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Gifts You'll Love This Yuletide | Christmas Gifts

4 August 2009

Here we go again. No sooner have we managed to polish off that final piece of Christmas cake, squashed all the cardboard packaging from those Christmas gifts and recovered from all that rich food, the excessive social events and the fact that the extended family was not capable, yet again, of getting together for a few brief hours, albeit under one roof, without something unplanned occurring. Granted, having 12 family members, some of whom you do not even recognise and have not seen since your own christening, in a fairly confined space, in strained conditions where everyone keeps that forced smile on their face all day long, is not the ideal condition for playing Happy Families.

You know that your brother-in-law does not get on with your cousin Jenny, so what on earth were you thinking when you placed them side by side at the dining table for 2 long hours? In hindsight, it was hardly surprising that the poor woman lasted that long before chucking the dregs of her red wine over his head. And why stick your great grandmother at the top of the table, when you know full well that she is as deaf as a post? This year, remember to put her between 2 family members who have booming voices and who are capable of helping themselves to more wine without waiting to be asked. They will be just what Great Grandma needs and are bound to look after her every whim. With all of those family egos squashed around a dining table designed for only 6 people, things are going to get a bit fractious to say the least, unless you can keep the atmosphere light-hearted. If your mother looks as though she is about to let the cat out of the bag about some little gem that you let slip many years ago, and she probably thinks that now is as good a time as any to issue the family with your inner most secret, you need to have some kind of distraction at the ready in order to side-track the guests away from her disclosure. With a bit of luck, she will forget completely what she was so desperate to tell everyone and you will be once more saved from total embarrassment. You could always ply your guests with more alcohol in the hope of creating a mood of levity, but alcohol has different effects on different people, making them very unpredictable, so your tactics could well leap up and bite you on the bum. No, instead, a great idea, and one which could be served up as soon as you notice that there is a dangerous potential for trouble, is to hand out small and inexpensive Christmas gifts to all the guests who are seated around the table.

For that bohemian relative of yours, who still sees himself as a refined and elegant beach bum, a lovely and extremely relevant Christmas gift is a Build Your Own VW Camper Van, which he can fiddle with and construct even as he sits at the table. For your mother, or anyone else in your family who thinks that they are still entitled to advise you on the best way to do something, and you know exactly who I'm talking about, a Perfect Badge says it all. This direct and straight speaking Christmas gift comes with a report card. Let's hope the recipient of this amusing Christmas gift finds it as humorous as the rest of you. For the utterly organised person who is always so together about money matters, the one who restricts their purchases to well defined shopping lists and keeps a note of every penny ever spent, a brilliant and useful Christmas gift is a Coin Sorter which will keep their loose change organised and sorted according to size. For your glamorous, image conscious yet slightly clumsy relative who is always getting into scrapes, a gorgeous tin of Boo Boo Kisses Bandages is a truly original collection of designer plasters, each tin containing a little toy. Kids of all ages will love this Christmas gift, and will show off their cuts and grazes with a touch of style. An On A Roll Sudoku Loo Roll is the ultimate in Christmas gifts to diffuse any tense situation around the dining table. This toilet roll has a sudoku challenge on each sheet, and it will not be long before everyone is joining in with suggestions. You will find that you need to confiscate the darn thing before you can get anyone's attention when you present them with the flaming Christmas pud. If you are stuck for ideas for any hard to define guests, a Pocket Volcano makes a good Christmas gift as it will entertain all types and ages of people. Small enough to be held in the hand those who have not fallen under the spell of sudoku will be distracted for hours with this little gem. Giving small Christmas gifts to break up the tension and lighten the atmosphere is a highly successful tactic, and none of these Christmas gifts will cost more than a few pounds.



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