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Post by vspindler on May 10, 2015 20:40:26 GMT
But he just always has issues with gift giving or trying to do something special. Like the year he tried to make me pancakes for my birthday when I was pregnant and the smell of them...well let's just say it didn't sit well with me lol. Last year Mother's Day he cooked the bacon on too high of a temp and ended up burning it. Or when he bought me a bathrobe three sizes too small. There are more but you get the point. This year he bought me a potted lilly. A dying potted lilly. He thought the leaves were maybe supposed to be partly yellow.
i am not complaining, I appreciate his efforts, but it is getting to the point where I almost feel bad for him!
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Post by padresfan619 on May 10, 2015 20:43:58 GMT
Hopefully you can nurse it back to health! Kind of rotten of whatever store to allow a dying plan to be sold, though.
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Post by mikklynn on May 10, 2015 20:50:27 GMT
I hear you. I adore my DH, but he can't come up with a gift idea unless I literally hand him the ad with the item circled. At that, I might have to draw him a map of the store! I asked for a Pandora bracelet for years, thinking it would be SO easy for him to buy beads. Jared even gift wraps. Nope. I finally bought one for myself, cut out pictures of the beads I want and pasted them on a piece of paper. Now I get the beads, everyone happy. Except, apparently that is the ONLY gift I will ever get for the rest of my life  . This year he left the card and gift bag in the bathroom for me to find. Really, the bathroom? He's the last of the romantics, LOL. This is NOT a vent...I love the guy, but some men are just not creative gift givers. |
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Post by vspindler on May 10, 2015 20:51:30 GMT
Lol Ilovebuble....you can pretty much consider me the. Dr kvorkian of dying plants. I have a brown thumb at best!
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Post by padresfan619 on May 10, 2015 20:54:25 GMT
Also I suggest you setting up an Amazon wish list. My husband is pretty good in the gift department, but sometimes he needs inspiration without directly asking me. When I browse and see something I like but wouldn't buy for myself I add it to my wish list and it is easy to just e-mail it to him. Amazon forces you to select a size before adding clothing, too, so he can't buy the wrong size either!
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Post by gar on May 10, 2015 21:09:45 GMT
I'm impressed that he hasn't given up trying - good on him  Hopefully it'll all come right soon! |
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Post by vspindler on May 10, 2015 21:13:26 GMT
He is a sweetheart and once in a while he manages to get it right. Gives him just enough motivation to keep trying |
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Post by CeeScraps on May 10, 2015 21:25:35 GMT
My dh is wonderful, but not in any way shape or form during a "holiday". He doesn't get it......I've just caved and gotten my own stuff.
I'm laid up due to surgery. My dh and dd went to brunch with my gf/her dh. I told them to go as they had to eat anyhow.
I'm suppose to be off my foot for 6-8 weeks. It's been a week. I'm going stir crazy. I haven't made it upstairs yet. My plan is to try this week. My dh will help when he is home, but he isn't due to coaching track. My dd finishes school this week so she will be around if I need her.
Holiday celebrating is NOTHING in our home unless I do it.
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 10, 2015 21:45:52 GMT
He tried, and in my book he would get brownie points for that. LOL, this morning after I got up my DH hugged me and said, "I failed." How so? Then he said, "I was going to go online to the Disney Store and buy you a Mickey shirt for Mother's Day and I forgot. So if that's what you want you can pick it out."  I told him that I would have loved that, so he was on the right track even if he didn't get around to actually doing it. At least it's better than another fishing rod! He knew I already bought myself some new girl characters for Disney Infinity to play with DD, some new T's from Duluth Trading a couple weeks ago, and I just bought a Babycakes treat maker (mini cupcakes, mini donuts and cake pops) that I've been wanting for a long time with my Kohl's cash yesterday that he didn't know about until he got home! So ha ha, I already had it covered!   Then later this afternoon we went to the greenhouse and picked out six hanging baskets and more flowering plants for the pots for our deck. He always says they are for Mother's Day, but he's the one with the green thumb in this house. It's all good. |
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on May 10, 2015 22:25:50 GMT
But he just always has issues with gift giving or trying to do something special. Like the year he tried to make me pancakes for my birthday when I was pregnant and the smell of them...well let's just say it didn't sit well with me lol. Last year Mother's Day he cooked the bacon on too high of a temp and ended up burning it. Or when he bought me a bathrobe three sizes too small. There are more but you get the point. This year he bought me a potted lilly. A dying potted lilly. He thought the leaves were maybe supposed to be partly yellow. i am not complaining, I appreciate his efforts, but it is getting to the point where I almost feel bad for him! Don't give up on your lily quite yet. I'm not sure if it's the same for flowering plants as for green plants, but the yellowing leaves on the green plants usually means TOO MUCH water. Or so said the internet to me last week. So double check the watering instructions, and give it an extra day or two (assume it was getting too much water at the store) before you would water it again. |
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Post by M on May 11, 2015 10:08:09 GMT
Your DH and mine must be related.
We did Mother's Day on Saturday with my mom. Because of logistics, me and the kids dropped him off at his work on Saturday after lunch with my mom, and then I went back to pick him up. As he got out of the car he told me we would have to stop on the way home to get a card from the kids. Um...no. Not stopping WITH you at 9 pm the dat before Mother's Day to get a card for me. Seriously? You had 2 days off this week to get the card. They sell cards WHERE YOU WORK. The kids are 16 and 18 (they do not drive), they could have thought ahead of time. The only Mother's Day card I got was from my own mother. Did not even get a text from the 2 bonus sons, despite the fact I co signed for a car (the deal fell through, but the financing was there) for one of them 2 months ago. Spent Mother's Day at home thankfully, but did laundry and had frozen pizza. Thanks for the appreciation, family!
(Didn't mean to hijack your thread, but wow did I need to get that out!)
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Post by maryland on May 11, 2015 11:01:03 GMT
I am the same way with gifts. The harder I try, the more I screw up! So frustrating. I have given up on cooking big meals and inviting friends/family over. I always screw up with what I am cooking. When the pressure is on (and no, it's not the friends family pressuring me, it's all me) I get nervous and burn something. But I have the best husband and he just loves me for trying! He says he appreciates what I do because I spend more time "trying" than he does (he is a natural good gift giver!).
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Post by tincin on May 11, 2015 12:16:09 GMT
My XH got a lot better at buying gifts after I started picking them out for myself at a local jewelry store. The owner was a friend of ours so he would tell the XH when he came in what I had chosen. After the third visit to the jeweler the XH came home and asked me if I realized what the necklace I picked out cost. My reply, "Of course not, it is a gift. Why would I look at the price tag." Suddenly he developed the ability to choose gifts.
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Hopefully it'll all come right soon!
I told him that I would have loved that, so he was on the right track even if he didn't get around to actually doing it. At least it's better than another fishing rod!
