The mega 'What are you buying your better half for Christmas?' ideas, suggestions and gloat thread

[dlockers]

I am painting a picture of your misses and I like it.

Why would your Mrs want a painted portrait of his Mrs for Christmas??

 

[dlockers]

Pictures of local geese.

 

[xxalxx]

Why would your Mrs want a painted portrait of his Mrs for Christmas??

You bet she would

 

[Nitefly]

Just a card.

 

[Bear]

A Barbour coat she wanted for walking the dog, a rose l’Occitane gift set and a Shea butter skin care kit and a case of Whispering Angel wine

 

[ristac]

A bean to cup coffee machine with latte/cappucino function as she (and I) loves a nice coffee.

Some nice canvases of the kids, and some smaller trinkets/bits to bulk out under the tree.

I had other things that were meant to be for Christmas, but as her birthday was at the end of November, some stuff was brought forward to cheer her up after a run of bad news.

Which model did you decide to go for on the coffee machine

 

[Firestar_3x]

We constantly treat ourselves through the year, so any gifting at christmas would be in the realms of stupidity, so we don't buy anything.

 

[413x]

So I've finished buying.

Gf = some chocolates and a set of e-drawing pens
Dog = expensive rain coat

Monetary total

Gf = 27
Dog = 70

 

[ristac]

We constantly treat ourselves through the year, so any gifting at christmas would be in the realms of stupidity, so we don't buy anything.

Do you refuse to give Christmas cards too and declare on Facebook you’ll be giving to a charity instead

 

[Firestar_3x]

Do you refuse to give Christmas cards too and declare on Facebook you’ll be giving to a charity instead

No, do you?

 

[FishPolice]

The wife asked for a fitness watch/step tracker thing so I've ordered her a Fitbit Charge 6. Hopefully it'll do the job.

 

[bloodiedathame]

Last bit of shopping was done yesterday, as we agreed that a heated blanket is a bit of a **** present that we needed anyway.

So I bought a candle, soap and some sort of skin cream that totalled about £70.

Also ordered a card from moonpig (and one for both the kids too).

 

[Sinbad2000]

usb-charged handwarmers

 

[Nutty667]

Some Liz Earle products, chocolates, a new jewellery case she asked for, and a selection of Mermaid Gin miniatures.

 

[something daft already!!]

I bought my partner a new watch by Fitbit which didn't come with a charger cable. So bought that too, also some earrings and some stuff from Molten Brown. Spent well over 200 quid.

 

[pepp77]

No wife cheap life

No Wife, either, but still not cheap for me this year. Mum got a new mobile phone, sis got some beauty stuff and niece got loads of Five Nights at Freddys and Naruko? stuff.

The one that has done it for me again this year is my best mate (since 10 - so 35 years or so) and I started doing presents for each other a couple of years ago. This year as it had got out of hand we said maximum of £200 and 15 things to unwrap (yep still out of hand really lol), but the plan was to buy across the course of the year based on conversations and observations of each other (an example is I got him a Super Cobra game for the Atari 2600 as he likes retro gaming and last year got me a Super Cobra standalone game unit thing as I had one when I was a kid). I just about managed to stay within the rules, but it helped that I bought the first thing on 27th Dec last year

 

[Raymond Lin]

A handbag & chocolates.

 

[413x]

There's a diamond ring that she likes, it's £1499 so we might have to broker a deal before any purchases are made.

Hubby.. Is that you?

 

[marinersfan]

Hubby.. Is that you?

It depends, if you can be quiet for more than 30 seconds a day then yes.

 

[Orangeade]

Absolutely nothing. Zilch. Nada. The square root of **** all. Not a thing

You won't even treat your palm to some moisturising cream?