Monday, 09 July 2012
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Anniversary Gift-Giving
With our anniversary right around the corner, I'm realizing that all couples are fairly different in their gift-giving styles. My parents keep birthday gifts and Hanukkah gifts a surprise, but now that they've been married for 33 years they often do anniversaries differently. Instead of buying each other gifts, they'll pick something out together for the betterment of their home-- a new grill, a new tv, couches, etc. L's parents don't do anniversary gifts anymore, but whenever he sees something she'll like, he buys it and vice versa.I have friends who jump at any opportunity to buy each other things. For some reason, we're just not really like that. We are both fairly picky people: when it comes to finding the perfect gift, it tends to be next to impossible. In the three years we've been together, we've purchased gifts only a handful of times without each other's supervision. So, I'd say that our gift-giving style revolves around shopping together. Of course, this takes away largely from the essence of gift receiving, but it suits us.
True to form, we've already gotten each other gifts for this year while shopping together a few days ago. However, I am prepared with a few little surprises to complete the gift package with a touch of personalization.
How do you and your SO exchange gifts?
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i don't really want my boyf to spend money on gifts... unless he sees something he thinks i'll like/will be useful. i don't expect or even want him to go out of his way to shop for me. i'd shop for him the way i shop for my parents--if i happen to see something that they might like, then i'll buy it! and i'll keep the receipt in case they won't like it/want to return it.
i'm too practical to be romantic.
I love to give my SO gifts. I like giving just because gifts, thoughtful and heartfelt gifts, and just clothes and necessity gifts. I'm definitely not a very lovey-dovey person so I sometimes show more affection with giving amazing gifts that show the person I know them inside and out. For example, my boyfriend mentioned he REALLY wanted the season 1 of Game of Thrones Blu Ray in passing but didn't have the money when it was out. He found out it was going to be discontinued and was bummed when it wasn't available anymore. I ordered it for him a couple of weeks after it was discontinued from e-bay and he was home when it was delivered to our doorstep with his name on it. He was totally shocked and absolutely ecstatic. That was a just because gift. I bought him a gamer's mouse for valentine's day as well that he'd been wanting for a couple of months. I'm big on gifts. Not necessarily just for my SO though, I like gift giving for my family too.
Been with my fiance for a little over 5 years, we mostly have just done nice dinners together and a night in. We do gifts for other things, but the anniversary usually is just something quiet and romantic for us.
I got a room full of gifts on christmas from my guy. he would see something and just buy it and then he collected a bunch of stuff for me. we share our love for shopping, so it isn't out of the ordinary to shop. then I show him all the things that I bought for myself
he doesn't care that I didn't buy things for him, because he is smiling and melting over how adorable I am while I'm introducing all of my cute things to him. he doesn't think I'm wasting money. he sent me links to websites and asked me to pick which dresses that I like
I didn't ask him but he wants to see me model them for him, so you give some and you get some
some things you just don't tally the amount. I did tell him that I'll get him something to make things more "fair" but he was offended and didn't care that I didn't get him that many gifts. he is just a generous person overall to everyone and doesn't seem to mind. I asked him why he's attracted to me since I'm selfish and he said that opposites attract rofl if he believes that and is happy, then okay! he said that he doesn't think that I'm selfish, but he's just saying that because he wants to see my sexy body, but I don't care, because I like him, too, and everything we share is mutual:D but I think he fell for me because I unmasked his other side and touched his heart so deeply that he cried. maaan, I'm good!
I always surprise my boyfriend with gifts, like small love letters, origami stuff, picture frames, and scrapbooks. I love making gifts. He really loves them too. When we used to go to school, we gave each other notes and it was so sweet when he'd surprise me with extra notes.
He takes me to places as a gift and gets me things he know I'd like, but simple things, like candy and drinks. He's thoughtful. My room is surrounded by teddy bears, love notes, and pictures that he's given me.
for our anniversary we usually go out for dinner, and hubby gets me flowers and wine.. and then we buy something that we want/need for the house.. or go away for the night. For our 10 yr we are going on our honeymoon to Hawaii (we didn't take one when we got married). For our 9 yr (next year) we are putting up a 6ft high fence in our back yard, with a new BBQ and deck... so this year, our 8th, we are keeping it simple.
I go all out. Not with money, but with finding him something that he never even knew he wanted. LIke last year I got George Martin to sign a Vol. 1 1970 comic that I found in Canada that Martin wrote when he was 16 and got him to inscribe a copy of Game of Thrones to the SO :) Nerd brain overload.
But that's for a big thing. I buy him lots of things usually, random stuff I see that I know he'll like. A shirt. Book. Contraption that heats up shaving cream.
He is kind of spacy on gifts but tries so damn hard. He made me write down the anem of my fav jeweler because he could never remember. Freaked when a friend let slip that he got the same tv the SO gave me for Christmas on sale. He was worried I would care that it didn't cost as much as the one that got stolen from my house. Umm... Hello?! you replaced my stolen TV. We're golden.
we usually have some adventure on our anniversary. one year we stayed at his parents lakehouse for the night, and even though it was the middle of june, it hailed for about an hour while we were there. we drank wine, out of plastic cups. but we forgot a corkscrew, so the wine had some chunks of cork in it lol
the next year we went to a really nice hotel for a weekend in Lake George, that was a NICE trip. He took me on a dinner cruise where we crashed a wedding dance floor... so classy!
last year we went camping by ourselves and forgot pretty much all the supplies we needed. (including matches.) lol lucky there was a little store not too far away.This year we went camping with a bunch of my friends and my boyfriend got bit by something that swelled him up awful :( luckily, it subsided on its own.
looking forward to some more!
I like giving gifts, but I'm often broke, and so is he. Usually we just plan something special to do with one another like a small trip or dinner out.
we're broke. sex is good enough.