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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #25 on: November 30, 2014, 11:41:44 AM »
Quote from: Bird on November 30, 2014, 11:39:23 AM
how about a dustpan with her name engraved on it.. then next year you can get her the brush??

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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #26 on: November 30, 2014, 12:18:49 PM »
I gave the lovely one a nice pair of kitchen tongs one year....gift wrapped and all.
The look on her face was priceless.. :cup: :cup: :cup:

I then gave her something more like what she was expecting.
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #27 on: November 30, 2014, 12:19:12 PM »
Quote from: lino6 on November 30, 2014, 11:27:01 AM
One year I got SWMBO an electric fence unit. Last year I made her some stuff for her horse gear. This year I was thinking a lift kit for her DMax but doubt that'll go down well!

Both those were presents I loved, maybe next year can be the lift kit we will see.


Scarps don't know what to tell you to get but if she wants a camera get her a camera I love our canon takes great photos. Usually our presents end up being camper related lino6 has had Christmas or birthday presents of the engel, ozpig, the techniice fridge, I received the coleman hotwater system though that doesn't get much use since the ozpig.
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #28 on: November 30, 2014, 01:19:51 PM »

Quote from: GeoffA on November 30, 2014, 12:18:49 PM
I gave the lovely one a nice pair of kitchen tongs one year....gift wrapped and all.
The look on her face was priceless.. :cup: :cup: :cup:

I then gave her something more like what she was expecting.
the matching bar-b-mate?
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #29 on: November 30, 2014, 01:20:39 PM »

Quote from: Bird on November 30, 2014, 10:35:45 AM
2 x 6inch stacks for the ute with 1 not connected, and a 1.2inch exhaust going into one of them. go with 2x 10ft UHF antenna on the bullbar with spring bases so they smack the roof at 80 kph...

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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #30 on: November 30, 2014, 01:53:40 PM »
Quote from: GeoffA on November 30, 2014, 12:18:49 PM
I gave the lovely one a nice pair of kitchen tongs one year....gift wrapped and all.
The look on her face was priceless.. :cup: :cup: :cup:

I then gave her something more like what she was expecting.

Geoff,
Any chance you got a photo of that look ?
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #31 on: November 30, 2014, 03:06:28 PM »
Quote from: MarkVS on November 30, 2014, 01:53:40 PM
Geoff,
Any chance you got a photo of that look ?

Unfortunately no photo Mark, but it was a classic moment...... ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #32 on: November 30, 2014, 03:57:05 PM »
I have bought my partner , Glenda , a new full set of dobinson springs and a full set of dobinson mono remote reservoir shocks and a set of boss spring assist air bags.  ;D

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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #33 on: November 30, 2014, 04:30:10 PM »
Oh!!  You are all so thoughtful!

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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #34 on: November 30, 2014, 04:37:38 PM »
Quote from: duggie on November 30, 2014, 03:57:05 PM
I have bought my partner , Glenda , a new full set of dobinson springs and a full set of dobinson mono remote reservoir shocks and a set of boss spring assist air bags.  ;D

cheers duggie

Duggie,
good to see you are one of the thoughtful ones too  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #35 on: November 30, 2014, 05:19:53 PM »
My Fe mentioned as a chance mid year about a perfume she loved & used to have but couldn't get anymore . Come Xmas as she had been wearing my Explore Socks all winter . l felt brave enough to buy her own 3 pack of socks with another box . Opening the socks 1st her look was something between " Thankyou for Caring/lm going to KILL YOU "
the perfume seem better received all around   . That was a close 1 for sure    :cheers: Timing is everything  :laugh:
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #36 on: November 30, 2014, 05:44:38 PM »
Nay-DMAX reckons get your SWMBO a V8 hot lap!
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #37 on: November 30, 2014, 05:49:29 PM »
Quote from: lino6 on November 30, 2014, 05:44:38 PM
Nay-DMAX reckons get your SWMBO a V8 hot lap!



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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #38 on: November 30, 2014, 05:53:30 PM »

Quote from: speewa158 on November 30, 2014, 05:49:29 PM
Quote from: lino6 on November 30, 2014, 05:44:38 PM
Nay-DMAX reckons get your SWMBO a V8 hot lap!
She has me so she wants for Nothing     ,     more  :cheers:     :angel:
big difference between sitting on speewa's hot lap and a V8 race car passenger seat?
Although potentially the exhaust system on both similar:-)
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #39 on: November 30, 2014, 05:55:43 PM »
Speewa's hot lap would require 4 shovels full of coal under the chair straight out of the dot painted PDFP :D

Back on topic, you could get he a dot painting?!
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #40 on: November 30, 2014, 06:22:41 PM »
Quote from: Davepatrol on November 30, 2014, 10:06:38 AM
I think I'll get my misses a large box of Panadol to help with the headaches she seems to get at bed time :'(.  If women are so good at multi tasking how come the cant have a headache and sex at the same time >:D  ;D
They are. But not with their husband

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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #41 on: November 30, 2014, 06:25:11 PM »
Thanks Scarps for asking this.
I need help also.
My notable failures have been
1. Back when we had a life before Kids, she was visiting family in France, I showed up out of the blue for surprise vist for christmas at her cousins house. She decided to do a runner to Moroco that day with another cousin. Caught her at the airport on her way out.
2. Got her a massage voucher and nice trimmings in a flash hotel, the massage was pathetic, they massaged her ear lobes apparently.
3. Got her perfume, I checked out the stuff in bath room and replaced what was empty. Didn't like it any more.

It goes down hill a bit more. but last year was the best (worst) as I had no idea at all, I had given up and decided on a coffee table for camping...... I still hear about it now.
So I am getting told very clearly that I must find something .....

All of the great jokes asside, some decent suggestions would help a bloke out. I only need to do it the once the way I see it. Then go back to normal for the next 15 years afterwards....   ;D
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What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #42 on: November 30, 2014, 06:28:59 PM »
Quote from: DaveR on November 30, 2014, 06:25:11 PM
Thanks Scarps for asking this.
I need help also
Well, I'm not here just for my good looks:-)



Apparently flowers is always a winner, as long as it's spontaneous and not because you've done something wrong.

Also gift vouchers for any shoe shop goes down well. Just be prepared for the voucher value. Apparently $50 doesn't buy much. $200 minimum.
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #43 on: November 30, 2014, 06:37:26 PM »
Quote from: scarpsD40 on November 30, 2014, 06:28:59 PM
Also gift vouchers for any shoe shop goes down well. Just be prepared for the voucher value. Apparently $50 doesn't buy much. $200 minimum.

She is not interested in fancy shoes, hand bags or jewelery.
Yep.... This 1 is a Keeper.  :cup:
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« Reply #44 on: November 30, 2014, 06:40:17 PM »
Quote from: DaveR on November 30, 2014, 06:37:26 PM
She is not interested in fancy shoes, hand bags or jewelery.
Yep.... This 1 is a Keeper.  :cup:
well then it's easy, get her some thongs..... In different colours!
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #45 on: November 30, 2014, 06:42:40 PM »
My swmbo bought her own this year, brought a hand bag home from dfo and said "wrap this for my Xmas present" and then she wanted a ozpig front the bendigo lesuirefest......easy done this year.

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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #46 on: November 30, 2014, 07:00:04 PM »
1 year swmbo was complaining commenting on the fact that all the presents under the tree for her were very small so No.1 son ( not me I'm not that stupid) went to the supermarket and got an 8 liter container of spring water  :cup: and wrapped that up and put under the tree (very very dangerous move)  ;D ;D
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #47 on: November 30, 2014, 07:00:17 PM »
The misses and i don't bother buying each other Xmas presents at all, haven't done so for many years now, just buy them for the kids and immediate family members (brothers, sisters and mums and dads). We used to go shopping between Xmas and New Years and buy something big for the house as a combined present to us both, but now the house doesn't really need anything we just don't bother at all with presents for each other.
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #48 on: November 30, 2014, 09:55:54 PM »
My missus still lets me use the MIG welder I gave her one Christmas. She bought me a camper trailer for fathers day this year so I have a Honda generator and trolley for her Xmas present. (And a rather expensive gold bracelet she liked the look of) baz
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Re: What to get swmbo for Xmas
« Reply #49 on: December 01, 2014, 05:40:17 AM »
l ask , " Find it yourself "
l " Find it yourself " its wrong
lts wrong  " l hear about it till the next birthday "
l ask  " Find it yourself "
                                                         Their seem to be a theme happening here & still lm wrong   .       


  So l give up trying  , Yep you guessed it ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,lm wrong  .

                                                                                                                                    >:D                       :cheers:
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