Stumped for gift-giving ideas?
Category: Kitchen Sink...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 09:26 AM [GMT-6]

I had intended to resume posting about "serious" subjects (like my just-ended vacation, for example), but can't seem to get focused because of distractions like this: the Texas Lottery Commission's new ad campaign attempting to convince us that scratch-off tickets are at the top of all our friends' and family's Christmas wish lists.

Really, now. Is anyone falling for this? Would you wrap up a sheath of lottery tickets and put under the tree for your favorite aunt? (OK, I'll admit that there's probably a certain democat for which this behavior is not only acceptable but encouraged...but blog-reading is likely not part of its repertoire.) I lost my enchantment with brightly colored cardboard around age three, when I realized that what was inside the box was really better than the box itself.

Here's a tip for anyone leaning in this direction. Start buying those tickets and scratching them. Find a winner -- and wrap that one as a gift for Cousin Buell.

No? I thought not.

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Ugh.

My dad buys my mome up to $50.00 worth of the fool things every Christmas and birthday. According to dad, it's a whole lot easier than having to think about what to get her.

No, my parents are not Christians.

Theognome

Posted by: Theognome at October 28, 2003 10:15 AM

Every year at Christmas and New Years, I play bingo with my wife's family. For the longest time, my mother-in-law had lottery tickets as the prizes for winning. But I think she wised up to people not being all excited about winning only the prospect of winning. We now can win gift certificates to area restaurants.
But she plays the Texas Lotto herself, and always wins. It astounds me. My in-laws are well-off people, so I can't ever argue that spending money on the lotto would be financially harmful for them, but I do think it's wasteful. But she actually makes money!
Weird.

Posted by: Jared at October 28, 2003 03:04 PM
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