https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:35:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-364430 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:30:02 +0000 skibobrown 364430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Since we live away from our family now, we usually find something local to give to everyone -- like when we were in Cali we found these great chocolate covered cherries, where the cherries were grown in an orchard in our town. This year I'm thinking of just doing small framed pictures of DD. I think the in-laws and other family members would enjoy that, and it's cheap and easy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-364428 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:26:31 +0000 anonysquire 364428@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I finally decided on gifts for everyone. And they are fairly decent. I figured I should leave out the poison and anthrax this year. But I can't guarantee I won't sign the cards: "Merry Christmas a**hole". Anyways I decided on a 2 lbs of fudge for each couple and then we made a Christmas sign thing and then I will inculde a handmade first aid kit for everyone. </p> <p>The plan is to send it like the week before Christmas so it gets there on Christmas day or the day before so they do not have time to send us something... I kind of made a bet with DH that if his brother does not get us anything this year he has to buy me a coach diaper bag. Anyways so ya, everything is decided :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-351012 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:39:35 +0000 anonysquire 351012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LemonLong: Socks is what I ask for every year! I LOVE socks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-350479 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:59:51 +0000 Arden 350479@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Crumbs: @regberadaisy: I found the chocolate coal in the candy aisle at walmart, it was in a little mesh bag. I put it in a stocking. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349734 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:14:28 +0000 LemonLong 349734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Socks- I like the nice ones like SmartWool with a gourmet chocolate bar. </p> <p>Or a framed picture of you and your husband posing in front of a temple. They would probably love that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349719 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:03:38 +0000 SugarplumsMom 349719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lol, the pears ... I'm dying! Hahaha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349716 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:02:56 +0000 SugarplumsMom 349716@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaBehr: OMG, I'm cracking up here and almost woke up LO! Hahahaha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349702 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:51:44 +0000 anonysquire 349702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaBehr: hahahahah can I just pay for you to fly here and make the gift baskets for me lol. Omg you ladies are awesome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349700 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:50:41 +0000 anonysquire 349700@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Crumbs: omg! Can I just tell you how much I love you for mentioning my cats! Lol you are awesome! I wish my cats had bigger fingers so I could take a pic of them flipping the camera off and send that. That is DIY!</p> <p>@regberadaisy: Major sports fans! But I don't feel like getting something they will adore. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349699 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:50:20 +0000 MamaBehr 349699@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ok, so I'm kind of mean when I want to be and I have all sorts of back handed bad ideas now :) I say you do this:<br /> Gift bag of delicious coffee that is actually decaf and see if you can locally owned stuff that is made by Mormons, that hopefully has something like that written on the bag.<br /> Then include a beautiful fruit basket. But pick fruit that is almost too ripe, so by the time it gets there it is all rotten (sort of like them?) With very tiny bananas (for the prick in your life :) )<br /> Then some soap (you could try and find some fancy soap) and put in the card it is to help with the odor or to help keep them clean or something like that. </p> <p>You totally have to include some Mormon stuff, if that is their biggest issue with you. </p> <p>This post is making me realize how evil I can be. I swear I'm a nice person and not an evil master mind :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349695 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:47:05 +0000 regberadaisy 349695@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaBehr: omg that's hilarious!!!</p> <p>@Arden: I would love to know where you got the chocolate coal as well! Would be an awesome gag gift!</p> <p>Are they sports fans? The one year my BIL got us all matching NFL shirts that had our pick em league name on them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349693 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:46:03 +0000 SugarplumsMom 349693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@anonysquire: I'm actually considering something DIY this year. We were out of town for Xmas last year but still got them all something and didn't get anything in return. I'm thinking about little butterfly portraits of LO's feet ... Maybe you can try it with your cats. Everyone loves homemade gifts :)</p> <p>Instead of butterflies, you can a Xmas tree design with your cat's paws and have a Mormon quote in the background. </p> <p><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/99431104243437609/" rel="nofollow">http://pinterest.com/pin/99431104243437609/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349689 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:43:08 +0000 anonysquire 349689@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sorrycharlie: let's trade inlaws! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349683 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:36:40 +0000 sorrycharlie 349683@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't have any good clever ideas because my ILs don't celebrate holidays! WIN! </p> <p>They do celebrate their anniversary &amp; we usually go with a gift card. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349680 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:34:55 +0000 SugarplumsMom 349680@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Arden: I may want to get one of my BILs that stocking with the chocolate coal. Where did you get it? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349675 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:30:31 +0000 anonysquire 349675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mamabolt: ummm I hope he spends double that on you. That is so wrong! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349672 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:28:11 +0000 mamabolt 349672@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, I have no idea. I ask DH once a week or so what we should get his mom for xmas and he has no idea yet. And to make it worse, he's an only child and his dad is dead so he has all this guilt that he has to buy her SO MUCH STUFF. So we end up spending several hundred dollars on her every year, often on junk she doesn't use. And then her birthday is in February and we do it all over again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349667 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:25:02 +0000 anonysquire 349667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Crumbs: so insensitive :( I'm sorry! Fruitcakes would be nice lol. I can write a card like "you are a fruitcake and you have a tiny prick"</p> <p>Ya I can group them all together or separate, either one works! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349664 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:23:48 +0000 SugarplumsMom 349664@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@anonysquire: the Mormon gift idea is awesome!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349663 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:21:11 +0000 SugarplumsMom 349663@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lol! I love this thread! Will you have to ship them separately or can you group up a few? If it's separate, I'd stick to something light! How about contacting a bakery and having them ship a cake ... maybe a fruit cake? Those are hard and difficult to get yummy.</p> <p>I'm usually left to all the gift buying, DH is no help at all! The in-laws actually give good gifts so I don't have to get too creative. But I never get credit for actually buying them so it doesn't motivate me at all. Last year for BILs bday, I'm the one that remembered and went out to buy his gift and he kept referring to it as M's gift ;( he's usually 'thee' nice one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349648 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:09:25 +0000 anonysquire 349648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just had another fun idea. Since they have pretty much shunned me for being Mormon maybe I can send some gift baskets with Mormon paraphernalia hidden inside. That would be cute! </p> <p>Oh the spirit of giving! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349647 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:07:55 +0000 anonysquire 349647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: I don't have a Costco membership, my mom does so maybe I can snag a ride.... And accidentally forget my wallet.</p> <p>@MamaBehr: Lol! Yes good idea! So glad I live 2 states away and wouldn't have to deal with the aftermath lol.</p> <p>@Smurfette: I could do gift cards. This is so hard! So many great ideas! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349646 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:05:56 +0000 Arden 349646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaBehr: teeheehee </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349645 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:05:45 +0000 Smurfette 349645@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@anonysquire: Mine just thinks gift cards for everyone. I just hate it cause then they know exactly what we spent. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349644 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:04:32 +0000 MamaBehr 349644@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You should do coffee, but buy all decaf and then put it in regular bags! HA! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349643 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:04:09 +0000 chopsuey 349643@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@anonysquire: If you have a Costco membership, I'd go to Costco and just buy little gift baskets for all! They have little ones in the $20-30 range! So easy! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349639 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:01:35 +0000 anonysquire 349639@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: Hey the coffee is a great idea! I think his stepmom loves coffee. I should double check. And I love those summer sausages so everyone probably does. I totally understand you having to come up with all the ideas and DH shooting them down, same thing here. Then my husband suggests something extra lame. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349635 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:59:57 +0000 anonysquire 349635@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: hmmm I googled the Harry and David's, do people like pears? Is that some sort of christmas tradition I have missed? Those gift baskets look so fancy! I have a pear tree in my yard so maybe I can DIY some fancy pear baskets. It's so much easier to put together or buy gifts when I actually care about the person. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349630 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:56:37 +0000 Smurfette 349630@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No clue! I hate it cause DH doesn't come up with anything for his family. I am left trying to come up with everything. Then he shoots down my ideas. I think for my FIL and Step-MIL we are going to get a cornhole set for tailgating. They have mentioned before they think it would be fun to have one. No clue for the SIL and BIL. Probably gift cards, which I hate giving. At least the nephews are fun to buy for!</p> <p>Do they like coffee? Could do a set with a mug and some fresh ground coffee in different flavors. Or just one of those summer sausage/cheese baskets you can order online. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-in-laws#post-349628 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:55:07 +0000 chopsuey 349628@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hahaaha this thread cracks me up.<br /> We usually spend a good amount on dh's fam! I love them all.. :)<br /> Buying gifts for parents is always tough though. We usually do picture gifts, Harry and David gift baskets, I've sent celebration birds from Gifts Define.. </p>