Christmas Presents for The Missus

[grimer]

Hi,

My wife and I 'aren't doing gifts this year' (apparently). I suspect she'll still get me something and leave me floundering on Christmas morning.

Any suggestions for stocking filler type gifts with a total cost of less than £150 (money is a bit tight due to some medical bills). Mrs Grimer is 35, so scented talcum powder might not be too suitable.

Thanks,

Grimer

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[AleisterCrowley]

Hi,

stocking filler type gifts with a total cost of less than £150


Grimer

Crikey, £150 is some 'stocking filler'!
Boots voucher, for cosmetics, perfumes etc?
decent bottle of wine (you may get a 50% clawback)

[grimer]

Thanks for the suggestion, but her mum used to work for Boots and buys all her toiletries with her discount card.

We've got a cupboard full of wine and the current medical treatment means a temporary life of abstinence. Mrs Grimer really isn't the easiest person to buy presents for!

[AleisterCrowley]

I have enough trouble buying for my own family...
Hasn't she dropped any subtle hints?

[grimer]

Subtle hints aren't the kind of thing I pick up on. I wish she'd just give me a shopping list.

Luckily a kind lady at work has just suggested a Pandora necklace - £100 and available on the High Street. That should have enough mini wow factor for Christmas morning. I'll get her a box of Prestat Chocolates as well, if I can be bothered to venture into central London shopping hell.

[bungeejumper]

Music? Days-away experience? Something for a favourite hobby? Some recherché piece of cooking gear? (No frying pans unless you want your ears remodelled....)

Speaking of remodelling, try to resist the last-minute Ann Summers thing unless you really do know her size and taste. Easily three quarters of it gets taken back and exchanged after Xmas. Usually for something less 'adventurous', dammit.....

BJ

[Rhyd6]

My two daughters are not easy to buy for so this year I've bought them both a "Colour Me Beautiful" course. You get assessed on your colouring and advised what colours suit you. what makeup to buy etc. Friends who have been on the course have been delighted with the experience and now love going shopping with their colour charts so that they don't make expensive mistakes in chosing clothes. The course is £140 but all who have been on it have said it's definitely worth it.
As your wife has been under the weather this might just perk her up.

R6

[melonfool]

Subtle hints aren't the kind of thing I pick up on. I wish she'd just give me a shopping list.

Luckily a kind lady at work has just suggested a Pandora necklace - £100 and available on the High Street. That should have enough mini wow factor for Christmas morning. I'll get her a box of Prestat Chocolates as well, if I can be bothered to venture into central London shopping hell.

Hmmm...be careful there.

If someone bought me something worth £100 when money was tight and I had said 'no gifts' I'd be both cross and embarrassed.

Stocking fillers for me tend to be a book, a CD, a DVD, some toiletries, a notepad, a satsuma, a Terrys Chocolate orange and maybe some sort of novelty toy/puzzle.

Personally I loathe Pandora stuff though.

Mel

[UncleIan]

If money is tight, she probably is joining in with the not spending much as things are tight, my missus would be not happy if we were skint and I spent £100 on jewellry.

If your chore distribution is iniquitous, how about some hand made vouchers that she can cash in for "hoover the house", "do the washing up" etc etc.

[bungeejumper]

Personally I loathe Pandora stuff though.

I thought you weren't supposed to open the box?

BJ

[AleisterCrowley]

arf arf

[bungeejumper]

....or I've heard that the initials GHD will guarantee you unlimited sex for 2017.

Growth Hormone Deficiency? Gonadal Hyper Distension? I don't think so. You might have more luck with Ground Hog Day, I suppose.

BJ

[Leothebear]

Top of the range potato peeler. Wife loves kitchenalia. She did manage to camouflage her unbridled joy at the can opener I got her last year;o)

How about giving her the money? Three crisp new £50 notes
inside lots of wrapping paper. Women do tend to like money.

[Itsallaguess]

Top of the range potato peeler. Wife loves kitchenalia. She did manage to camouflage her unbridled joy at the can opener I got her last year;o)

This will be the first year for a while that I've not included a kitchen-related present. New territory really in terms of festive-cheer in this house.....

It's a worry, but I'm banking on the extendable-duster causing enough of a joyful-distraction that the loss of a new cooking-related gadget can be forgotten about until normal service no doubt resumes next year....

We don't discuss the rear-windscreen wiper any more.....

Itsallaguess

[UncleEbenezer]

How about giving her the money? Three crisp new £50 notes
inside lots of wrapping paper. Women do tend to like money.

Or give her honey, and plenty of money, wrapped up in a five pound note?

I'll get me coat (not to mention the boat).

[malkymoo]

Would urge caution on the Colour Me Beautiful front.

My wife went on one of these courses a few years ago Turned out that her colouring went with gold jewellery. All the nice silver things I had bought her over the years were left in the drawer in favour of some gold-coloured junk she bought from M & S. It did not go down too well when I jokingly asked her not to wear one particular piece to my work Christmas do in case people thought I had bought it for her.

Water under the bridge now, she has seen the error of her ways and home back to the silver.