I can afford more then a candybar!!!!

[ShinyGreenApple]

Oh your giving your family candybars for xmas.

. . .So? Heck, every year, we ask my Mom what she wants for Christmas. The answer is always, always the same.

"Chocolate candy."

"Uh, besides that, Mom."

"Well, maybe some new blouses. You know, the $5 ones from Wal-Mart (Yes, she says this, bless her! hehe). And a new bottle of Charlie (the perfume). But you'd better get me some chocolate, too!"

My Dad also has a habit of asking me to bake him a big batch of peanut butter cookies for Christmas each year. Mind you, he also asks for them for his birthday, when he's home on vacation, and just because, but still. I could probably make a few dozen and put them in a tin and he'd be just as happy as if I'd bought him something expensive.

Dunno what's wrong with your customers, CSG. Generally, edible/drinkable things are always well-received as gifts. I once brought a giant box of Swiss Miss hot cocoa packets to a white elephant gift exchange and the girl who ended up with them kept a death hold on the box and begged people not to take it from her.

[Buglady]

I have asked for (and received ) a box of Mandarin Oranges as a Christmas present before. I was a student at the time and I couldn't justify them as part of my food budget, but I LOVE oranges. That was when the Japanese oranges were all you could get, and they were $10 a box; I was earning $5.50 an hour...

Mmm. Oranges. Must go get one (the third today, yes I am pigging out now that I can afford to )

I give edible gifts and practical things like socks, mittens, scarves etc (handmade tho). I like receiving those kinds of things too. This year I am working in a pet food store part time and I think I will give pet treat baskets. Everyone I know has pets and I think they'd get a real kick out of watching their pets with a new toy

[El Pollo Guerrera]

They are sitting behind me on a desk and I keep getting the same snotty comment all week.Oh your giving your family candybars for xmas.I know it shouldn't bother me but they all have the same consending tone. (we all know the one).I just respond no those are for the employee xmas party.

I would have responded "I can't afford anything else... I work HERE!"

Brain-to-mouth filter fail.

[Belari]

Every year my Mom sends me a Thanksgiving package and a Christmas package. They are stuffed full of Amish Friendship Bread in 3 different flavors, my Great Grandma Gates' homemade fudge (made from real baking chocolate, not Hershey bars), and my Grandma's pumpkin bread and some of each of the 20 varieties of cookies she makes every year. She asked me once if I'd rather have "real" gifts or gift cards. I threatened to never speak to her again if she stopped sending the homemade goodness.

[mariamousie1]

You should turn it into a sale. "Yes, business has been so bad this is all I can afford to give my family. Please buy this hundred dollar item so my boss will give me more money and I can afford a turkey this year. "

[XCashier]

Candy bars would be cheap and edible. Sounds like an excellent gift for parts of my family who don't need more stuff.

Not to mention, the perfect size for stocking stuffers.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I still would. That might be because I'm a girl though.

Chocolate always makes a great gift for me as well. But then I'm not hard to please (or at least I try not to be.)

Either chocolate/gift baskets full of goodies (whether it be coffees/teas/bath products/chocolates, whathaveyou - I like perfume too) or nice pens tickle me pink.

[Calie]

Oh your giving your family candybars for xmas.I know it shouldn't bother me but they all have the same consending tone.

Ugh, I can't stand those people who instead on spending thousands and thousands of dollars on Christmas, and look down on those of us who choose to stay within a *gasp* budget. Wanna bet that most of those commenters have credit card debt up to their eyeballs?

And for the record I would love chocolate as a gift. Heck, I'd be happy if that was all I got.../calie drifts off into dreamworld of chocolate...