Talk:Your Character (Home for the Holidays)/@comment-34381956-20180202004849/@comment-3452092-20180212052429

Yeah, the difference between a pink typewriter and a flashlight is infinite. I mean, I once asked for a box of reams of paper for my printer (right before my printer quit working, so I've only use a partial ream), because I wanted to print out one of the manuscripts I was working on. . . still want to, but we are talking a lot of ink, because it's really long and I have a broken printer that doesn't acknowledge it has ink in it. If I didn't want to spring for a typewriter (which would be an awesome gift in my opinion) for a writer, I'd at least buy out a half dozen spiral notebooks for them to take notes in and a pack of pens of pencils depending on their preference. Or post it notes. Post it notes would be way better than a flashlight (says the girl with some very expensive flashlights). Or index cards. A cork board. A dry erase board. I talked my brother into giving me a dry erase board one year. It's awesome and extremely useful.

For the guy who collects first edition classical books and runs a book publishing company. . . I hate gift cards, but a gift card to a book store would have been better than an alarm clock. Maybe there is a used book store near where they work that she could have called up and gotten a gift card from. Or he's getting to like the town a little. I am 100% sure this town has souvenirs. Get a snow globe. At least it would probably get a laugh out of him and if he's really annoyed, he can throw and break it and get some satisfaction out of it. If he doesn't use alarm clocks, don't get him alarm clocks.

Joke book verses map of the world. Okay, this has wanted to leave town practically his entire life. Everyone loves him and he loves them back, but he wants out. Give him something plane related. I mean even going down to the local big box store (which is probably called Wallet because Walmart + Target . . .) and buy him a hot wheels plane and say it's so he can have a plane with him in his car or something. My dad gave me a miniature VW Bug when I turned sixteen so he could say he gave me my first car. Sure Wyatt's older than sixteen, but the sentiment is similar.