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WA guys please help with gift idea

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Created by adolf > 9 months ago, 10 Dec 2011
adolf
1862 posts
10 Dec 2011 6:13PM
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I work with a woman called Anna, she did me a bit of a favor a few weeks ago, and made it known in no uncertain terms that she wanted a Christmas present from me.

I suggested I take her out to lunch, but she didn't want that. I even suggested the good place.

Two weeks ago she went to WA for the first time for the w/e with her b/f and stayed in Dunsburugh. I was hyping her up for it and said she needed to stay longer and she would absolutely love it. She got back and told me she could easily live in W.A. - loved it and wants to go back.

I don't really want to buy her a present. But cause she was so insistent about one I thought I should make an effort at least.

I was thinking about it tonight. She's about 30, very hot, athletic, looks after herself, is a bit of a hippy with expensive tastes in all things wanky.

I want to spend no more than $30 to keep me off my back.

What do you reckon?

Art, craft, Cheese, Chocolate, body lotion - don't know. Something distinctly Margaret River may work.

GPA
WA, 2520 posts
10 Dec 2011 6:20PM
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There's some nice stuff at the M.R. Chocolate Factory - and I'm sure they will deliver.

chocolatefactory.com.au/

Or any decent bottle of wine from that region... (picked up from your local bottlo)

There's also a place that makes organic soaps and stuff like that...

www.margaretriversoap.com/

You can't really go wrong with any of these...

Check the Margaret River tourist bureau for other 'gift ware' shops from that region.

Best of luck...



weiry
QLD, 5396 posts
10 Dec 2011 8:31PM
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movie tickets voucher for two

ockanui
VIC, 1301 posts
10 Dec 2011 9:39PM
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maybe an air swimmer? or those thingo's you were selling

adolf
1862 posts
10 Dec 2011 6:47PM
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ockanui said...

maybe an air swimmer? or those thingo's you were selling


If only.

Air Swimmers is what it's all about.

She's a magazine editor, She bought two from me, and the favor was that she put the swimmers into the magazine she works on.

Sales of these fish have gone gangbusters - and she knows it. The article hasn't come out yet, but she is politely demanding a kickback, in terms of a present.

I told her that, as a journalist, she should be impartial. But she wouldn't have it. She insisted that I buy her a something that will impress her. Which I guess is fair enough.

Movie tix are no good - she gets them for free and gives them away all the time.

Nice soap, natural body products from the region are probably a great idea.

Simondo
VIC, 8020 posts
10 Dec 2011 9:58PM
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Does she like wine? Nudge the budget up to $35 to a pair. A pair of nice whites. Does she sunbake topless, or top on? Sorry, I lost my train of thought.

Yep, Margarets is known as a good white region. Can't go wrong with whites from there. Or maybe 1 white, 1 rosé.

adolf
1862 posts
10 Dec 2011 7:00PM
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Simondo said...

Does she like wine? Nudge the budget up to $35 to a pair. A pair of nice whites. Does she sunbake topless, or top on? Sorry, I lost my train of thought.

Yep, Margarets is known as a good white region. Can't go wrong with whites from there. Or maybe 1 white, 1 rosé.


I don't like giving wine as a present. Because when you bring it out, you know what it is. It's not something I like to give now - too generic. I think it tells people you've put no thought into it. I'd rather give those people some smoked salmon.

weiry
QLD, 5396 posts
10 Dec 2011 9:12PM
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buy one family a pig through oxfam, she can never argue that its a SH!T/thoughtless gift

adolf
1862 posts
10 Dec 2011 7:30PM
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What I just wrote - about giving smoked salmon to people, has given me an idea.

My 3 employers have been really great to me this year and I want to gift them with some smoked salmon.

The question is, I don't want other employees know I've done it. I also don't want to feel like a brown nose, and make them think differently towards me. This is just my way of saying thanks for the year.

I enjoy giving, to people who help me, have I drunk too much?

Seriously, it's not protocol to give gifts to bosses - but, I really only want to say thank you.

I can get their home addresses and deliver it, or leave them a cryptic email message to pull out the newspaper wrapped items from the fridge.

What do you think is the best way of approaching this and should I bother?

weiry
QLD, 5396 posts
10 Dec 2011 9:59PM
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adolf said...
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have I drunk too much?



yes

Mark _australia
WA, 22414 posts
10 Dec 2011 8:07PM
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I reckon get her those thongs with a bottle opener incorporated in the sole.

They are tops.

adolf
1862 posts
10 Dec 2011 8:08PM
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Mark _australia said...

I reckon get her those thongs with a bottle opener incorporated in the sole.

They are tops.


Picture or it doesn't exist!

Mark _australia
WA, 22414 posts
10 Dec 2011 8:11PM
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Damn - digital camera not to hand..........pic forthcoming.
Opening another Corona with my thong as we speak.........

Chris_M
2129 posts
10 Dec 2011 8:13PM
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You cant go wrong with a thoughtful gift basket. I would recommend you throw in:







log man
VIC, 8289 posts
10 Dec 2011 11:23PM
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I got someone a present one year .... it was a pencil sharpener that you stuck into the arse of a little plastic figure. yknow one of those crappy Chinese politicaly incorrect nic naks that you think is hilarious at the time. The only problem was I didn't realize that when you stuck the pencil in the guys arse he said in a very bad Chinese/Californian accent " **** me up the ass" and " ohhhh yeeahhh". The present was opened in front of everyone..... the guys 80 year old mother and grand kids. It was the worst **** up ever.

SandS
VIC, 5904 posts
10 Dec 2011 11:53PM
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If you don't wish to make a huge fuss and "give" in front of everyone .

Then I would suggest, sneaking into your employers private offices , and hide the open "presents " of smoked salmon somewhere that they will find eventually ,in the new year.

They need not know that you are the "giver " but you will still get the pleasure of "giving"

merry xmas everyone xxx

adolf
1862 posts
10 Dec 2011 9:22PM
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SandS said...

If you don't wish to make a huge fuss and "give" in front of everyone .

Then I would suggest, sneaking into your employers private offices , and hide the open "presents " of smoked salmon somewhere that they will find eventually ,in the new year.

They need not know that you are the "giver " but you will still get the pleasure of "giving"

merry xmas everyone xxx


Nice one - I think that's the way to do it. Make them wonder who it's from, and feel good. I'll descretely bring up two parcels wrapped in Newspaper, with a little card saying thanks for a great year. Hand it to the receptionist and say I found these on the steps.

When they fire me. I'll tell them who the present came from in 2011. They will feel bad and I'll feel good. Win Win

theDoctor
NSW, 5780 posts
11 Dec 2011 2:05AM
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BIG BLACK DILDO

adolf
1862 posts
10 Dec 2011 11:27PM
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theDoctor said...



BIG BLACK DILDO


Always provocative - but probably not your best work. Hey doc!

BulldogPup
6657 posts
10 Dec 2011 11:50PM
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Get some lingerie - either her BF or Adolf will be the winner in the long run ..... there's gotta be more to this tale Adolf.

theDoctor
NSW, 5780 posts
11 Dec 2011 3:32AM
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Not so large pinkish dildo...

siny
NSW, 286 posts
11 Dec 2011 10:28AM
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Power bracelet

saltiest1
NSW, 2496 posts
11 Dec 2011 10:31AM
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not sure if im right but its sounds like she might be after different type of swimmers
$30 sounds a bit light to me if shes done that for you. id be going $100 / $150 with a nice gift hamper of wine etc. or get her to contact me and i can sort it out for you

gibberjoe
SA, 956 posts
11 Dec 2011 11:11AM
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A used wingsuit...maybe !!!!... see other thread>>

kiteboy dave
QLD, 6525 posts
11 Dec 2011 11:14AM
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adolf said...


I want to spend no more than $30 to keep me off my back.


Ooops, maybe the truth slipped out there?

ockanui
VIC, 1301 posts
11 Dec 2011 12:50PM
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there are so many good ideas here, but I reckon "paying more than $30 to keep her of your back", well how about give her $60 and roll over, and there might just be a happy ending to this lovely story

busterwa
3777 posts
11 Dec 2011 10:15AM
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Nothing says "LOVE" like a Garden gnome.

cantswm4sht
VIC, 411 posts
11 Dec 2011 6:57PM
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They make for great fireballs if you fly too close to candles or naked flames,
Lucky I bought 2,
You better put me down for another one adolf
The best entertainment yet!!!
CHEERS

adolf said...

ockanui said...

maybe an air swimmer? or those thingo's you were selling


If only.

Air Swimmers is what it's all about.

She's a magazine editor, She bought two from me, and the favor was that she put the swimmers into the magazine she works on.

Sales of these fish have gone gangbusters - and she knows it. The article hasn't come out yet, but she is politely demanding a kickback, in terms of a present.

I told her that, as a journalist, she should be impartial. But she wouldn't have it. She insisted that I buy her a something that will impress her. Which I guess is fair enough.

Movie tix are no good - she gets them for free and gives them away all the time.

Nice soap, natural body products from the region are probably a great idea.


Pugwash
WA, 7671 posts
11 Dec 2011 4:41PM
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Get her two air swimmers

poor relative
WA, 9089 posts
11 Dec 2011 5:29PM
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A salt and pepper shaker made from old growth forest

saltiest1
NSW, 2496 posts
12 Dec 2011 12:22AM
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busterwa said...

Nothing says "LOVE" like a Garden gnome.



thats the clincher right there.



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