Topic : 12/11 Dr. Phil and Robin’s Christmas Show!

Hi Dr. Phil and Robin, my name is Phoeun and I saw your show today and i really enjoy it. :D I thought it was really sweet of you and everybody that was giving away  gifts in the audience. I'm a little cry baby so when i saw everybody looking so happy it brought tears to my eyes and i'm glad to see that there's people like you and your wife out there... love you guys

I think what Dr. Phil and his family did was wonderful and met a very needy cause.  The holiday season is a hard time for many people and it's touching to see that we can reach out to those in need.

I believe another area we need to help in as well, is for our troops overseas.  How many people are aware that there are thousands of packages sitting on military bases around the country that are not going to make it to the troops at all because there is no money to ship them?  It is estimated that it will cost approximately $30,000 to get this packages to our troops.

Maybe Dr. Phil could have some influese with this as well.

Hi Dr. Phil,

My soon to be mother in-law was just watching your show.We were amazed about how much stuff you gave away,but what about your viewers at home that can't afford to go to your show?I hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas and  Happy New Year...

Thanks For Your Time,

Lori Redding

Dr Phil and Robin,

  As I watched your show I wept ,being I am out of work for almost 2 years I could not get the jest of how those audience members had been invited and a person who has always worked and so enjoyed buying for my family in the past has come to this point in her life what lottery did you hold to get on that show? 2 years out of work due to a back injury 2 surgery's. 3 children 2 little grandchildren no extra money last year nor this year ,and depressed is all I found under my tree.How does one get invited for that show? You had such beautiful things and my family would of loved and appreciated all that stuff.I saw no sign of down and out on your show today.Let those people walk in my shoes for a few days and live off of Workman's compensation which is a joke enough to pay the bills.no extra But then again I couldn't afford fair to get to your show .But anyway Merry Christmas to all.Right

Good for you! I love it when people give in unique ways. Last year in the names of my boyfriend and myself, my grown daughter and her boyfriend donated to the care & feeding of a pair of wild lions in a wildlife sanctuary in Africa...the poor animals were in an unshaded cage on the rooftop of a restaurant in the blazing sun of Teneriffe until they got rescued by the Born Free Foundation (which was started by actors Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna after the movie Born Free was made.) A gift like that touches me deeply. My boyfriend was a little stunned, because he's never had that sort of gift in his life before.

And I know you know that one doesn't only give with money...sometimes the gift of a smile or a silently voiced 'God bless you today' to a homeless person begging on the street can reach in & touch someone's heart even though they may not realize it. We never know how much that can help a person in need.

The wrong deal, like so much of the consumer world. I don't think you're crazy at all.

 I like to have beautiful things as much as the next person...depending on who the person  is beside me,  and I am always grateful for wonderful presents...neverthless some of my BEST Christmas memories happened far from the frenetic malls and hypedup advertising kind of Christmas.

One year I didn't even have money for presents for my out of town daughter and my siblings; so  I volunteered at my church during children's pageants, and had a ball helping kids get into their costumes for the many performances happening that weekend. I really had a blast, and I felt so full and happy. Another time, I opened presents from my darling daughter and my siblings on air in a Christmas Day show  on campus-community radio. I told impromptu stories of memories I had about each of those dearly beloved people....and loved doing it! I felt so full of love and warmth.

If we find our own way of doing Christmas, and our own way of being grateful for life, Christmas can mean a whole lot more than what we see on TV and in magazines. So much of what we see is superficial and contrived.

I hope  you have a library nearby, so you can take your son there before Christmas...it would be rare for a library not to have Christmas decorations and great activities. Also, most children's departments of libraries have a copy of the awesome picture book, POLAR EXPRESS..and if you're lucky enought to have a VCR and a TV, they'll surely have a video of the movie from a couple of years ago. That movie is a beautiful way to look at Christmas...it's about the magic of believing , not just about presents. My boyfriend's 97 year old mother sent us a Christmas card of The Polar Express the year before she died...the Hallmark  inscription in it said "Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me - as it does for all who truly believe." It added, MAY YOU ALWAYS BELIEVE IN THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS.

I wish you and your son a wonderful Christmas, full of love and joy and fun. HOPE, & belief in the world of love. :-)

Blessings on your day....

 hello to you guy's

i am a mother of two and married. we got to buy my spouses grandparent's Hobie farm. we live in a small town.  as the people say when you go throw there if you blink you will miss all of the town. the town is in villard MN. we are having a hard time here. the jobs around here are not very high on the pay scale. you can't get a job that will pay you more then $7 to $8  an hour. my spouse has been on Workman's cop for over a 1 1/2 yrs. he toke out his lower back. so now he can't be a truck driver at all. the doctor told him that his back can not  do all the bouncing around form the truck. so we have been trying to make it all this very. they filly have closed his case and now he is trying to find some thing that will not hurt his back. he still does thing maybe he should not do. but they told him to try working on things so he and work on making the muscle get stronger for him. the doctor told him that he was getting stronger but it can take a long time before he gets better.

 i have stayed home with the kids. and not work. so looked for a job and found one but they let me go 31/2 months later. when my spouse got his settlement we had to pay  the bills with it and it took almost ever thing he got. we saved enough to get food. now i do not now what to do. if we are going make it here. i would like to get the kids something for Christmas but i don't want to send money we don't have. i would not now how to start with finding some where to help us out. do you now what we can do? we need help with getting him a job and what are we going to do about the bills. i have been crying my self to sleep. then get a head ace the next day. please can you help us. i love the show and got my husband now that he isn't working to watch you also. he even watches you out in the garage. he use to turn the channel but now he watches it to. i have watched you sense you started the show and when you were on Oprah.

thank you for the work you guy's do. you make my day better every time i watch you.