Holiday Gift for you?

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Was wondering if others had the same problem I have with people giving me presents for the holiday...
It is not that I am ungrateful... I appreciate the thoughts... but I have a hard time enjoying presents.
Usually if they are clothes from my folks, they are not the right texture or style.
Other things are ok but what I really want is to open up a big box of dirt with rocks in it to sort through!! !
My mom said "I'm not going to give you rocks for a present!" -- that was when I was a child. I am 43 and still no rocks. Sad face.
Yep... rocks are my aspie "thing"...

Do you guys have this happen? What would be a good gift for you? Does it relate to your special interest if you have one (or more)?

A few family members asked what I want this year (we're practical like that), and I just said I wanted a small smoothie machine or something boring like that. Coffee. Something I'll use.

For my Christmas "Wish List", I asked to have a semi-formal sit-down holiday meal with only a half-dozen of our closest friends, and what do I get instead?

A buffet potluck supper with 50 invited guests, and a bout 20 to 30 more who just happened to show up.

Rocks are good!

I wanted a Hornby trainset when I was growing up but my parents kept buying me dolls! yack.

I want hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of foreign language textbooks, children's books, and reference books. I study French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and maybe someday I'll finally get started learning Japanese or Mandarin Chinese. I'm not learning fast enough because I don't have the books, and it's driving me insane.

My sister and I started gifting us with bons a while ago, and are really fine with that. She is gifting me bons from my favorite roleplaying and games shop, and I am gifting her with bons from a Make up, parfums and Co shop.

Buying her a parfum, without knowing if she likes it would be stupid, but she likes parfums in general, so she is happy. And expecting her to get into my SI of roleplaying, with tons of books and materials, would be weird, but I am totally fine with buying it myself on her behalf. ^^

Among friends we usually only gift minor stuff like cookies or chocolate or some X-box points, so its not that hard. The real cool presents, my partner and I get from ourselves, so if my partner knew, that rocks would be the most awesome thing for me to be gifted with, he would do that. But if our gifts were very weird, we sometimes lied to our family, what we have been gifting to each other. ^^ So he gifted me once with an epic mount (an riding animal in the game WoW XD ), that I really, really loved, but I think, its hard to explain that to parents. Similar to the old millenium falcon Lego model and so on. ^^

This year could be a problem again, I organized for my partner something similar to this. ^^ http://gawker.com/5917829/this-homemade ... -come-true

A playstation would have been as well cool, but they were released a month later at our place, so they are still sold out everywhere and I think he would not be happy, if I tried to wrangle in twelfth pregnancy week with a mob, about a playstation. ^^ (Normally, I would at least try it.)

Gifts I've received and appreciated:
iPad mini with retina, Green Day CDs, electric guitar, Merck Manual of medical information, the complete Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock series one and two, Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (both movies), Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes series, MacBook Pro, Sherlock's blue scarf. The complete atlas of human anatomy and physiology. Human anatomy flashcards box.
Oh, BTW I've just turned 17, and am in high school. im not a med student...yet...
Personally I think this gift list is already enough to diagnose me with Aspergers

I don't have this problem with my immediate family because we exchange lists with suggested gifts on them. It's still a surprise because we don't know what gifts from the list we'll get, but at least we know that it will be something we each like and will use! We also sometimes get each other off-list things, if we happen to know of something else.

I do have this problem with a lot of my extended family. The worst was when I was younger and didn't have my ears pierced yet (I didn't get them done until I was 12), but I got so many earrings for gifts and they were of no use to me at all. Now my relatives all seem to give me random bath stuff and makeup kits. The bath stuff is okay if it smells good, but I don't wear makeup at all. I have to try to act like I like it even though I don't and I know it'll just sit around my house taking up room until I throw it away or re-gift it. I do appreciate that they thought about me and spent the time and money to get me something, but I wish they'd just give me a gift card instead.

Good gifts for me would be new video games that I've been wanting! Also maybe a new phone, and amazon gift cards are always among my favorite things to get.

We do lists too so everyone gets something that they actually want.

AspieTurtle, I don't understand why your mom does not get it that you like rocks. I think it's great and if that is your special interest than you should be able to enjoy that. Maybe a box of rocks and soil samples is too heavy for her or maybe she does not know how to get those things. Maybe you can ask for a gift certificate to your favorite geological supply shop or something like that instead. That would probably make more sense to her and would be easier for her to get.

I have asked for a gift cert to my ski shop before rather than having a bunch of non skiers try to figure out what ski stuff I would like.

When in doubt: gift cards. Or cash.

I generally don't enjoy getting presents. I don't like having to open them while the other person is watching me to see my reaction. Then I have to bring the stuff home and figure out where to put it. I feel better when I pick things out for myself and I know exactly what I'm getting, how I will use it and where it will go.

My mum is getting me Doctor Who Monopoly for my birthday (close to Christmas - but hard anyone in my family is buying gifts this year) so I'm happy with that.

I'm like others with not only preferring gifts I'm interested in but are practical. I got perfume for my birthday once. If you want to know what I look like think of Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I'm so not girly at all. I'm also allergic to a lot of makeup on skin, and just as it turns out, that perfume gave me a rash. Then I got a free ride on a jet ski from the same person. I have a fear of water.

Some people just don't take the time to get to know you at all. This person was a step sister.

A lot of other people have given me gifts I like. My brother is never sure if I'll like it but I'm always impressed with how practical the gifts end up being. One year he bought me a portfolio folder, a Dalek toy, and an 8GB USB drive in the shape of a Storm Trooper.