pasalubong????

if you know their body sizes.. buy them some tshirts where your country is printed on them.. or some boxes and boxes of chocolates... canned goods... bath soaps.. perfumes.. hand lotions... for girls.. lipsticks... shampoo...towels... and if you wanna know... i would prefer some running shoes... size 6 1/2.. thanks in advance...!

Filipinos still have a love of all things imported. When my granduncle goes home from the US, his bags are stuffed with these "traditional" pasalubong items: chocolates, canned goods, soaps, and shirts (all made in the US of course).

If most of your relatives have traveled overseas themselves, they might appreciate some "non-traditional" pasalubong like native handicrafts from the country where you are staying.

I try not to ask what they want for pasalubong for fear that they might ask for something ridiculously expensive like an iPod or something (which really happend to a friend of mine). Often they think we live like kings here....

So, I just bring some chocolates, souvenir T-shirts, adn other items that I know my relatives will love and appreciate.

Chocolate always works! My relatives always appreciate them. They definitely enjoy chocolate that can't be found in the Philippines =D

P.S. Your English is good!

Your english is very good, much better than my Tagalog!

I try to think what each person needs when i take gifts, the children usually get a book for their education - boring but more useful than something trivial.

Chocolates

Corned beef - Hereford

Cookies from Kraft (Chips Ahoy, Dad's etc)

Spaghetti noodles

Spaghetti sauce

Canned foods -- Vienna sausage, Spam, Hash Brown-corn-beef, etc...

Chocolates -- M&M's, Hershey's, Kisses, Toblerone, assorted ones, etc...

Other foods -- Quaker oats, Pringles, Chips, etc...

Things and other necessities -- medecines, soaps, shampoo, toothpaste, lotions, clothes, shoes, etc...

and also, some money...

i went home christmas 2006 most of them requested a whole bunch as in whole bunch of chocolate, so i brought a whole bunch of chocolates plus duty free chocolates, perfume and shirts for my brother,and sister victoria secret for christmas present for relatives and friends. My nieces I took them shopping since they grew tall, put airconditioning in my brothers house fix his flooring and upgraded his doors in his house. Just gave them everything they want since I go home once in a blue moon...ha ha ha

The last time I went there I brought some shirts.

You may ask them what they want and if you can afford it do so. Or give something that you can afford. I guess it's not the price that counts,it's the thought that counts that you remember them.