Christmas

Retro Christmas Gift Guide: Toys of Christmas Catalog’s Past

Dec 3rd, 2009

I don’t know if you remember Consumers Distributing but when their catalog came to the house in the 80s, it was chaos as we all went through it to decide what we wanted for Christmas. I don’t know why I was thinking about that today but I remember really wanting some really bizarre stuff for [...]

Guest Post: Christmas Gift Ideas for the Brother In Law

Dec 1st, 2009

by Wendy.

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This is Wendy and this is what happens when Jordon doesn’t log out of his weblog and leaves me unattended. Since Jordon handles most of our Christmas shopping, I don’t have to spend as much time thinking about Christmas gifts as Jordon does. By far the hardest person to shop for on our Christmas list [...]

Christmas Gift Guide for the Homeless

Dec 1st, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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This one is pretty close to my heart. At work I get to buy the Christmas gifts for the guys at the Salvation Army Community Centre and I have a lot of fun doing it. Last year I got them nice duffle bags and a watch/wallet gift set. We also got a big donation of [...]

Christmas Gifts Ideas for Boys Under Two Year of Age

Nov 29th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Who would have thought that Oliver would be so hard to shop for. I don’t remember Mark being so hard to shop for when he was a year and a half but then I realized that so many things I wanted to get Oliver are still sitting in storage because we already bought them for [...]

Christmas 2009

Nov 28th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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For us the Christmas season officially started last night with the start of Salvation Army Christmas Kettle season. A couple of years ago I was asked if I could help out picking up Christmas kettles and bringing them in to be counted and deposited at night. I asked what night was needed the most and [...]

2009 Christmas Gift Ideas

Nov 26th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Since many of you are starting your Christmas shopping today (they call it Black Friday for a reason), I thought I would post together my Christmas gift ideas here and hopefully you find what you are looking for. Good luck out there, you are going to need it. Christmas Gift Guide for the Outdoorsman (and [...]

Christmas Gift Guide: The Outdoorsman

Nov 19th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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In case you are shopping for the great outdoorsman, here are a list of suggestions for those who often prefer to outdoors rather than inside. Check out the Christmas gift ideas category if you are looking for other Christmas Gift Guides. Straight from the Leftorium, the MEC Left Handed Slingpack. Wendy has had a slingpack [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Wife (and mother of your kids)

Nov 15th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Update: The 2010 editions of the Christmas Gift Guides for Your Wife / Girlfriend is now online. Follow the link for more 2010 Christmas Gift Guides. Wendy is the world’s hardest women to shop for and the suggestions from Amazon Gift Central just inspired sarcastic mocking comments. Wendy asked me to put together a short [...]

Online Christmas Hamper Applications

Nov 5th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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For those of you who know if a family who may need some help this Christmas, the Salvation Army Community Centre is accepting online applications for Christmas Hampers starting today. You can also register in person starting November 16th. If you have questions about what the Salvation Army is doing in Saskatoon over the Christmas [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas: For the Accountant Across the Hallway

Nov 3rd, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Well this is my most difficult Christmas gift guide yet. My “friend” Jackie works across the hallway from me and she has been criticizing my Christmas Gift Guides all year long. Monday she asked me to come up with a list of things she wants for Christmas which is a) getting as lazy as it [...]

Gift Ideas for Men: Gadgets and other Geekery

Nov 1st, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Okay it’s November 1 which means that it is the official start of the holiday shopping season. The team of helper monkeys at JordonCooper.com are here to help and will be publishing holiday gift guides for men once a week during the month of November which will give you no excuse for having to do [...]

What’s with the Christmas Gift Guides?

Oct 26th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Some of you e-mailed or IM’d me about the Christmas gift guide for tween boys today and why I am doing it. Here is the answer. It’s going to be a part of a longer series that can be found in it’s own Christmas gift idea category. I tend to do a lot of research [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas: Tween Boys

Oct 26th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Well I don’t have a lot of experience in buying for tweens but Mark is officially one and I have put together a series of gift ideas that a nine year old boy would like. A lot of friends have asked me what I was getting Mark and the kind of things he likes which [...]

Christmas Day

Dec 28th, 2008

by Jordon Cooper.

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One of the reasons we opened gifts on Christmas Eve is that I wanted to go down to the shelter on Christmas Day while the guys opened their gifts. I brought a DVD player and some DVDs as well. The guys watched The Wrath of Khan (and yes, they all yelled out “Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan” at the [...]

Future Shop

Dec 27th, 2008

by Jordon.

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My brother Lee gave Mark a Nintendo DS for Christmas. Mark had been working for me at the Centre helping with some odd jobs and had amassed some cash to save up for a DS (what a coincidence!). With his DS taken care of and a glut of cash, he wanted to go out an [...]