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Hubby birthdays
Well, today is Ziggy's 27th birthday 
happy bday to my lovely husband! 
Anywho, why are husbands (boyfriends, fiancees, male friends) so freaking impossible to buy gifts for!?!?!?
I tried for about a month to pry and find out what he wanted and search for things in stores and online that would work well for him. And what do I have to give him today? Pretty much NOTHING. Yup. Everything good I think of, he either goes and buys for himself, recants about wanting it in the first place, I hint about and he says theyre not worth the money or he wouldnt use it anymore, etc. Or the only things he wants are upwards of $300 and we just dont have the money.
I told him last night about this and he says he doesnt care. He's getting 2 new controllers for his xbox that just happen to be for his birthday b/c i found them on a really good sale, but he knows about it. And he asked for it. That's no fun. I wanted to surprise him with sometime nice (albeit inexpensive since we're not made of money!).
So..yeah...tonight my husband will be receiving.....a shoe horn. Yes, he asked for that and its the only thing he's getting.
I'm disappointed.
ANDDDD vent over lol!
Are your husbands JUST as difficult about birthdays/christmas/etc?
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Re: Hubby birthdays
Yes, my DH is just as tough to shop for! Along with your gifts, will you make dinner or go out? Sometimes that is just as fun as the gifts!
DHs birthday is next month, but I think I have an idea. We are going to a B&B for one night on his birthday. It was actually our Christmas present to each other and that weekend worked out for us, so we are celebrating both I guess.
I am going to make a basket of wine, snacks, candy, movies, cupcakes or cookies, etc to bring with us. I am also going to make one of those coupon books. I am going to include things like movie of his choice, back massages, foot massages, and other things that he can cash in.
Give me a little while, I may come asking you ladies for more suggestions!
Yeah, i'm cooking a nice dinner and making him angel food cake (his request!) but thats not really much different than normal. Unfortunately I'm on call all this week and weekend so we can't go out anywhere to eat (I have to be w/in 15 of my laptop at all times and it cant do wireless).
I wish he'd be up for that B&B and coupon book idea. It's so cute!!! But we're not realy the romantic type lol!
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SEE!! This is waht i wanted to get him. I thought it was a great idea since he's never had one and is always saying that he needs to get one. And of course once I brought it up to him, he turned it down, saying he wouldn't be comfortable with somebody random touching him. Ugh.
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I love you, Daddy...2/24/1953 to 2/13/2011
My husband said the same thing about a massage. but I went ahead and bought the couples massage anyways. He enjoyed it thoroughly!! He just wished it was a guy masseuse instead of the female because she didn't apply enough pressure.
Mine is hard to buy for. But christmas came surprisingly easy for me. once i really got to thinking. He had more presents than me, just about the same as our little guy.
I don't know how much you can afford. But there's the essex steam train they have a dinner train that's amazing. or the river ride. You can try to find a helicopter ride around hartford. (be great for you to take pictures) My friends did that and enjoyed it.
hmm or just the usual necessity things like new shirts, boxers. I bought dh a nose hair trimmer because him using scissors to cu this hairs made me nervous. Any kind of show he likes? a dvd collection? new movie you both were interested in seeing.. just go pick it up.
I'm sure as long as he's with you it will be a great birthday!
Mine can be difficult.
I know a lot of things he would like that are more silly/goofy gifts. Or video games. Or gift card for electronics always work with him.
But to do something really spectacular is hard sometimes.
Kim, I literally laughed out loud at the shoe horn thing.
Devin is HARD to shop for. He only wants expensive or boring things. For his birthday (was in December), I took him wine tasting for a weekend and made a nice dinner.
Don't feel badly about it! Men are just like that.
Oh girl, I am with you. But then again, DH and I aren't big "gifters". I think because once we hit the 4 year mark (and that was almost 5 years ago) we decided we'd rather do things together and create memories than buy gifts.
The problem is as we get older making memories gets more expensive, and like you we are not made of money. I try to think of thoughtful things he "needs" but he's so picky, he prefers to pick out stuff himself. Like shoes, he's a she wh0re believe it or not. And he has so many clothes, esp Polo shirts. So clothes are out of the question. Stuff around the house is hard to think of, and then I worry if I get a housewares item I'll use it more than he will. March 8th (DH's 26th) will be here before I know it. I guess I should start on the gift hunt now...
sweetc, we're trying to be the same way, esp since we are trying to be money-savvy. but i like to get him one nice thing that he will be excited about, especially because his family was always kinda jerky to him growing up at his birthday time. idk why, they would always throw big parties for his sister and get her tons of stuff adn then totally forget about his bday.
so i like to try and make it special for him since he never really had that.
lol my hubby is also a clothes wh0re...its b/c he 1) works at work, then after work, then put something else on after that thats clean so he needs like 3 outfits per day and 2) he cant seem to be able to throw a single thing away haha
i ended up getting him a new travel mug (a really good, non-leaky one from starbucks). i know he needed one and he likes coffee so it was a good thing. still not tons of fun, but at least it was something.
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I am a gluten-free, gun-toting wife! :P
I love you, Daddy...2/24/1953 to 2/13/2011