here we go again - another christmas another fake pearl necklace!

meritaten

Mupette wrote: »

Perhaps its your husband doing to you..

have you given a bad present, perhaps after 2 years you haven't got the message.

You may be right though mupette . I dont THINK I ever gave him a Bad present - he has always been appreciative.
but when you have someone who doesnt even speak to you most days - its difficult to discover what they want for christmas.
When I ask what he would like he says He 'doesnt want anything' and 'he can afford to buy anything he wants'. I give him money which he accepts nicely. If i get him anything he doesnt use it or wear it......... it gets 'put away for the grandkids'.

belfastgirl23

Meritaten could you not get one of the grandaughters organised to take him out christmas shopping? With four of them there's bound to be one you could trust to steer him in the right direction

I got a cookery book I'll never use this year but that said he bought me a beautiful bracelet earlier in the year that I really love, he insisted on taking me in to choose it and didn't even blink when the most expensive one was the one I did really like the best so I really can't complain....

meritaten

lol - bless you belfastgirl - but my oldest granddaughter is 9 and I dont think she would take him out shopping! the twins aged 8 would prob take him to the local newly opened bakeware shop so thats a good idea! If I could persuade him that twins would have more idea of a good christmas present than HE would!

eilidh_s

I remember one Christmas when my brother and I were a lot younger, my Dad took us upstairs to show us this lovely brown leather jacket that he had bought for my Mum and to check that we liked it and if we thought she would like it (he still does this every year!) and the next day my Mum took us upstairs to show us the lovely brown leather jacket that she had bought my Dad! They had only gone out and bought the ladies and gents versions of the same thing for each other. My Mum couldn't figure why we were in hysterics and we couldn't speak for about half an hour. On Christmas morning we insisted they both opened them at the same time. It was hilarious! We thought they had been winding us up but they had genuinely bought the same present accidentally. The jackets were both appreciated and well worn though.

elisebutt65

After 47 years of marriage, my mum now buys her own presents and get Dad to wrap them for her:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: She's never disappointed now. The final straw was a few years ago when she asked for a new hairdryer and ended up with this.

My oh is wonderful - I 'like' things on Facebook when I see them - like John Greed jewellery and he must make a note of them - Got a lovely pearl and silver heart bracelet(real ones). Also got the Diesel Loverdose that I made a point of getting a sample and oooo-ing over in HoF, and he noticed that I was whingeing after losing one of my favourite Dent's gloves!:T

I returned the favour and he got Steve Jobs' book and the Clint Eastwood Director's cut DVD(Amazon Black Friday) and a huge bottle of Hugo Boss Bottled (reduced in Boots);)
I had to get him the obligatory pack of socks as well(Amazon Black Friday again:rotfl:)

One of my ex'es became so after I got an iron for Xmas :mad:

mrcow

elisebutt65 wrote: »

After 47 years of marriage, my mum now buys her own presents and get Dad to wrap them for her:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: She's never disappointed now. The final straw was a few years ago when she asked for a new hairdryer and ended up with this

I hope she kept it.

One of those sold on Ebay for £59 last week.

jojo_2012_2

Do you clear your browser history????

Is there any way he saw you complaining about last years necklace and got this one in revenge

If it were me, I would have made some kind of comment like "oh, isn't this what you got me last year"...

I on the other hand got nothing from the boyfriend will have to spoil myself instead.

Gottodothis

Many years ago, my dad got my mum a mop and bucket (romance is not dead!!)
His reasoning was that she got on hands and knees to scrub the floor and that this would make things easier for her (its the thought that counts apparently)


This was the year that the neighbours witness a different kind of panto when our christmas dinner was thrown into the road closely followed by my dad.

We had to have sausages and mash that year after dad grovelled his way back in!!

mrcow

jojo_2012 wrote: »

If it were me, I would have made some kind of comment like "oh, isn't this what you got me last year"...

I on the other hand got nothing from the boyfriend will have to spoil myself instead.

Are you happy with that?

Making a vague, "kind" comment may be the polite thing to do, but to avoid getting the same rubbish (or worse, or nothing) next year you have to be more obvious with some people.

I understand that you get many gifts at Christmas, some of which may be unwanted - and that's all part of it. But I do object to my OH buying me unwanted/ridiculous stuff where effectively the money has come out of our overall household budget (so effectively I'm paying for it).

At that point, the time for polite niceities is over and he needs to be set straight.

Especially when I've had to buy presents for 40-50 people from the two of us. The only person he has to get for (or think about) is me.

joanne0620

My OH usually does ok, with a lot of specific guidance from me, however this year I got a Kindle (after me spending the whole year telling anyone who will listen how much "I love books, love turning the pages, love the smell of a new book, wouldn't/don't want one of those electronic reading things) so now its stuck on the bedside table still in its box.

But the bizarre thing is her also bought me 2 books "in case you don't like the Kindle!"

Bless him!