A Christmas Message...

[Bob Denman]

Hey; you've got to go with whatever works...

[Yazz]

If your relationship is based on the gifts you give your partner...well you get the point.

In all honesty, that's the way I feel too. Just trying to have some fun here.

FlamingoBabe and HotGlue have a great thing going with presents. It's given from the heart, not an obligation.

[flamingobabe]

so if our wives do something thoughtless or insenative do we send them to THE CATHOUSE ?
cheers mick

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[Marker]

Its a good thing that I just bought us a new Dyson Vacuum cleaner Before Christmas !! I don't need a doghouse I have a shed for those days

[danlnc]

Wow!!! hg and I made a promise to each other ...about 2 or 3 years into our 18 year marriage...with many more years to come....we never...let me repeat NEVER buy each other gifts...if he wants something he buys it...if I want something I buy it....now and then one of us will show up with something the other wants as a surpise...makes it a lot better.....and for happier times.....hg's Dog House

ditto!

[bruisersbaby]

Wow!!! hg and I made a promise to each other ...about 2 or 3 years into our 18 year marriage...with many more years to come....we never...let me repeat NEVER buy each other gifts...if he wants something he buys it...if I want something I buy it....now and then one of us will show up with something the other wants as a surpise...makes it a lot better.....and for happier times.....hg's Dog House

This is similar to what Bruiser and I do as well. We've been married over 32 years, we buy for each other during the year or buy for ourselves, and yes, surprise each other at times. We may buy each other something to open at Christmas, but not a whole lot.

[Paula(Butch2025)]

I have always said that "appliances are not gifts"...one time Butch and I were Christmas shopping at Sears and we were coming down the escalator which ended in the appliance department and I said my line about gifts a little too loud and got a very dirty look from a salesman trying to talk a man into buying a new dryer!!! We had a good laugh about it as we turned the corner. To this day (36 yrs) Butch has never given me an appliance as a gift. I believe that is why it's been 36 years of Merry Christmas' and Happy Birthdays!!!

That was a great video clip Yaz!!!!

[Yazz]

I have always said that "appliances are not gifts"...

We say pretty much the same thing except it's "Never give a gift with a cord attached."

The only exception was the year Hubby gave me a chromed KitchenAid Mix-Master. It brought tears of happiness pulling her out of the box. Her name is 'The Chrome Goddess' and she has a place of honor on the kitchen counter.

Hubby scored big time that year...

[Paula(Butch2025)]

We say pretty much the same thing except it's "Never give a gift with a cord attached."

The only exception was the year Hubby gave me a chromed KitchenAid Mix-Master. It brought tears of happiness pulling her out of the box. Her name is 'The Chrome Goddess' and she has a place of honor on the kitchen counter.

Hubby scored big time that year...

That would be an exception of worth...bought my own...which brought tears of joy to Butch's eyes, because I baked many more cookies!

[Yazz]

That would be an exception of worth...bought my own...which brought tears of joy to Butch's eyes, because I baked many more cookies!

Butch is a lucky man!

[Spyder_Cowgirl]

Wow!!! hg and I made a promise to each other ...about 2 or 3 years into our 18 year marriage...with many more years to come....we never...let me repeat NEVER buy each other gifts...if he wants something he buys it...if I want something I buy it....now and then one of us will show up with something the other wants as a surprise...makes it a lot better.....and for happier times.....hg's Dog House

HogCowboy and I have a similar mode of gifting ... only it sort of became an unspoken "rule" because we think so much alike. Too many times one of us would buy something for the other as a surprise gift only to find that the other party had bought for themselves at about the same time! Happened three or four times and then we just decided to do things more like flamingobabe. So, now, after 23 years of marriage ... if you we want to get a gift, there is not surprise because we have to ask first in order to make sure it's not already "on the way"
Gee ... I wonder if our common thinking has anything to do with the fact that we share the same birthday (it's also our anniversary ... no forgetting anything on that front)?

Be safe

[Babyblue]

This is positively hilarious.

We have been married 30 years and here is a list of my "favorites" he has given me. A fishing reel to match his. Stevie Ray Vaughn CD..one of HIS favorites. Toaster Oven. And one of my all time favorites..........CASH, so I can get what I want..........Sigh..........

Hope springs eternal.

[spydercowboy]

HogCowboy and I have a similar mode of gifting ... only it sort of became an unspoken "rule" because we think so much alike. Too many times one of us would buy something for the other as a surprise gift only to find that the other party had bought for themselves at about the same time! Happened three or four times and then we just decided to do things more like flamingobabe. So, now, after 23 years of marriage ... if you we want to get a gift, there is not surprise because we have to ask first in order to make sure it's not already "on the way"
Gee ... I wonder if our common thinking has anything to do with the fact that we share the same birthday (it's also our anniversary ... no forgetting anything on that front)?

Be safe

Actually I'm spydercowboy at this site.

[pfromenthal]

Absolutely love the video......More guys need to see this one!