{"id":762,"date":"2010-10-28T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/10\/difficult-a-give-away.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:02:57","slug":"difficult-a-give-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2010\/10\/difficult-a-give-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Difficult (A Give-away)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Do you have difficult people to shop for?\u00a0 As we get closer and closer to Christmas, I find myself almost done with my gift list except for those last few.\u00a0 Those few who are always last\u2026like my father-in-law.\u00a0 I love my husband\u2019s father, but all he ever puts on his wish list are Spanish peanuts and soap on a rope.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s because he\u2019s too busy to think about it or because he really doesn\u2019t want\/need anything, but shopping for him is my annual challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a shopping challenge?\u00a0 Is it bigger than mine?\u00a0 I want to hear it!\u00a0 Make me feel better about this.\u00a0 At least let me know that I\u2019m not alone.\u00a0 (Please!)\u00a0 Have the best one and I\u2019ll help you out with a $75 gift code to CSN Stores.\u00a0 (You know them, the people who sell everything?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allcoffeetables.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Contemporary Coffee Tables <\/a>\u00a0 cookware, linens, toys, etc.)\u00a0 I\u2019ve shopped them myself and it\u2019s pretty great.\u00a0 (I bought a non-stick pan, fiesta ware dishes, a new hand mixer, and a bathroom for #4\u2019s dollhouse last time for less than $75 so I know how far this gift code can go\u2026\u2026it was a weird day in my kitchen\u2026don\u2019t ask.)<\/p>\n<p>Leave me a comment.\u00a0 Tell me your tale of woe.\u00a0 I\u2019ll pick my fave and give it away on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0 If you link back to me and include the words Contemporary Coffee Tables with a link to http:\/\/allcoffeetables.com\u00a0 \u2026 I won\u2019t give you anything extra\u2026but if three of you do it I get a $20 gift card.\u00a0 Help a mama out?\u00a0 I have lots of people to shop for.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have difficult people to shop for?\u00a0 As we get closer and closer to Christmas, I find myself almost done with my gift list except for those last few.\u00a0 Those few who are always last\u2026like my father-in-law.\u00a0 I love my husband\u2019s father, but all he ever puts on his wish list are Spanish peanuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Difficult (A Give-away)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Do you have difficult people to shop for?&nbsp; 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