The resident TechnoMage normally moans about my sewing (mainly because of the "tails" of bits of wool that he keeps finding round the house) so I was surprised to find two very good needlework-related pressies from him on Christmas Day.
The ruler is designed to be filled with something like a picture or a piece of embroidery. And the neat little thread holder will be just the ticket for carrying lots of colours around without needing to take a whole bag of thread.
Rather than give each other a main present, we always come up with an assortment of perhaps 10 smaller things (partly to minimise the risk of all falling flat). They are categorised under any of around 20 headings such as "DVD", "toy or game", "idea/make it yourself", "freebie", "something silly" or "measuring device" (new category introduced this year to cater for the cheapo-but-surprisingly-decent breathalyser I bought him from ebay and continued now with a wireless rain gauge and a wind meter from me to him and a rather interesting usb thermometer from him to me - it plots the change in temperature over time).
With the measuring device category already allocated, the ruler is classed "something to make" and the organiser could have been a new category of "being organised" but is, I'm told, a new category of "craft".
These two gifts even led to the "freebie" category being filled, as the ebay seller involved also sent a decent pen advertising her website, Marie's cross stitch.co.uk.
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Perhaps next year you can present him with a whole pile of "tails of wool" as a gift in the category of "freebies". It qualifies as "something to complain about when there is absolutely nothing to complain about".
But then the couple's therapy bills will not be considered "freebies".
Nevermind.
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