Wives - what would you like for Christmas?

[MuswellHillDad]

What would you like your husband to buy you for Christmas?

All ideas welcome - I'm sure I'm not the only husband struggling for ideas!

Thanks

[ElizabethBathory]

In that case I'm on your behalf AndHarry! I thought maybe you were just being polite and not telling him.

[itsonlysubterfuge]

My husband can never go wrong with Books.

[Daykin]

I would like theatre tickets, or failing that, theatre vouchers, and a babysitter so I can go to the theatre.

Jeans - Topshop Baxter petite, which would be simple if the bastards hadn't stopped making them.

I want a new kettle and toaster and can't afford the beautiful ones I want but I acknowledge that they would be viewed as crap presents

[lilolilmanchester]

Sorry if already said, in a rush so can't read whole thread. I just want something thoughtful, his idea, no matter how cheap. I have a friend who gives her DH a list every year, £1000+ worth of requests, she always gets whatwver she asks for. I got a slanket from my DH a couple of years ago c. £10 and meant a whole lot more because it was entirely his idea because he knows I feel the cold. My friend can't believe we spend so little in gifts and really laughed at that present.. But way more thought went into that than taking an expensive wish list into Harvey nicks for someone else to pick up the items she'd demanded.

[AngryBuddha]

Time with my hubby or for myself.

Spa, theatre tickets, painting course, weekend away etc!!

[Daykin]

What I'm likely to get: a Debenhams voucher. I cannot stress enough how much I hate Debenhams. It took me 8 months to spend the last one.

I will be getting a Next voucher from SIL, which I will spend on children's underwear. My other SIL gets me a Waterstones vouchers which I love.

[FallonColby]

This probably sounds really cheesy, but I would actually love my husband to buy me a dress that he thinks I would look nice in, a pre-booked blow dry at the hairdressers and make up done at the beauty salon and then to be taken out on a really nice dinner date :)

[NotJustACigar]

I would like my DH to give me a voucher that entitles me to my favourite meal, cooked by him, sometime after Christmas (an Ottolenghi recipe for a caramelised garlic tart). I would also like him to plan and organise a day out including a hike somewhere we haven't been and give me a voucher entitling me to that, too - something like a lunch in a nice restaurant he has researched, and a drink in a pub on the way home. Or theatre or concert tickets to something he knows I would like. Something hat requires effort on his part rather than just money. I tend to do the same kind of thing for him.

I don't really need luxury handbags or expensive candles and would be a bit annoyed if he spent our mutually earned and combined household money on anything like that.

[YoDiggity]

haha - whoever said Botox at the beginning of the thread I think the OP might be taking his own life in his hands if he presents his wife with vouchers for a round of Botox on Christmas morning

however she much she might want it.

[Bertrude]

I would like:

A race car driving day at our local circuit
An iMac
A new briefcase/ laptop bag for work
The big set of 40 shades of Dior nail polish I saw somewhere the other week
Tickets to a football game (and the annual leave signed off for both of us to fly back to Uk for it)
Annual golf club membership (sadly the club i want to join makes the iMac look like loose change)

I think I'm a man with tits and a front bum, really. And nice pink nails.

[YoDiggity]

I don't want anything for the kitchen, or anything that cleans. It's 2013 not 1913.
I don't want anything for the house - so no curtains, cushions, rugs, blankets.
I don't want make up.
I don't want handbags, shoes, clothes, underwear or purses.
I don't want theatre tickets, opera or any other show tickets.
I don't want scarfs, nice or not.
I don't want a spa thing, massage thing or any other parlour thing.
I don't want to be a friend of what ever gallery or other nonsense.
I don't want books.
I don't want smelly things.
I don't want straighteners, hair drier, tongs or any other gadget for my hair.
I don't want an Ipad, I have one.
I don't want an ereader, I have one.
I don't want nail varnish.
I don't want ornaments or other tat that is simply there to collect dust.
I don't want chocolate.

I wouldn't mind games for either the ps3 or the psp. I wouldn't mind a ps4.
I wouldn't mind another coffee gift basket - very nice travel cup/cafetiere and some very nice coffees.
I wouldn't mind cash, yes cash not store gift cards, for when I see something that I like.


Well you are just a weird wife. Like...really, really weird.

A gift that DH gets me every year that I adore is a box of charity shop books. About 30 or so paperbacks. Of these I will probably have already read approximately 15, but I don't mind a re-read. About 5 are eyewateringly bad choices, and they get recycled back to the charity shop. About 10 are good discoveries. Some of them I know I won't re-read. This only works if your other half is very bookish, but it is something I look forward to every year.

He also bakes me a cake. I love that . He also bought me some herbs for the kitchen (basil, thyme. rosemary, a chilli plant) but in nice pots.

What I want for Christmas is Earnings husband.

[YoDiggity]

I don't want to be a friend of what ever gallery or other nonsense.....
I don't want ornaments or other tat that is simply there to collect dust.

Actually they are not weird. They are perfectly understandable. But the rest...just weird. Even the most difficult to please wife in the world likes at least some of those things. You are proper hardcore.

[TheDoctrineOfWho]

If the title had been "What can I get my wife for Christmas?" there would have been no bad reactions, I'm sure...

I'm another one who prefers "events" to stuff. Afternoon tea somewhere posh?

[StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes]

well in the absence of a wishlist and having failed to hear any hints she has dropped then look at her usual bathroom supplies and well used make up, photograph the labels and get to a suitable store to purchase a selective amount of new stuff and make her a stocking full or a giftbox of it. then add a voucher for the difference or additional amount you want to spend in a lovely well chosen sick makingly romantic card and NEVER EVER tell her you asked MN for advice.

[MrsMarigold]

Wow! some people expect a lot.

[totallyaimless]

I'd like DH to book me a haircut, arrange a babysitter and take me out to a nice place for dinner, taxi, no driving, with comfy seats and bid squishy sofas for post-dinner drinks and nice chats.

I would also like singing lessons. Just a few, just to make me feel special.

[NeverQuiteSure]

Can I just second all the voices speaking out against spa days and overpriced luxury bath products? Especially if it's not something your DW would usually spend her money on.

A small, inexpensive but very thoughtful gift is worth so much more although, I'll admit, a bugger to find.

[scottishmummy]

Out if interest do people sit waiting for surprise as opposed to stating what they want
I say what I want,as I'm asked.don't understand all the tippy toe secrecy

[Mirage]

A head torch
A black and white portrait of my pony
Welly socks
A field shelter.

[totallyaimless]

I think its horses for course ScottishMummy - some chaps seem to be really good at knowing what their girlfriends/partners/wives/otherhalves (oh good grief I have most likely offended someone here) and some need a gentle nudge and some just need to know directly from the horses mouth so to speak.

If one cannot work out which your partner/husband/boyfriend is, and are not brave enough to talk about it then that lands you in a bit of a relationship pickle if you ask me.

DH and I ask each other if they want to talk about a 'wish list' or if the other has had their own ideas. If the other has already had ideas then we give each other enough credit to go ahead and plan a surprise.

[funnyvalentine]

I'd like an arduino starter kit. Probably not ideal for all wives though!

arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoStarterKit

[catgirl1976]

If you are getting perfume, get her Tom Ford Black Orchid

It is divine

Mulberry handbag if your budget is big

[DanceForMeColin]

Nomorecrumbs tell me more about this L'Occitane vanilla perfume. I'm on the lookout for the perfect vanilla scent, not too custardy and not too sweet. Is this one the holy grail?

[MuswellHillDad]

As some have requested, my list would include:

• clothes my wife would like me to wear that I wouldn't buy
• decent non fiction books
• good action or science fiction movies
• pub quiz beer vouchers
• tickets to a football game
• fine booze
• fine leather products
• subscription to favourite publication
• sweet selection from childhood times
• go karting event day or similar

Maybe something in there for your partners.

[peanutbutterandbanana]

As you're asking, please can I have

gym membership

And this little gadget that removes hard skin from feet so that you feel pedicured for lots of the time :)

www.amazon.co.uk/Scholl-Express-Pedi-Electrical-Remover/dp/B00BAZOXDE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385926680&sr=8-1&keywords=hard%20skin%20remover%20feet&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

And a surprise-filled Christmas stocking will do nicely as well.

I thank you