I'm posting this link here because every guy that has to buy a gift for a wife or girlfriend needs to see this before he makes a bad purchase. http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1370868150/bctid3130509001
Now that is funny. I've got to tell you guys something. Last year for Christmas my husband got me a hardfloor steam cleaner. It's sort of a vacumn cleaner for tile and wood floors. Did he end up in the dog house? Nope. I actually wanted that steam cleaner and was very happy to get one.
oh great, no pressure at all now! I'm still trying what to get my girlfriend for Christmas. I got her a $400 watch for her birthday (I know, extremely stupid). Now I have to slowly bring down the caliber down to gift cards. Won't be easy.
My wife ASKED me to get her a vacuum cleaner this year. Hell no. I'm not falling for that. Maybe she really thinks she wants one, but she'll still stab me in the face if I get it. I could be wrong, maybe I'm just gun-shy. It's just reflex, they can't help it. Out comes the vacuum cleaner and next thing she's telling cops she doesn't remember anything, it all went black, and you've got a fork in your eye. No way. But now what? She specifically told me what she wanted. If I get her anything else I have Disobeyed. So the answer is to get her the vacuum cleaner before Christmas. Well before. And it's "our" vacuum cleaner, not hers, even though I'll rarely ever touch it if I'm lucky.
If she wants a vacumn cleaner for Christmas and specifically asked for one then get her one. Just be absolutely sure that is what she wants. Ask her to help you pick one out. Sit her down with you and go on the interent and compare different kinds, different prices and different stores to find just the right one. If you get her to do this with you it will show that you are seriously wanting to get her what she wants. It will give her plenty of chances to back out of the idea if she changes her mind and no excuse later to say that she did'nt want one after all.
Well said, JD. I was lucky this year. She picked out what she wanted and was with me when we bought it. It's a big old chandolier that she loved at the Habitat for Humanity store.
Well I'm only 29, and will have been married only six years in January. But they've been six long years.
Holy crap, you got me soooo scared i don't know what to do now. For God sakes I DO NOT WANT TO END UP THERE, I AM THAT SCARED. Did you see that guy had hair when he went in, what the hell am i gonna do.........help! To think i was gonna get my wife an 8'' rear end and then tell her " No it doesn't look to big".
Here's the problem. There is no manual for us to read and men are vindictive. What do I mean by that? Men function like this. If we go through an awful initiation, do we say to ourselves, "I need to warn the next guy." No. We say, "I can't wait till next year when I get to give it so some poor sucker." If we learn something the hard way, we like to see the next guy to learn it that way, too...and laugh. Women don't do that. They pass info along to the next gal. True personal story. For a whole year, I heard nothing from my wife except that she needed to exercise. We looked at exercise equipment and gym memberships that year. We didn't do anything. Our anniversary was coming up, so I thought I would surprise her with an exercise slant board. That was our first anniversary in 1983. I still hear about it about once per year. Mostly I hear it when she is telling a new friend the story. I will never, ever live that one down. It was as bad as forgetting the anniversary.
You're right, Hawkco. Mankind as a whole does not share enough of this type of information. "Relationship" information, if you will. Women have Oprah, Dr. Phil, (whom I would love to meet on a dark street corner one day) Lifetime, WE, Oxygen... And YES, we have some Man Channels, but we waste them all on sports. We really need to be helping each other out. Here's more advice then... For those of you planning to get married. Well, no, more specifically I mean planning a wedding... When she asks you something like, what you think the colors of the bridesmaids' hair accessories should be and whether it would be tacky if they aren't the same shade of lilac as their bouquets... Never... Ever... Say "I don't care." I know you don't, and deep down she knows it too, but this is one time when you should lie. There is no wrong answer except the truth. Don't even think about the question when you answer - she already knows the answer, and this is a test. Listen to her tone and body language, and just agree with whatever she's not quite saying. If you can master that skill, there is hope. But "I don't care" will get you killed.
So that's why I relate to men better than I do other woman. I can't stand Oprah, Dr. Phil ( IMHO ) is the biggest quack to waddle down the street since the days of snake oil peddlers and the other networks I never watch. I'd rather have a root canal than waste my time watching soap operas. Give me SPIKE TV, The Speed Channel, The Outdoor Channel, Sci-Fi, and the Discovery Channel and I'm happy.
