<p>My husband and I don’t exchange gifts for holidays (although somehow he always manages to get something for his birthday!) so there is nothing to start or finish here. However, every gift on our list has been bought and wrapped, which bodes well for a good Christmas since we both hate to wrap and Usually avoid it till the last minute and then fight. I am proud of us!</p>
<p>I have done everything. Thank you, Amazon. My husband has done what he needed to do. He makes the weekly Costco run anyway, and they sell everything. He already bought me a couple of gifts. </p>
<p>You go zoosermom! I give my husband a list, and he has purchased some things from the list. I do most other shopping. He complains every year that I’m spending too much money. I say fine, then you do it. He becomes quiet and we are all happy. He is actually very generous to me, just sending money out the door freaks him out a little. </p>
<p>I guess DH is pretty lucky. I don’t really care when he shops or what he gets. It’s usually modest jewelry or some other gift I like. </p>
<p>One year it was a practical upright vacuum… and believe it or not, I loved it… twas the “gift that comes with parts and labor” because DH didn’t like messing with our old canister vacuum but was willing to drive the upright. </p>
<p>Lol, totally different dynamic in GMT household. GMThusband loves being “santa claus” and goes overboard w the gift buying. GMTwife is the Christmas curmudgeon. </p>
<p>He is getting my car detailed. </p>
<p>H saw me coveting a purse a couple of weeks ago and he bought it. lol</p>
<p>He normally is a very late shopper.</p>
<p>Here’s a trick that I know some women follow… Starting a few months before the gift-giving day, order yourself some stuff online. When the pkgs arrive, don’t open them, shove them in a closet. Give them to the H before Christmas (or any gift-giving holiday), then when he gives them to you, you will have forgotten what some of them are.</p>
<p>DH will go out to brave the mall Tues or Wed. I on the other hand am done with only leaving the house for small business Sat when I shopped at the local small gift shop. Totally on line. </p>
<p>Well, my shopping has been derailed because I have a swollen foot due to an antibiotic side effect and can’t walk for any time or distance. My kids are so tough to buy for, I think I’ll have photos of the things I think they want and give them money to buy it. Lost an entire week of shopping and am in no mood to do much. <sigh> Can’t really get in to the online shopping. I prefer to patronize bricks and mortar stores when possible.</sigh></p>
<p>I am so relieved I sent off gifts to friends and family in weeks ago and don’t have to deal with that now. Am tired of returning gifts and prefer to just go shopping with D and help her figure out what she likes (tho I did get her a few things).</p>
<p>I was looking at the credit card bill online late last week and saw a flurry of activity with some catalog retailers that I like, and sure enough, stuff started to arrive earlier this week. However, I suspect he put D1 to work on it; I’m pretty certain he’s never heard of some of these retailers! </p>
<p>That being said, this is very, very early for him!</p>
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I noticed a bunch of credit charges to Tumi-- there will be a lot smiles on Christmas morning… :)>- </p>
<p>Didn’t expect anything from DH (we operate similarly to garland’s family) but he did say he bought six months of SirusXM for my car. I’m sure he got an amazing deal because we’re shuffling cars and he cancelled the service last month. (Also said he didn’t want to wait until Christmas to tell me because the clock started ticking today.) </p>
<p>As for the flurry of credit card activity, don’t you all have cards that aren’t joint? DH & I both have individual cards. At the end of the day, they pay out of joint accounts so one can tell if the other is gambling the family fortune away – but there is a certain amount of privacy in individual purchases.</p>
<p>@aMacMom - our credit card numbers are the same; our debit card numbers are different. He has a work bank card, but will not use it for personal things. We’ve always had it this way, I suspect because this is how our credit union operates. Because I check our credit card activity at least twice a week for fraud, it’s easier to check one account, too. I don’t know what he got me, just the catalog that they were ordered from. And even if I didn’t see it on the credit card, when the packages showed up at the house, it said the name of the catalog on the return address label. H has never had anything personal sent to his work address. </p>
<p>BTW… I love our SiriusXM radio - I can’t remember when was the last time I listened to regular FM radio in a car or at home. When I made a three-day road trip out to California back in August, SiriusXM was a life saver - surprisingly I found if I listened to the news programs, it kept me more alert than if I’d tried to do an audio book. I can’t imagine having a car without it ever again. </p>
<p>We each have our own credit cards…but I pay all of the bills. :)</p>
<p>Hubby is a huge believer in gift giving. It gets so bad I have to give him a limit. Then he blows through the limit. This year it must be pretty bad because he sent me links of things to buy for him to “even” it up. He loves nothing more than to have an enormous pile of presents for everyone to open Christmas morning. Talk about love languages, one of his is definitely gifts. I never tell him what I want, he just goes out there in person and does it. </p>
<p>Because my husband shops very late he tends to become extravagant. Because I am the saver, frugal one in this couple it irks me to no end. I have a gorgeous diamond necklace from last years gifts because at the last minute he didn’t think he had enough for me…so nice I rarely get a chance to wear it. Last year was our first Xmas married so I gave him some leeway. This Christmas I surprised him (late October) and booked a cruise for mid-January and told him that was our gift to each other. I did agree that we could buy ONE gift for each other. I picked out my own cowboy boots online and he had the audacity to hand them to me when they arrived. I handed them back, told him to wrap them and put them under the tree. Bad enough I had to pick my own gift. For him, I got him some guitarequipment/foot pedal thingie he really wants.</p>
<p>Haven’t heard anything…so I have no idea.</p>
<p>I’ve believed I’ve posted before that H has been known to give us boxes of kleenex and post-it pads in recent years. This year I actually told him what I wanted for Christmas–something that I’ve never done before–but I strongly doubt that I will get it. He had foot surgery on Thursday and now can’t drive anywhere, so the prospects are looking dimmer and dimmer for even the fruits of one of his last minute visits to the odd lots store. (Yes, that is where he got his “presents” in recent years.</p>
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<p>that is odd…does he shop at the company supply cabinet?</p>
<p>DH did all the shopping for our two adult (unmarried) sons. Got it all taken care of a couple of weeks ago at a big box home improvement store. He has sent his sibs a food gift and his mother a gift card. DH and I are buying ourselves workout equipment for our basement. He did all the research and purchasing for that too. All I really have to do now is the food. </p>