What X-Mas Gifts do you purchase for Your Spouse....

i_am_the_koi

i_am_the_koi

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Table Saw

Maybe a bicycle if I can find a good used one.

Motorcycle gear so she can ride with me.

Trying to buy a house right now so her main want for her birthday (24th) and xmas is a house...
 
gixxerjeff

gixxerjeff

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i_am_the_koi said:
Motorcycle gear so she can ride with me.

Trying to buy a house right now so her main want for her birthday (24th) and xmas is a house...
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This^^
We just bought a house last month and then the Glass Fire burned part of our back yard.
I think she is getting a back fence for Christmas. :laughing
 
dravnx

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lefty said:
WOW!!!! I would love to do that as well. One thing that I find odd, is that my Wife Loves to watch me fish???????

We backpack into lakes and I fish all day. I bought her a float tube, but she hates the idea of 'hooking' a fish.

I love watching the YT vids of guys fishing from their Kayaks. Do you use paddles or peddles?
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We used to have a couple of Hobie sit on top paddles. Did a lot of fishing in Baja and up and down the Sonoma coast with those. Launching out of Ft. Ross is my most productive spot. There are some nice rock piles to pull rock fish. My 'yak had a fishfinder so it was almost cheating. You see the rock piles and fish, drop on top of them and pull up Lings, Blacks, Blues, Canarys. We sold those and bought a couple of 17' sea kayaks that I haven't gotten around to setting up for fishing yet.
 
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What a great husband you are, lefty


You're the only one who can answer what's the perfect gift for your wife. You notice what she likes? Don't want to accumulate stuff? You notice what experiences she enjoys. Go make it happen! :thumbup


It's not how to spend your money to make her happy, it's about how much you notice and understand her to make her feel appreciated and content :)
 
msethhunter

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I don't have a spouse. The women here in SoCal at my age are mostly gold diggers. I'll spend it on my kids. Both of their lists keep getting longer and longer as they get older.
 
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Eldritch said:
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It could be... that it's already been done, but Lefty is too much a gentleman to share details. In which case, thank you, Lefty, for being discrete, or not. Not my business. Don't need to know.

Got my wife an e-bike. She hates it. Only has a bit over 4,500ish miles on it in just over a year. :laughing I've fixed all her flats, tires, brake pads, speed sensor, and loose spokes. I've kept it clean and adjusted for her, so it's always ready. This is the one thing she really enjoys, so I stay ahead of it for her. :thumbup
 
mrmarklin

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I always get her something stupidly expensive. She likes it, mostly. Even though she has no place to put anything she still likes stuff. She’s a bit of a pack rat.:rolleyes
 
NorCalAthlete

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TylerW said:
Stop buying things, treat her to experiences.

It's been a stressful year - get her a spa day with a 2 hour massage. Get her a certificate for a glassblowing class at the Crucible.

I don't know what she likes, but you surely do. Stop filling your lives with clutter and treat her to something fun and unexpected, hopefully rewarding.
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AwakeNAlive said:
What a great husband you are, lefty


You're the only one who can answer what's the perfect gift for your wife. You notice what she likes? Don't want to accumulate stuff? You notice what experiences she enjoys. Go make it happen! :thumbup


It's not how to spend your money to make her happy, it's about how much you notice and understand her to make her feel appreciated and content :)
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These. Price and whatnot doesn’t matter as much as the experience shared or the story behind the gift and how you got it / made it / went about planning and setting up the experience for them. I have a few friends of the “have everything and can get whatever they want, whenever” variety (though not a spouse). They’re kind and generous and think nothing of treating others to experiences in the interest of “what’s the point of having all this if we can’t share it with friends? Get your ass over here and don’t you DARE try to give us anything back this is OUR party and the only thing we need from you is a smile.”

So naturally, because it’s the way I was raised, I couldn’t let this go without at least a small token of appreciation. It cost me about $80 but took 3 months to setup, and I had a great story behind obtaining the gift. It was a memorialization of a shared moment from an event a mutual friend treated me to but that we were all present for, gifted unexpectedly, and she broke down in tears a bit.

Get her something she couldn’t find on amazon, presented in a way she wouldn’t see coming, based around a shared memory or experience, and you won’t go wrong.
 
lefty

lefty

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WOW!!!!!

So many beautiful posts!!!

AwakenAlive- You are too kind. I will follow your advice.

NorCalAthlete- That was beautiful. I will follow your advice as well. (She's going to get nervous when she see's me taking photo's of her 24/7 for the next few weeks.)
 
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mrmarklin said:
I always get her something stupidly expensive. She likes it, mostly. Even though she has no place to put anything she still likes stuff. She’s a bit of a pack rat.:rolleyes
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Y tho? Is it just expensive for the sake of it being expensive? Seems ridic if it's not something she actually wants or needs.
 
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