Anyone who knows me knows about my obsessive need for my life to be laid out before me in lists. In my attempt to get into the holiday spirit I will now share with you my various favourite holiday lists and invite you all to do the same. Sharing is caring!!!
Shortlist Of Cookies That Might Make It Into The Cookie Tins This Year
1. rumballs
2. ginger snaps. the really good kind.
3. orange cardamon sugar cookies
4. praline langues du chat
5. candied citrus peels and ginger dipped in dark chocolate (okay not a cookie, but whatever)
6. walnut phyllo rolls
7. green tea shortbread
8. peanut butter chocolate rice crispie bar thingies
9. candied fruit, crispy rice, rumball sort of thingies
10. nut and seed chewies
Top 5 Regifts (from me to others)
1. items from bath baskets. I love getting bath baskets but there are always one or two things that I won't use that someone else will.
2. books. after I read them
3. gift certificates. it usually takes me too long to use them up so I just end up giving them away.
4. store bought scarves/hats/mittens, um hello I'm a knitter (I only give the storebought ones to people I barely know i.e. work secret santa...my friends get the good stuff)
5. chocolates. not so much regifted as I take them to work and hand them out to my coworkers.
Worst Ever Gifts (from me to others)
1. How To Quit Smoking book for my dad when I was 8
2. Regifted self help books for anyone (self help books are never a good gift)
3. whatever I bought my mom the year I was excommunicated
4. When I knit a hat for a relative and they were disappointed at how cheap I was
5. Economist "the year it was" magazines. A male member of my family always gets this from me.
Worst Ever Gifts (from others to me)
1. Lime green fleece pullover from the Disney Store with tinkerbell embroidered on it. I was 23 at the time.
2. Horrid stand up lamp with multi coloured lampshades on multiple poseable arms. I was 22 at the time.
3. Daytimer. Like the kind you write in. It had a cell phone pocket. This was last year.
4. crappy acrylic sweater with pigs all over it. didn't help that it was during a "fat year" when I was 10. I hate my family so much.
5. any year I don't get a lifesavers story book
Incidentally items no. 1, 2, 3, and 5 are all my dad's fault! He just laughed with the rest of my family when I opened no. 4.