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

56 replies

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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Metella · 02/12/2009 20:25

I feel your pain - dh is the worst present buyer ever!! Even when I tell him what to buy he still manages to get the wrong thing!

Do as SleightiesChick says and get him to send it back asap.

CybilLiberty · 02/12/2009 20:29

expat a bedspread is perhaps the best husband present I have ever heard. ANd touche to the wife.

Tikkabillajive · 02/12/2009 20:30

Could you maybe say you saw the email but pretend you had assumed it was for him? Say something like 'Great that you ordered yourself a headset, you've wanted one for ages haven't you - I almost got you one for Christmas but I thought it would be a very boring present!' Then he can either keep it for himself or return it and get you something you actually want!

Agree with DaftApeth - I've given up on hoping for a perfect surprise from DH and now give him a very specific list - and am never disappointed! I know that sounds awful but I honestly think he goes a bit bonkers when faced with the challenge of present buying.

Tikkabillajive · 02/12/2009 20:32

Posted before I'd read all the replies and think Sleighties's idea of being upfront about it is better!

VerityBrulee · 02/12/2009 20:40

The only way to get the christmas present you want is to buy it yourself.

After being fed up too many times I now buy my own presents, wrap them beautifully, give tham to dh on christmas eve, and then I am delighted on christmas morning to have received exactly what I wanted in the correct size and colour.

Surprises are, IME, very overrated.

expatinscotland · 02/12/2009 20:55

I'm with Verity all the way.

and Cyril, yep, he learned his lesson after that!

And when a friend of both this lady and my mother got an iron for her birthday, she took a leaf from the former's book and gave her husband a brand new ironing board for Xmas.

FabIsVeryHappy · 02/12/2009 21:02

I can't help feeling sad that husbands don't listen too, or know their wives well enough, to buy them good presents.

Dawnybabe · 02/12/2009 21:06

I got a wheel brace and car jack for my 21st birthday.
Beat that.

Against all odds we're msrried now, but the presents haven't improved that much.

pollywobblebauble · 02/12/2009 21:12

We no longer bother with presents for each other.

he always says he doesn't need anything, which is true, he leads a simple life! i can't stand either watching him get extremely anxious about choosing something or acting on instructions.

he is, however, very good at doing practical things for me on a regular basis like washing the car or hoovering and i try to absorb admin type jobs that he finds more stressfull.

LadyGlenChristmasPresent · 02/12/2009 21:13

My Dad got my Mum a hot water bottle for their first married Christmas. Just what every 21-year-old newly-wed is wanting!
She forgave, but she never forgot.

Tikkabillajive · 02/12/2009 21:20

FabIsVeryHappy, I feel quite safe in saying that after 14 years together my DH knows me very well indeed. He is also the kindest person I have ever met - he just seems to have present buying blindness. It used to make me a bit sad (especially as my dad is AMAZING at choosing presents, especially clothes and jewellery for my mum) but I have come to accept that it is DH's (almost) only weak point, so I don't mind too much! And I am a spoiled control freak hate wasting money so would much rather choose something myself than end up with something slightly disastrous!

TheWorldFamousKewcumber · 02/12/2009 21:25

I got a vacuum cleaner once and form my sister who should have known better. My brother who buys the worst presents in the world once bought me a large felt rabbit door stop - dressed in Tyrolean lederhosen

BosomForAPillow · 02/12/2009 21:29

I'd quite like a bedspread as a present. (I think...What is it? A quilt? Lovely.)

LadyGlenChristmasPresent · 02/12/2009 21:30

Kewcumber - I like the sound of that rabbit!

purpleduckUnderTheMistletoe · 02/12/2009 21:31

Love the thesaurus thing

Hmmmm...how many words for "cheapskate" can you find...

BosomForAPillow · 02/12/2009 21:35

Perhaps we need a MN swapshop of presents on Boxing Day. I like the sound of the rabbit too!

whomovedmychocolate · 02/12/2009 21:35

I have learned the hard way that the way to get a christmas present you will love is to send a direct URL to your spouse with an email which says 'I would really love this for Christmas and I love you.

TheWorldFamousKewcumber · 02/12/2009 21:39

LadyGlen - I would happily have sent it to you but sadly it got... um.... lost in the house move along with the Edwardian Lady style floral doormat which was also a brother present.

I would tell you where to buy your own but lord only knows where on earth he got it.

Hassled · 02/12/2009 21:42

You need to just be upfront and do as SleightiesChick says. Just tell him the score. Sometimes people need the bleeding obvious pointed out.

DH is usually a good present buyer but one year he bought me an upmarket painting-by-numbers watercolour kit. All in a nice wooden box. I got a D in O Level Art - I have no artistic skill or interest whatsoever. It was baffling.

hormonesnomore · 02/12/2009 22:02

My ex bought me a Haynes manual one year because he thought it would come in handy.

misdee · 02/12/2009 22:16

i got a silver rolo 2 years ago, and a silver lovehert sweet thing last year i am expecting a solid silver kit-kat this year i think

Peachy · 03/12/2009 09:18

'I got a wheel brace and car jack for my 21st birthday'

My ex got me disc brakes formy mini and fitted them

a few months after I was in a car crash after they failed- he'd got them cheap from ascrapyard as they were cracked.

Why did he get them cheap? Becuase he'dspent his money knowcking off his ex.

Before dumping him shortly after Christmas, I bought him soap and a copy of the teletubbies single (how old am I?) as revenge

BloodRedTulips · 03/12/2009 10:15

dp bought me white runners for my birthday... 7 years and it was the first present he'd gone out and picked himself after much nagging.

White runners? he knows i hate white runners, i don't wear any clothes that would suggest i'm a white runners kind of person, we've even had conversations about my dilike of white runners.

so now we're back to me buying my own presents and handing them to him to wrap for me....

i miss surprises though

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lumpsdumps · 03/12/2009 13:07

Hi, back again, I'm kind a hoping this present is a decoy present and that he has got me something off my pressie list that I gave him, if not, I'm going out on the first day the shops are open and buying myself a nice leather jacket that I have been hankering over! Men, they truly are hopeless at this present buying lark! At least though it's not the crap black and red underwear that most men buy!

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nickelbabe · 03/12/2009 13:27

oh Peachy that's awful