OT what are you buying your wife or significant other for the holidays?

[aragorn723]

Hi everyone,

So I bought my wife a bunch of things for the holidays, and need an idea of what to buy with the last $125 of a $200 budget.  What kind of things are you buying your wife or significant other?

Dave

 

[Paul Joppa]

Fortunately, it's a tradition in my wife's family to provide a list of gifts you would like to the potential giver. This makes more sense when there is also a family lottery - each person gets one gift from one person, and gives the same. There is also an agreed-on cost limit. It works - it is easier to focus on peace and love that way, and you get better presents too.

Yes, of course we give spouses a present as well ... we believe in long marriages ...  :^)

 

[aragorn723]

I like the idea of a list!  That would make this so much easier   just got her a minivan for the kids, but that doesn't really count for Christmas!  The trick is finding something under budget.  She likes jewelry, and we were at a jewelry store yesterday, where she tried on a bracelet for 38k!  Ouch lol.  The guy who owns the store makes everything by hand though, so there's something to be said for that.  There must be a website out there with ideas around $100, maybe someone will chime in.  The budget becomes a contest in a fun way- who can get the most and the best presents for the other

 

[mkane]

  We go to Hawaii every January and take along the extended family. Also are splurging on a new bed.

 

[Doc B]

One of the cooler recent presents I have given Eileen, who is an avid wildlife lover, was a game camera last xmas. She's had a ball setting it up in the wooded watershed down the road where she walks the dogs every day. Lots of birds, coyotes, deer, raccoon eating a spent salmon, and best of all a flying squirrel have been captured. 

 

[RayP]

I have to ask. What is a spent salmon? I have visions of a tired fish worn out from leaping up streams and maybe that is correct.

Now that I am retired, the best gift that I give my wife each year is to go away for a few weeks. She gets to do what she wants when she wants, eat what she wants when she wants and then there is the silence.

When I am on my travels and I am asked by a couple why my wife does not come with me, I tell them the reason and I can see the gleam come into the wife's eyes.

ray

 

[mkane]

  Silence is 'Golden'.

 

[Karl5150]

If I were to ask her it would be a variation of "anything that's not associated with your #%&* music hobby".
(I went with jewelry)

 

[aragorn723]

Jewelry is always safe

 

[kip.duff]

Bought my daughter a Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin Wireless for streaming her iPhone from TuneIn radio, Pandora, Spotify, .......  Required significant testing by me before gift wrapping!

 

[aragorn723]

I hope it passed!  8)