As Christmas approaches, many people will be agonizing over what to get mom and dad.
I've heard the complaints: "I hate shopping for mom and dad. They have everything and its just so frustrating."
If those words or ones similar have ever been uttered by you, think about this:
I will happily trade places with you. Just send a list of your parents likes, favorite colors, etc. In exchange, you go to Wal-Mart for me, pick out a really nice wreath, and take it to the cemetery.
2007-11-13 23:48:17 · 15 answers · asked by EDWIN 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
I am so sorry for your loss. Can't imagine Christmas without my parents.
God bless
2007-11-13 23:52:25 · answer #1 · answered by KyLoveChick 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm so sorry for your loss. This will be the first Christmas without my mom, too; Dad died 2 years ago. It's so hard because now my kids have no grandparents at all, and my youngest never even got to see his grandma but maybe once. I know we've been Christmas shopping already, and I've found things I'd have loved to get for Mom (even though she had stuff and didn't want/need anything). I just start tearing up right there in the store.
If people really don't like shopping for their parents, then maybe they should set aside a day to just spend with them, take them to dinner, or just do SOMETHING with them. That's what I'd give anything for now, is just another day to spend with my parents and let them enjoy their grandkids.
2007-11-14 00:04:57 · answer #2 · answered by Starfall 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry about your loss...each year I have this dilemma, as my parents are both in their 80's.....they were living across the street from me for the last 6 years, until last month, when they up and decided to move 1000 miles away, back to where they both grew up, when they left, I figured it will be the last time I see them both alive....but they sound happy and seem to like their new place.....still my mother is on a walker and incontinent...and my father is nearly blind, and wears a bag.....which often leaks...not real nice to be around..they up and did this on their own...bought a house on line, unseen, but checked out by my mothers siblings....last year I thought and thought, and bought all of the old Christmas Movies from the 40's to give them, had them over for Christmas dinner, and had lots of Cookies..Dad is Diabetic, but we let him splurge on his Birthday and Christmas...at 87, why not? Anyway, this year I will probaly send Card and Homemade Cookies...I know they will enjoy that, probably more than anything else, new Bathrobe or Nightgown for Mom and Flannel Pajamas for Dad.....that will probably be the standard from now on....I really do not expect to have my dad next year, but maybe....he has been in bad health for a long time, does not have Alsheimers, but does suffer from Dimmensia, I really feel that he wanted to die where he considered home, and that is why they are where they are......but this year will be hard for me, in spite of how hard it was to care for them while they were here.....
2007-11-14 01:23:35 · answer #3 · answered by Sherrie B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a good friend that knows the real value of life and when it comes to gifts for christmas or birthdays,he doesn't want any...no money or anything material...i phone him and sing my good wishes on this 2 occasions...that makes him so happy...
On 1 occasion,i asked him to send me a book and i will pay for the book and postage and a little extra for the effort...Well,he got the money and was upset and said that there should never be a topic of money/gifts/renumeration between friends.. it's out of pure friendship...and i am glad that i have one and that's enough for me and my lifetime....I am off topic here but i think you get the point...:)
2007-11-14 16:29:39 · answer #4 · answered by gta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I LOVE shopping for my parents. Admittedly it can get frustrating because I feel like I'm going to get them something stupid and then they won't like it, but whatever I pick out they always love.
And I do know what you're saying, though. My grandma (mom's mom) died a few years ago, and it was like a reality slap in the face for me. I don't know what I'd do without my parents, especially my mom. I do however happen to be one of the few who KNOW I'm lucky to have them, both of them, around.
2007-11-13 23:56:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
people complain they are ungrateful and don't think about those people who don't have any one to buy for any more.If people stopped and look at the less fortunate then maybe they would care. But Christmas shouldn't be about a gift you buy in the store but who you helped. Like helping a older woman with her groceries. picking up a child that fell and got hurt. telling some one you love them.
2007-11-14 00:08:48 · answer #6 · answered by sassylassy2876 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sweetie, please don't be mean to people for expressing what seems like hard work to them in a time of rush and confusion. Shopping for parents is a hard thing especially to young people who feel that their parents have everything they need, or want. I am sorry that you have apparently lost your parent(s), but I am sure that if you had many young(especially teenage)years with them, you can recall somewhere in time that you have felt some of the things these shoppers feel.
2007-11-13 23:57:25 · answer #7 · answered by Nolan's Mommy 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I truly think that hearing things like that, makes you sit and think and appreciate what we do have. I'm sorry for your loss and i hope that you can still find it in you to carry on and look for the positives in your life.
2007-11-13 23:59:28 · answer #8 · answered by Hortie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Agree with you 100%.
2007-11-13 23:53:28 · answer #9 · answered by Inga007 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow....i wasnt expecting something profound this morning....
i am sorry for the loss of your parents & yes you are right
instead of complaining we need to enjoy everyday & not sweat the small stuff...
2007-11-13 23:53:20 · answer #10 · answered by Heather M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋