Speaker 1: I want the fairy tale. I want the prince Charming.
Speaker 2: She how do I put this? Isn't a fan of
Speaker 2: my kissing style.
Speaker 1: With the boyfriend and girlfriend for about twelve hours. He's
Speaker 1: in a trash bin. He's non recyclable catching them mu.
Speaker 2: I love being love. I love love.
Speaker 1: On today's episode of Where's Your Head At, we are
Speaker 1: celebrating the festive season.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned to hear how to be the best gift
Speaker 2: giver this year.
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Speaker 1: It's almost Christmas.
Speaker 2: It's my favorite time of the year. Merry Christmas. Everyone,
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Anna, Merry Christmas, Matt. Matt has kindly brought me in
Speaker 1: a Christmas jumb hard to wear for this episode. We're
Speaker 1: getting very festive this year at Where's Your Head At.
Speaker 2: If anyone thinks that Anna's a Christmas jumper looks familiar,
Speaker 2: it is mine and Kira's matching Christmas jumpers from a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. Yeah, so you've got hers on.
Speaker 2: Look to be fair, we have so we have a
Speaker 2: bunch of Christmas equations. We go all out at my house,
Speaker 2: at my mum's, we go all out and it.
Speaker 1: Was a stitch up.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, as I was leaving, there's a there's a
Speaker 2: tub full of all Christmas jumpers and stuff in the
Speaker 2: back room and we put away each year, and I
Speaker 2: just grabbed the first one and I was driving along
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh fuck, I've grabbed my exes.
Speaker 1: One for given it to me to put on. Haven't
Speaker 1: told me? And you decide to tell me now when
Speaker 1: it's too late to take it off.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So that was actually the photo that the Daily
Speaker 2: Mail and that used when we broke up. So a
Speaker 2: bit grim to it. Otherwise, a great jumper.
Speaker 1: That wasn't even mocking Matt's laugh by the way, in
Speaker 1: case anyone didn't pick that up.
Speaker 2: No, I love Christmas. I love it so for my
Speaker 2: favorite time of the year, Christmas. In a couple of days,
Speaker 2: I'm very excited. I've had such a great festive season.
Speaker 2: I've watched that many Christmas movies. I'm just just soaking
Speaker 2: them all in. I love it.
Speaker 1: Well, look before it becomes time for me to give
Speaker 1: you a Christmas present. I feel like it's only fair
Speaker 1: that I give you your birthday present, which is how
Speaker 1: many months late? Now?
Speaker 2: Okay? So yeah, we were talking and I said the
Speaker 2: other day that she still has my birthday gift and
Speaker 2: I was like, well, we're doing a gift to giving episode,
Speaker 2: so perfectly give it to me on that episode. But
Speaker 2: it is Christmas now, is it a joint present or
Speaker 2: is it a.
Speaker 1: No, it's not a joint present. Oh okay, I mean
Speaker 1: I got you so last night it was out where's
Speaker 1: your head? At Christmas party? So sorry if me and
Speaker 1: that are a bit rusty. This morning, we had a
Speaker 1: couple of drinks. I mean not too many, but I'm
Speaker 1: not used to drinking. So I feel like I'm feeling.
Speaker 2: A bit like if we're slopping our words and we're
Speaker 2: a bit hum bear with us. We've got an coffee.
Speaker 1: I feel a little hung But anyway, I was like,
Speaker 1: I need to give you this gift. It's been sitting
Speaker 1: in my house. I'm sick of seeing it. Like anyway,
Speaker 1: I went to get the gift, find it from like
Speaker 1: behind the cubwords, taking me about six miles, and I
Speaker 1: realized that the card has gone missing, so who knows
Speaker 1: what those words said, those beautiful handwritten words. So it's
Speaker 1: just the present, cheers, thank you.
Speaker 2: I want to just add that I am well, we'll
Speaker 2: get into a gift giving later, but yeah, I'm not
Speaker 2: really awkward when I get given gifts.
Speaker 1: Matt fucking hates getting gifts. He's so awkward. If you
Speaker 1: don't like it, I really couldn't care less. So you
Speaker 1: can just admit, yeah, this is perfect.
Speaker 2: You know I love my tops, so you've got me
Speaker 2: a nice guns and Roses top.
Speaker 1: So I got in like a vintage tee because I
Speaker 1: feel like Matt loves vintage cheese. And then there was
Speaker 1: like boobs on it. I feel like, this is perfect,
Speaker 1: this is perfect, thank you? Why is your voice going high?
Speaker 2: I get awkward. I will will chat all about that later.
Speaker 2: I get really awkward getting gifts. I just I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just it wasn't a gift giving my dad's want
Speaker 2: a big gift give my mum, isn't. It just wasn't
Speaker 2: a thing in my house. It just wasn't.
Speaker 1: So do you have that T shirt? Because I was like,
Speaker 1: he has so many vintage te's that I feel like
Speaker 1: you might already have it.
Speaker 2: No, I don't. It's fine. That's that's perfect thing.
Speaker 1: Is it a fit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure. I told you I get awkward around
Speaker 2: getting gifts. In that I.
Speaker 1: Actually love how awkward is getting It's like so hilarious.
Speaker 2: That's great. That's actually very thoughtful gift because we were
Speaker 2: always wearing new You know how much I love wearing
Speaker 2: my new tops every episode I change.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you're constantly having like these new vintage tees
Speaker 1: and everyone's like commenting on them, and it's just totally
Speaker 1: going over my head. So I was like, okay, I
Speaker 1: need to find myself a vintage t shop and get
Speaker 1: Matt a good one. The girl kind of recommended it,
Speaker 1: and I mean the boobs on the front. There's like
Speaker 1: two girls with big boobs. So I was like, sold,
Speaker 1: you're very nad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll definitely see this on.
Speaker 1: Maybe in twenty twenty three. We'll see the the gums
Speaker 1: and roses into tea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's actually really hot, isn't she. She's definitely my flavor.
Speaker 2: Heck girl, thank you, an, I'll give you a hug.
Speaker 2: But oh he's coming over.
Speaker 1: Sorry, it's late.
Speaker 2: That's okay, better late than ever. Well, I have gotten
Speaker 2: you a Christmas gift?
Speaker 1: Fuck off, mat, I haven't brought you on. Now I'm
Speaker 1: behind and getting gifts. I've only just even done.
Speaker 2: Well I was. I was like, you know me, I
Speaker 2: love a sentimental gift, so I've gotten you.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so cute. So it is a where's your
Speaker 1: head at Christmas tree decoration?
Speaker 2: That's cute.
Speaker 1: How did you get that made?
Speaker 2: Well? I went to the place and I didn't realize,
Speaker 2: so sorry about the that's so cute. So what do
Speaker 2: you call it? On the back?
Speaker 1: Little Christmas tree?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Christmas trees on the back. I didn't realize they
Speaker 2: were going to be there. I thought it was just
Speaker 2: the color. And then they showed me with the Christmas
Speaker 2: trees and I was like, like the.
Speaker 1: Christmas tree like them? Yeah, I love it. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: it's the season of giving. We've both gotten gifts and
Speaker 1: we were like, fuck, it's so hard, especially because I
Speaker 1: leave all of my shopping to the last minute.
Speaker 2: Do you do that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I leave all of my shopping to the last minute.
Speaker 1: It's atrocious.
Speaker 2: You know what. Call me a psychopath, but I actually
Speaker 2: enjoy going on like the Christmas Eve to the shops
Speaker 2: and seeing even though I've done all my shopping before,
Speaker 2: I'll still go just to see like everyone frantic and
Speaker 2: I love I love the vibe of it. It's a
Speaker 2: Chris like, you.
Speaker 1: Know what, you're taking up someone's Christmas car packing swat.
Speaker 1: It's like, fuck, I need to get my family presents.
Speaker 1: And that's just like coming for a little stroll.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll buy stuff. Obviously there's stuff because we yeah,
Speaker 2: we have a big Christmas Eve celebration. But I'll go
Speaker 2: like during the day and I'll just suss it out
Speaker 2: and see what's going on. I love it. I love Christmas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what you mean. Like Christmas Eve shopping
Speaker 1: is really fun because the music's play. Everyone's like hustling
Speaker 1: and bustling. It just feels super excited like it's the
Speaker 1: night before Christmas. Santa is coming. So you know what
Speaker 1: I mean is it is fun. But yeah, we decided
Speaker 1: that we would give you, guys, everyone at home who's listening,
Speaker 1: who has not yet done their Christmas shopping, We're gonna
Speaker 1: give you our top gift giving list. So are we
Speaker 1: gonna do that next?
Speaker 2: All right? And so Christmas is in a couple of days.
Speaker 2: What do you have planned this year?
Speaker 1: So I am actually heading up to Mildura. Michael's sister
Speaker 1: lives up there. They just had a baby, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna celebrate with his family this year. Last year we
Speaker 1: celebrated with my family, so I guess we're kind of
Speaker 1: like doing it in turns and then we will celebrate
Speaker 1: with my family on the twenty seventh. So just a
Speaker 1: bit of like, you know, it's always hard with Christmas, right,
Speaker 1: especially when you know you're trying to like manage different families,
Speaker 1: and but yeah, we're very excited. Mill Dura is amazing
Speaker 1: and it's always super warm up there, so I'm excited
Speaker 1: to get some sun.
Speaker 2: Yeah you might have a hot Christmas. We probably won't
Speaker 2: down here in Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's your plans? Tell me?
Speaker 2: Well, every year it's a tradition we do Christmas Eve
Speaker 2: at my mum's. So like every one of my partners
Speaker 2: that I've ever had has said it's and it made
Speaker 2: like it's fun. Like we do like have a big dinner.
Speaker 2: We then do like Christmas cocktails, so like, yeah, we
Speaker 2: do like eggnog as well. One year, one year, I
Speaker 2: bought this big bottle of like apple cider and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to make spiced apple cider, so that I
Speaker 2: brought all these the seas what do you call them spices? Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I put them into like the pot and like
Speaker 2: strained them. It was the worst thing ever. Everyone was
Speaker 2: like cold, just like struggling to drink it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was fun. And then we do like the
Speaker 2: greench cocktail Christmas trees, we do like all different ones
Speaker 2: that we see during the year, and we all bring
Speaker 2: the ingredients for that. We do Christmas Eve with mums
Speaker 2: so it freeze up the next day so we can
Speaker 2: go with our partners. So like now has a partner
Speaker 2: in Lara does, and we all just go to our
Speaker 2: partners the next day for Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: Nice. What about your poor mom? What she doing?
Speaker 2: She just wants She just likes hanging out, to be honest.
Speaker 2: She loves her own time. So she was probably gonna
Speaker 2: hang out Christmas Day by herself. And I guess watch
Speaker 2: some Christmas.
Speaker 1: Watch some Christmas movie, Christmas movie, Like when it gets
Speaker 1: closer to Christmas, I just have to watch Love actually
Speaker 1: the Night before Christmas, like The Night Before or That's
Speaker 1: Christmas Movie or Home Alone. I'm like, they're just the
Speaker 1: best Christmas movies. They just get me in the mood.
Speaker 2: Love actually is our Christmas Eve movie? Will chuck that up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that's a lot of people. It's a real
Speaker 2: Christmasy movie.
Speaker 1: It's really Christmasy. It feel good. Everyone finds love at
Speaker 1: the end. It's like a happy ending and it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's good. But actual Christmas Day giving gifts, Matt, you
Speaker 1: said before you absolutely hate gift givings. It's surprising to
Speaker 1: me that Christmas, the day of everyone exchanging gifts is
Speaker 1: a day that you know, love.
Speaker 2: I love like the festive thing about it, not the
Speaker 2: actual gift giving. I don't know. So, Like I said before,
Speaker 2: gift giving wasn't really big in my family. My dad
Speaker 2: would never really give gifts. My mom. There's like a
Speaker 2: there's a funny story that we're still telling this family.
Speaker 2: Like I literally wrote a list, broke it down to
Speaker 2: my This is probably where my chouma comes from. I wrote,
Speaker 2: sorry mom for sharing this, but I broke it down,
Speaker 2: Like I said, I want like wrote down which wrestler,
Speaker 2: I want everyone where to get it? How much it
Speaker 2: is like curd angle lot of figurine line six, like
Speaker 2: telling her which what ones to get and she ended
Speaker 2: up getting me a dart board. So I'm some ten
Speaker 2: year old, like, what the fuck am I supposed to
Speaker 2: do with this?
Speaker 1: So basically you'd set your heart long crisis on getting
Speaker 1: this wrestler for.
Speaker 2: Multiple wrestlers, like, and I just wrote them all down,
Speaker 2: which if you can't get this one, get this one.
Speaker 2: If you can't do that, get this one, but this
Speaker 2: one will be here so you can get this one.
Speaker 1: And so she basically she couldn't get any and just
Speaker 1: went for the dartboard.
Speaker 2: And then there's another one. And then she says when
Speaker 2: she got me a cricket bat and cricket stumps one year,
Speaker 2: and I was just like, I was into cricket that year,
Speaker 2: but still I didn't ask for them.
Speaker 1: But you're never into Darce key point, Yeah, never dart
Speaker 1: So this trauma seed was planned, yeah, but so.
Speaker 2: It just never was. Gift giving was never big in
Speaker 2: my family. It was like acts of services more or
Speaker 2: like quality time, whereas affirmation never gift giving.
Speaker 1: Whereas I am a big on gift giving, Like that's
Speaker 1: definitely one of my love languages. I just absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: I love giving gifts to people and seeing their like face,
Speaker 1: Like I mean even thothough you were squirming before when
Speaker 1: I gave you a birthday present, I was thoroughly enjoying myself.
Speaker 2: Really, what did you reckon? It released a serotonin in
Speaker 2: your brain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's like you're like doing something nice for
Speaker 1: someone else. So like, I love it. Funny story in
Speaker 1: my family because we obviously love gift giving. And one
Speaker 1: year when I still very much believed in Santa, what
Speaker 1: like when I was younger, What.
Speaker 2: Do you mean believe in Santa?
Speaker 1: And I believe I believe for everyone listening to what
Speaker 1: just spoil? Anyway, Basically, we had two big couches in
Speaker 1: our house, and Santa would leave my brother's presence on
Speaker 1: one couch and my presence on the other couch. But
Speaker 1: we had this little what is it called like a
Speaker 1: puffe or you know, I think pufe is like British. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so there's like a little ottoman in the middle, so
Speaker 1: it's like a middle couch. So it's kind of like
Speaker 1: no man's land, like who there was one present on
Speaker 1: there and literally.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cruel by Santa me, right.
Speaker 1: Like we know which couches our presents are going to
Speaker 1: be on and then there's just one present in the
Speaker 1: middle on this ottoman and I saw it and I
Speaker 1: was like, that's mine. Santa left it for me. And
Speaker 1: my brother's like, no, that's mine, and my parents obviously,
Speaker 1: because you know by our Santa, we're like, no, I
Speaker 1: think Santa's left there for your brother. And I was like,
Speaker 1: how would you know? You don't know what Santa was?
Speaker 2: Did he tell you? This? Did tell you?
Speaker 1: And my mom's like, I'm gonna have to call Santa.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you can't call him, you don't have his number.
Speaker 1: I know that presence for me. I know Santa wanted
Speaker 1: me to have that present. Spoiled brat alert, But I
Speaker 1: honestly it's such a cool memory of mine because I
Speaker 1: felt like, even though all of these beautiful presents had
Speaker 1: been given to me from Santa, I was like, everyone's
Speaker 1: robbing me about other present.
Speaker 2: What was it in the end?
Speaker 1: I honestly can't remember, but I just remember.
Speaker 2: Imagine if it was like a hot wheel set or
Speaker 2: like some real boy thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but anyway, hilarious. And my family always looks back
Speaker 1: on that and they're like, oh my god, you were
Speaker 1: so spoiled.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, fair enough, if what was it?
Speaker 2: Just Christmas wrapping and it had no name on it.
Speaker 1: No, my parents ever did Christmas rapping, so it was
Speaker 1: all just set out. Everything was laid out, so we'd
Speaker 1: like come downstairs and everything was just like.
Speaker 2: Not wrapped up.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: No, everything has to be wrapped up in our house,
Speaker 2: even to the point where like we had my ex
Speaker 2: brought around her Christmas gifts and it was it wasn't
Speaker 2: Christmas wrapping paper, and Emma lost it and re wrapped it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was all matching. So when you come down,
Speaker 2: it's all matching. We're real stickless for Christmas our house.
Speaker 1: Okay, Matt, So have you done any of your Christmas
Speaker 1: shopping yet?
Speaker 2: I've got the big chunk of it done. I've still
Speaker 2: got little things here and there, to be honest, I
Speaker 2: had a lot of them a while ago. Like I
Speaker 2: stumbled on stuff a couple of months ago, and I
Speaker 2: was like, this will be perfect for Laara, this will
Speaker 2: be perfect for Emma.
Speaker 1: When you do that, that's so good because when you
Speaker 1: just have like a time limit of like three hours
Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, I need to do everyone, so
Speaker 1: you just end up buying people things because you're like, well,
Speaker 1: it's this or nothing, whereas like when you do it
Speaker 1: over a long period of time, you actually end up
Speaker 1: getting more thoughtful gifts. And I mean you are thoughtful,
Speaker 1: so it makes sense. So I haven't done any of
Speaker 1: my Christmas shopping other than Michael's sister's baby. We got
Speaker 1: him a paddling pool, which will be great for Christmas
Speaker 1: Day and Mildura.
Speaker 2: Getting baby stuff's pretty easy, it's cute and it's.
Speaker 1: Fun baby shopping as well, for like toys.
Speaker 2: I remember for my brother, my baby brother, I got
Speaker 2: him a wrestling belts when he was like one year old.
Speaker 2: For the first it didn't go down well, he wanted.
Speaker 1: Nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: Well, he was like not even one. He's like that's no,
Speaker 2: it's like through the side.
Speaker 1: But Michael and I aren't doing presents this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we might get like a couple of little things,
Speaker 1: but I think we are gonna have our wedding in Greece,
Speaker 1: yes in twenty twenty four, So I think our presence
Speaker 1: to one another this year is just flights to Greece
Speaker 1: next year so that we can go and like scope
Speaker 1: out the wedding venue. So yeah, we're not really doing presents. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we are doing presents. We're gonna go to Greece,
Speaker 1: go to Greece together, so that'll be really fun. So
Speaker 1: we have something to look forward to there. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I still have Christmas presents for my mom dad.
Speaker 2: What do you normally get your mum and dad?
Speaker 1: I mean, my dad is known to get a lot
Speaker 1: of socks, just like the basic dad things that people get.
Speaker 1: But I've tried to kind of go outside of the
Speaker 1: box recently.
Speaker 2: Shows how old I'm getting. I would love new underwear
Speaker 2: and socks. Y, So if my family's listening, but I
Speaker 2: am desperate for some new white Nike.
Speaker 1: Socks, like some Calvin Kliines, Hugo Boss underwear like.
Speaker 2: Vibe brief not trunks by the way, in case anyone's listening,
Speaker 2: trunks try it up too much.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, like, look, let's talk through some gift ideas
Speaker 1: for your mum and dad. So the first thing that
Speaker 1: we put on the list was appliances, So things like
Speaker 1: a robo vacuum, Like that is a great gift. How
Speaker 1: I would love a robo vacuum.
Speaker 2: Is this the little thing that goes around?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it goes around. And then your parents are not
Speaker 1: going to have to actually go ahead and vacuum.
Speaker 2: No, I have. I remember my exit one of them.
Speaker 2: It was my notich Nemesis. I hated it, Nemesis. It
Speaker 2: was just I just wasn't a fan of him.
Speaker 1: But was it verse for the back? But I mean,
Speaker 1: who would you prefer to vacuum the robo? Or here?
Speaker 2: This is true, I can go for it. Another good
Speaker 2: one is air fryers. Swear by them so good.
Speaker 1: See I haven't tried an air fryer, but I feel
Speaker 1: like it's something that I could get around.
Speaker 2: Swear by it. Seriously. Turn up to two hundred and
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. Chuck your salmon in there. It's done, perfectly cooked,
Speaker 2: perfectly cooked. Literally, it's the easiest thing I get home
Speaker 2: from Jim. Put it in there, chuck it in, turn
Speaker 2: it on, go, have a shower, time to sit down
Speaker 2: and it's done.
Speaker 1: And then once it's done, can you put it in
Speaker 1: the dish washer?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's easy to wash my hand though.
Speaker 1: I'm not a hand washer.
Speaker 2: It's literally just like it's just with a sponge. Do
Speaker 2: you know one of those things where the liquid comes
Speaker 2: out of the sponge.
Speaker 1: Hand the hand action that map's doing in the studio
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Not normal but OK, yeah, so like you just like yeah,
Speaker 2: you just wash it. It's no stress. So I swear
Speaker 2: by air fryers. Get them one of them.
Speaker 1: Very good gift. Another gift idea that I love, which
Speaker 1: I've done from my dad before, is a photo book.
Speaker 1: You know, very somal sentimental. You would love a photo book,
Speaker 1: a book from anyone, whether it be me, this is
Speaker 1: your mum, whoever. It is just a photo of you,
Speaker 1: and lots of different.
Speaker 2: We're talking about gifts were given. This is how bad
Speaker 2: I am. A gift. We did a Chris Kringle with
Speaker 2: my cousin's extendard family. It was when i'd just gotten
Speaker 2: off Love Island. I printed off a photo of me.
Speaker 2: This is because you know there's a limit like twenty
Speaker 2: bucks ten bucks on Chris Kringle printed off a photo
Speaker 2: of me, put it in a photo frame, signed it
Speaker 2: on the back. He's a full grown blowite me the
Speaker 2: same agees a little bit older, I think two years
Speaker 2: older than me. On the back, dear James, keep doing,
Speaker 2: keep doing you You're killing it mate, Love Matt from
Speaker 2: Love Island and gave that to him and Chris Kringle
Speaker 2: to my cousin's family friend cousin's boyfriend.
Speaker 1: Did he even watch the show?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I am mortified for you that you did. That is
Speaker 1: so he was probably like, this guy's ego is fucking sky.
Speaker 2: I've got a photo of it somewhere on my phone,
Speaker 2: put it on the Facebook. Well they have since broken
Speaker 2: up actually, so yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's definitely so a photo book.
Speaker 2: It's probably worth fairbing now though, so it's silly to.
Speaker 1: Throw out so a photo book. We love a photo book.
Speaker 1: Another thing that we love is an experience. So you're sentimental.
Speaker 1: Do you like an experience?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I experiences?
Speaker 1: So maybe like a balloon ride for two, maybe like
Speaker 1: going to the peninsula hotspread.
Speaker 2: Tactical thing about an experiences you can be like And
Speaker 2: this goes to people that are a bit like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to spend too much
Speaker 2: money on my partner. I don't know if I want
Speaker 2: to spend that much money. The money you're spending, you're
Speaker 2: technically halfing because you're getting to do that experience.
Speaker 1: You get to do it too, right. Another one is
Speaker 1: movie tickets, like gold class movie tickets. I still have
Speaker 1: two sets of movie tickets from last Christmas from my
Speaker 1: own expiring. No, they last for two years apparently, so
Speaker 1: they don't actually run out until twenty twenty four, which
Speaker 1: is why I haven't been in a rush to use them.
Speaker 1: But I it's such a good gift.
Speaker 2: It's great gift.
Speaker 1: The thing about gift giving is you just want people
Speaker 1: to be able to like it or use it. You
Speaker 1: don't want them to get something and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's junk. I want to throw it out, or I
Speaker 1: want to regift it to someone else because I don't
Speaker 1: want that.
Speaker 2: Or you definitely can't regift that ball ball. Yeah that's
Speaker 2: your podcast. Why are you giving me that?
Speaker 1: Another great one form and Dad is alcohol, chocolates, easy sake,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah. I feel like for my dad, like
Speaker 1: he loves great, a nice bottle of red wine. So
Speaker 1: it's just a simple one. Obviously, if your parents don't drink,
Speaker 1: you can move to alcohol. Other hampers things like that.
Speaker 2: My dad loves chocolate, he doesn't drink, So just for
Speaker 2: getting lint balls every.
Speaker 1: Year, Yeah, love that. Board games, activities to do with
Speaker 1: the family, things to help everyone bond on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: I don't know about your family, but we're beg into
Speaker 1: games on Christmas Day.
Speaker 2: No, like I said, we don't Christmas Day, we don't
Speaker 2: really hang out. We'll just do the gifts in the morning,
Speaker 2: then like go get ready to go to our partners Christmases.
Speaker 2: So we don't really do much on Christmas Day together.
Speaker 1: Right, But what about the Christmas evening?
Speaker 2: It's more like a dinner sort of setup. So it's
Speaker 2: more like you get there, there's drinks, dinner, you're around
Speaker 2: a fire. Sometimes we'll get a fire going for it's
Speaker 2: not too windy, just talking shit like and then watch
Speaker 2: a movie at the end.
Speaker 1: So it's more like Bond.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's more like that sort of time, not so
Speaker 2: much games, but.
Speaker 1: From me and my family. If I was to get
Speaker 1: someone in my family, like a game that would go
Speaker 1: down a tree and I reckon, we'd probably play it
Speaker 1: on the day.
Speaker 2: So options, well, that's sort of can I can agree
Speaker 2: to that in a way that we'll do Christmas movies
Speaker 2: up to Christmas Eve, then Christmas Day when we all
Speaker 2: get back from our partners Christmas, if we're coming back,
Speaker 2: we watched the movie that was gifted to us. We've
Speaker 2: done that in the past, the DVD. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 2: sort of the same as podcast back in.
Speaker 1: The days of the dv I still.
Speaker 2: Love DVD's I want Yeah, I love them. I reckon.
Speaker 2: I want to get a massive movie room with just
Speaker 2: all my DVDs. I probably have like a thousand.
Speaker 1: You would.
Speaker 2: Books is a good one, so that's easy. My mum
Speaker 2: sisters love books.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the genre that people like to read
Speaker 1: as well. You can ask them the ideas of authors. Pajamas.
Speaker 1: Pajamas is a great one.
Speaker 2: Another great one, slippers, slippers.
Speaker 1: I got both my parents matching us slippers last year
Speaker 1: and it was really cute. They still have them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very cute, like a long time so I reckon. Yeah,
Speaker 2: pajamas is perfect. You just go in and you get
Speaker 2: your mum's slippers. A row from Peter Alexander perfect. I
Speaker 2: love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that, or one.
Speaker 2: Of those candles.
Speaker 1: I love a candle. Yeah, mums love candles. Don't love them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't go wrong. It's a safe bet.
Speaker 1: It's very safe.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We've just given you the literally the safest guide
Speaker 2: of what to buy presence. And if you guys suck
Speaker 2: it up after listening.
Speaker 1: To that, je you is okay. Next we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about what's value partner.
Speaker 2: And every year everyone stresses about what to get their
Speaker 2: partner for Christmas. It actually is it could make or
Speaker 2: break a relationship sometimes reckon Well, if there's no if
Speaker 2: like you're like me and you struggle with giving presents
Speaker 2: and someone else loves receiving presents, it can be and
Speaker 2: there's no actual I'll tell you a massive thing before
Speaker 2: we get into it.
Speaker 1: Set a budget, set a budget one percent. We do
Speaker 1: it every year. I mean when I say we do
Speaker 1: it every year. We've only had one Christmas together, but
Speaker 1: last year we did it. And with previous partners, I've also.
Speaker 2: Said I set a budget with my ex and obviously
Speaker 2: we said before how her love language is gift giving,
Speaker 2: so I know that she would buy it. Like literally,
Speaker 2: I'd come home and she'd have gifts for me. She
Speaker 2: just would give me gifts. She'd sit there on the
Speaker 2: couch buy gifts for me.
Speaker 1: What a blessed life.
Speaker 2: You were leading that it was a great It was
Speaker 2: a positive in an otherwise non positive relationship. I was
Speaker 2: getting these gifts, but I feel uncomfortable, and I tell it,
Speaker 2: I actually feel uncomfortable getting these gifts. We've expressed that
Speaker 2: you had a partner that didn't like gifts giving either
Speaker 2: as well. There was sort of like a thought about it, like, oh, well,
Speaker 2: if you've gotten me this, like I need to get
Speaker 2: you something in return. I can't accept this without giving
Speaker 2: something back, do you know what I mean? So I
Speaker 2: really didn't. I felt uncomfortable with that. And one Christmas,
Speaker 2: we had a budget of I know this sounds extravagant,
Speaker 2: but it was like five hundred bucks. I knew what
Speaker 2: she was like. She went on and spent to like
Speaker 2: two thousand, yeah TV, one thousand dollars, Apple, the max
Speaker 2: airpro Maxes, a couple of NFL jerseys, there was a
Speaker 2: bunch of other random stuff, and I was just sitting there.
Speaker 1: Like, fuck me, Like, so, did you feel really uncomfortable
Speaker 1: because you were like the budget was five hundred, I've
Speaker 1: got you something at five hundred, and now I've got
Speaker 1: all of.
Speaker 2: This in literally in my family. And then my sister's
Speaker 2: there giving her boyfriend, like I don't know, like some
Speaker 2: new shoes that were worth a couple hundred bucks, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, And I'm just unwrapping this huge
Speaker 2: TV and like, but that was her. Nothing else that
Speaker 2: was her, Yeah, and then would buy my parents, bought
Speaker 2: my mum like new airport and maxes as well. Like
Speaker 2: she just would buy everyone. Bought my sister a GHD
Speaker 2: hair strainer. That was just the way.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's the way that Isn't that sounds like a
Speaker 1: very extensive Christmas for her? Oh my god, Yeah.
Speaker 2: She just goes that's her personality.
Speaker 1: Well. Look, the love language of gift giving lies with
Speaker 1: the gesture rather than the actual value of the gift.
Speaker 1: And I think this is something that you have sometimes
Speaker 1: had a hard time kind of navigating because I think
Speaker 1: you think it's more about the money than the gesture,
Speaker 1: But it is actually about the gesture, So it's not
Speaker 1: as materialistic or superficial as you may presume. And I
Speaker 1: guess people who do have the love language of gift
Speaker 1: giving at a young age retort to present gifts to
Speaker 1: the ones they love on special occasions. So it's kind
Speaker 1: of like this thing where it's a way to show
Speaker 1: their appreciation, show their love. Maybe you would give expensive
Speaker 1: gifts to maybe family members because it's a way to
Speaker 1: try to be accepted.
Speaker 2: Well, I it's funny you say, because I actually had
Speaker 2: a discussion with one of my partners in the past,
Speaker 2: and we were talking about like this whole gift giving thing,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I was like, well, I give gifts.
Speaker 2: So I was like, I got you when you were
Speaker 2: staying at mine and you said you were cold. I
Speaker 2: bought you thermals. I bought you like a new blanket
Speaker 2: for your side of the bed. I brought you one
Speaker 2: of those portable heaters, and I like and I said,
Speaker 2: there was like a bit of meaning behind that as well,
Speaker 2: because you said you were cold the night before, you
Speaker 2: couldn't sleep. And then she said she was like, well,
Speaker 2: that's not a gift, that's an act of service. And
Speaker 2: I was like, well, what determines the difference between them,
Speaker 2: and she goes, well, she said the price, and I
Speaker 2: was like, well, I was like okay. I was like,
Speaker 2: your thermals cost me one hundred and twenty bucks. A
Speaker 2: little bit more. I was like, the heater was like sixty,
Speaker 2: so that's two hundred bucks, and then like the blanket
Speaker 2: was like fifty dollars, so I've just spent two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say that gift gift giving.
Speaker 2: I was like, is that now in your price? And
Speaker 2: she's like, oh, I didn't think it would cost so much,
Speaker 2: So I don't know, like, I think that people a
Speaker 2: lot of people missed through that as well.
Speaker 1: Miss true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah to gift giving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think people who do have the love
Speaker 1: language of gift giving actually see the gifts as sentimental
Speaker 1: keep sex as opposed to material objects. So even if
Speaker 1: it's like an expensive pair of headphones, I guess they
Speaker 1: kind of connect those headphones to Oh my partner gave
Speaker 1: this to me. This was a sign of love. I'm
Speaker 1: now wearing these, I'm keeping this with me, and it
Speaker 1: is sentimental. It's not just about the material object.
Speaker 2: Remember when I bumped into my ex at the coffee
Speaker 2: shop and she was going on a walk and she
Speaker 2: had her headphones because she bought them both at the
Speaker 2: same time. She actually acknowledged that she still had them.
Speaker 2: Like I was like, oh, look, so maybe you're right
Speaker 2: with that. She thought of it as like with me,
Speaker 2: that sort of connection.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And I think even if gift giving isn't
Speaker 1: your love language this Christmas season, you can still enjoy
Speaker 1: the process.
Speaker 2: Matt, I'm looking at you did the uncomfortable like, oh,
Speaker 2: oh my god, fuddy, we were talking about gift giving.
Speaker 2: So how awkward my dad was. Whenever he gets gifts,
Speaker 2: he just would just go like, do this whistle, just
Speaker 2: would go oh, I know he did every time, no
Speaker 2: matter if you liked it, no matter if he didn't
Speaker 2: like this. Yeah, like just we do a whistle and
Speaker 2: as we'll just put it down. But we were not
Speaker 2: got gifts in my family. It just wasn't And.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's like learned behavior. You saw him do a whistle,
Speaker 1: You're like, I don't want to do the whistles. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna look the other.
Speaker 2: Way, look at the ground awkwardly as I hold up
Speaker 2: a T shirt like, oh thanks, okay.
Speaker 1: Matt, let's talk about gifts to buy your partner. We're
Speaker 1: going to start with a girlfriend. I personally think that
Speaker 1: jewelry can never go wrong.
Speaker 2: So I literally was about to argue that, oh really,
Speaker 2: well you go to get the right color. You go, like, well,
Speaker 2: you think if.
Speaker 1: You're dating someone, you can work out if they're gold
Speaker 1: or silver or rose gold at a maximum?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like, it's not it doesn't have to be too complex.
Speaker 1: You can find out maybe a favorite brand, so maybe
Speaker 1: it could be Tiffany and Co.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: You could have a budget set, which we've spoken about
Speaker 1: budgets are important. Then you can go into Tiffany and Co.
Speaker 1: And say, hey, I have a two undred dollar budget.
Speaker 1: What can I get that's a good present?
Speaker 2: And I reckon they'll help you. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: guys doing that in Tiffany and Co. This year.
Speaker 1: I reckon, Yeah, absolutely. And you know, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be Tiffany and Co. It can be Pandura. It
Speaker 1: can be whatever brand your partner likes or has maybe
Speaker 1: verbalized to you that is, you know, well maybe even
Speaker 1: like if they have a necklace from somewhere, you can
Speaker 1: go back to that shop and get them something else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and your girlfriend will always talk about what brand
Speaker 2: she likes. If you're actually listening, fellas, like, actually put
Speaker 2: in the time to listen. I know it's hard boys
Speaker 2: to listen to everything they say, but if you just listen,
Speaker 2: you'll probably hear it.
Speaker 1: Okay, a Mecca and Sephora voucher cannot go wrong any
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Speaker 2: And on that. I do this. I do this pretty
Speaker 2: much every like this is just the backbone of gift giving.
Speaker 2: Look at their perfume that they have, take a photo,
Speaker 2: go in there and say can I grab this? Yea
Speaker 2: easy easy, the easy gift to get for guys, to
Speaker 2: get a girl an experience.
Speaker 1: We love an experience. We said it with parents, you
Speaker 1: can get your parents an experience together. Maybe you can
Speaker 1: have an experience with your partner.
Speaker 2: And like I said, you're literally going on the experience
Speaker 2: as well, so you can justify however much you're spending
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just to add on to the whole experience thing.
Speaker 1: I feel like it would be such a good gift
Speaker 1: if you bought your partner, like to stay at a
Speaker 1: hotel for a night, Like don't you think that's so cute?
Speaker 2: Staycation?
Speaker 1: There's staycation like at a nice hotel. It's maybe two
Speaker 1: hundred and three hundred dollars depending on where you stay.
Speaker 1: And what a nice little memory that you can make together.
Speaker 2: Also something sentimental, so like a book or something that's
Speaker 2: special that you have memories together with. So jeneral I
Speaker 2: last year, we agreed that we had a budget and
Speaker 2: then we're going to get each other something sentimental. So finally,
Speaker 2: this is actually such a funny story. We agreed that
Speaker 2: every time we had a gift giving time, we'll get
Speaker 2: each other a book. So we buy each other a book,
Speaker 2: but then we also said we'll get ourselves something sentimental.
Speaker 2: We literally got each other the exact same sentimental gift.
Speaker 2: It was fucked. So the exactly so weird, exact same
Speaker 2: photo in the exact same frame, and then a ball
Speaker 2: ball with Jen and Matt written on it. Well, I
Speaker 2: got Jen and Matt's first question. She got Jen and
Speaker 2: Matt twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: WHOA, that's so treat.
Speaker 2: So we were like she I could see they were
Speaker 2: next to each other on the tree, and I was like,
Speaker 2: I reckon, we've got the same thing. And then I
Speaker 2: felt like the photo frame and I was like, we've
Speaker 2: got the same photo frame? It was fuck?
Speaker 1: Was it the same photo frame? That same photos, same color,
Speaker 1: exact same same the same.
Speaker 2: Photo, the exact same photo in the exact same photo frame.
Speaker 1: Wild, that's a bit like mind blowing?
Speaker 2: Was it was christ this morning? We were like, we
Speaker 2: had no talk of it, nothing we just said bet
Speaker 2: yourself something sentimental, pathological. Just on the same wave link there.
Speaker 2: Another one is a puppy. What do you mean? I
Speaker 2: want to?
Speaker 1: I want to.
Speaker 2: I want to dash out so bad.
Speaker 1: Do not get your partner a puppy. Matt wants a puppy,
Speaker 1: and he's projecting that.
Speaker 2: I want a dashound? Please, I want my own hint.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, can imagine you walking down the street
Speaker 1: with your little sausage?
Speaker 2: Did I not say that to you last night?
Speaker 1: That's what I want, Nat said his future Matt said
Speaker 1: his future dreams encompass him walking down the street three
Speaker 1: dashounds and.
Speaker 2: Over spiced tea and a nice latte.
Speaker 1: I mean, we were talking about goal setting and that's
Speaker 1: where we went. So just just a little insight into
Speaker 1: the conversations that Matt and I have off my.
Speaker 2: Could you picture it now? Short shorts?
Speaker 1: I can picture it, but do I want to picture it?
Speaker 2: Heavy sleeveless top, the unreal iced tea, three three dashounds?
Speaker 1: You can barely take care of yourself? How are you
Speaker 1: to take care of one? There? From my three? Let's
Speaker 1: move on to boyfriend? What shall people buy their boyfriends? Matt?
Speaker 1: We need some help. What do guys want.
Speaker 2: They just want peace and quiet.
Speaker 1: He's gone morbid real quick.
Speaker 2: No cologne, that's so good.
Speaker 1: I love a cologne.
Speaker 2: And if they're a male like me, and you respect
Speaker 2: your skin and good skin care.
Speaker 1: As well, I feel like as well, like correct me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. Guys aren't like super picky with cologne.
Speaker 1: Like if you got them like a totally random cologne
Speaker 1: that you like and give it to them, they won't.
Speaker 2: Mind, right, Yeah, I wouldn't care.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just happy to get a clan. So, ladies,
Speaker 1: you can literally go to Chemis's warehouse or go to
Speaker 1: Maya or wherever you get your colognes from literally find
Speaker 1: the best cologne that you like, which is like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, guys, but cologne. It turns
Speaker 1: me on, like a good cologne on a man hot.
Speaker 1: So you can literally pick it out and then give
Speaker 1: it to him and then he'll be smelling delicious. It's
Speaker 1: a win win.
Speaker 2: What one would be your favorite you recommend for these girls?
Speaker 1: I love Savage. I've always loved Savage for a very
Speaker 1: long time. It's such a boy smell boy smell.
Speaker 2: I mean, well between that blue I love and the
Speaker 2: one million.
Speaker 1: One, the rob like that one, the pay they're a boy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do love the Channel Blue.
Speaker 2: That's fucking that's I've got.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2: I love it just reminds me, I think I spoke.
Speaker 2: It just reminds me of long nights, you know, and
Speaker 2: then I smell it now I'm like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he probably like showered yourself in it before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, A good one as well. Would be experiences. We've
Speaker 2: said that before. What would a guy like to do?
Speaker 2: Maybe not so like hot air ballooon, Maybe like skydiving
Speaker 2: would be fun. If they're into that, they're into that.
Speaker 1: Read the room. If they heights, don't take them skydiving.
Speaker 2: I got an ex a couple of years ago horseback
Speaker 2: riding through wineries.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's really cute. I would personally love that, Micael,
Speaker 1: if you're listening.
Speaker 2: No, don't do it. Something like that's a good experience
Speaker 2: to get them. And then like you go down to
Speaker 2: the peninsula and then I've got us an AIRBNBF voucher
Speaker 2: for something down there at the same time.
Speaker 1: You see, that's nice. I really love that.
Speaker 2: Stuff like that is good, something that they have a
Speaker 2: hobby with. So it might be like a golfer. They
Speaker 2: might be doing boxing, they might I don't play footy.
Speaker 2: You get them a new pair of boots, a new
Speaker 2: pair of like like that. Yeah, golf clubs.
Speaker 1: But if they're into a sport, maybe like if they're
Speaker 1: into tennis, maybe get them a new racket. Yeah, rackets
Speaker 1: are quite like personal though maybe not a racket a.
Speaker 2: Voucher then to go, that's life, so easy to do that.
Speaker 1: So maybe you could get them a new outfit to wear.
Speaker 1: This is WHI playing tennis.
Speaker 2: This is true, well, and that would go to the
Speaker 2: next one. Obviously, get them a new shirt, a new
Speaker 2: like let's be honest. Or your girls want to address
Speaker 2: your boyfriend, you don't we style, you don't like their fashion,
Speaker 2: they need your advice. I'm literally watching my sister Emma
Speaker 2: do that to her boyfriend right now, literally restyle the kid.
Speaker 1: He's literally restyled the kid.
Speaker 2: Literally was asking me, like, we're investigate Calvin clients from
Speaker 2: all this sort of stuff. She actually said the other day,
Speaker 2: because I give her a lot of MIC's clothes that
Speaker 2: I don't want anyone like my, like, you know, expensive ones,
Speaker 2: I say, before I will sell them, I'll take them
Speaker 2: to the market or whatever I say, do you want them?
Speaker 2: And then I actually said to her, I'm not giving
Speaker 2: you for you to give to your boyfriend, like like
Speaker 2: old Salem before, like you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 2: I could make like you know, like fifty.
Speaker 1: Barks, I could make twenty bucks, well like.
Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty dollars shirt, like I could make
Speaker 2: my money, you know. And then she was like, yeah, well,
Speaker 2: he need your new clothes, like can you give me
Speaker 2: some advice? So I gave her some advice and she's like, fun,
Speaker 2: I didn't realize how expensive it is. And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: remember when.
Speaker 1: I did a wardrobe clear out and I gave all
Speaker 1: of my stuff to your sister. I do remember that
Speaker 1: was literally like three huge bin bags of clothes and
Speaker 1: she was like dragging them out of my apartment.
Speaker 2: She's like that, thanks, And isn't that when I got
Speaker 2: your Exits jumper not Josh's And do you still have that? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm sitting.
Speaker 1: Here wearing your exes and bloody Christmas jumper right now.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 2: It's a backbone of my wardrope. Actually in winter, I'm
Speaker 2: sure it is. Another one would be like if they're
Speaker 2: a gamer, maybe a new game, and you.
Speaker 1: Sure like if not everyone's into sport, some people could
Speaker 1: be into gaming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't gamed in a while, so I don't
Speaker 2: know what good games are. But a new control, a
Speaker 2: new if Xbox Life still does like you have to pay,
Speaker 2: maybe up their subscription things for gym as well. Maybe
Speaker 2: get them a new wait separ at home if they're
Speaker 2: into that sort of stuff. You know, a couple of
Speaker 2: ways they can do homework at home.
Speaker 1: Training.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a treadmill at home is good. Ads, if you
Speaker 2: could get them a treadmillat.
Speaker 1: Like a treadmill, a treadmill is probably a thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know what your budget is, but yeah,
Speaker 2: hint hints on traffic, some hints here.
Speaker 1: Trying to think of have a treadmill from that one out.
Speaker 2: And obviously don't forget sentimental. I know that guys, even
Speaker 2: if they feel rough and tough on the outside, they
Speaker 2: love a sentimental gift. Yeah, nice car, a nice ca.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, if we're talking about cards. A thing as well
Speaker 2: that I realized that a lot of people don't do
Speaker 2: as well, which I was always taught to do, was
Speaker 2: do you read the card before you open? Yeah? I
Speaker 2: think that we should set that as well. People should
Speaker 2: do that. Always read the card before you open the present.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's nothing worse than getting someone a gift and
Speaker 1: they just like go straight for the present and then
Speaker 1: they couldn't even care less about the card and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll go.
Speaker 2: And another thing I do as well is is such
Speaker 2: a cheap gag. Whenever someone gives me a card or
Speaker 2: my partner does, I open it and I just go
Speaker 2: like this to see if there's money in it and
Speaker 2: then just put it on the ground. So I should
Speaker 2: have done it with your Christmas card last night. Okay
Speaker 2: if there's nothing in this, okay.
Speaker 1: We are going to touch on gifts that you can
Speaker 1: get your friends, your work, colleagues and Secret Center next.
Speaker 2: So obviously with friends and colleagues and Chris Kringles Secret Santas,
Speaker 2: there's a price limit.
Speaker 1: There's a price limit for sure.
Speaker 2: So work within your price slim. That's the first tip,
Speaker 2: like we've said, and then I was gonna blow it up.
Speaker 2: If you're an extravagant group of friends and it's a
Speaker 2: hundred bucks, is there an invite to your Christmas? I'd
Speaker 2: like to get invited to that. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: keep it easy, like, don't go over the top, don't
Speaker 2: get them assigned photo of yourself like I did. Probably
Speaker 2: notice it was.
Speaker 1: Like probably the worst gift that anyone has ever given
Speaker 1: in the history of gifts.
Speaker 2: You're getting next year, so just give me nothing.
Speaker 1: I don't want the fucking extra room getting taken up
Speaker 1: in my apartment. I'm already living in.
Speaker 2: A tight since it is, so there's a photo of me.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about gifts to get your friends now.
Speaker 1: I have a really good one. A couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: my friend Laura actually got me this really cool experience.
Speaker 1: We made cocktails together. It was like this cocktail making class.
Speaker 1: It was really fun. I think it was about an
Speaker 1: hour and a half, and then we ended up having
Speaker 1: dinner at the restaurant after really fun experience. Something that
Speaker 1: you can do. It's already bonding.
Speaker 2: And paid though to make your own drinks instead of
Speaker 2: the barn.
Speaker 1: And did I make the drinks again? Did I replicate them? No,
Speaker 1: I did it, but I enjoyed the experience of learning.
Speaker 2: I actually would love to learn how to make cocktails.
Speaker 2: I think that's a pretty cool pretty yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely something that like to put on the bucket list.
Speaker 1: And as I said, like it's a fun pre drinks,
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: It's good. Just listen to your friends. They might have
Speaker 2: mentioned something. I said that before fellows to listen to
Speaker 2: your girlfriend. They might have mentioned something and you might go, oh,
Speaker 2: yeah they want this, they need this, and it's that's perfect.
Speaker 2: Then it's got. It shows that you're listening to them
Speaker 2: and you appreciate your friendship as well. So yeah, good one.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, as we said, experiences, movie tickets, things that you
Speaker 1: can do together. I mean, as we get older, we've
Speaker 1: spoken a lot about how it's harder to make time
Speaker 1: for our friends. So I feel like doing experiences and
Speaker 1: getting experience gifts for friends is a big one. And
Speaker 1: then you can kind of like lock in time to
Speaker 1: see them and do them too. One stone, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: That work colleagues. What do we get our work colleagues?
Speaker 2: You probably need to listen to this one for what
Speaker 2: you're going to get me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, fuck no.
Speaker 2: I got you the bull bull. Look, stay away from
Speaker 2: your sexy land shops. There could be a HR There
Speaker 2: could be a HR thing going on there if you're
Speaker 2: going there. So let's avoid those shops. Easy, like something
Speaker 2: easy like I mean, you could get them a candle
Speaker 2: of diffuser. You could even bake for them.
Speaker 1: Really, Oh that's cute. Yeah, we like sentimental. Like I
Speaker 1: guess for a work colleague, it doesn't need to be
Speaker 1: overly expensive. You don't want to be spending like tons
Speaker 1: of money on them, So something that's more sentimental.
Speaker 2: You could even go and just get them, Like I remember,
Speaker 2: this is what we used to get my teachers when
Speaker 2: you're at primary school. You get them a gift. My
Speaker 2: mum would fill up like a mug full of chocolates,
Speaker 2: limp balls and you just give that to the teacher.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So that's super cute, super easy.
Speaker 2: Lease that on their desk and.
Speaker 1: The mug says the best teacher.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah, best work colleague or something or something Christmas.
Speaker 2: Even just getting the vibes of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you know they like baking, you can get
Speaker 1: them some cooking utensils, baking utensils, you know, a candle
Speaker 1: or a diffuser can never never goes wrong.
Speaker 2: As we said before, I wouldn't overthink a work colleague.
Speaker 1: No, if you're doing a secret Santa, I have a
Speaker 1: really a bad Santa. Is it bad Santa?
Speaker 2: When you can take them. You can take the presents away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a good one. Scratcheese.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing is is when you do like a bad
Speaker 1: Santa gift, it's normally got like a ten dollar limit.
Speaker 1: But if you give someone scratchies, like ten dollars worth
Speaker 1: of scratches, then people subconsciously are like that could be
Speaker 1: worth more. So then they're always going to try and
Speaker 1: steal that. Isn't that a good one?
Speaker 2: That is actually a good one. I've never thought of
Speaker 2: it like that. That's very smart, and.
Speaker 1: I'm not actually that smart. So I just someone actually
Speaker 1: did that. When I went to a Christmas farding, I
Speaker 1: was like, great idea. I'm going to pass this on
Speaker 1: to the words your head.
Speaker 2: Everyone needs to hear this one. I love that one.
Speaker 2: That is a good one. But you know what time
Speaker 2: it is? Anna?
Speaker 1: What time is it matter?
Speaker 2: That time of the show where we ask you to
Speaker 2: ask us where our heads are at?
Speaker 1: Let's do it? Okay, So Sheridan asks, how do I
Speaker 1: split my Christmas between my family's traditions and my new
Speaker 1: partners traditions. Both families host a Christmas lunch and now
Speaker 1: I'm torn on how to spend it. Christmas look, it's
Speaker 1: always hard navigating different families, different things that are going on.
Speaker 1: I would just say, don't spend your whole Christmas driving around,
Speaker 1: but maybe just try and do both. Start at one,
Speaker 1: finish at the other.
Speaker 2: I would say, wish ever partner's family seems more reasonable,
Speaker 2: try ask them to move it a little bit more forward,
Speaker 2: so to express that, like, and I'm assuming there's other
Speaker 2: people there that have the same situation. Yeah, it's yeah,
Speaker 2: let's not be realistic, like that's what we have at
Speaker 2: my house.
Speaker 1: I think the thing about Christmas is everyone has to
Speaker 1: be super flexible because there's lots sort of moving parts
Speaker 1: from different families, and I think the main thing to
Speaker 1: do is to try and make everyone's day as comfortable
Speaker 1: and easy as possible.
Speaker 2: We've got this problem actually flaring up at my house
Speaker 2: at the moment. Dad normally was Boxing day, but Lara
Speaker 2: and Emma have both taken shifts because they're getting paid
Speaker 2: an extravagant amount of money to work, Yeah, to work,
Speaker 2: so there, so he's a little bit annoyed and we're
Speaker 2: trying to fit another time in and it's just like
Speaker 2: like this is how it is, Like we write our
Speaker 2: partners on Christmas. We've got Christmas Eve at Mum's. You
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like that's for how it's going
Speaker 2: to be.
Speaker 1: Everyone always says it's difficult because you don't choose your family,
Speaker 1: but you have to make them happy, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, if you're having situations like Matt sist is,
Speaker 1: where you've you've had to take the extra shift because
Speaker 1: it's double time and you just can't say, can't turn
Speaker 1: down the money, just try and make any time.
Speaker 2: Sheridan, I think the best advice is just to be transparent.
Speaker 2: Ask a family what one you could move a little
Speaker 2: bit forward, or or tell them that you have to
Speaker 2: leave one early and go to the next one, and
Speaker 2: then I guess if they're close to each other, just
Speaker 2: sussy out which one's got a better vibe and go
Speaker 2: to that one, stay at that that has.
Speaker 1: Okay. Ken asks how much should I spend on my
Speaker 1: partner's family this year? They usually buy me something quite big,
Speaker 1: but I never know how much to spend on each
Speaker 1: of them. My family usually spends fifty dollars on each person,
Speaker 1: but my partner's family spends around two hundred and fifty dollars. Matt,
Speaker 1: what do you think two.
Speaker 2: Hundred and fifty dollars on each family member.
Speaker 1: It's a lot, I mean a lot. I feel like.
Speaker 2: Partners as well well.
Speaker 1: I feel like you'd go in with your partner right,
Speaker 1: like you just do a joint present. I don't think
Speaker 1: there needs to be like one present from the partner
Speaker 1: in one present from here.
Speaker 2: I think that's the easiest way.
Speaker 1: I think that's the easiest solution than they just half
Speaker 1: the price. So like if it's two hundred and fifty,
Speaker 1: you end up spending one twenty five, which is double
Speaker 1: what your family spends. But I guess it's tricky, right
Speaker 1: because you don't want to be like the person who's
Speaker 1: like giving out the ship gifts and everyone's getting like
Speaker 1: two hundred if you do a GIFs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've that's a really sticky situation, I reckon. Yeah,
Speaker 2: talk to your partner and ask her if you can
Speaker 2: go in on it and it's from you both. It's truly.
Speaker 2: The family would understand though that you don't want to
Speaker 2: spend two hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I don't think they would expect it,
Speaker 1: but yeah, go in with your partner. Make it easy, Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: we hope you have an amazing Christmas. Enjoy the time
Speaker 1: that you spend with your friends and family over this
Speaker 1: holiday season. We have our New Year's Resolutions coming up
Speaker 1: next week and then we'll be back in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to hang out with you, guys. We
Speaker 1: have it so much coming up we can't wait to
Speaker 1: share with you. But until next time
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, guys, Merry Christmas.