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Bollocks have just found out what my mystery christmas present is from DH

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lumpsdumps · 02/12/2009 19:21

And it is something I will never use in a million years, I do not want a bluetooth ear piece for my phone!

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TheCrackFox · 02/12/2009 19:33

I bet he wants one though.

foxinsocks · 02/12/2009 19:39

ah well reminded. That's exactly what I want to get dh.

Does your dh use the same phone as you ?

perhaps he KNEW you would peep and it's a decoy?

bran · 02/12/2009 19:41

Have you bought his present yet? I suspect he would love a new handbag or some boots in your size.

maxpower · 02/12/2009 19:41

can't you drop some unsubtle big hints about how you don't like them? he's still got time to get something else

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lumpsdumps · 02/12/2009 19:46

He told me to go on his email address and it showed up on there, and he told me that my present had arrived on Saturday morning and that email was sent on Friday morning. I bloody hope that it isn't my present as I will be deeply disappointed, he has past history with bad gifts and I told him when he was talking to me about presents that I didn't want a present that I was never going to use, like all the other crap gadgets he has bought in the past and now are sat in cupboards unused. Looks like he hasn't listened again.

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SomeGuy · 02/12/2009 19:46

That's a terrible present, is he only getting one thing?

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lumpsdumps · 02/12/2009 19:48

I have got him exactly what he wants and needs and yet he's got me crap again

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christiana · 02/12/2009 19:51

Message withdrawn

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lumpsdumps · 02/12/2009 19:53

For my 30th I got a coffee machine and a memory card for my phone

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FabIsVeryHappy · 02/12/2009 19:54

One Christmas I got a recipe book

And a diamond necklace.

CybilLiberty · 02/12/2009 19:57

My friend got a spanner set and a Thesaurus 'because they needed one'

teddymummy · 02/12/2009 19:58

Last year DH bought me sapphires and diamonds. This year he has bought me new wellies!! But I still love him!

DaftApeth · 02/12/2009 20:02

You need to tell him exactly what you want. Don't let him decide himself if he always gets it wrong.

Ok it ruins the surprise but at least you won't be disappointed again

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lumpsdumps · 02/12/2009 20:05

I use my phone alot but really hate the idea of earpieces and the amount of times we have had these discussions together is unbelievable, could understand it if I drove but I walk everywhere. I told him not to waste money on things I just will not use and yet he's ignored it all. Yet again I'm going to be sat next to christmas tree with a fake smile on my face.

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lumpsdumps · 02/12/2009 20:06

That's exactly what I did do, I gave him a list and yet he's got this and only this.

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lumpsdumps · 02/12/2009 20:08

I sound like an ungrateful cow, but I know it's wasted money and he could have bought something else off my list that I would have used.

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Peachy · 02/12/2009 20:10

Isi it posible you can buy yourself a hgift funded by him?

Whilst I like coffee, i didn't necessarily want my second pod machine in a year (first for Mothers day), but DH wasn't taking the hints about the phone so I bought the phone anyway and now will be ahppy with the machine

Dh got me a maroon umbrella with beige patterns one year, oh how I tried to be grateful but first row and out the comments popped . he still hasn't forgotten but damn he works harder at it now.

expatinscotland · 02/12/2009 20:11

'My friend got a spanner set and a Thesaurus 'because they needed one''

This reminds me of a friend of my mother's.

One year, for Xmas, her husband bought her a bedspread.

So for his birthday, in February, she bought him the sheets and some scatter cushions to match it.

SleightiesChick · 02/12/2009 20:14

If it's really going to be that annoying, I would come clean now and say 'Look, I might be wrong here but when you asked me to look at your email the other day, I saw a message that made me think you've got me a blueooth ear piece. But I'd never use one, so I just wanted to check - is that what you've got me?' Then if he says yes, you need to stay calm, really calm and reasonable and smile and say 'Oh, glad I found out now then, because the thing is, I definitely won't use it, so there's time for it to go back. Can you swap it and just get me one of the things on my list instead?' Then there's no doubt and he really does have time to change it. Better than simmering with rage beside the tree on the day, surely?

Flame · 02/12/2009 20:14

Mine got me a bluetooth ear thingy for my birthday a couple of years back. I was really and then he said it was because I had been driving across country so much (mainly to meet MNers ) and he wanted me to be able to use it driving for emergencies.

I felt all cared for then and forgot to be arsey that he bought it

SleightiesChick · 02/12/2009 20:16

The thing is to resist bringing up all the past awfulness of his present buying and just make it very reasonable and factual. 1: you establish whether you have in fact got a bluetooth earpiece. 2: if so, you make it clear very reasonably (and it isn't unreasonable) that you want him to change it and that it's better for you both that way.

redballo · 02/12/2009 20:19

I agree with sleighties,
look at it this way, if he is so tjick skinned he doesnt get your hints of what you do want then you can afford to be a bit clearer in your discussions, good luck.

JamesAndTheGiantBanana · 02/12/2009 20:20

Last year for christmas I got an electric blanket off dp. For my birthday I got gel handwarmers. I know I get cold a lot but blimey, what's it going to be this year? a hot brick?

memoo · 02/12/2009 20:23

He told you to go on his email??

You'd think he would have realised you'd see the order for the earpiece.

Maybe he is playing a trick on you and has actually got you something else, this might just be him trying to throw you off the scent

hannahsaunt · 02/12/2009 20:24

Small (ish) things that I would really, really like appear throughout December on dh's pillow for him to put away and wrap for Christmas. So some not surprises but definite likes esp when it comes to things like books. Or cashmere bedsocks which wouldn't cross his mind in a million years.

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