• yenahmik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Anyone else have someone in your life who is impossible to buy gifts for?

    My spouse’s birthday is next week and I thought I had the perfect idea to get them a new phone (they’ve been complaining about their old one a lot but haven’t talked about getting looking for a new one much). Fast-forward to yesterday when they mentioned they were looking at the trade-in value of their current phone ($5). If they buy themselves one before next week I’m going to be so annoyed!

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        1 year ago

        I’m like this too. Having enough money to get anything I could wish for I cannot think of a material gift that I would really appreciate. I would already buy it if I could think of something.

        • FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Pretty similar, I don’t want much, and what I do want I tend to buy. It drives my wife nuts because she never knows what to get me.

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      1 year ago

      Update: I had to bust out their gift early because they were about to buy a used one off FB.

    • thecitywelivein@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      My spouse and I stopped doing gifts for each other 9 years ago. If we do buy a gift, it’s random and not tied to a holiday. It’s definitely tied to us being frugal and not wanting to buy unwanted things. Christmas has always been a weird one because our families are the complete opposite.