Grrr! What would you do with him??????

C_Mababejive

Get him these...I guarantee he will..ermmm...want it.

http://www.agentprovocateur.com/gifts/turn-up-the-heat.html

katiecoodle

I echo that - I was going to say get him some lovely ladies underwear, that when he opens it you can say it is for him (but really its for you!) and then even if you don't get lucky(!) then you'll have some nice knickers to wear and you won't feel you've wasted your dosh!

Emuchops

We dont really buy each other presents but tend to make each other something. One year I made a pork pie and OH made me a hot water bottle cover (which I had requested).
Or we buy something for the house as a joint present. I hate buying a present for the sake of buying a present...

zaksmum

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Get him these...I guarantee he will..ermmm...want it.

http://www.agentprovocateur.com/gifts/turn-up-the-heat.html

Nice thought...but he's 60 and we've been married 40 years...no chance...!

*Louise*

zaksmum wrote: »

This year he said I'm not to buy him anything he doesn't specify that he wants. He says he's sick of keeping a smile on his face when I get him things he doesn't like or want.

So I'm gritting my teeth, trying to smile sweetly and asking him what exactly he DOES want. He says he'll give it some thought...and has been saying that for weeks.

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I wouldn't get him anything and it would serve him right for being so ungrateful.:eek:

And I wouldn't feel guilty about it either.:p

codemonkey

Oooft my dad is like this and its so frustrating. Every year I'd wrack my brains to get him something nice and every year he'd dump it in a drawer and give it away later. A couple of years ago I got my mum a really special gift and wanted to get something of equal meaning for him. He worked on the railways in the times of steam trains and loves them so I blew the budget and got him a really nice steam train set. He opened it and said 'What did you buy that for?'. He wouldn't even take it out of the box and gave it to my older brother.

So the next year I decided i wasn't wasting time and bought him a wallet that said 'tight git'. He loved it.

My dad is a lovely man most of the time, but he just doesn't seem to realise that turning your nose up at a carefully chosen present is just rude and can really hurt people's feelings, maybe because it's my mum that does the present buying.

I'd agree about the Amazon vouchers if he doesn't tell you soon and get yourself something nice for putting up with him.

bekkithedevil

What about making him a Jar of Nothing?

http://forum.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=13375017&postcount=50

The poem is:
Did you say nothing?
When you were asked
what you wanted for Christmas.
Don't you remember saying
'NOTHING'.
Well this time somebody heard
you, searched high and low
and found this perfect gift
for you.

annie123

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/oxfam-unwrapped?ito=1482&pscid=ps_ggl_01-UW-Brand

Buy him something from the above, you've then got a certificate to give to him for xmas (something to unwrap) and a total stranger will be very grateful for your time/thought/money, unlike hubby.

I'd also get him a bar of your fav chocolate, that way if he doesn't want it, its not wasted

zaksmum

codemonkey wrote: »

Oooft my dad is like this and its so frustrating. Every year I'd wrack my brains to get him something nice and every year he'd dump it in a drawer and give it away later. A couple of years ago I got my mum a really special gift and wanted to get something of equal meaning for him. He worked on the railways in the times of steam trains and loves them so I blew the budget and got him a really nice steam train set. He opened it and said 'What did you buy that for?'. He wouldn't even take it out of the box and gave it to my older brother.

So the next year I decided i wasn't wasting time and bought him a wallet that said 'tight git'. He loved it.

My dad is a lovely man most of the time, but he just doesn't seem to realise that turning your nose up at a carefully chosen present is just rude and can really hurt people's feelings, maybe because it's my mum that does the present buying.

I'd agree about the Amazon vouchers if he doesn't tell you soon and get yourself something nice for putting up with him.

SOOOO annoying, aren't they? I got my O/H a really nice mobile phone last year, to replace his tatty old one, he physically chucked it back at me saying "I don't want THAT!!" I could've throttled him...only it was our turn to do the family Christmas dinner and I couldn't have a poisonous atmoshere when the family arrived.

I'll be glad when the shops shut on Christmas Eve and if he hasn't come up with anything by then he'll just have to settle for an emergency pair of slippers. He gives me the screaming abdabs with this messing around.

DaisyMoo

I would go to his sock drawer & remove the newest looking pair & wrap them up for him :0)