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PaperclipPerfector  4mo ago (text post)   1948 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 22, 2023

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Last minute gift ideas? I'm in a standard northeastern USA town I need a gift for my father in law. Realistically social convention demands I spend $50, I'd drop $200 for a really extraordinary gift.

Coins, if he collects

Difficult to say.

Gift baskets (Harry and David). Gift cards (Barnes and Nobles if he's an avid reader, etc.). Alcohol, candy, coffee, or cigars if you know what he likes. Subscriptions if you know what he likes. Tickets to an event if you know what he likes.

Don't know the precedent established in the family.

Power tool?

Nicely bound journal, a record if hes into that. Maybe a bag of fancy coffee. Idk depends on the person.

Spend two hours making a large piece of modular origami from a few dozen Post-It Notes. If your hourly wage is at least 25 $/h, then the gift is worth 50 $, right? ;-)

Little leather wallet for just coins. Should have a button to stay closed. I was gifted one of these years ago and never realized how much I hated jangly coins. I love it. Of course in these cashless days maybe this is a dinosaur gift.

I just pawn all mine off on my poor wife since she has one of those coin purses. I always keep a 500 though, Japan still has lots of odd situations where you must have a coin.

The 新500円 however has failed me many times. By the time all the buses and whatnot accept them they'll probably come up with yet another version.

Modernization proceeds at its steady slow trickle, at least. My tier-3 city's bus system finally started allowing you to pay with a QR code so I no longer have dig through couch cushions for 100s. Maybe we'll be able to do away with coins altogether by 2100 lol.

fancy pen?

Distilled liquor of some sorts?

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