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Gift Ideas For My Brother
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So the necessary back story here is that this brother is actually a half brother. Not that it means a lot to us other than growing up in completely different homes and never knowing each other particularly well until the last few months when we actually started living near one another.
We've got gifts for his wife and kids that we're certain they'll like, but it's a bit harder for him since he's A: Significantly richer and B: Generally buys the stuff he wants because of that. Which leaves me to figure out what I can get him both within my price range and that he doesn't know about. Fifty bucks is about the limit.
His interests include drinking and I know he's a big fan of good scotch as well as liquor in general, he also likes to at least casually play video games since I know he has a 360 and a nice TV. He's also a big fan of Steinbeck, at least after coming to the Monterey Bay and reading Cannery Row and seems very interested in the history of the area. He's an Army officer which, being Naval enlisted, I know very little about in terms of anything regarding that that he might like in regards to it or at all.
That's all I can really think of at the moment. So yeah, any help on this would be appreciated. I know he'll probably be glad to receive anything from me, but it'd be nice to get him something particularly nice.
We've got gifts for his wife and kids that we're certain they'll like, but it's a bit harder for him since he's A: Significantly richer and B: Generally buys the stuff he wants because of that. Which leaves me to figure out what I can get him both within my price range and that he doesn't know about. Fifty bucks is about the limit.
His interests include drinking and I know he's a big fan of good scotch as well as liquor in general, he also likes to at least casually play video games since I know he has a 360 and a nice TV. He's also a big fan of Steinbeck, at least after coming to the Monterey Bay and reading Cannery Row and seems very interested in the history of the area. He's an Army officer which, being Naval enlisted, I know very little about in terms of anything regarding that that he might like in regards to it or at all.
That's all I can really think of at the moment. So yeah, any help on this would be appreciated. I know he'll probably be glad to receive anything from me, but it'd be nice to get him something particularly nice.
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if you don't feel you know him well enough, why not give him time? talk to his wife and see if she'll watch the kids for a day. take him out for some brother / brother time on you.
just a thought.
@Tycho: Books are actually a fairly common gift in my family.
So there you go!