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05-14-2015, 11:53 AM #1
Graduation Presents - What To Do?
Two males: One HS grad, one college.
HS kid wants for nothing - parents are wealthy cattle ranchers. Good kid not materialistic, a small town boy who does FFA, not really a hunter, likes to bar-b-que and oddly, deep fry. Recently built a small overnight cabin on family property in the Wallowas and likes to spend time there. Have no idea what to give him.
College grad is a great kid, well traveled, musically talented, Jr. Olympics skiing. Your basic over achiever with a good head on his shoulders and great parents. For him I was actually thinking of either a case of Washington wine or two tickets to Mumfoo for a nice after graduation road trip before starting grad school.
Thoughts?
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05-14-2015, 11:55 AM #2Good-lookin' wool
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05-14-2015, 11:56 AM #3
My parents got me a giant suitcase.
"One season per year, the gods open the skies, and releases a white, fluffy, pillow on top of the most forbidding mountain landscapes, allowing people to travel over them with ease and relative abandonment of concern for safety. It's incredible."
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05-14-2015, 11:58 AM #4
Hookers and blow.
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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05-14-2015, 12:04 PM #5
It wouldn't surprise me if the HS kid would dig an eighth.
You're probably on the right track with the college kid.
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05-14-2015, 12:11 PM #6Registered User
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a Mercedes and not the cheap model , a BMW would just marginalize them
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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05-14-2015, 12:12 PM #7
HS: a sticker and an invite to BBI'16
College: Praxis Rx w/ dark circles topsheets
And a book
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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05-14-2015, 12:14 PM #8
What was the college grads major?
Best Skier on the Mountain
Self-Certified
1992 - 2012
Squaw Valley, USA
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05-14-2015, 12:23 PM #12Registered User
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Skillet is a good idea, if not that a gift certificate at his local hardware store. Odds are he will be going there a lot for cabin stuff.
Or Goal Zero battery/charger combo for basic stuff?
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05-14-2015, 12:25 PM #13
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05-14-2015, 12:26 PM #14
Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven.
http://www.amazon.com/Lodge-L8DD3-Ca...dge+dutch+oven"I don't pretend to have all the answers, and I think there's something to be said for that" -One For The Road
Brain dead and made of money.
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05-14-2015, 12:42 PM #15Registered User
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So if you are too fucking cheap to get the mercedes GSI makes a cast aluminum dutch oven probably a better idea for camping cuz its 1/3rd the weight of cast iron & doesn't rust ... we take em seakayaking
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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05-14-2015, 12:45 PM #16Registered User
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HS kid with the cabin wants a really nice axe, the cast iron cookware, and/or a good kerosene lamp.
Both of them want a fine flyrod, perhaps a Winston Boron III X or LS
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05-14-2015, 12:56 PM #17
The key to room 568.
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05-14-2015, 01:38 PM #19Registered User
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05-14-2015, 01:47 PM #21Banned
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When I have to buy for people who have everything and way more money thus my budget is something they wouldn't think twice about I try for things they may not know exist, wouldn't think to buy but would love, books they haven't heard of wouldn't pick but would like, etc
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05-14-2015, 05:45 PM #24Registered User
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Cash is better than some worthless Chinese crap that 90% of people will give them.
Cast iron skillet or Dutch oven is a step in the right direction. That direction being something quality that will last.
Knife was a good idea. One of the best/most memorable gift I ever got was a quality hunting knife.
FWIW, 8rt tractors drive themselves!
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05-14-2015, 06:27 PM #25
Leatherman mutitool (wave is my favorite), get it engraved if you want.
Cast iron skillet is a great idea
What are the looking to do in the next year or two? Get something to aid them on that.
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