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I bet you never heard this before!boho for me right?
Each year I tell my husband I want a certain power tool for Christmas. Instead he goes to Jared and gets me jewelry and says I can still get the tool. The only thing is, that makes me feel really guilty and sometimes I end up not getting the tool because he has already spend too much. i know it is Christmas Eve but I think he did it again. He made me go into the basement so he could come into the house. I listened, he for sure wasn't carrying a table top thickness sander! Last year I told him not to spent so much for jewelry. I love jewelry but am very fine with Cz's! Ok you guys, is there ANYTHING I can say to him to get him to stop this.
I know most women would love this to happen , but with what he has spent over the years at Jared I could get new diamond plate cabinets in my workroom! Those are the kind of diamonds I love! One time he did get me something workshop related. He replaced the lights in my workshop with ones that were diamond plate. I cried I was so thrilled.
Alice
 
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Alice,

If he's like my wife and doesn't know much about tools, he may be intimidated shopping for them. Waht I do is identify exactly what I want from a paper ad, online ad, or add it to an online "wish list" if the website supports it. Then I have something to give my wife with all the information she needs. If there is a time limit for a sale, or a coupon code, I make sure I supply her with that info also. I always identify multiple items so she can still surprise me by not knowing exactly which item I will get. This is working well for me. Good luck!
 
Easy do what I do! Buy your spouse tools for Christmas.:biggrin: Just because you can use it more than him doesn't matter. Its the thought that counts.!:biggrin:

Mike
 
mredburn said:
Easy do what I do! Buy your spouse tools for Christmas.:biggrin: Just because you can use it more than him doesn't matter. Its the thought that counts.!:biggrin:

Mike
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Gee.. I'll bet you get plenty of time to use them too, since she won't talk to you for a while after that!:smile:
 
Timbo said:
Alice,

If he's like my wife and doesn't know much about tools, he may be intimidated shopping for them. Waht I do is identify exactly what I want from a paper ad, online ad, or add it to an online "wish list" if the website supports it. Then I have something to give my wife with all the information she needs. If there is a time limit for a sale, or a coupon code, I make sure I supply her with that info also. I always identify multiple items so she can still surprise me by not knowing exactly which item I will get. This is working well for me. Good luck!
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Thanks everyone!
Good idea Timbo,
I guess he just doesn't know exactly what to pick out. He is a computer programer and to him tools, other than electronic ones just mean WORK. To us it means fun! I'll have to try it out next year. Thanks Alice
 
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Gee.. I'll bet you get plenty of time to use them too, since she won't talk to you for a while after that!:smile:[/quote]

Well there is always an up side to everything!:biggrin:
 
Well Alice, if it's any consolation, he wouldn't have asked you to leave the room if he had jewellry in his pocket:wink: Let us know what you got.:biggrin:

I used to buy lavish stuff for my wife and she got me exspensive stuff that I'd never need. Fortunately she saw the light and years ago we agreed that we would only have an extremely limited Christmas budget each but after Christmas we would go shopping together. I'd go to the till with what she wanted and she'd pay the tool man for mine. LOL, it sure cured my embarrasment for buying lingerie.:biggrin:

BTW...am I thinking of someone else or did you recently have a trip to Europe? How did it go?
 
All I can tell you is.....It took me 10 years of begging and pleading for a chainsaw and I finally got one for mothers day oh 9 years ago...it took him less than a month to take it away from me..LOL..he had good reason, but I sure did love that chainsaw...I still had the huge hedge clippers and large push leaf blower, but I would much rather have the chain saw....keep asking thats my only suggestion..I would much rather have a power tool than jewelry as well
 
Alice, thats too funny but Timbo is right on. That is exactly what I do for my wife and children. I hope you get what you want and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year....
 
Two things

1) If you are beating around the bush and dropping subtle hints (that you think are obvious), stop doing that. Be blunt. Tell him exactly what you want, item #, model #, etc. My wife is always dropping these little hints to me and I never catch on. I tell her that if she wants something, tell me what you want because I am not getting these little hints.

2) Ask for the receipts for the jewelry, return the items to the store, then go tool shopping:biggrin:
 
Alice, why wait till next Christmas. There should be a birthday or anniversary sometime during the year where you can buy him the tools that he needs to do woodworking. If he's not interested or doesn't have time for doing that you can always take the tools off his hands and give them the TLC that they deserve.

Toni, now you got everyone wondering why your husband had a good reason for taking the chainsaw away from you. What were you doing with the saw that made him think you were better off without it?
 
here are some overall idea's that may be considered overtly extreme. :biggrin:

Prepare to send all Jewelry Stores within say 50 miles a Picture of your hubby with a stern notice that they are not to sell to him anything...

Purchase the Smuttiest, Sluttiest, Teddi. Hang it up in bedroom with a note pinned... "IF you ever wish to see me in this, it would be wise to get me this."
And that is, of course, that special tool that you need/want.

Put all that jewelry on eBay, within the description put that you wanted a particular tool and instead you got this item that your auctioning off.

Last but not least, though it has been stated in earlier posts in this thread. Take him by the hand and show him exactly what you want. Compound that with denying him any carnal desire if he even THINKS of purchasing another lousy worthless diamond before purchasing a that tool you so desire.:good::laugh:

BTW, I will be using this for a comedy routine....
 
When I first got married my mother kept telling my hubby to get me flowers and candy. I didn't want no stinkin' flowers! I wanted power tools. I finally had to give him pictures and exact descriptions of what I wanted. It didn't take long for him to catch on. LOL

Give him pics and model numbers and say "this is what I really want". Puppy dog eyes help too. lol
 
I quit buying jewelry years ago. My taste were horrible when it came to decorative things for my bride. If I were going to purchase her jewels, I took her along and suggested that she pick out what she wanted. When it came to my gift it worked similar except I was doing the choosing. She would never return anything I bought for her. No matter how horrid it was, she would wear it at least once before relegating it to the back of her jewelry box, never to be seen again. Therefore, I do not buy gee jaws for my bride. Not for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, nothing. Now a power tool, that is another question!
Charles
 
Some funny, some pretty harsh. All amusing! Ha! Ha!. The thing is is he does pick out beautiful jewelery and I do love it, but tools are more useful.
The first year we were married I said someday I want a Shop Smith. He thought I was nuts. Like Toni it took a long time before he took it seriously.
Anyway to change the subject. Toni we would like to know why your husband took your chain saw away!
 
Steven, Yes we did go to Europe. The first vacation in 9 years!He had to go to Denmark for work and we had a lot of FF miles so it was great.
I took 2 days from Chicago to DC to Heathrow overnight and then met him in Austria!
Even tho Bill is a computer engineer he actually majored in Voice to become a teacher. So he wanted to go to Vienna Austria to an opera. From there we went to Belgium where my grandparents immigrated from and gathered a lot of information on family and saw friends. Then to Paris and to London. It was a busy 11 days but tons of fun. I am glad we saw all we did but if his work ever takes him back again I think we will spend the time in Austria and Belgium or at least other calm places. London and Paris were great to see but too many people.
I think it was you that suggested we stay "on the main land?" You were right.
Just FYI The places like Price Line and Orbits worked great for the most part. REALLY great prices. The BIG catch is there are NO changes or refunds if you miss a flight "which we did" It was only one of the short flights that FF miles didn't cover.
Other than that it is a pretty good deal.
I was in Wales, Ireland and England on a trip in high school. All of the country side was beautiful!
Well, It is time for Church. Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to everyone and have a great new year!
Alice




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Well Alice, if it's any consolation, he wouldn't have asked you to leave the room if he had jewellry in his pocket:wink: Let us know what you got.:biggrin:

I used to buy lavish stuff for my wife and she got me exspensive stuff that I'd never need. Fortunately she saw the light and years ago we agreed that we would only have an extremely limited Christmas budget each but after Christmas we would go shopping together. I'd go to the till with what she wanted and she'd pay the tool man for mine. LOL, it sure cured my embarrasment for buying lingerie.:biggrin:

BTW...am I thinking of someone else or did you recently have a trip to Europe? How did it go?
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Chain Saw removal

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Toni we would like to know why your husband took your chain saw away!
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This is what went down, first off this was an electric chainsaw not some big boy because I wasnt strong enough to hold one. When we lived in New York State we had A LOT of trees on our property when we moved in we had 19 trees cut down and still there were to many.. I watched:eek:them very carefully how to cut down the trees....

Ok, how I lost my baby...Every time the dh would leave the house I would cut down trees, not big trees small type birch trees, NO PROBLEMS! I was rockin and rollin cut down trees felt so powerful!! (of coarse I always said timber)

There was this ONE Tree that was by my pottery studio that had been pissing me off since we lived there, dh left the house and off I went gloves on extension cords READY to cut this tree down. It was a big tree biggest yet and I remembered how to do the cuts into the tree......well things did not go so well this time:frown:actually it was a disaster, the tree was half cut WITH the chainsaw stuck IN THE TREE!!!:eek::eek::eek: I had even cut through my gloves!! I tried with all my strength to get that chainsaw out of the tree as I knew I was dead meat!!:mad: Chain came off the chainsaw and that was all she wrote....UNTIL.....MARK CAME HOME!!

All hell broke loose, I want to make this clear Mark is NOT an angry man, he is gentle and calm, doesnt raise his voice hardly ever and when he came home and saw a half cut tree with the chainsaw still in it, I believe he lost it and I went running...oh the gloves I hid them on him...

So the story ends with Mark cutting down the tree and him removing the chain off the chain saw and me never using it again...sigh...a very sad day..BUT I still had my huge hedge clippers!! and I only cut the extension cord a few times:cool:

The End...........
 
Alice, My wife and I take each other Christmas shopping. I know exactly what she got me (talk about pretty burl!) and she knows exactly what I got her.....20 years now and we are both always happy at Christmas. Sometimes she circles something in an add, sometime I send her a link to a website. Give bluntness a try next year.

Toni, Great story! All extensions cords come with splices in them....at least mine do!
 
Adding some clarity to the "Chainsaw Massacre"

A few trivial details that Toni left out.

1. She had cut more than half way through the trunk of the tree, and just left it standing (Probably a good thing).

2. The angle of the cut would have resulted in the tree taking out the adjacent shed and part of the Garage/Pottery Studio building.

So thankfully, the chainsaw knew when to quit. And the "Oh dear... I tried to cut down a tree and the chainsaw got stuck" is quite an understatement.
 

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Toni,
I love the story! The first time with a chain saw was similar! A neighbors tree fell in a storm and of course " I could cut it up!" The difference was it was already on the ground but was really very large. My chain saw too got stuck and we had to use a second one to get it out! This happened several other times along with, if taping would have won on "funny Home Video's" Since that tree I got a dvd on cutting down trees and it has helped. I still think you should sneak your chain saw out again. Everyone deserves a second chance! it is so much fun!!!!
Alice
 
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Even though he went to the jewelry store again it means that he is thinking of you. Some partners never get their partners anything. Take him up on his idea that you still get the tool. Leave the guilt at home and take him shopping with you. You can show him the tools you like and get them. No guilt, no quilt, no quilt.
 
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