Best and worst gifts

[MouseWife]

I wasn't hinting around....

Dude. You see, you are the person I would love to have on my list. While I love to give gifts, I am very practical and if someone doesn't need something, I don't want to buy them anything. And, I would like that they understand this and forego all of the 'hurt feelings'.

The only frivolous gifts we gave were to the very young. Silly stuff that their mom wouldn't buy. I'd have bought them clothes but I didn't know their sizes.

My husband, isn't this way. I thought we'd agreed to keep it simple, just buy for the kids and a few family members.

He bought me some nice things. Damnit.

He was shocked when I bought him a birthday card this year. He said I hadn't bought him a card in years. I said I hadn't found one I liked.

B & N. I just bought their membership....Was going to give gift cards but luckily they had the books the kids wanted. After all I spent on them, I wasn't about to give them cards on top of it. They can use my discount. That's a gift, right? {editing to add this~ you seem to like reading, i.e., books. What a nice rainy day thing to do to browse around the store, like a library, but, you get to take home what you want to keep. This is shopping but it also could be just a fun thing...really...}

The concept of God/loving to shop. A good day at the mall with friends can be heavenly bliss.