do you buy your friends birthday gifts?

Whoops I forgot, I don't have any friends.

Never mind! Upwards nto the great wide open!

I follow the same rules as Archel, in general, but two close friends living far away get Christmas and birthday presents from me and I from them.

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*bows* Well, one tries! I just want to do more for others.

Which isn't very touching.

I have four friends I have always bought birthday and Xmas gifts for. I enjoy gift giving. They give me gifts as well and are the only gifts I ever get these days too.

I have a few friends that I buy gifts for -- I'm the same, I enjoy giving gifts. Though I have one friend who seems to keep a weird kind of 'scorecard' on what I give her in relation to what she's given me, and is always trying to give me the 'OMG YOU FOUND THAT IT'S MY FAVORITE THING EVER' present, which becomes exhausting. I put thought into my gifts, they're never half-assed, but I don't like feeling like I haven't gone to the ends of the earth enough, you know?

I do know and I am the friend who always brings that special "OMG! GIFT" but I don't keep score, I just like surprising my friends. Although this year was the first year I was not the "OMG! " gift giver and found out that one friend was relieved because she felt obliged to give me something super fantastic every year to the point of anxiety. UHG! Told her seriously, love making her happy but if it made her feel better I could hold back because the point is not to make anyone feel bad. So she decided to get over it, teehee... This one friend use to give me some of the most thoughtful and awesome gifts I had ever received but they were always stolen. He would steal rare books from libraries and a book store in town for his friends and had a job at a museum of sorts. People would donate really cool, rare items to this place and they were never cataloged. They would end up in a huge walk-in closet. He had access to that closet and would raid it for birthday's and Christmas. He never got caught. Though I have a huge loyalty to libraries and museums, I have to say that the small risk that went into these gifts made them pretty special. I didn't know they were even stolen for some time. He never answered when I'd ask where or how did you get/find this.

wow...okay that's a whole other level of gift giving. LOL

Haha! Well once I realized they were stolen I started noticing him stealing from parties and garage sales which was disappointing, though funny sometimes, but still, wrong. He has a good heart though. He was giving those things away as gifts! I didn't know if he enjoyed stealing or gift giving or both. He never had money but a ton of friends so I could see a reason there.