re: #328 Snarknado!

Get him a card for his next birthday and tell him you think his “no presents” policy is a good idea. (We don’t exchange gifts much in my family, but that was a joint decision.)

On my mom’s 40th birthday, she informed us that henceforth she didn’t want “another thing to have to dust” for a present ever again. Birthdays, hannukah, anniversaries, mother’s day. The only presents she ever wanted again were “do something” presents — theater tickets, restaurant dinners, picnic in a pretty place, lessons of some kind. (although she did accept the big emerald dad gave her for their 25th; she designed the setting herself and we helped her find a goldsmith to construct what became known as the vastly delayed engagement ring.)