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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by KQ View Post
    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?
    HSer have a killer cast iron skillet?

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    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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    Hookers and blow.
    Well maybe I'm the faggot America
    I'm not a part of a redneck agenda

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    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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    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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    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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    What was the college grads major?
    Best Skier on the Mountain
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    Squaw Valley, USA

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    Quote Originally Posted by commonlaw View Post
    HSer have a killer cast iron skillet?
    you know, that is actually a really interesting idea because he has his Italian father's love of cooking. Perhaps a skillet and a dutch oven that he can keep at the cabin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nickwm21 View Post
    What was the college grads major?
    Bachelor of Science with a major in Molecular and Cell Biology

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    Quote Originally Posted by XXX-er View Post
    a Mercedes and not the cheap model , a BMW would just marginalize them
    College kid already has a BMW. HS kid has a 50K flat bed pick-up with side pipes and the works

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by KQ View Post
    you know, that is actually a really interesting idea because he has his Italian father's love of cooking. Perhaps a skillet and a dutch oven that he can keep at the cabin.
    Or a knife.

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    "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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    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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    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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    The key to room 568.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mazderati View Post
    The key to room 568.
    Ha-ha! I have to say the HS is quite hot. He's about 6'4 with these amazing Elvis Presley eyes. He can drive a 8RT series tractor like nobody's business.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guroo270 View Post
    My parents got me a giant suitcase.
    This is what I got.

    Quote Originally Posted by plugboots View Post
    Hookers and blow.
    This is what I wanted

    Quote Originally Posted by KQ View Post
    He can drive a 8RT series tractor like nobody's business.
    He will be alright if he sticks with the deere. Cash is always a great gift when graduating or getting married or anytime.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KQ View Post
    He can drive a 8RT series tractor like nobody's business.
    Euphemism alert

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by mtngirl79 View Post
    but would love, books they haven't heard of wouldn't pick but would like, etc
    Exactly. See above.
    "timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang

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    Quote Originally Posted by mtngirl79 View Post
    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
    I'm with you on that


    Quote Originally Posted by Timberridge View Post
    Exactly. See above.
    I couldn't see the book you recommended. What was it?

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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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    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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