Birthday presents.

[M2DA14]

So my birthday is coming up very soon. I'm turning 30. I've discovered my husband has ordered a Steam Mop as one of my presents. A steam mop. I just don't know what to say about it. I feel very hurt and very let down by him. I am dreading my birthday now. How can I react like I'm happy with that as one of my presents. I'm also dreading to think what else he's got me. It's like he's making no effort whatsoever to think about what I would really really like. What does everyone else think? Am I being selfish and pathetic?

Gnome:- I always wondered what they were for!

My DH gave me a wheelbarrow and a shed in the past. I don't think many people would appreciate that but I was over the moon, couldn't have chosen better myself. For our anniversary one year we went to a little chef (the one that Heston Made over and the loos were amazing!). People took the piss, I'm glad I'm not married to them!

If hate to get clothes and a coat or a watch or jewelry as it's not me.

Just goes to show it's important to know the other person and go with what they want, rather than what you think they should want.

Broken because it's either too tarty/not tarty enough and never the right size.

BTW I would like to confess before this thread I had never heard of a steam mop.

What is a steam mop? Like an iron but a mop?

I didn't even get a card for my last birthday. Not even taken out for a meal. And he KNEW that I expected him to make an effort. He says he doesn't think that birthdays are that important. Unless they are for his (teenage) children. Or his mother.

So a steam mop would be a definite improvement!

I'd be pretty disappointed by a coat / clothes though (that's stuff you need). Maybe this mop is some strange payback for being a bit of a dress-up doll? Certainly if DH got me clothes I'd be pretty disappointed.

Just talk to him! Tell him you want x for your birthday and categorically do not want a steam mop.

You sound pretty defeatist. If you want your birthday to be good don't leave it to dh, make your own plans. I organised my own 30th, went to paris with my friends, didn't even invite dh!

Go and buy a steam mop today, and show him what you bought for the house tonight! Then he will have to take his pressie back. Simple!

Love it missnatalie

Highly cunning. As cunning as a fox that has been appointed professor of cunning at Oxford University.

I got a new coat and a nice meal for my 30th. Not quite what I had in mind (he didn't even manage to wrap the coat up... No other presents to open). He just handed it to me before we went out for dinner.

I'm not leaving a thing to chance for Christmas... He's had a list already. Suggest you do the same or risk disappointment