Hey boys (and girls?) - I'm curious how you all do your Christmas lists - specific items or categories, do you implement price limits with those your exchanging gifts with, how you decide who to purchase for or do you buy for everyone, do you like to buy specific presents that are requested to be certain they receiver will love what you got them or do you like to have more mystery around what you're buying someone?
My poor wife is stressing so hard over this Christmas and I feel terrible for her. All our kids are getting older and want specific things that are quite expensive. She just doesn't feel the same way about gift giving when it's so predictable I guess.
I'm the worst about it in her opinion. She's gotten me a watch I didn't like and ended up exchanging, then she got me an RC boat that has a fishing rig on it so you can take your bait out into the lake from the shore and drop it wherever you want... That gift confused me as I hadn't been fishing in years and didn't know what to think about the gift at all. Ended up never using it, which of course also made her sad.
Do you guys have any stories about gift giving pains you could share?
Maybe just tell us what gifting protocol you follow? Is there a standard on this somewhere? Because seriously, I think we've inadvertently lost the magic a bit.
My poor wife is stressing so hard over this Christmas and I feel terrible for her. All our kids are getting older and want specific things that are quite expensive. She just doesn't feel the same way about gift giving when it's so predictable I guess.
I'm the worst about it in her opinion. She's gotten me a watch I didn't like and ended up exchanging, then she got me an RC boat that has a fishing rig on it so you can take your bait out into the lake from the shore and drop it wherever you want... That gift confused me as I hadn't been fishing in years and didn't know what to think about the gift at all. Ended up never using it, which of course also made her sad.
Do you guys have any stories about gift giving pains you could share?
Maybe just tell us what gifting protocol you follow? Is there a standard on this somewhere? Because seriously, I think we've inadvertently lost the magic a bit.