What is the gift you are excited about or looking forward to GIVING the most. Not the biggest or most expensive, but the one that is special to you and/or the person it's intended for.

Later I'll share one that was special a couple years back for my son.

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I got my little cousin a physics set - I am hoping to turn her on to science

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

You flurt, you.

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I see it was 3 years ago now, but this was one of the most fun presents I've given in a long time.

First you need to know that through some magical event, an appreciation for classic movies developed with my son and it is something we've enjoyed together. We have been, and are, regular attendees at one of our grand old downtown theaters that occasionally shows some of the classic on a 30 ft. screen. That understood.......... One year I happened onto something that I knew would strike a spark with him and gave him this present and only said "I bet you can tell me what it is before you get it open", to an odd look on his face.

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The fun and challenge came in duplicating a packaging job so unique and memorable, it was telling. I'll show you the still from the move and the result of my clone try.

Getting Chinese newspaper only took a trip down to Chinatown. Finding actual sisal twine proved more daunting. Today's hardware's don't carry much twine without kevlar or nylon fiber.

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The cotton duct cloth, cotton batting and cheesecloth only required a trip to a fabric store.

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Every time I think of Christmas Past, I think of a gift that I had given my oldest son when he was 7. He is 21 now. He had been wanting this particular item for a long time, and really didn't think he would get it. We wrapped it in a weird shaped box so he wouldn't guess...... I can still see him ripping the paper off and opening that box and finding his Nintendo..... I knew he would be happy, but I didn't realize he would be so happy he would break down and cry real tears his joy and then jump around the room like someone possessed and then almost peed his pants. He even let us take a picture of him holding the box... lol Thank goodness we remembered to buy some games to go with it..... rofl

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