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whats the worste gift you could get a woman for xmas?

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my co-worker bought his wife a new vaccum for christmas...no joke :laugh:

I'll post after christmas her reaction. 😀
 
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: CyraKrin
any clothing thats deliberately a few sizes too small.
ooh. that one HURTS. especially if it's clothing she loves and wants to try on immediately.

damn, i'm actually a little saddened by that one 🙁

I thought this was the GOOD thing to do? Who wants to be the man that buys the wife clothes that are 2 sizes too big for her?
 
Originally posted by: Ramma2
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: CyraKrin
any clothing thats deliberately a few sizes too small.
ooh. that one HURTS. especially if it's clothing she loves and wants to try on immediately.

damn, i'm actually a little saddened by that one 🙁

I thought this was the GOOD thing to do? Who wants to be the man that buys the wife clothes that are 2 sizes too big for her?

The message sent with clothes 2 sizes too big is "I thought you were this fat" and the message sent with clothes *deliberately* 2 sizes too small is "You're too fat"... Just look in the damn closet and see what size she wears (look at the clothes that fit her well if you find sizes varying a little...) It's easier than getting it wrong.

Yeah, I know that women can be sensitive about the subject. We're trained from birth that we should be perfect (have a model's body) or nobody will desire us. Just deal with it.
 
Originally posted by: Bryophyte
Originally posted by: Ramma2
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: CyraKrin
any clothing thats deliberately a few sizes too small.
ooh. that one HURTS. especially if it's clothing she loves and wants to try on immediately.

damn, i'm actually a little saddened by that one 🙁

I thought this was the GOOD thing to do? Who wants to be the man that buys the wife clothes that are 2 sizes too big for her?

The message sent with clothes 2 sizes too big is "I thought you were this fat" and the message sent with clothes *deliberately* 2 sizes too small is "You're too fat"... Just look in the damn closet and see what size she wears (look at the clothes that fit her well if you find sizes varying a little...) It's easier than getting it wrong.

Yeah, I know that women can be sensitive about the subject. We're trained from birth that we should be perfect (have a model's body) or nobody will desire us. Just deal with it.

This is why I avoid giving clothes as a gift. 😛
 
A male prostitute. She loved it and so did I because she let me watch.

Oh wait, this is supposed to be the worse gift...

That would be the massaging foot bath. In the store it seemed like such a great idea for a gift, but she's only used it like twice in the whole year.
 
Originally posted by: CyraKrin
any clothing thats deliberately a few sizes too small.

Actually that's the best gift, a warning and a movitvator all rolled into one !
 
If I didnt have a george foreman grill I think that would be a nice present... I'm not a girl though, and I like to cook.
 
Wow ..... My mom doesn't have much income, and I'm guilty of buying her a vacuum cleaner for xmas (her old one broke, and she wanted a new one that had a light, and that was bagless) .... so I spent a couple hundred and bought her a new one.

Her dishwasher broke, so I bought her a new one ... that was also for Xmas .....

Hmm ... None of the appliances are broken at my mom's house this year .... I wonder what to get her
 
Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Wow ..... My mom doesn't have much income, and I'm guilty of buying her a vacuum cleaner for xmas (her old one broke, and she wanted a new one that had a light, and that was bagless) .... so I spent a couple hundred and bought her a new one.

Her dishwasher broke, so I bought her a new one ... that was also for Xmas .....

Hmm ... None of the appliances are broken at my mom's house this year .... I wonder what to get her


It's okay to buy appliance gifts for your mother, just not so much for the wife.

BTW, you sound like a good son. 🙂

 
I just bought a toaster oven today to give to me wife.

(I also have a pair of diamond earings that are going to be packed inside the toaster oven.)

Hopefully she actually opens the toaster oven and finds the earings before she knocks my head off.
 
An iron. Sadly my father thought it would make a good gift from the kids to my mother one year when we were small. Heard about it every single year since, although she knows it was him. 😛
 
women should get personal woman gifts for stuff like birthdays, Valentines Day and Christmas. WOMAN THINGS.

Holdhold appliances should be reserved for mother's day and anniversaries... MOM/WIFE things.
 
Originally posted by: Ramma2
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: CyraKrin
any clothing thats deliberately a few sizes too small.
ooh. that one HURTS. especially if it's clothing she loves and wants to try on immediately.

damn, i'm actually a little saddened by that one 🙁

I thought this was the GOOD thing to do? Who wants to be the man that buys the wife clothes that are 2 sizes too big for her?
ok by my calculations we are 5 sizes apart here. try to stay in the same ball park 😉
 
Originally posted by: KarenMarie
women should get personal woman gifts for stuff like birthdays, Valentines Day and Christmas. WOMAN THINGS.

Holdhold appliances should be reserved for mother's day and anniversaries... MOM/WIFE things.

My wife is too practical... she already picked out and we purchased together her xmas gift - a new vacuum.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: KarenMarie
women should get personal woman gifts for stuff like birthdays, Valentines Day and Christmas. WOMAN THINGS.

Holdhold appliances should be reserved for mother's day and anniversaries... MOM/WIFE things.

My wife is too practical... she already picked out and we purchased together her xmas gift - a new vacuum.

A vacuum is a woman thing right?
:evil:
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
I think I'm going to win the "worst" gift ever category...

Our house had all hardwood floors..
Those stupid sponge on a stick mops are worthless...
So, for Christmas, I got my wife an industrial quality mop bucket & wringer, replacement mop heads, top of the line mop handle.
I spent almost $100 on the stuff.

She did not look pleased.

(oh, and taped to the bottom of the mop bucket was some sort of expensive jewelry... diamond ring or something that she wanted.)
That saved the day 🙂

LMAO...Dr. Pizza, you rule! Thanks for the idea. 😀
 
Never done it myself, but I'm guessing that giving "granny panties" might just do yourself in.....unless those turn her on, of course!! 😉
 
Originally posted by: Citrix
one of the things i got my wife was a new george foreman grill. she used the crap out of ours and broke several months ago and has been saying from time to time that she wanted a new one.
My wife loves to cook. If I give her nice tools for the kitchen it's like me getting high end computer gear.

Not all women want expensive, useless bling items for gifts.
 
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