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Originally Posted by KaptKaos
Take up hobbies that require craftsmanship. I.e. wood working, fly tying, model planes, ships in a bottle.
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you forgot build and drive Porsches...
Liked all of your suggestions. This year, I broke down at Christmas and outsmarted myself... which is sometimes and easy task... I have 7 kids, one of which is newborn. So for the other 6 which are ages 5-16, I decided to get them all their own personal gaming system. We have had others in the past, but everyone had something different, or some would not have them at all. This could sometimes lead to fights amongst them. So, we would just take the whole thing away for a while and noone played. So, back to my Christmas "brilliant idea": I thought if I bought them all the same exact thing, and then made sure we had several games to pick from, so worries, right? wrongo! On Christmas day, they were already fighting at the end of the day over one of the games... not all of them were fighting mind you. But it makes you wonder where you went wrong as a parent!
I tell you I came very close to following after the example of my father-in-law on one Christmas, when my wife was about 5 (she at the time was youngest of 5 children). The kids got done unwrapping presents. My father in law has always done well for a living. They had a very nice Christmas that year. Well, a couple of the boys got done unwrapping and then asked, "is this it"? That torqued father in law off. They got everyone dressed, loaded all but one present for each child in the car, and then drove to an orphanage down in Tiajuana and donated all the gifts.