does he ask you?....

[bellagirl]

so being xmas eve and all my dh still! hasnt got my present!:rolleyes:
he went out this morning to get it coz i cracked a ****...
i always go out of my way to take notice during the year of things he likes so i can buy him a surprise at xmas, and he always has to ask me what i want and i never get a surprise.:no:
which made me wonder, do all men do this?:confused:

[2onthego]

My DH surprises me sometimes. I usually make it easy for him though and if I see things on sale during the year I buy them and put them aside so that when Xmas or my birthday come along he can just wrap something up that is in the cupboard. Although that said last year I did this and he still came out with a gorgeous amber pendant and bracelet.
Hope he gets you something great ;)

[kamaraj]

:yes: Surely do! I know dh and the boys got me a tree. I even had to walk through the shop and point out which one I wanted. He always asks me before birthdays and xmas. This year on my birthday it was the first surprise pressie I ever got. Only cause he went halves with Mum and Dad and they told him what to get!!!

[caz]

DF is exactly the same, "what do you want for xmas?" I end up telling him because then atleast I know i'm going to like what he gets me :thumbsup:

[FourAngelKisses]

We don't buy each other gifts and we don't expect any. Love and being together is more important to us.

[Seekrit]

We don't normally buy eachother gifts - but this year Chris has got me 2 presents under the tree and I have no clue what they are!!!!!!!!!!

[Hokey Pokey]

We don't buy each other gifts and we don't expect any. Love and being together is more important to us.

Same.... we would rather the gifts go to the girls and seeing their faces light up.

[india44]

My hubby is so excited and pleased with himself this year becasue he says I wil cry when I see the present. I said oh dont tell me that becasue if my reaction isnt hwat you want then I will feel terrible. he says he checked with mum and dad and he knows I will like it. I get more of a kick out of putting things in his xmas stocking. He is Englsih so I gather his favourite lolies etc over the year to put in there as a spurise. He also gets silly little games etc. He even bought me a xmas stocking this year and I dont know what is going in it.
You know what though after the year we have had just being together at xmas is going to be good as all the family is in the one place.

[Nickster]

We are getting each other a small present each, and yep, DH is going out in the shopping mayhem that is Christmas Eve today to buy mine!:eek:

Like angelkisses and olivia&bellasmummy, we prefer to spend our money on Libby (and DSS1 & DSS2), and see their faces light up.:D

It depends what is important to you at Christmas time. For us it's about spending time together with our families and gorging on delicious food.:thumbsup:

Oh, and can I add in reference to the OP - my mother worked many years in retail - Clarins specifically - and would without fail every year be inundated with men buying huge gift baskets for their wives on Christmas Eve as they had been too busy to think about what to really buy and were now pressed for time.

[lehma06]

My DH always asks me what I want & always leaves it right until the last minute. I think it's a man thing. The only thing he's ever surprised me with was when he proposed :)

[Tam-I-Am]

Yup, my DH does this too - and usually I can't think of a single thing that I want! But this year, I had a whole list of things I would have loved to have gotten - the problem was, I had to write the list out not once, not twice, but THREE times - because he kept losing it!!!

I was a teeny tiny bit peeved about that!

[Miaow]

My BF has something for me that I have no idea what it is even though he asked me what i wanted - He knows what his is though and has been hasstling me to let him open it lol

[bellagirl]

well i guess its just guys!:laughing:

dont worry, my daughter definatly hasnt been stinged on, she got a guitar and drum kit, chalkboard, books, elmo play house, bratz tent with sleeping bag..........

[mumslilspunks]

Well dh and i went out this morning so he could get me something i wanted. Guess what we came home with?

A Murray Cod and a fish tank............:crying:
I guess he got what he wanted.

[SilverStarfish]

Yup, its a man thing. Mine's hopeless at that it. This year I bought myself two presents while I was doing all the other Christmas shopping, gave them to him and said "As you have either been really, really quiet about my present, or you just haven't bought me anything yet. In anycase you have just bought me a book and a wireless router!"

He looked really guilty, he hadn't got me anything at all. I swear the only reason he even remembers to get me anything for my birthday is that it's the same day as his mother's!!

[1+1=5]

We don't buy each other gifts and we don't expect any. Love and being together is more important to us.
Same here....i was beginning to think we were the only ones who don't do the presents thing.

[FourAngelKisses]

Same here....i was beginning to think we were the only ones who don't do the presents thing.


So was I, lol.

[Crazy Monkey]

My DH is exactly the same... He doesn't buy presents for anyone, so if xmas shopping was left to him, no one would get anything...

Previous years, I would have to remind him for about a month, to go buy something and then he leaves it til the lasy minute and complains about all the people...

We aren't doing individual presents this year, we decided we would buy something for both of us after christmas, like a new TV or couch...

[BlessedWithBlue]

Dh and i don't usually buy each other presents for Xmas or birthdays but this year we have lol!!
We both decided we deserve a little something to open too on Xmas ;) He did ask what i wanted but I honestly couldn't think of anything and he didn't want anything in particular either but we were walking past a perfume shop in the mall and dh said he wouldn't mind a bottle of his fave scent for Chrissie so we spent a bit of time looking too and we got each other our favourite perfumes and had them wrapped and put under our Xmas tree!!

We don't usually spend any money on ourselves so it was nice to get something just for the sake of it iykwim??

[mum2bubba]

This Xmas Grant and I have decided to get each others gifts after coz we are really tight with money.
Grant never asks me what I want but then again he hardly ever gets me anything either. He usually just tells me what he thinks I need and then when we're at the shops he'll get it for me and wont even wrap it or anything. :rolleyes: I guess I shouldn't complain coz in the past I haven't got anything off him at all.

[SweetDreams]

I wrote a list, saved it on the computer, he knows where it is and he STILL asks me what I want! lol

Sorry, just a tad peeved at DH at the moment since I didn't know I had to specify please take the DRY clothes off the line when asking for the clothes to be taken off the line!! :D

[ogilberry]

mine does it every single year then he comes home in a bad mood..he knows how much he hates the shops when it is packed and he drags the 3 kiddies along so they can be part of buying mums pressie..it cracks me up i think well you brought this on yourself so dont whine at me

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[kiah]

There is nothing that i want...we buy stuff all yr round...so by the time xmas comes around we've already got want we want.

I;m just excited for the kids...:xmas:

[Xavier's Mumma]

Yep my DH is same he got me some prezzie's yesterday but i did have to ring up and organize one of them and i picked out another.
There is another one he brought home yesterday that he thought of himself so im excited that the last 2 years his learnt that i 2 would like something to open on xmas day not just him.:laughing: :laughing:

[bearsmummy]

yeah i always drop hints over the year but her never seems to listen, i always manage to take note of things he likes but he never does... i guess thats men for ya (well some) :laughing:

[BOSS302WMOM]

My DH gets in trouble if he buys me anything...I asked him to spend it on our DD's instead.

But before we had them he would surprise me and usually with exactly what I wanted.....I usually had forgotten I wanted it even....lol

[Leez]

Sounds like my DH is a bit strange in this area (in a good way!) - he always buys me surprises for Christmas and my birthday. This year his gift to me was first pressie under the tree about 2 weeks ago!

He's getting pretty confident, last year he bought me 2 pairs of shoes - fashion shoes too, not just thongs or something safe!! Unfortunately I couldn't wear them because I was 4 months pregs and my feet were that swollen I was literally barefoot and pregnant!!:laughing: