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Service making homemade gifts

Service making homemade gifts
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That is, gifts as if personally made by the buyer (with all necessary imperfections, etc), who then impresses the recipient with all the thought and care that went into it (when, in reality, he just paid some service to create it, filling out requisite personality questionnaires...) Which, of course, still makes it more thoughtful than some last-minute crap from a gift shop...
debedb, Sep 15 2006

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       I'd like to purchase a gift for a friend but please just one or two subtle imperfections, please. +1 excellent idea.
po, Sep 15 2006
  

       I think we already have that, it's called "China"
Galbinus_Caeli, Sep 15 2006
  

       I don't think you are quite *getting* the spirit of the idea, GC.
po, Sep 15 2006
  

       Given that you can buy such items at any church fair, most thrift shops, and a great many charity outlets, I'm not sure this is a really novel idea.   

       Besides, diamonds are a girl's best friend, and homemade diamonds really don't cut it.
DrCurry, Sep 15 2006
  

       Oh, I am just teasing.   

       Seriously though, this sounds like a relationship timebomb.   

       "Here, I made you this"   

       "Oh! How lovely! Where did you get the recipe/pattern? Would you be a dear and teach me how to make that?"   

       "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu....."
Galbinus_Caeli, Sep 15 2006
  

       "buy such items at any church fair, most thrift shops, and a great many charity outlets"   

       No, you go to this service and describe what this person is like, or what they may like, and what you are like, and what you may do for them, and they do it:)
debedb, Sep 15 2006
  

       so then you are saying that it's thoughtful crap from a gift shop?   

       unless you really make it yourself at home, isn't this like a monogram service, or something to just add a personal touch.
xandram, Sep 15 2006
  

       are you lot being deliberately obtuse today? ;)
po, Sep 15 2006
  

       [po] not me. I *do* make homemade gifts for friends and family, so to think that getting a service to do it would seem to slighten the thought. maybe it would be a good service for someone who has never crafted a homemade gift. ( the word *home* means something to me)
xandram, Sep 15 2006
  

       I'll open the shop across the street from this one, offering to well-meaningly, but ineptly, wrap the "homemade" gifts in slightly wrong wrapping paper that's been carefully crincled and aged.
jutta, Sep 15 2006
  

       maybe the word to use should be * Hand-made*...that way it wouldn't imply being made at home...
xandram, Sep 16 2006
  

       I think debbydebeddy wants the credit for this.
po, Sep 16 2006
  

       // it's called "China"//   

       last time I looked, the shop had cheap MANUFACTURED goods. Under no stretch of imagination can they be passed off as "home made" or "hand made".
neelandan, Sep 16 2006
  

       Are you saying chinese sweatshop laborors don't have homes? Or hands?
Galbinus_Caeli, Sep 16 2006
  

       I've seen crochet(ed?) tablecloths and such that were made in China. To the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing as machine crochet. I guess there's always some bit of common ground to be found between the warring factions. :-)   

       (I'd love to see a crochet machine if anyone knows of one.)
half, Sep 16 2006
  

       [half] there are no machines that weave baskets either.
xandram, Sep 16 2006
  

       Google "crochet machine" they do exist
Galbinus_Caeli, Sep 17 2006
  
      
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