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We have just had an interesting conversation in the DAD offices. Which has prompted this question:
How much pressure do you feel under to find the perfect xmas present for you partner/wife? and if you do feel pressure why?
Gooner 👿
I always get my wife the perfect present because she tells me what she'd like - I know it's not a surprise, but at least it's what she wants 🙂
heres a link to a fantastic website for anyone that's struggling to find that perfect gift! The personalised jewellery is gorgeous.....
www.notonthehighstreet.com
I'm very lucky in that my wife is very easy to buy for, so I don't normally have an issue.
Things like handbags, sunglasses, Parfumes and then smaller token gifts are always well recieved.
I'm the one that's difficult to buy for though LOL
GTTS
We were having a discussion about this at work, and generally it was pretty well split between the men and the women - the women love the whole idea of xmas, shopping decorations etc. The men wish it would just go away (except for the kids bit of it, which we all agreed was what it should be). I am fairly typical, and I'm at the stage of, if there's something I want or need, I will buy it for myself, or, worse, because Christmas is vaguely on the horizon, if there's something I want/need, I'll have to go without buying it just so someone else can get it for me in 3 months time!, plus there's the stuff I'll get that sits in a cupboard for years before finally giving it to a charity shop.
Bah humbug 😡
I've bought mine a book! Ah but no ordinary book....he's an antique dealer and he has been longing for a book about a lady called Daisy Makig Jones and the history of her pieces. She worked for the wedgewood factory and was the designer and maker of the famous wedgewood fairyland lustre range, produced in the early 1900s. The book was written by Una des Fontaines and is extremely rare but I've managed to get hold of one!....it cost me £200 and he will love it!
I must buck the trend here actd....I'm one woman that wishes it would go away....or better I wish I could go away but my kids would be devastated if I were to do that....bah humbug!
Interesting survey on money savings expert - apparently 54% of men and 44% of women would rather cancel Christmas. 😀
I seem to do the wrong thing whenever I buy a present. For example, on her last birthday I got her a watch. It has the autumn colors she's found of wearing and has a fairly simple face for easy quick-checks-of-time that she mentioned she liked but that was deemed too practical! Before that I bought her a nice expensive pen that had a band of tortoise shell around its middle - another style she's keen on. She'd just landed herself a job as a primary school teacher so I thought it might serve her well. Unfortunately that was "too practical" also and so became another bit of flotsam in the junk drawer. 🙁
Now I just ask her what she wants so I don't get it wrong.
I always get my wife the perfect present because she tells me what she'd like - I know it's not a surprise, but at least it's what she wants 🙂
Same hahahaha