What Geeky Gifts are a Must for Your Christmas List?

I have a family of geeks. There's a mommy geekette (the author of this brilliant little gazette), a daddy geek, and three little geeks (teen, tween, and toddler) who all love geeky gifts this time of year. The current status of the economy however has us seriously watching our geek pennies in search of gifts that are as fun as they are functional.

One such gift that the tween geek in the family my find beneath the geek tree (and what a tree it will be) is one of these nifty Lego Watches. What kid can resist the call of Legos and this particular geek kid happens to be the time Nazi in our family. In other words, this is a gift that he can truly appreciate. His big gift this holiday season though is below. It's time he moved up from the training bicycle to something a little more rough and tumble.




The other geek children each present unique challenges of their own. The teen, of course, wants everything that costs a few robotic arms and legs in the process. She's pretty much out of luck on the high end gifts this holiday season. Hopefully we will find a few little surprises that she neither expects or will shun as somehow inferior to her absolute geek superiority (yes, we say things like this to her face too). She does enjoy studying about Japanese culture and language. She is picking up the language quite nicely. We're thinking of something like this lamp to encourage her pursuit of knowledge about this fascinating culture and language.


The little geekette in training is the easiest to please and to shop for. Unfortunately, she's also the most fun (because she's so easy to please--she likes everything). We want to get her something that will provide hours of enjoyment but also work as an aid to learning. Our choice was a learning toy perfect for any little princess. More importantly, in the right color scheme for our little princess.



When we make one special gift the cornerstone of our Holiday giving and supplement with other gifts that are hand made or low in cost but high in value and you can still have an excellent Christmas suitable for the geek in all of us without creating a budgetary nightmare.