The usual Christmas Conundrum, what to get the wife?

[lbhsbz]

It's Christmas for the wife and kid all year.

 

[rmarion]

Good Luck everyone,

Merry Christmas

 

[was thatguy]

Many lifetimes ago, as a young man newly married for the first time, I bought my young wife a very expensive stainless steel mixer for Christmas. Like grandma used to have. I remember how proud I was when she opened it Christmas morning!
I also remember the utter disappointment on her face as she stared at her Christmas “present”.
I remembered that lesson my entire life and still today.
Men, no matter what she says or how she acts, SPOIL her on that morning. (I always did year round anyway, but that morning is special).
It doesn’t have to be expensive, just from the heart. It means more to them than the actual gift.

 

[gqchris]

Every year guys say “oh my wife doesnt care, we have an agreement”. Ok. Thats cool. But deep down they care. It doesnt have to be extravagant. Suprise em. Especially if they treat ya good and let you buy boat shit!

 

[Joker]

I’m trying to figure out where to do a quick trip instead of wasting money on gifts. It’s not like we’re 5 years old any more and hoping Santa eats the cookies.
In all reality, we all probably have what we need and I’m tired of trying to out do each other with the amount spent.
How long til 12/26?

 

[probablecause]

If you dont know what to get her, then you have not trained her to tell you "EXACTLY" what she wants. I mean all the way down to serial/part number for clothes or whatever. The Xmas that brought her on board was when I got her a Harbor Freight gif card.

 

[Angler]

I told my GF, lets just buy two E Bikes. She was totally down with that.

No surprise, but we both get what we want..

 

[Gelcoater]

Debbie liked Corvettes...?

Mine wants a Volvo. “With a turbo”

 

[02HoWaRd26]

Louis Vuitton wallet and AirPod pro’s, then some random bullshit.

 

[WhatExit?]

I’ve already given my wife her present, a 2017 C7 Corvette. It was and still is a great present and I get to use it

 

[707dog]

got a maid service coming for a deep clean, VS gift card, 6 pk of wine interior kit and floor mats for her 67 camaro and a couple pair for dress boots.

 

[CoolCruzin]

Same here
Wife buys what ever she need all year .
Few nights ago I told her I should buy her a new Cobra . Damn
She said let go next week .

Then I woke up lol lol lol

 

[Babyback]

Tickets to see Old Dominion in Laughlin

 

[YeahYeah01]

My wife's birthday is on Christmas Eve so I get to deal with double the bullshit

Yup. My wife is the 22nd. It's hard enough to shop for Christmas.

I try my best to separate it for her so she can have a birthday but that's shit hard

 

[golakers]

I wonder if our wives have this same dilemma.

 

[was thatguy]

Every year guys say “oh my wife doesnt care, we have an agreement”. Ok. Thats cool. But deep down they care. It doesnt have to be extravagant. Suprise em. Especially if they treat ya good and let you buy boat shit!

Preach!

Debbie loved fast things. Cars, boats, anything crazy stupid fast she was down.

Zero governor.

 

[dezrtracer]

" Nothing " is to good for my girl so that what she is getting .... Just kidding but , we quit doing gifts years ago.

 

[SBMech]

Honestly, buy her 20 tiny gifts. The value does not matter. The fact that you could find 20 things she even likes or is fond of it what really matters.

Old bands she used to love, shoes, tiny pins with butterflies/dolphins/dragons whatever, hair bands, old clothing/tee shirts of places you have been, shit the list is endless.

Just like if she bought you your dream car/boat/toy, it means she is actually tuned in, and loves you enough to pay attention.

Show her you give a fuck.

Good luck!

 

[DaytonaBabe]

https://www.castlehotsprings.com/

Can't go wrong with a LV bag either

Robot vac

Peloton (if you use my code you can get $100 off: JA9BEC)

 

[DLC]

My trophy wife and I tend to buy bigger matching items we both want for Christmas - couple gifts

we got some HOT ROD patio chairs $1,000.00 bucks ea for the Hava house one year
another year
we bought a wall fountain outside our master bedroom ( we sleep with the patio door open and I get to dream of urinating all night from the water noise )
oh almost forget the 8 person patio table and chairs

we paid for a trip to Nashville but then Covid hit and we haven’t rescheduled it

we want to get E bikes to keep up with @DWC & Mrs. DWC and then do lunch on the island


and
we’ve been talking about a BIG ol Flag Pole for the Frt yard

lucky for me Louie Vuitton doesn’t have a purse that she likes….

Merry Christmas

 

[Backlash]

This year I spent a few bucks at Lululemon for my better half. It's nothing sexy or uber-expensive, but I learned my lesson after last year's Christmas gift idea.

I bought her some expensive diamond earrings just as she requested. Well, she got her ears pierced and her ears wouldn't heal correctly. So she was forced to let the holes close up to prevent continued infections (Not due to my earrings!). So after that debacle, those expensive diamond earrings just sit in a jewelry box.

 

[Uncle Dave]

You guys fronting household items like appliances and vacuums slay me. I did that once. Once.
Sure you can get away with that, but you're not really getting her "knees all knocking when you turn on the charm like that" .

A mix of experience and some stuff goes a long way.

A weekend at the 4 seasons (or other high end joint maybe a short drive away) with a spa and mani /pedi package for her and sauna for you.
Lounge at the pool for some drinks. Go out to eat and order some stuff into the room.
Give her a break from the cooking and cleaning.
A saks fight avenue or suitable high end gift card lets her get what she wants from a clothes shoes, perfume or accessories.
Sure you can pick up a bottle of channel #5, but let her buy the clothes - you'll never get that shit right unless its casual wear.

A weekend of pampering shopping, lounging and of course the payoff to you - an alaskan snow blower + takin the skin boat to tuna town - with the extras you really like vs just the basics.

Couple gift cards and reservation data, in a small boxes gives her something under the tree to open.
You can get it all arranged in under an hour and boom your done.

Scale up or down each part to hit a budget.

 

[Rondog4405]

She's getting a havasu pad... and that's it!

 

[Crazyhippy]

She just got a Red dot for her Glock 34 for her birthday... and it needs either a slide, or some time @ the shop to be able to install. So she is getting a slide and Barrel from Zaffiri.

And a waterfront home in NC.z

 

[DWC]

My trophy wife and I tend to buy bigger matching items we both want for Christmas - couple gifts

we got some HOT ROD patio chairs $1,000.00 bucks ea for the Hava house one year
another year
we bought a wall fountain outside our master bedroom ( we sleep with the patio door open and I get to dream of urinating all night from the water noise )
oh almost forget the 8 person patio table and chairs

we paid for a trip to Nashville but then Covid hit and we haven’t rescheduled it

we want to get E bikes to keep up with @DWC & Mrs. DWC and then do lunch on the island


and
we’ve been talking about a BIG ol Flag Pole for the Frt yard

lucky for me Louie Vuitton doesn’t have a purse that she likes….

Merry Christmas

I vote for the bikes

 

[Uncle Dave]

Many lifetimes ago, as a young man newly married for the first time, I bought my young wife a very expensive stainless steel mixer for Christmas. Like grandma used to have. I remember how proud I was when she opened it Christmas morning!
I also remember the utter disappointment on her face as she stared at her Christmas “present”.
I remembered that lesson my entire life and still today.

This made me laugh like hell Tommy as I got caught in the same trap.

Christmas of 98 I decided to buy my then new wife all the things for our then new to us house she had told me she wanted. (I got along fine without any of this)

I bought a slew of small appliances ( a bosch stand mixer and cuisinart thing among them) and put a number of the things in a set of high end stainless steel trash cans we both saw and said would be cool to have.

It was a couple grand worth of stuff that was tough to spend mainly because she showed up without her smallish part of the deposit money she agreed on to buy the house- plus an extra 14K bill to move all her shit from Montreal.

Life with her started as a series of ball kicks from day 1, and continued that way until I pulled the plug.

All I heard forever more until the day we divorced is that " I bought her garbage cans" for Christmas.

Hilariously - when she left she made sure those trash cans went with her..

 

[Mandelon]

Some of these are pretty good! I already returned the stainless trash cans. LOL

 

[Nordie]

I just got the wife some small stuff this year, but paid off a couple of her bills for Nov and Dec. She was happy about the bills.

 

[Ladsm]

No joking, I got her mop slippers!!!! Amazon for the win.

 

[SoCalDave]

We're headed to Vegas on the 27th for 3 days so she'll spend more than enough there.

 

[spectra bash]

No joking, I got her mop slippers!!!! Amazon for the win.

 

[Icky]

No joking, I got her mop slippers!!!! Amazon for the win.

Lol, I bought her pajamas jeans one year....... I think these should go over about the same

 

[Cobalt232]

Coach outlet is usually a good spot as well. Can’t go wrong with a coach purse.

I gave my wife a Coach purse once for our anniversary. A. I was off on the date by 1 week. B. She already had exactly the same purse with the exception of the hardware color.

Out of the hundreds of purses they make, what are the odds I would pick the same one she already had?

We still laugh about it 20 years later.

 

[Badchoices03]

Whatever I buy, I just make sure the return policy is great, because its obviously is going to be the wrong color, size, shape, weight, or something I did wrong...

Normally I just tell her to buy herself whatever and put it under the tree so Im surprised when she opens it....lol

 

[racektm]

Cant go wrong with a little blue box...!

 

[angiebaby]

IDK, I got a Kitchen Aid mixer one year and was very excited. I see things like that just like you guys see tools for your shop. High-end tools make my job easier and make me enjoy cooking more. Got a gift card for William-Sonoma one year for my birthday (Dec 26 ) and picked up the food processor attachment for the Kitchen Aid and a new knife. Guess I'm weird, maybe just rare

 

[Done-it-again]

Women still go crazy over Tiffany stuff? thought Tiffany was 90's early 2000 stuff.

The wife keeps asking for a different vacuum, but I'll be damned to buy it....She can get it herself... lol

 

[angiebaby]

Women still go crazy over Tiffany stuff? thought Tiffany was 90's early 2000 stuff.

The wife keeps asking for a different vacuum, but I'll be damned to buy it....She can get it herself... lol

Do not buy her a vacuum, at least not for Christmas.

That's an anniversary gift.












I'm joking. Do NOT do that either! But, you could buy it for her sometime in January for no particular reason.

 

[Backlash]

IDK, I got a Kitchen Aid mixer one year and was very excited. I see things like that just like you guys see tools for your shop. High-end tools make my job easier and make me enjoy cooking more. Got a gift card for William-Sonoma one year for my birthday (Dec 26 ) and picked up the food processor attachment for the Kitchen Aid and a new knife. Guess I'm weird, maybe just rare

I did the same, and thought she'd be thrilled with that gift! Nope, not even close. As a matter of fact, I dont even know where that sucker is!

 

[Done-it-again]

Do not buy her a vacuum, at least not for Christmas.

That's an anniversary gift.












I'm joking. Do NOT do that either! But, you could buy it for her sometime in January for no particular reason.

ha ha ha..... She can get it anytime herself.

For me, I'll take cooking stuff all day. I don't get offended.

 

[Dan Lorenze]

You guys fronting household items like appliances and vacuums slay me. I didn't that once.
Sure you can get away with that, but you're not really getting her "knees all knocking when you turn on the charm like that" .

I may be dumb but I'm not stupid.. No way in hell would I buy my girl pots and pans, vacuums etc lol. Even being with someone for decades, it's all about giving them something they want, not need.

 

[DrunkenSailor]

Couple of years ago Wife asked for a Dyson vacuum for Christmas. I got a house keeper to come twice a month and do the cleaning for her. Still getting kudos for that one.

 

[spectra3279]

We just had to do a 4k main sewer line repair this week so the wife is getting a sewer pipe for christmas.

In all honesty my go to is a bottle of nice perfume every year. Chanel has been her favorite the past 3 years.

So she's giving you anal for christmas

 

[Ghit]

I have a test. Does she get bimonthly direct deposits throughout the year so she feels financially independent? Were all the needed small appliances replaced timely throughout the year? Did I purchase all the clothes and the accessories and all the other BS required to keep a woman functioning within american society? Yes, yes, and yes.

I find it is then best to unburden her from opening gifts and allow her to reflect on the birth of our lord and savior on christmas day. I advise her to share the joy of our children rather than dwell in the hollow consumerism her friends must be feeling as they open the chinese crap their husbands bought.

I guess what im saying is, give yourself a gift too, one day per year, on christmas. the gift of not having to care about female consumerist desire, cause it never ends.

 

[Sleek-Jet]

Preach brother...

 

[pkrrvr619]

So she's giving you anal for christmas

Good lord that was the takeaway from my post? Impressive

 

[calkid]

I bought mine a bigger gun safe

 

[pkrrvr619]

Louis Vuitton wallet and AirPod pro’s, then some random bullshit.

Thanks for the reminder. She does need a smaller wallet for her new bag.

 

[spectra3279]

I have a test. Does she get bimonthly direct deposits throughout the year so she feels financially independent? Were all the needed small appliances replaced timely throughout the year? Did I purchase all the clothes and the accessories and all the other BS required to keep a woman functioning within american society? Yes, yes, and yes.

I find it is then best to unburden her from opening gifts and allow her to reflect on the birth of our lord and savior on christmas day. I advise her to share the joy of our children rather than dwell in the hollow consumerism her friends must be feeling as they open the chinese crap their husbands bought.

I guess what im saying is, give yourself a gift too, one day per year, on christmas. the gift of not having to care about female consumerist desire, cause it never ends.

That goes for all the welfare recipients also. You bought them all the stuff they wanted

 

[spectra3279]

Good lord that was the takeaway from my post? Impressive

Actually I maybe wrong. Since she is getting the new sewerpipe, you maybe giving her anal. I could be wrong though