What are you getting your DP for Christmas?

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I find my DH really difficult to buy for. Not only that, I find my dad and my brother equally difficult. All the men in my family! I never know what to get them!

What are you getting for the significant other in your life this year?!!

Absolutely no idea.
Quite likely a book about Chinese porcelain or a new croquet mallet.
He’s had the mallet ordered for about 6 months but the maker is slow.
He has very niche interests

A mountain biking jacket and top, a new mug (from 7 year old DS so he will choose), some miniature bottles of port, box of fudge, hopefully some chocolate rum raisins, Guy Martin book

A kindle (he reads all his books on his phone), a vegan cookbook as he wants to learn how to cook more and I'm vegan and some bits from the modern toss site for his office (mug and poster)

Lego

A 4.5kg Toblerone.

Apple Watch and Air Pods.

There is a fab thread in the Christmas topic which has loads of ideas for awkward male members of the family.

I'll see if I can find a link.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/Christmas/4041129-The-I-don-t-need-anything-husband-gift-thread

Some bread making bits including a special cloche for the oven to bake his loaves in - he’s a bit of a sourdough hipster

Go over to the Christmas section. There are some very long threads about what to buy DH’s with lots of ideas.

A Polaroid instax camera type thing

We usually go a bit mad in Home Bargains.

Mines asked for
A fish filleting knife
A cut throat razor
A canoeing book
Sealskinz water proof socks
A wok
Lego crocodile locomotive
Whisky advent calendar

(Im not buying all of this!)

Ive also got him

• a motorbike t-shirt
• motorbike mug

-floating keyring (for canoeing)

• cookbook
• washbag

A krups beer sub and a couple of kegs to go in it, plus will put together some snacks for him to enjoy with it. He doesn’t “need” anything, and it’s the sort of thing he’d never buy himself

His birthday is the week before and I’ve got him an Ooni pizza oven so for Christmas (we’ve agreed a smaller £100 budget) I’ll get him a couple
of bits linked to that , some Molton brown black pepper and a underground map of pubs around our city that he said he liked a while ago

Oh and a spring onion slicer - thanks James May !

A bottle of Japanese whiskey

Leeds United home shirt and an Xbox game.

Lego

new coffee machine.

A retro Trojan records polo shirt. He knows about it already. A t shirt with snowy on (we have a fox terrier) dunno what else.

A game and watch
Socks
T-shirt
Guitar cleaning brush
Songwriting notebook
And he has a beer advent calendar

I’ve got him a waterproof Ping golf bag for his main present with tees, a tee bag, a golf towel, a golf shoe bag and a golf umbrella to match, golf balls he can use, golf balls with the Incredible Hulk on that he won’t use, but really liked, polo shirts for golf (got to wear something with a collar), a board game, a couple of pairs of shorts, swim shorts, a couple of hoodies, some t shirts, slippers, beard stuff, aftershave, sweets, some Star Wars Lego, some posh note books and a nice pen, a rubber bracelet thing that’s got copper in it that’s supposed to do something or other, a mug, and I’m thinking about some boots if the ones I like are still in stock in his size on payday. I’ve also got him some little bits like socks, a pop socket for his phone, a nice tie, Star Wars air fresheners for the car etc for his stocking.

I'm getting mine a new phone, however if may have to be an after-Xmas gift depending on when a payout I'm waiting for comes. We also want the PS5 if it ever comes back into stock in the next couple of months, but that's a big purchase. So will be looking at mainly stocking fillers this year, thick socks, a book, probably a new jumper. Maybe some durable stationary for work.

a 70 cm Nici pig plushie.
A mug
no idea for the small tidbits.
We have everything. So neither of us, and teen! actually want/need anything.
We saved on holidays, now will save on xmas. Bahamas in a few years! :)

It can be difficult to buy for each other especially when there's nothing you need. We aren't doing wrapped Christmas presents to each other, instead putting that money towards a sideboard we want. Might be boring to some but works for us!