If Christmas shopping was left to the man of your house,what would happen?

Question

Not very much in mine.... pizza for lunch and maybe - if lucky - a cracker!!

Answer 1

every ones gift would be from the petrol station!!
bags of coal & bad flowers all round !

Answer 2

Ask my wife -- her gifts are wrapped and under the tree the day after the tree goes up, and she always gets something that she asks for or something that she notices during the year and says "Hey, I like that" or jewelry -- can't go wrong with jewelry. Shopping for everyone else is finished by December 1st (and I do at least half of it) and I do the big grocery shopping trips for Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas dinner. The man in your house is quickly becoming the exception to the rule -- guys all over are proving that we are every bit as good as women when it comes to handling the holidays (even better than women in many cases).

Answer 3

My husband would do just fine I think...some of the gifts might be a bit "wacko" but he does just about everything for his family, with love and sincerety so we'd all know the thought was there...somewhere :)

The meal would probably be excellent, he's a pretty awesome cook and isn't afraid to add a bit of this and pinch of that which surprisingly creates a whole new slant on a dish that ends up tasting pretty darned good. Guess he has his moms talent there.

Overall, I think it would be an enjoyable if not unique experience.

Answer 4

My god! You lot are such a bunch of ninnying sissies!

If my wife left me to do everything there would be several things to change:

1) Everyone would get presents that I think they'd like, not what I'd been told to buy.

2) Turkey would be out, Gammon joint and Sirloin steak would be in - turkey is such a bland dish!

3) All phones would be put firmy in the bin and ALL family members would be present for the dinner.

4) The TV remains OFF for the entirety of the day!

5) Board games will be played until we are bored, and very drunk

6) Little neices will be allowed bucks fizz without being moaned at.

7) The wife would be kicked out for leaving it to me, as I don't leave her to do it!

Answer 5

Well, in regards to the food portion of the day - We'd be eating macaroni and cheese and hot dogs. But of course he wouldn't have thought to get buns, so it would be dogs on bread.

In regards to the gifts, he would wait til the very last minute and then would blame the stores that he couldn't find what he wanted. He would get the best thing he could grab off the shelves, probably from Meijer. Nothing would be on sale.

I would probably get a bottle of laundry detergent, my kids would get a toy they already have, and our dogs would have a million bones and new beds and new collars and new leashes and bags of dog treats and dog food and new dishes and new blankets and new toys. Ever since I started Christmas shopping he's saying things to me like "hey look honey dog beds are on sale". I have to remind him "hey look honey, christmas shopping first - they have beds!"

Answer 6

Baked beans on toast for dinner, and that would be with two burnt pans and 3 attempts at toast. I wouldn't have a kitchen to go back to as he would have burnt it down. No tree, although maybe a sprig of something green out of the hedge. A tin of baked beans (badly) wrapped up in newspaper under the sprig of green.
In fairness though, I would probably get a cup of tea in bed in the morning.

Answer 7

Well my husbands pretty good! We'll have a great time. He loves cooking and food, he worked in the catering business for almost 10 years. He would buy funny and playfull gifts, aswell as the special ones for me. It would just be great!!! I'm a very lucky lady!

Answer 8

Actually, we'd get pretty good stuff.

I have to be careful, tho, NOT to admire something that someone else had. Last summer, I admired a fire pit that was on wheels at the neighbor's. Just idle chatter, as far as I was concerned. Several months later, for our anniversary he bought me a fire pit on wheels. Never mind that I had a perfectly nice pit made of brick in the back yard.

Another time, a small child that we know received a keyboard at his birthday party, and didn't like it much. I was encouraging him to look it over, see the rhythms it had. I said "I wish I had one of these.".. Eleven months later, for my birthday, I got one. I had no use for it whatsoever. Gave it to my son.

Answer 9

Actually, my husband is a good shopper. He buys nice presents for everyone. However, not a single package would have a bow or a gift tag on it. We would probably end up giving my brother's gift of "super hot sauces of the world" to my 88 year old Grandmother!

Answer 10

He's very creative, but things might get just a little too expensive--he likes to shower people with gifts. He wants to get an egg cooker ($50) for a boss he only works for a few weekends a year, and we have a $120 limit on each other (my decision, not his). Also, he's always threatening to get a little TOO creative, like a rubber snake for my mother, who's terrified of snakes. He got a set of drumsticks which make noise when they hit anything for his nephew (he hated his ex-sister-in-law), you name it.

Answer 11

Shopping would take place on Christmas eve at the local Walmart. One year, I got a fire extinguisher. And no, I'm not kidding. It wasn't even wrapped. "Honey, I love you so much I never want you to burn to death in a fire. Merry Christmas!" Needless to say, we are not together anymore.