Random Irritations

[Lord Tyrion]

Wow, you've had a lucky escape.
Buying your wife a mundane everyday appliance like a hairdryer as a present is asking for trouble.

(My wife tells me the story of when her dad bought her mum a vacuum cleaner for her birthday. It didn't go down well).

It's not an iron or a vacuum cleaner . She would have been happy with that, uses one every day, along with a few smaller add ons. Neither of us need 'stuff' any more and so we avoid buying tat for the sake of it. We have gone down the route of events and the like recently but this would have been an easy option.

 

[GB72]

Wow, you've had a lucky escape.
Buying your wife a mundane everyday appliance like a hairdryer as a present is asking for trouble.

(My wife tells me the story of when her dad bought her mum a vacuum cleaner for her birthday. It didn't go down well).

The price that they charged for the last hairdryer I bought my wife, it is a damn good and not cheap present. Sadly she does not go for the bog standard £30-£40 ones. Best part of £200 for the shark one she wanted with all of the attachments.

 

[RichA]

It's my wife's birthday in a month, always a struggle for a key present. Her hairdryer is coming to the end of its life so I had that nailed down. This morning it gave up the ghost, she has ordered one for delivery tomorrow .

I hate buying presents, not the actual buying, the coming up with ideas (yes, I've done afternoon teas, pamper days etc to death)

Keep a "Presents" note on your phone and record any time during the year that something occurs to you or is mentioned. I've been doing it for a few years now and the system works.
Every birthday and christmas, words like thoughtful and mind-reader get bandied about. I'm really not. I just hate having to think about buying presents.

 

[Neilds]

Keep a "Presents" note on your phone and record any time during the year that something occurs to you or is mentioned. I've been doing it for a few years now and the system works.
Every birthday and christmas, words like thoughtful and mind-reader get bandied about. I'm really not. I just hate having to think about buying presents.

But surely this means listening for a whole year..........................

 

[RichA]

But surely this means listening for a whole year..........................

If I actually listened the list would probably be much longer. Once you have a couple of items listed you can switch off for the rest of the year.

 

[arnieboy]

My wife's birthday is just before Christmas so I have double trouble when it comes to buying presents!

 

[Alan Clifford]

It's my wife's birthday in a month, always a struggle for a key present. Her hairdryer is coming to the end of its life so I had that nailed down. This morning it gave up the ghost, she has ordered one for delivery tomorrow .

I hate buying presents, not the actual buying, the coming up with ideas (yes, I've done afternoon teas, pamper days etc to death)

A new fairway wood?

edit: I see someone beat me to this type of suggestion.

 

[venger]

Just had a series of panicked messages from my other half saying that she had lost her car or it had been stolen. She had completely forgotten that her car was in for an mot and she had a courtesy car

 

[Imurg]

Just had a series of panicked messages from my other half saying that she had lost her car or it had been stolen. She had completely forgotten that her car was in for an mot and she had a courtesy car

I had this in a Tesco car park years ago.
Mine was in for service and I had the Mrs car...wandered up and down looking for mine and getting quite wound up about it
Someone asked if I was ok and I explained...and then realised I was standing right next to it......
Where's the sink hole when you need one....?

 

[ColchesterFC]

Wow, you've had a lucky escape.
Buying your wife a mundane everyday appliance like a hairdryer as a present is asking for trouble.

(My wife tells me the story of when her dad bought her mum a vacuum cleaner for her birthday. It didn't go down well).

I bought Mrs Colch an iron for Valentine's Day a few years ago. In my defence it was purple which is her favourite colour and she'd been moaning about the old iron so got her a new one.

 

[chellie]

It's my wife's birthday in a month, always a struggle for a key present. Her hairdryer is coming to the end of its life so I had that nailed down. This morning it gave up the ghost, she has ordered one for delivery tomorrow .

I hate buying presents, not the actual buying, the coming up with ideas (yes, I've done afternoon teas, pamper days etc to death)

How about a voucher so she can choose what she wants. If she likes handbags get her to look at https://uk.coach.com/shop/outlet/outlet-deals

 

[Bunkermagnet]

How about a voucher so she can choose what she wants. If she likes handbags get her to look at https://uk.coach.com/shop/outlet/outlet-deals

Excuse me, but can we not encourage our wives to not buy more handbags please.
If they are like my wife, she has more handbags than I have golf clubs, and thats not sets but individual clubs.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Excuse me, but can we not encourage our wives to not buy more handbags please.
If they are like my wife, she has more handbags than I have golf clubs, and thats not sets but individual clubs.

I just asked Mrs V how long she has had her handbag. She replied, "Must be about 25-30 years. I have two smaller ones, but they are older."
What a gem?

 

[Hobbit]

Excuse me, but can we not encourage our wives to not buy more handbags please.
If they are like my wife, she has more handbags than I have golf clubs, and thats not sets but individual clubs.

I just asked Mrs V how long she has had her handbag. She replied, "Must be about 25-30 years. I have two smaller ones, but they are older."
What a gem?

Mrs H’s wardrobe is more akin to BM’s wife’s wardrobe than Mrs V’s. Mrs H threw out a couple of hand bags a few weeks back. I asked her how many she still had…. “18.”

Thankfully, most of them are from various market stalls or lucky-lucky men around Europe. There’s, probably, half a doz leather ones from our visits to Italy, which come at a price but last years. However, pretty much all of them are about the size of a supertanker.

 

[nickjdavis]

Excuse me, but can we not encourage our wives to not buy more handbags please.
If they are like my wife, she has more handbags than I have golf clubs, and thats not sets but individual clubs.

Luckily my wife doesnt buy many handbags...instead she designs the bloody things, and writes and sells the patterns so that other women can make said handbags.

We've got a cellar...does it contain Beer? No. Wine? No.

Its full of old handbag projects, completed bags, half completed bags, framed certificates from when she won some national Bagmaker of the Year award (to be fair....more than I've won at golf in the same period), bolts and bolts of faux leather, harris tweed, and other materials, limited edition specialist fabric designs, spare sewing and embroidery machines - I darent ask how many machines she's got in total, but if I walk into her sewing room I can count six simply from the doorway...and another three vintage hand cranked machines...plus whatever might be squirreled away in the cellar. You wouldnt know what colour her sewing room walls are because it seems that the best way to use Victorian picture and dado rails, is to hang completed handbags from them.

She has had to put notes on all the fabrics so that, in the event of her passing, I dont throw away all of the limited edition fabric prints that she wont actually tell me how much they're worth, or indeed what she paid for them!!

Nah...you guys who's wife buys the odd handbag here and there...youve got it easy!!!

 

[Slime]

I just asked Mrs V how long she has had her handbag. She replied, "Must be about 25-30 years. I have two smaller ones, but they are older."
What a gem?

Until you realise she has 250 pairs of shoes hidden away!

 

[venger]

I had this in a Tesco car park years ago.
Mine was in for service and I had the Mrs car...wandered up and down looking for mine and getting quite wound up about it
Someone asked if I was ok and I explained...and then realised I was standing right next to it......
Where's the sink hole when you need one....?

Been there, done that brought the t-shirt, especially just after getting a new car

 

[jim8flog]

I bought Mrs Colch an iron for Valentine's Day a few years ago. In my defence it was purple which is her favourite colour and she'd been moaning about the old iron so got her a new one.

What number? Does she get a different one every year to build up the set

 

[ColchesterFC]

What number? Does she get a different one every year to build up the set

She's definitely not a golfer, but having said that if you saw me play you'd say I'm not a golfer either. She did try it once but decided that it wasn't a game for her as she "couldn't work out whether my arms have to go over or under my boobs when I'm taking a shot".

 

[Voyager EMH]

Until you realise she has 250 pairs of shoes hidden away!

I think I own more shoes than her.
Its the 4 pairs of golf shoes that probably put me just in front.
I'm thinking about spending some of my pro-shop credit on some new shoes for the summer.
Mrs V moans about how many "truly dreadful" shoes there are in the shops and rarely can she find any that appeal to her.