The Official 2007 Christmas-Shopping-For-Your-SO Thread

Typically I come home with some big ticket item and say "look what you're giving me for Christmas." I've requested she do the same, but she refuses to comply. So generally I spend months carefully handpicking items I wrongly think she'll like and/or use. She acts excited as she ponders where I might have kept the receipts. There is no official spending limit, but a "soft" limit is usually understood. I nearly always spend quite a bit more on her than myself. Not always.

I've have been wondering what to buy for the family as well.

Russell, I have no idea, he has everything.  I think I will go to a few golf shops and see if I can possibly fine something golf related that he dosen't have.

Georgia, well she has told me she would like a new computer game, Hanna Montana and HSM2 CD's etc.  I can get away with anything girly for her.
My big problem is that it is her birthday on the 12th of January so I have to look for another "big" present for her as well.
I know I should wait for after Christmas for the sales, but the truth is I couldn't be bothered driving down to Cairns to do the shopping.

1) I use a mixture of my own ideas and her subtle or not so subtle hints.  I have a pretty good idea of the things she likes and what I can actually choose for her on my own.  I also try and pay attention to her looking at InStyle for other ideas.  There are a few stores that sell cool sleepwear and stuff that I usually check out.  Basically, I try and get special things she wouldn't buy for herself.  And I only buy in December as her birthday is in January so I kill two birds with one trip.

2)  I give her suggestions but they are mainly relayed to her parents and my parents for them to buy me.  She doesn't need any help picking out stuff for me.  She has already vowed to never buy me golf stuff again because she for some reason gets her feelings hurt when I ho it.

3)  We set a limit that I know she has no intention of following so I don't either.  This year we didn't even bother to set a limit.  

This year is a little different because I'm getting her a big ticket item that she wants and needs.  Her wedding ring is a marquis diamond set on a band with diamonds.  It is kind of bulky and impossible for her to cut hair in so she doesn't wear it while at school.  To my surprise there are some straight guys at hair school and one dude in particular has been hitting on her despite her telling him she is married.  I guess this guy doesn't believe it since she doesn't wear a ring.  Her wedding ring is like cock repellent and tells the other dudes don't bother.  But now I can't stand her not having it on while working.  So I'm getting her a band with diamonds in it that is less obtrusive but should still repell the cock quite nicely.  So I'm set with Christmas shopping.

Wise man.  Can't go wrong with David Yurman, John Hardy, etc.  I'm sure you already know this but throw in a Marc Jacobs handbag and she'll turn into a nympho at least until the spring collection hits the market the following month. 

Russell needs to use a gay concierge.

You know what the buggar brought me last year.
A freaken fluro light and fitting.
I had mentioned that I wanted a light put above the mirror in our bathroom, and he thought that it was a good idea for a christmas present.

Stroh's gay concierge would have suggested the same gift.  But he would have made it a black light, and had Russell write suggestive things all over the walls with fluorescent paints/markers.