Minneapolis/St. Paul Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
poll: what do you spend on gifts for FI/DH/SO
After hearing a coworker talk about what she was getting her FI and what she had seen that he had gotten her (through their bank account) I was a little shocked at what they were spending. But maybe that's just me.
[Poll]
Warning
No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
Re: poll: what do you spend on gifts for FI/DH/SO
I voted for combined gift this year. We bought a new camera a couple weeks ago and after the holidays we need to buy a couch and t.v for the upstairs living area. This year we figured we'd spend the money on things we want/need to get done before little man arrives, and save what we can for expenses once he does arrive.
I'd guess in past years we spent around $200 on each other. DH always gets the shaft in gifts though since his birthday is early January, but the man seriously never wants anything. And if he does, he tends to buy it for himself!
Since getting married we've taken the lame stance of "we'd basically be buying ourselves gifts" and don't exchange gifts. Now with the kids, we'd much rather spend the money on them anyway.
But, if our financial situation ever gets better, we may change our views. We don't do gifts for Valentine's day, or for our birthday's either.
We went spendy this year his gift was about $150 and my gift from him was about $200. We also got each other a few little things that are actually surprises...since I ordered my own gift and told him what I was considering getting him he was ok with that..
I don't like surprises like people do and I love knowing what I am getting so we really don't have many secret gifts...we're going dogsledding in January for our anniversary gift to each other last October.
I usually spend about $300ish on him plus another $100 or so for his birthday but this year i'm at $540 and I still need to get 2 more things.
That said, he usually spends around $800 on me (guestimate!) PLUS he has paid for our Mexico trip out of "his" money both last year and this so that's really a gift too. The man really likes to buy gifts, what can i say?
We spend a lot at Christmas, around $50-75 on each person we buy for.
We used to spend maybe $150 for each person's birthday which is like 3 weeks before/after Christmas, and not do Xmas gifts.
Since kids and career changes, we don't do Xmas or Bday gifts. We've never done Valentines day.
There is something about having no financial worries and great income, to having nothing to make you re-prioritize what you really want. Now it is very hard for me to spend money because I literally don't know what I really want. My Gap Groupon mass underwear purchase was probably the dorkiest, most exciting gift I've had in years because I'm happy every day wearing them :P
This is our first year we aren't exchanging gifts. I just went to Town Hall Brewery and got him a couple growlers of beer because that's his favorite beer, but we just decided we'd so much rather get an overnight babysitter in a month or two when DS is sleeping better and get a hotel room someplace local and do a nice dinner.
did that a few years ago, went to Pazzaluna and stayed at the St Paul Hotel and we still talk about how much fun we had. To me that's so much more worth it, and anything I want, I'll usually go out and buy myself.