Well Meant Gifts

[Andrew Boyd]

My wife now know's to let me buy my own, though I have received an email confirming "my" order for the DVD "The life of Brian" has been sent !

[Peter Waller]

One thing that I had forgotten is the annual offering of the ubiquitous John Bailey Encylopaedia/Manual/Complete Guide to Angling that regularly reappears as a minor rewrite with a new cover, and ends up as a 'remainder' to be flogged off cheap, just in time for Xmas.

[Guest NickInTheNorth]

I'm slowly educating people NOT to buy me presents. If I want something then I buy it.

 

This year just as further encouragement to all my family I've told them not to buy me anything, and I'm not buying them anything either.

 

So Christmas this year has been really easy.

 

We're buying stuff for the kids. That's it!

 

Nothing for me, nothing for Jill.

 

The money that would normally be wasted on bits and pieces of tat for the extended family is going to charity. And if anyone doesn't like it then they can go stuff it where the sun dont shine.

[Tony U]

I have the same problem every year my relatives buying some tat from a department store just because it has a fishing theme.

I've had angling clocks with some clowns version of what fishing is like sculpted into the sides, the ubiquitous fishing tool that is neither use nor ornament and anyway falls apart as soon as you look at it, Anglers diaries and notebooks and anglers gift sets from Taiwan complete with cheap plastic float.

I wish they would just save their money and just buy me a card or better still a couple of bottles of beer.

Edited December 19, 2005 by Tony U

[merlino bill]

OI OI my wife asked me what i wanted for christmas i told her about the korda underwater dvd's & she said im not spending that much on YOU aint love grand,........so i thought i'll buy myself one or two to which she replied dont ask me for any money. aaaahhhhhh ilove her to bit's (HONEST)

 

[Andrew Boyd]

Always remember a wife want's to buy you what she want's you to like . . NOT WHAT YOU WANT !

[Gaz51]

I bought the wife a pressure washer for Christmas once!

 

Her face was a picture when she opened it. Bloody useful household equipment I told her.

 

She got her own back the year after, she bought me a bloody bread maker! I have to admit using it once, I made some bread to use to make groundbait. It was chuffing useless, or should I say I think I made anerror somewhere in the manufacturing process.

[Peter Waller]

A wife who buys a breadmaker so her husband can make quality bait is a wife in a million! Granary bread for me, white bread for the bream, excellent present, only I got mine as a birthday present.

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