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Here is the thread where you post gift ideas to help out your fellow ILXers do their seasonal shopping.

The Mini Art Book: 500 pages, covering 500 different artists. Who doesn't like art? Just $10!

Director's Series, Vol. 3 - Michel Gondry DVD: crazy videos for Bjork, the White Stripes, Cibo Matto, etc. Who doesn't like crazy music videos? $15!!

For the indie-inclined: 25 Years of Rough Trade Shops boxed set: 4 discs, impeccably selected, less than $40!

Onion books and calendars. Swiss/Belgian chocolate. I try to avoid giving gift certificates, because they're just like cash except not as useful. So, your ideas?

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 8 December 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i like to get gift certificates to bookstores and record stores. it keeps me from spending holiday gift money on things like groceries. but i still get to chose exactly what i want.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 8 December 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I like gift vouchers but not to shitey shops.

I'd forgotten the Gondry DVD when compiling my list last night so this thread has actually been useful already. I do wish Michel Gondry had made more videos for good records though.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 8 December 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

How about some candles, a candle holder and a selection of soaps from the Body Shop - who doesn't like White Musk!!

I would like a cd by Asao Kikuchi, broadband/sound card for THE BEAST, a big bottle of PORT/sherry/whisky, a cuddly toy of some kind and a laundry basket.

― i'd rather a lump of coal in this weather (starry), Monday, 8 December 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

A fast-boiling kettle with the prongy base that heats the whole of the flat bottom.

A Matmos colour-shifting cordless light tablet.

A high-end cowboy hat.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 December 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Gifts for fathers (or father in law):
A nice pair of leather gloves
A leatherman/multitool thingy
A bathrobe/Slippers
A Universal Remote Control

― marianna, Monday, 8 December 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Binoculars or telescopes.

A bath or shower rack.

Newspaper from date of birth/anniversary.

Magazine subscription (I'm hoping for New Scientist from my granny).

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 8 December 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Cup holder for headboard (why are these not sold in every shop in the land? Rid me of the fear of swiping my glass off my bedside table).

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 December 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

A Matmos colour-shifting cordless light tablet.

this is your solution for everything.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 December 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the Law & Order coffee table book
the Law & Order DVD box season 1
Law & Order DVD of best episodes as selected by the creator

― TOMBOT, Monday, 8 December 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

RJG - it is! Everyone loves them.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 December 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

fer the young republicans in yer family:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/atrios/mad.JPG

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 8 December 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

quick! tell me a <$20 gift idea for a 31 y.o. female

― we gotta move these refrigerators (CaptainLorax), Friday, 20 April 2012 22:27 (thirteen years ago)

Take her to a carnival. Toss dimes at milk-glass dishes until you win one. Give it to her. If you fail to win a dish, stop tossing after the 199th dime. She'll be relieved. If you have any money left over after the dime toss, buy her some cotton candy. It is guaranteed to last until she decides to throw the uneaten residue into the garbage.

If you are really serious about impressing her, try the Test of Strength where you bang a big mallet on a board and shoot a weight up a wire toward a bell.

― Aimless, Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:19 (thirteen years ago)

Buy her several yards of cotton calico and a dress pattern.

― Aimless, Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:21 (thirteen years ago)

Or maybe get her some whimsical sox.

― Aimless, Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:27 (thirteen years ago)

generic vaginal fungus cream, two tubes

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:35 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

someone wants me to propose a suitable gift for her fella on the occasion of the award of his doctorate, must

be computery
be engravable

???

― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Monday, 2 September 2013 11:14 (twelve years ago)

A mahogany plaque with Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics on it.

― Aimless, Monday, 2 September 2013 16:45 (twelve years ago)

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