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Originally Posted by Hitch
It's right up there with getting a vacuum for your first Xmas gift from your (then-new) Hubby. My fist Xmas with my ex, I was at that moment forced to acknowledge that a man who would buy me a VACUUM for my first Xmas with him was probably not the man of mah dreams. (sigh).
Hitch
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The biggest fight between my parents that I can recall was a fight over a Christmas present. It wasn't, obviously, their first Xmas together, but the trouble is that my mother paid the credit card bills. And she had seen a charge for around $500 that SHE hadn't made and was hopeful for something nice for Christmas.
Now, my dad was kind of clueless about things that she might REALLY like and had bought, for $500 mind you, one of, if not the first, cordless phones. Which sounds great, until you realize that back then a cordless phone was *not* what we think of as a MOBILE unit.
It was a
Rovafone.
http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/f...p?topic=8379.0
My mother had been hoping for a lovely piece of JEWELRY.
She was realistic about her prospects of that, but the fact it was a phone, which she had
no particular need for and the
high cost of said phone, sent her totally off! It did NOT help that when she asked what she would use such a thing for, my dad suggested that she could take it out back to the laundry room (attached behind the garage) and be able to answer calls there while doing laundry.
Honestly, she'd probably have preferred a nice vacuum to that dang phone. Which sat around more or less unused.
It may run in the family. My brother once gave me a fluorescent light bulb for Christmas. And, to top that, he gave my anti-gun sister a pistol and made her cry, NOT with joy....
His idea of Christmas shopping was to run through Walmart on Christmas Eve and see what was left on the shelves. His wife now does his shopping for him.
My husband is also clueless and only rarely has come up with a nice surprise gift. I'm a realist and it's best just to drop strong hints as to what I might actually could enjoy and use.