Christmas Shopping

Some people I have no trouble buying for. In fact, I find it hard to limit myself on how much I spend for them. Other people I find it very hard to buy for. Sometimes I don't know what they are into, other times it seems they have everything they want or need. I admit I dread Christmas shopping in general. I have a great fear of giving a gift that has the recipient thinking to themselves "What am I going to need this for?"

A couple years ago I bought our digital Personal Video Recorder (PVR) for us (mostly Kim). She recorded a lot of shows on VHS tapes back then and I figured the easy to use and convenient to use PVR would be a great improvement over the crappy quality tapes and constant rewinding and forwarding to find shows.

I set it up and was showing her how to use it and Kim did what she often does when faced with the strange and unknown: she didn't like it.

"What do we need that for? This is very complicated. I think its a waste of money."

At one point I just about slammed the thing back into its box to take it back to Rogers. But I took a deep breath and said "just try it" through gritted teeth. (Being a person with Words of Affrimation as my love language I transfered her criticisms of the PVR to me)

A few days later the VCR was quickly regulated to the dustbin of history in our household as the PVR demonstrated its powers and the recording-happy wife of William was enthralled.

If only all gifts were so easy.