Comments on: Worst Holiday Gifts Ever

By: Jenni

Jenni — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:10:00 +0000

My step mother once bought me White Diamonds. When I was in high school.

My favorite Christmas gift blunders are actually a friend’s. Her grandparents decided to buy all presents from yard sales. One uncle got a guide to colon cleaning, her father got a flowery vase (which he now uses to hold his screwdrivers), and my friend got a Thyroid management book – and she has no thyroid issues. Fantastic!

By: Pravalika

Pravalika — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:26:08 +0000

Wish you happy new year 2009

By: xim1970

xim1970 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:50:29 +0000

I guess I would have to say this as a nearly-28-year diabetic…I love carb counting! So much better than the old “Fruit-Bread-Milk-Fat-Veggies-Meat” stuff that I learned in 1981. So, you don’t get the real maple syrup…you get gourmet pancakes with low-sugar syrup…low sugar syrup is (although a bit watery), pretty darn tasty! Bolus for it!
And Godiva chocolates? Can always be shared with your family, keeping a few favorites aside for low sugar moments…I’m sure you weren’t necessarily thinking about that at the moment (while you were pregnant), but that’s my point.
In the past I have received gifts that were not “diabetic friendly”…case in point being a large Hershey Kiss, that I got from a thoughtful (although not informed) paper route customer around 1982, a little less than a year after I had been diagnosed. I wished for low BGs just so I could take a couple of honkin’ bites off that bad boy!
It may be a temptation while it’s around, but I learned early on, that if you want to partake of “gifts of sugar”, you might think twice if your BG is 180+…but if it’s 80 or below, a great time to enjoy a small part of that gift!
My two cents…

By: AmyT

AmyT — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:29:34 +0000

I don’t know Murphy, would you be excited about a snow globe with Judah Macabee (the hero of Hanukkah) in the middle?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:04:30 +0000

When we were all in junior high a great aunt once gave me and my brother and sister color-coordinated personalized three-ring zipper notebooks and pencils …with our name spelled wrong.

By: type1emt

type1emt — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:52:00 +0000

pink gloves. I’d specifically asked for NOT pink gloves, but my parent thought I’d written HOT pink gloves, they went to 3-4 stores trying to find them. I wanted to bawl when i opened it(I was a tomboy).
Now I appreciate the thought + time that they put into it, but it was not want I wanted…

By: Murphy

Murphy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:19:28 +0000

My worst gift was a steel sink back when I was 5. I wanted an easy bake oven and got a sink instead. I didn’t even know they sold sinks as toys back then… or ever. But it didn’t ruin my Christmas. I always love the snow, the carols, the star at the top of the tree and going to midnight mass.

Frankly, Santa Claus, Frosty, etc. have nothing to do with the religion of Christianity or the meaning of Christmas so getting a snow globe with Santa and then feeling bad about it is something I can’t understand.

By: kdroberts

kdroberts — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:11:12 +0000

I got you all beat. Today at the company White Elephant I was the lucky(?) recipient of a used, non functioning cell phone. Awesome.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:55:38 +0000

Two vanilla beans in a zip-lock bag. My siblings and I all got these from my dad’s wife. If I knew Martha Stewart maybe I could re-gift them to her.

By: Lee Ann Thill

Lee Ann Thill — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:46:36 +0000

If I never get another bar, box or bag of sugar-free candy, it’ll be too soon because it never gets eaten. It’s not like I hide the fact that I eat ‘regular’ food. I’d much rather have the real thing. Although if someone really wants to be conscientious of my ‘betes, they could just forgo the candy altogether. I’d be pleased as punch to get some fruity lotion or a candle or even just a nice card.