I am impossible to buy for. If I want something badly enough, I’ll get it for myself. My husband has been trying to figure out what to get me for mothers day and my birthday, which are close together. He was going to get me a quilt rack, until he saw me shopping for them. He was super annoyed that I had once again ruined my own gifts.
I directed him to a new over the shoulder clutch-size purse I’d been eyeing, and I think he got it. 
Haribo gummy bears
Those green ones…
I bought my own birthday gift over the weekend. Hubby told me to. He was afraid he would choose the wrong thing even though I gave him specifications.
My birthday is more than 2 weeks away but it’s close to Mother’s Day and I did NOT want to be shopping that week.
I think that’s very common. Once you’re married for a while and have everything, a ‘here, get yourself a treat, or I’ll get what you want’ is what most people do.
I resist this tendency. I figure for everything my spouse does for me, gifts are the one thing I need to put some actual serious effort into. They don’t get what they ‘expected’, and I don’t have them give me a list.
I tell you what, it’s a proper pain doing it. It’s not easy to find something that they’ll like that they haven’t already bought or specified that they wanted. Sometimes I get lucky and notice something in the months beforehand, sometimes I ask my daughter for help.
Last two times have been easier, got appliances despite my tendency to not get appliances. I got a smeg kettle that matches our kitchen based on a recommendation from here. And we were at my sister’s place who had a fancy electric skillet, and ours was old enough to vote so I sourced out the same model as my sister had. I guess next round I better move from appliances.
Hubby is uber picky and wants this one thing with these options. So he usually buys his own.
I’m not usually picky, and he has a good eye, so if he chose something for me I’m sure I’d love it. But it’s not super high on his radar. (It was when the kids were little because he’d get them involved.)
Not really complaining though. If I’m ever hem-hawing on a purchase for myself he says, “Buy it! Get two!” I think that’s pretty sweet.
Do you get a choice about the vehicle or driver?
Comments like this can be a real drag. Let’s do more to lyft each other up around here .
Very taxing puns
Our daughter’s boyfriend’s birthday is April 25th, the “perfect date.”
Explain yourself. 
Miss Congeniality.
My daughter’s birthday. We have fun every year.
a pot smoker who procrastinates?
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…and I just saw this quote here, too:
Yeah, that particular quote is up there with many from Princess Bride.
I enjoyed later when she was talking with Sandra Bullock’s character and said she was a female rain man and Sandra does an admirable impression of Dustin Hoffman.
You rang?
fyi, you can always just give it to police to deal with if, like me, you’d prefer not to have to deal with people.
I found a juvenile’s wallet on the side of the road one morning & called the non-emergency line. They sent a black and white to pick it up.
would rather deal with people than police.
i was working a sports tournament at a park. some kids found a purse in the woods and turned it in to me. i called police who came to collect. 2 questions in, i realized the police were more or less asking how i came to be in possession and that I was considered by them a potential thief. whereas the owner likely would have just been happy for me to have returned it.
Yeah, it’s a crapshoot. I’ve had better experiences with police than with people, but I definitely see your point. If you get some Barney Fife who’s trying a make a name for himself and just knows there’s something untoward going on, well, you’ll get an experience more like what you described.
