I hate Christmas!Follow

Every damn time I think I'm on to something to get the wife that will surprise her she always ends up telling me she wants it.

She just picked up her new SUV yesterday so right away I think I'm in this year, a remote car starter! Ohhh baby I'm on to it now...she'll never ask for that!

Just a few minutes ago I get an email from her asking me to get her that for Christmas. Argh!!!!

This is one example of the many times this year alone this has happened tot me.


I hate Christmas.

You want to really surprise her?

Give her a One-Eyed Pirate!

Give her a box of candy but, instead of candy, fill the box with severed mouse heads. I bet she won't be expecting that!

That's a great idea! (Edit: Redyne's idea, though Joph's would CERTAINLY be a surprise...of one nature or another...) I'm in a different, yet similar, situation with Max. He doesn't want anything. And when he says "I don't want anything" he actually means that he can think of absolutely nothing on this earth that he'd actually want as a gift. Plus, his birthday is the week before Christmas, so I have TWO stupid gifts to try to come up with.

So, what I figured I'd do is get him one actual gift (a bottle of Bailey's Irish or Opal Nera or something, since I know he really likes both of those) for his birthday, and then do something else for Christmas.

What I was thinking of doing was making a really romantic night of it. I'll drag him out to some date movie, then bring him home and make a really romantic dinner (like maybe rosemary chicken with alfredo or something else I'd never normally make in a billion years). Wine chilling, scented candles, hot bubble bath, everything. I might even buy some silk sheets and some roses and some soft music or something. That way I'm actually getting him a gift, plus I'm doing something he won't expect at all (he knows how badly I loathe cooking). And too, it'll mean a lot more than just an impersonal gift would.

If you were to do something like that, not only would you come off as the biggest romantic in the world but it would be a really memorable gift and there's no way she'd expect it. It's easy to give a remote car starter as a gift, but it takes a lot more thought and preparation and work to put together a really special and magical night. =D

Edited, Tue Nov 30 23:34:44 2004 by Saboruto

What about a pearl necklace?


























You sick minded people you! I was talking about jewelry! All women love jewelry!

My brother has the right idea.

Last year he bought his wife a set of clutch-plates for a 1956 BSA A65 (motorcycle) and a workshop manual for a 1977 Triumph Bonneville

She bought him a sewing machine and the Bridget Jones DVD.

I like that system