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Within a year or two after we got married, DH and I agreed that we would stop buying each other "things" for gifts. Our tastes were radically different, and the gifts we gave each other just never worked out somehow.
Instead, we bought ourselves travel experiences (together, not separately). We loved traveling together and I have the most wonderful memories of our trips.
Within a year or two after we got married, DH and I agreed that we would stop buying each other "things" for gifts. Our tastes were radically different, and the gifts we gave each other just never worked out somehow.
Instead, we bought ourselves travel experiences (together, not separately). We loved traveling together and I have the most wonderful memories of our trips.
I should have read before responding, this is us as well
This thread seems to have attracted a disproportionate number of people who don't exchange gifts.
Chalk me up as another one.
On Christmas day, my family gets together and has dinner and watches a movie. We each bring about $10 worth of lottery tickets, which we pool and then all scratch them off together. We use the winnings to go out to dinner together on a later date. So $$ spent on husband, maybe $5-10, but it is really spent more on a dinner out with the entire family.
We're not consistent, but usually we don't buy each other stuff, and if we do, they're never really wrapped or anything. Our birthdays and our anniversary fall shortly after the holidays and we usually just kinda sorta look around at our house or our lives and maybe we'll buy something to "celebrate" if we notice something needed. We just bought some expensive (for us) sofas and they'll be arriving any day. By the time we pay off the credit card at the end of December (for the sofas, kids and relative presents and a TON of baking supplies) I really REALLY don't think I'll be in the mood to buy anything else this year.
I think this year hubby and I will just RELAX on our sofas next to our beautiful tree... have some chocolate... soft music.... mistletoe....
Does the spouse 'expect' a pricey gift and would be disappointed if you went 'cheap'?
I'm not married, so take that into consideration.
No
No
Generally yes. $80-$150 is acceptable.
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