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Coming up to this time of the year again. Subtle hints have been given and missed!
Looking ideas for Thoughtful, kind and Cheap gifts.
Ideas? suggestions ? Must haves?

In reply to goldmember:

We do a stocking for each other with a £15 limit. Everything in it must be useful (or at least going to be used, whether strictly useful or not! A folding frisbee maybe isn't technically useful, but it won't get binned!). I think it's a great way of doing it as you really have to put loads of though and effort into it, and the other person appreciates the effort you have been to. I made a crampon bag, embroidered with his initials, one year, that sort of thing goes down well as it's more personal. Obviously, this has to be a joint decision for it to work!

In reply to goldmember:

We don't bother with subtle hints any more. We simply tell each other what we want. It kind of removes some of the surprise, but it saves a tonne of agro.

In reply to goldmember:

Technically, it should be quite easy this year - neither my wife or I will get any interest and the baby will get everything :-D

More seriously, I know she wants some new clothes in the new year, before she goes back to work, and is planning a serious wardrobe clearance at some point, so either clothes/money should do.

I also do her a stocking as a bit of fun and have a few ideas - including a hair net, after what I fished out of the plug hole last night :-D

In reply to ByEek:


Lucky you! I told Mrs C what I wanted last year (ok, it was a new rope) and was told that was boring. So she bought me a digital video camera, which I did not want and I got a b*ll*cking for not using it. Still, could be worse, an ex once thought she should get me a guitar because I sometimes do the middle-aged air guitar bit when Clapton's on. Never learned to play that either. Nor sure I even learned how to tune it properly.

In reply to goldmember:

They're very subjective parameters. Think you might want to work backwards, and define 'cheap'?

In reply to goldmember:

I got my girlfriend a secondhand spare wheel for the van last year. This year we got married. Some women just like practical presents I guess.

In reply to goldmember:

Belay glassses.

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I think you should spend equal amounts on each of them.

In reply to goldmember:
At Christmas we always have a limit on Christmas presents for each other of about £50 and try and be a bit creative, often lots of little things. We then treat ourselves to a weekend away in a nice hotel in January.

Birthdays are a bit different, we usually ask what the other want and add a surprise present as well. Jill's birthday is only a few weeks off so she will be getting some new fell shoes, some perfume and something else I haven't decided yet. Obviously we will go for a nice meal as well.

All a bit rambling, but the point is, you should know better than most what your other half likes.

In reply to goldmember:

Just a reminder that climbing girlies who also like earrings will be delighted by this sort of thing:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=climbing+earrings&client=firefox-a&am...

(or just google for "climbing earrings").

L

In reply to goldmember:


As I said on a previous thread on the topic, I always give Mrs. Abseil, and baby Abseil, cash. (They insist that is what they want).

***Am I clever - or boring?***

(PS IMO the best reply on this thread so far is "I got my girlfriend a secondhand spare wheel for the van last year", excellent!)

In reply to goldmember:

I got my girlfriend a Black and Decker Workmate for Christmas last year and she loved it!

Your mileage may vary, though...

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I will get 'er indoors exactly what she wants.

When I asked her was there anything that she really wanted she replied "Nothing really"!

So that's what she is getting ! Nothing

In reply to goldmember:

I get Mrs Num Num brown ale, and my girlfriend Champagne.

In reply to birdie num num:


a master of metaphor?

In reply to goldmember:

Give her a bowler hat and a cucumber. If she doesn't like the hat she can go.....

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Every time I buy a new piece of photographic equipment my wife says that is my xmas present.

In reply to goldmember:
My wife needs a new red and a new gold Camelot in case she ever takes up climbing