aries ascendant, and a virgo moon another book, this time "The Gum Thief" by Douglas Coupland. I was strolling through an indigo store as I often do, and was thinking how i disregard a large amount of books, since I'm obsessed with a small few authors, so I let myself get grabbed by a cover, checked it out, and was surprised to find I thouhgt it would be good. So I bought it, and later decided I'd give it to my dad as a christmas present. I think it would probably be a good read for my dad's exgirlfriend aswell, and was torn between who to give it to, but upon realizing that i wasnt going to be able to afford presents for everyone, I figured my father was of more prior worth. He'll probably lend it to her eventually anyway.

I got my sister, an aries, with a sagittarius rising, and a moon I don't remember yet another book. But this time it's Dragon Magic, an expansion for the Dungeons and Dragons pen and paper game she's been engrossed in since, like, 2005 or something.

For one of my best friends (I've got two, this Leo and an Aquarius ^.^), a as just aforementioned Leo, with a 30degree Gemini ascendant, and a Taurus moon a Yugioh structure deck. He plays it with friends every little whie, as it was his adolescent uhh like thing, obsession I guess. Anyway he's devized a deck out of cards he's had from other sources to mimic this deck I've bought him, and it's better than any other deck he has, but he refuses to play it stubbornly, and says he wants to wait until he has the structure deck. So I got it.

while buying both the DnD book and the yugioh deck, I thought I'd buy a magic deck and give it to either a sagittarius friend or an aries friend (these two, the leo, and my sister, are the DnD group. fiery, eh?). I bought it and opened it just to see what it was like because I was curious, as it was really old, and I've usually played with more modern cards. as it turned out it really sucked when tossed up against more modern cards, and I told the sagittarius about it, having in my mind to maybe make a custom deck out of cards I've accummulated and give it to him instead if he'd prefer, but he said he'd rather not recieve anything at all, because he plays only proxies now, as his playing group has established it's only fair to have equel access among players. I gave it to the Aries :P

Upon enquiring to my sister about what books she's read by Terry Pratchett (our mutually favourite author), and having recieved the response "I want to know what not to get you" when she asked why I wanted to know, she was surprised I was getting her anything at all. She felt obligated to get me something in return, and concluded it would be a set of fancy dice. I have yet to be surprised by the fanciness. She's currently visiting a friend in Maine, while we live in Ontario, so it's not like she's poor and I'm squeezing anything out of her. I don't really need dice, but it would be cool to have more.

posted December 25, 2009 04:51 AM         

I'm glad most of you Pisces peeps agreed on the personal is best theory. That is what I ended up giving the "moody SOB" (Lord, now he's been christened, no going back to just Pisces dude) Anyway, I wrote it this afternoon, the poem that is. And it flew out quite smoothly, mostly because I'de been storing up the words and images in my head for weeks anyway.
So we exchanged the little stickers and cards and dumb stuff on myspace. And, I said, wait, I have something else...

So, I sent the poem. And there was like ENDLESS silence. I would suppose he was collecting himself. Finally he came around and wanted to know if I wrote it, um, duh! Then he wanted to know if it was about him, double duh! But I'm pretty sure he liked it very much.