re: SO not getting you anything for Christmas but expecting stuf

Quoting [JadeLee]:" Those are great ideas. I just find it so hard not to buy things that make me think of SO, like some ... [snip!] ... got him a calendar, and I got him a hitch for his pickup. I wouldn't go off and spend hundreds on him ever. I spent like $80."

Well, he's got one that's too big for a stocking, and that's his NERF disk gun. I married a big kid.

I got him a couple Old Spice shower products, some Tim McGraw cologne, the Zumba pants he wanted...And then two tickets for the Edmonton Motorcycle Expo...I even hired a sitter for the day, so it's just the two of us. He's gonna go nuts about that one. A package of chocolates, and then an armband that holds his iPhone while he's running. That's his stocking this year.

Quoting Blue Song:" Well, he's got one that's too big for a stocking, and that's his NERF disk gun. I married a big kid. ... [snip!] ... that one. A package of chocolates, and then an armband that holds his iPhone while he's running. That's his stocking this year."

My SO has got the special edition comic thing he really wanted and the picture I am drawing him and some stupidly expensive chocolate that he used to get as a kid in Wales.

I am getting nothing. I am not getting a cuppa in the morning, I am not getting anything except the glory of making him breakfast and watching him open his presents then chasing after the kids all day and getting no rest whatsoever because he is too busy reading his comic and being on the computer or drinking.

Quoting LumpySpacePrincess:" My SO has got the special edition comic thing he really wanted and the picture I am drawing him and ... [snip!] ... the kids all day and getting no rest whatsoever because he is too busy reading his comic and being on the computer or drinking."

That sucks! I wouldn't even get him that...just the picture is enough if he's not getting you anything.

The only problem I have with my husband when it comes to Christmas is not getting me beyond what limits I put on him...We used to go by budget, but he'd always go way over budget, so I put a limit to how much he can actually get me.

Have you thought of telling him how sad it makes you that he's not going to put any thought into getting you something this year?

Quoting Blue Song:" That sucks! I wouldn't even get him that...just the picture is enough if he's not getting you anything. ... [snip!] ... you thought of telling him how sad it makes you that he's not going to put any thought into getting you something this year?"

Yeah I have and he turns it around to make me feel guilty for saying that he says how much he loves me and how he wants to get me something he just doesn't have the money and I bought myself a new camera so why should I want anything else?

Then goes out and buys himself more comics and lunch and snack foods   He's a good guy he just really doesn't think KWIM?

I got my husband skyrim. He loves that game and since we live in different states atm its a good way for him to pass the time. It should arrive at our house by Monday. Idk what he got me but I know he got me something.

If i bought myself a gift I saved for, and my SO decided that was my gift, then I sure as smurf would not be buying him smurf.