Do you shop for your spouse's gifts, wrap them, etc for them, or do they do that for themselves? I did, but I started feeling like his mother after awhile. I mean, he should do this for himself, right?
He knows all of these people better than I do, too. It's hard to shop for people you don't know well.
What's the norm? Do most wives shop for their husbands' holiday gifts?
2007-12-06 08:58:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
I used to, then, I got fed up, I told him either we buy them together or he buys them himself. We buy them together, and it's lots of fun.
2007-12-06 09:03:52 · answer #1 · answered by Lovebug123 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At first we made the list together, and I did most of the shopping and all the wrapping. But as I got to know them and realized his spending was outrageous and he couldn't be trusted I started to take on all the responsibility. I don't mind it so long as he doesn't become bitchy about what I choose as gifts.
The second to the last year we were together I had a very bad holiday season and had been sick, we were broke and I was working horrible hours, so I bought many many gift cards and put them in little stockings. He made some nasty snide comments about my choices. So the last year we were together, I didn't buy sh!t for his side of the family. For 3 weeks I had been buying and wrapping my families gift and putting them under the tree, 1 a week. Two days before Christmas he asked what I had bought everyone....nothing. I bought this for my mom, this for my brother and this for my other brother. That is all I'm doing. He had to scramble on Christmas eve to get his family stuff....guess what the majority of them got....gift cards.
2007-12-06 09:03:05 · answer #2 · answered by gypsy g 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not, will not, and flat out refuse to do my husband's Christmas shopping for him! What he usually does is try to slip in "his" shopping while we are out shopping for the kids....this way he gets it done--- because he knows I will not do it for him.
2007-12-06 09:09:19 · answer #3 · answered by Susie D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I usually do it. If you don't want to do it, you should tell him from the start. Now he is wondering why you changed all of a sudden.
2007-12-06 09:03:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do my hubbys everything. I send his mother flowers on mothers day and on her birthday or he would forget. She says she has such "a wonderful son" gag...She should be thanking me.
2007-12-06 10:12:53 · answer #5 · answered by Bride2Be 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋