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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: aragorn723 on December 05, 2015, 02:54:23 PM
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Hi everyone,
So I bought my wife a bunch of things for the holidays, and need an idea of what to buy with the last $125 of a $200 budget. What kind of things are you buying your wife or significant other?
Dave
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Fortunately, it's a tradition in my wife's family to provide a list of gifts you would like to the potential giver. This makes more sense when there is also a family lottery - each person gets one gift from one person, and gives the same. There is also an agreed-on cost limit. It works - it is easier to focus on peace and love that way, and you get better presents too.
Yes, of course we give spouses a present as well ... we believe in long marriages ... :^)
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I like the idea of a list! That would make this so much easier :) just got her a minivan for the kids, but that doesn't really count for Christmas! The trick is finding something under budget. She likes jewelry, and we were at a jewelry store yesterday, where she tried on a bracelet for 38k! Ouch lol. The guy who owns the store makes everything by hand though, so there's something to be said for that. There must be a website out there with ideas around $100, maybe someone will chime in. The budget becomes a contest in a fun way- who can get the most and the best presents for the other :)
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We go to Hawaii every January and take along the extended family. Also are splurging on a new bed.
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One of the cooler recent presents I have given Eileen, who is an avid wildlife lover, was a game camera last xmas. She's had a ball setting it up in the wooded watershed down the road where she walks the dogs every day. Lots of birds, coyotes, deer, raccoon eating a spent salmon, and best of all a flying squirrel have been captured.
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I have to ask. What is a spent salmon? I have visions of a tired fish worn out from leaping up streams and maybe that is correct.
Now that I am retired, the best gift that I give my wife each year is to go away for a few weeks. She gets to do what she wants when she wants, eat what she wants when she wants and then there is the silence.
When I am on my travels and I am asked by a couple why my wife does not come with me, I tell them the reason and I can see the gleam come into the wife's eyes.
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Silence is 'Golden'.
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If I were to ask her it would be a variation of "anything that's not associated with your #%&* music hobby".
(I went with jewelry)
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Jewelry is always safe :)
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Bought my daughter a Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin Wireless for streaming her iPhone from TuneIn radio, Pandora, Spotify, ....... Required significant testing by me before gift wrapping!
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I hope it passed! 8)