June 2008 Weddings
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Gifts from DH
J knows that I love surprises....but they kind of torture me too......so he tortures me with them. All month he ask all sorts of random questions that may or may not be related to my real gift (tries to throw me of) and then he wraps everything in a way where I won't know what it is. This year he put everything in old Cheerios boxes and then wrapped them. He also puts my presents out as soon as he wraps them so they stare me in the face.
Do your DHs give you real or fake hints? or otherwise torture you or does my DH just know how to get me, lol?
Can he wrap presents? J can but he does it so that the folded ends are on the "long" side of the gift and it cracks me up. Has to be so much harder that way.
Re: Gifts from DH
That's funny!
DH doesn't give any hints because he never knows what to buy me. I even tell him ideas and then he never remembers them. THEN he pouts about wanting to think of something to surprise me instead of just buying me what I tell him I want.
As a result, I usually end up with one thing I may have mentioned in passing, never the main thing I say I want, and something he thinks of on his own (hit or miss). ANd the wrapping is atrocious-but he tries!
Cheerio boxes! That's too funny!
DH is the one that is terrible with surprises. He loves them but he is also bad about trying to figure out his gifts before it's Christmas. So I usually wrap them all and put them under the tree early so he has to staire at them. I make it clear he isn't allowed to touch them or he would be shaking them all the time.
DH says he isn't good at gift wrapping and has my sister help him each year. This year she had him wrap several and they look just fine. He does take longer than most to wrap though.
Last night he was trying to get me to agree to unwrap one present so then he could unwrap one. I didn't go for it. :-)
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That sounds like what my father does to my step mother. He always wraps things just to mess with her. He's done the every gift in the same size box. He has also added weights to make it seem like something else. The best is when he strung a bell across the inside of the box so when she shook it, it jingled. He would put the gifts out as soon as he wrapped them just to make her crazy.
H thinks he's a great gift giver. However, like I mentioned in my vent post yesterday, he's usually way off on what I really want. We'll go out and I'll casually say I like something. Then when a holiday comes closer I'll tell him what I'd really like (completely forgetting the thing I mentioned as sort of liking). He'll bypass what I said I did want and go for something that I sort of liked. I asked for perfume (even told him the exact kind), he got me a Bruins Build A Bear. WTF am I supposed to do with that? Next year, I asked for the peridot earrings I had been asking for since Alex was born. He showed my mother what he got me a week before Christmas, a cast iron grill pan and a photo collage. His excuse for no earrings was that they were too pricey (the ones I pointed out were only $40). My mother told him if he didn't return the gifts and get the earrings I'd beat him upside the head with the grillpan. Instead of returning them, he just got the earrings in addition. I still have the photo collage in the original box under my dresser and he's used the grillpan more than me.
that's funny about the earrings Jill.
I am acutally really excited this year because I never gave him a list - he said he didn't need one he had ideas. Historically he's done really well remembering things I've said or pointed out. We'll see.
Last year I gave him a list and he made sure I got everything on it (gave ideas to others who asked) so that was nice, but kinda uneventful. This year I have absolutely no idea what he got me.
We're both bad with secrets, too. Paul will whine and moan that he doesn't know what to get me, and then all of a sudden he'll have an idea, buy it, wrap it, and want us to open presents right away. This year, though, he didn't have an idea for me until 2 days ago, so he had it shipped to his parents house and will wrap when we get there.
This is the first year since the year we first started dating that DH has really "bought" me a gift. It normally goes where we are shopping for other Christmas presents or at a store for something and we see something and he says hey, didn't you want one of those? I'll buy it for you for Christmas. Since I already know it doesn't get wrapped and I use it that day.
He told me this year he needed (x amount of dollars ) from our budget for my gift. He has asked me about every day if I want to know what it is. As much as it is killing me to know, I really want a surprise on Christmas morning for once in a long while so I've told him no.
He told me one night it was like a charm bracelet but for your neck, similar to a choker chain on a dog. I'm about 99.9% sure he was joking...if not I'm going to die
Naylon, our DH's must have gone to the same "torture your wives" school or something. DH lives to torture me about gifts! He'll give me hints, some real and some fake, and I can usually never tell which is which. He's great at surprises so I actually don't mind being tortured, most of the time
. A great example:
Over the summer, DH tortured me constantly about the iPad. I *knew* he'd never buy one for me, so I always just laughed it off or threw stuff at him when he played iPad commercials on repeat haha. About two weeks before our summer vacation, he told me he had a surprise for me for our trip, but I couldn't have it until the day we left. He tortured me for two weeks, and then the night we left, he gave me something to open. It ended up being a car charger for my iPod, which I thought was great! And of course, I thought that was the surprise.
When we got in the car and started driving, he told me to reach under my seat. I did and pulled out another wrapped surprise! There were two iPad covers in the box, and he said that he thought we could look at iPads when we reached our destination. I thought that was cute and totally believed him. Then he pulled another package out from behind his seat and told me to open it. Of course, it was an iPad.
I thought the way he did that was so creative and cute
. And the surprise was totally worth the two weeks of torture LOL.