Cutting out the middle-man, and buying yourself things you really want! (NB. It is quite difficult to surprise yourself, however).

Yay or nay?

I do it all the time. YAY!!

JessieJ said:

examples!!! your mum says "jess, here's $50 go buy yourself something nice"?

DIY Gift Buying - the spending of the lonely and unloved...

As to the difficulty of surprising yourself...

Simply buy yourself lots of nice things. Wrap them up and label them with your name (and a photo of yourself).

Then headbutt a few walls until you damage yourself so much, amnesia kicks in.

Then when you come across the gifts labelled with your name (and photo of yourself, just in case you don't remember your name), you'll be able to open them and be totally surprised by the contents. And also, you'll have Prince's entire back-catalogue to completely discover once more, as new, until your memory returns.
Don't forget to be disappointed with Rave for the second time.

ZombieKitten said:

Oh Yeah, my parents and just about all of my relatives have done that. No one ever wants to go and pick something out for me. Apparently, I'm hard to shop for I don't care though 'cause then I can get whatever I want

Haystack said:

I was thinking that and just leaving enough time (decades) until opening them!
Like in 2010: "oh look! what I always wanted!!! A TELEX machine!"

JessieJ said:

my folks and in-laws always do that too, but don't you think it takes away from the whole "specialness?"

ZombieKitten said:

I guess so, but I'm ok with it. The way that I see it is, if someone wants to get you a gift, it should be something that you're going to enjoy. I don't want someone to waste their money on something I know that I will not use.



I think that I'm just used to buying gifts for myself.
[Edited 5/9/08 18:04pm]

oh hell yes. with my weirdass tastes, if i don't pick out what i want for myself, nobody else is going to think to get it for me (or have the nerve). i'd really just as soon have my loved ones buy me clean socks and underwear, and let me spend my own hard earned cash on the stuff i know i really want. i'm just too much of a fickle and obsessive pain in the butt to buy for.

ZombieKitten said:

Yeah it does ...mum gives me money every birthday and xmas ....but I proberly wouldn't like what she brought
A few times she has taken me out and said what would u like and we have done it together..that was great.....
Last time it was a diamond ring to die for.....she said she wanted me to have something from Phillip (my uncle that died last year)....and we both liked the thought that it would be something I wear all the time ..I't's beautiful!!!
[Edited 5/9/08 18:05pm]

Oh, I buy shoes.


As a matter of fact I gifted myself today with a pair.


My Mother's Day gift to myself.

ZombieKitten said:

Problem I would have is spending way more than the 50 bucks

i go shopping with the boys- and say

oh, thats nice....

once ive done that 20 times they might get the hint

I buy myself flowers every week. I buy a new bouquet for my kitchen table, each Friday. Makes me feel good to see fresh flowers on my kitchen table, and since my family never gives it a second thought. It is my weekly splurge just for me.

Anxiety said:

Would you have to specify "clean"?

Where would they buy DIRTY socks and underwear??

FunkMistress said:

mypantystore.com

ThirdandFinal said:

Not clicking

FunkMistress said:

C,mon, it's the website that inspired the lines in Dorothy Parker


I said cool,
but i'm sniffing your panties
cause I'm kinda goin with no one
[Edited 5/12/08 11:13am]

FunkMistress said:

It's like a pervy cross between Facebook and ebay.

ZombieKitten said:

Yay! I once bought myself a pair of boots a month before Christmas and since I hadn't worn them yet, I gift-wrapped them and brought them to my family's holiday get together. I didn't open them there though. It seemed kinda tacky.

If I didn't buy fun stuff for myself, I'd never receive anything.

I bought myself a few beautiful silver pieces this weekend @ Fair


them

CarrieMpls said:

OK, not never. I've received lovely gifts from many lovely people.

But it's not common.

CarrieMpls said:

You received a lovely gift from me. Hand-made.

sextonseven said:

Indeed I did!

CarrieMpls said:

Why are you making me wait on MySpace? Did Dan tell you to do that?

I buy myself gift certificates.

I know it's kind of skid row, but I'm lazy.

sextonseven said:

My internet has been goofing up at home so I haven't been online since I got back from New York and I can't access myspace from work. It should be fixed by tonight, I'm hoping!

CarrieMpls said:

A likely story. I think you are making me wait as payback for all those years of not letting you be my friend until we met.

CarrieMpls said: