I just want to know....Does anybody else have a husband that you tell not to get you anything for your anniversary...and they say aww come on what do you want???? They do this so much so you tell them exactly to the T what you want (or would like) and they even go as far as asking where to get the darn thing..just to turn around and get something not even remotely what you said.....I mean....like from kitchen store to lumber yard different??!!!??? I am so frustrated with my husband right now I could explode...I always tell him not to get me anything...that I would just like to go out to a movie and dinner without the kids...thats it...thats all I want....but instead he insists...but he NEVER gets me s*^^ I would even use...Please tell me my husband isn't the only one with bad taste and timing!!!

Sorry about the rant
Christi

OMG what an issue! My hubby likes to buy gifts and I'm not comfortable receiving gifts. The first year we were just dating, he asked about my birthday. Now understand that growing up birthdays were not a big deal. We got our favorite dinner, a cake and $10 in a card. And we loved it! So they've never been a big, blown up deal for me. We were just dating and I told him to get me nothing. He hands me this gift and says, "I know you said not to get you anything but I can't not buy something for a birthday." Ok, so that means it bought it to make HIM feel better with no regard for my feelings. Plus it was an ugly watch .... gold face with gold hands so I couldn't ever tell what time it was, and it was a "girly" watch (I HATE girly watches!) and it had no second hand (I HATE watches without a second hand!). Plus a watch or perfume is the gift you get a girl when you've no idea what to get her..... "...so I'll just get her SOMETHING".

Hubby is the type that says it's ok to return it then he pouts and gets his feelings hurt because I return it and get something else.

The year he convinced me to to the christmas list thing..... after opening the gifts, he made some comment about "wasn't the list a good idea?" I said, 'It sure was! Next year I don't have to make a new list.... you can use the one I gave you this year since you didn't buy anything that was on the list!" Then he complains because I'm hard to buy for. I GAVE HIM A FREAKIN' LIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's bad at buying gifts. He bought me a hurricane lamp to put on the fireplace mantle. I don't like hurricane lamps. *HE* likes hurricane lamps.

I used to collect miniatures and we saw a printer's type-set drawer at an antique mall that would be wonderful to hang on the wall to display my miniatures. He hinted that he got me something I had been eye-balling at the antique mall. Turns out it was an antique spice rack. I never remember even SEEING this spice rack at the mall, let alone swooning all over it like he claims!

He's gotten much better over the years. But he can't get it thru his head that he doesn't have to buy me "STUFF" for special events. I don't measure his love by what he buys me.

It took me a couple of years to get him trained NOT to get me anything for Valentine's Day!

and this is why they invented store gift cards -- my only gift of choice --- unless you're standing right beside me taking it off the shelf and putting into my hands will saying "buy this"

Doug,I tried that once. He STILL bought the wrong one!

But he's still a keeper!!

We decided when we got married that instead of anniversary presents we would go away for a weekend or a night or two and that would be our present to each other. We usually stay somewhere a bit nicer or fancier than we usually would and go out to dinner. This works really well for us saves the hassle of having to think of a good gift idea and nobody can forget because we sit down and choose the place and book it together.

This years is already booked

LOL, my husband buys me the ugliest jewelry. I end up taking it back and picking out something I like. So, after the first 10 years of this, he stopped buying me jewelry. Haha!

Now he buys me anything with butterflies or hummingbirds on it, and I love, love, love everything he's chosen.

We do play the "let's not exchange gifts this [anniversary, Christmas, etc]" game but end up buying each other gifts anyway. Sometimes I will hand him a Bed, Bath, and Beyond coupon and say, "I really would love a Cucumber and Canteloupe Housewarmer candle." He'll get what I want but will get something on his own, too.

I think I'll keep him.

This is so funny! Well I was always curious about gifts that my hubby bought....and Why he bought them! But the gifts I always had that look of"what were you thinking" are the gifts that make me giggle! Always logic to them!

Think of what they were thinking when they bought it! There is some logic to it that will make you giggle!

My husband usually gets me some kind of cake baking item if he doesn't know what to get me. I have to say that he's gotten alot better at gifting though. When we were dating, he wanted to know what I wanted for christmas. Well, I didn't really have anything in mind so told him, "just get something for a girl" hoping he'd get me like perfume or jewelry or flowers...something romantic. What did he get me? A doll! lol. I didn't mean literally for a girl hehe

Well, last christmas, he got me a mothers' ring and I love it. I've wanted one for quite some time now but we'd been in a bad financial situation until last year so didn't hint at it until more recently.

For our anniversary, we like to go to the casino and have fun at the slots. It's something we both like to do and it's all in good fun. He does usually get me roses as close as possible to the ones in our wedding

My husband buys stuff, when he sees something he likes, generally he has very good taste. But if he doesn't see anything, it's dinner. This year xmas and bday, he gave me nothing, although i had hinted with a website, that I wanted a new mixer, a nice big powerful one. Even wrote down EXACTLY with attchment, spare bowl and everything. Well he was trained by his mum NEVER to give a any useful household appliance to his wife. My 10yr old daughter was even mad at her father, that he didnt have a gift, only dinner. But 3 days after my bday, my new Bosch mixer arrived in China. He had arranged it with a friend to get it thru customs, but NOT let it arrive on my bday, as it is a kitchen appliance. Go figure. Definately keeping him though

I suppose his mum was burnt, she only ever got useful stuff, or at least what my father in law thought was useful if she got anything, and very seldom what she really wanted. So I suppose she just wanted to make her sons a little more thoughtful. But I really cant complain, usually my husband gets me what I want, just a couple of days later, grin