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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:20 PM
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Any ideas for XMAS gifts to my 92 year old Repug Grandma?
I gave her a subscription to The American Prospect last year, and I asked her if she liked it, and she said "I'm a republican, I don't look at it."

So I'm wondering what to give her. She's very rich, she doesn't NEED anything. I was thinking maybe a Streisand CD or something. Something that is clearly pro-progressive, but something she could enjoy. (She's too old to convert, I'm quite sure)

Any ideas?
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:21 PM
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1. X-Box
Then you have something to do at her house.
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:32 PM
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21. Totally.
And if you're lucky, your grandma will get hooked. X-Box is a cruel mistress.
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Worst Username Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:22 PM
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2. A bill from your children
Since they will be paying for her government's policies anyway.
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floridadem30 Donating Member (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:22 PM
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3. A costco or bed bath and beyond gift card
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demnan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:22 PM
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4. I'd certainly be happy just to give her something
she'd really enjoy. Actually, you could send her flowers and she'd probably just love it. You may want to make a political point, but this might be the last Christmas she gets to enjoy.
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:28 PM
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7. I DO want her to enjoy it.
But if it makes a subtle political point, nothing wrong with that. And if the money goes to something good, even better.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:25 PM
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5. A music box!
Weird, I know, but I'm researching the 'net(s) for one for my granddaughter. Bet granny would get just as big a kick out of one, if you could find the right one.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:26 PM
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6. I gave my Gran a certificate good for...
... 6 dinners with me, my treat. She loved it.

:)
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:29 PM
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10. Unfortunately, She lives in TX and I'm in CA.
I'll visit for XMAS, but can't see her often.
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cally Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:28 PM
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8. A gift of time
Help her organize the photos, or sort the keepsakes. Cook her a meal from a family recipe. I doubt she wants stuff but she wants your time.
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eternalburn Donating Member (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:28 PM
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9. Tea basket or.....
....a coffee basket, or a hot chocolate basket, or a gourmet/speciality food basket. Just put the term "gift basket" into Google. Wide selection out there.

If you have a mind to you might even assemble a basket with a collection/combo of her favorites.
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okieinpain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:29 PM
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11. a machine gun, flak jacket, helmet, and boots. sorry, but we need people
in iraq.
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:29 PM
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12. money for her prescriptions
oh wait. she is a repug.

she gets nothing this year
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:29 PM
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18. She's very wealthy. No worries there for her.
If I ever inherit anything from her, I'll have to give a chunk to moveon.org!
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Squeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:31 PM
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13. Support the troops
Donate in her name to some charity that gets the soldiers in Iraq what they really want-- like phone cards, with which they can phone home for the holidays (suggestion via Steve Gilliard's blog). Or maybe plate armor for their Humvees, which the Halliburton Administration still hasn't kept its promise to supply.
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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:32 PM
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14. Um, a bottle of bourbon and a fistful of bennies? eom
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 12:32 PM
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15. Ask your mother for some old family pictures, and make a photo collage
for her.. and an inexpensive taperecorder, with a request of her to "tell you about her life".. Some day you will enjoy playing the tapes, and if her memory is good, she will have some interesting tales to tell..

At 92, her politics should not matter a lot... She's a link to your past... and who knows, if she's well off, she may play a part in your future too :)
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eek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:20 PM
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16. Howza bout some eco-friendly hand/body lotion?
Burt's Bees has some nice stuff like Milk and Honey Body lotion, Peppermint soap, Buttermilk lotion (all kinda old-fashiony sounding whih could appeal plus packaged in mostly recycled material)
In lotsa stores like Wholefoods Market
http://www1.burtsbees.com

OR
Working for Change has a whole shopping section where you can find loads of options: bird feeding places, organic coffee but barnes&Noble too. Money goes to progressive causes.

http://www.workingforchange.com/shop/index.cfm
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NaturalHigh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:23 PM
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17. Do you have kids or grandkids?
If so, make her some sort of video/DVD package of them.
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:30 PM
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19. Thanks for the nice ideas.
I don't know why, but my iMovie doesn't work right lately.
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NaturalHigh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:47 PM
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25. iMovie?
Sorry, but you're way ahead of me. That's strictly my wife's domain.
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personman Donating Member (959 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:31 PM
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20. 92 yo repug eh?
How about a surprise party?

heh couldn't help myself...
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:41 PM
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23. I probably shouldn't have used the word "repug"
She's a republican, but not a freeper mouth-breather. And she is my sweet old Grandma.

I certainly don't think of her primarily as my REPUG Grandma.

She's just Grandma.
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rolltide2005 Donating Member (40 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 02:12 PM
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27. Call a spade a spade
Rethug, repig. they can be sweet old ladies, or pudgy 250 pound balding white millionaires in size 44 pants driving hummers while smoking cigars, spouting bible passages and antigay propoganda out loudspeakers, and polishing their semiautomatic rifles.

the point? all republicans are the same inside, they just can be different on the outside.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:36 PM
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22. A Donation In Her Name To The ACLU
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:44 PM
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24. Coal
Wash it, clean coal.
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ChickMagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 01:49 PM
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26. Maybe a gift certificate
to a beauty salon or day spa. That's where the grannies hang out and gossip.
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Feathered Fish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-04 02:19 PM
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28. Get her something
that comes from a non-profit org. She is probably too old to change her politics, as you said, so you don't even have to let her know that it is a progressive gift.
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