if you do not get a gift from your spouse?
2006-11-29 05:24:16 · 8 answers · asked by SNAP! 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
My family is going through some financial strains this holiday season, so I told my husband not to buy me any gifts. He agreed. I immediately felt disappointed, and I imagined Christmas morning with no gift under the tree -- how sad I would feel. I wish I had suggested a dollar limit, even if it was just $10 or $20. I would have been quite happy with a DVD, book or a music CD. Just a little something to celebrate the love. Thanks for asking the question. It got me to own up to my true feelings. I think I'll let my husband know what they are and make my suggestion of a limit. :-)
2006-11-29 05:39:07 · answer #1 · answered by flamingochick 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It is still early you could talk to him and change your mind, go buy him something small that you know he wants, tell him you got him something, you couldnt help yourself, and he will go out and get you something too. Just be honest, it is normal to be disappointed by the prospect of not getting something from the most important person in your life on christmas day
2006-11-29 05:51:44 · answer #2 · answered by mindy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why could you desire to try this? funds? you do no longer desire to get something to your nieces and nephews? Hmm... We end changing birthday presents with our niece and nephew and our infants, yet we consistently have some thing for them to open on Christmas whilst we occasion. some years this is smaller than others, however the infants are consistently satisfied and my youngsters have relaxing choosing issues out for their little cousins. i think of in spite of if this is a few thing small, a minimum of the infants be attentive to they have been given some thing from Uncle Charley and Aunt Maggie and the cousins. although, in case you desire to insist which you're so broke that Christmas is now no longer the season of giving, you may desire to deliver it up to your sister like this: "i replace into form of thinking approximately Christmas the different day. What do you think of approximately all the present changing?" And open it up that way. the different element you may desire to do is take the concentration off presents and take all the infants out someplace relaxing on an afternoon in early January or throughout Christmas holiday and characteristic that be their Christmas present between the aunts and uncles. I shop hoping to handle to pay for passes to our interior sight amusement park and this super steamboat that is going on the lake to have a summer season holiday with our niece and nephew and my husband's brother and his spouse -- fantastically if we are able to do it with out my different sister in regulation and the grandparents horning in.
2016-12-29 16:13:24 · answer #3 · answered by schneir 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You shouldn't say you don't want to exchange gifts, perhaps say you will purchase what you want for yourself. Why would you still expect something if you specifically said you didn't want something? You should not expect them to purchase a gift or be disappointed because that is what you requested.
2006-11-29 05:33:33 · answer #4 · answered by nanny4hap 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
my girlfriend told me not to get her anything for easter one year and so i didn't like instructed and agreed upon. Well come easter she had something for me and of course i had nothing for her, she cried and was dissapointed and couldnt figure out why till she told me last week she still wanted something despite telling me we shouldnt do gifts....the moral of the story, be upfront about what you really want.
2006-11-29 06:15:48 · answer #5 · answered by Steveo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would feel terrible if I didn't get him anything, but I really don't want anything except my family together for the holidays.
2006-11-29 15:34:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't mess with his mind and my feelings like that. I don't want to exchange Christmas presents and if I'd want to, I'd simply tell him. I don't like it myself when people say one thing and mean another, so I don't do that myself.
2006-11-29 07:00:30 · answer #7 · answered by undir 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
weve did that before...........then we always buy anyway, even if its just a little something!
2006-11-29 06:44:01 · answer #8 · answered by supermomma 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋