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kashmir Established Member

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I dont think money is an appropiate gift between gf and bf. If you just exchange money between each other gifts, what is the point, of giving a gift at all? It's just a waste of time where everyone ends up back where they started.

 

Gift giving all together IS a waste of time.

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Hmm, yeah I see what you mean. Alright, back to square one lol

 

Then again, I do have this one pick I caught from a Third Eye Blind concert that I've been using for a few years. I put in some extra caution into making sure I don't lose it. Somehow it's stayed with me for a while. So maybe the pick wouldn't be a bad idea after all.

 

Dammit - you already came up with the guitar pick.

 

Yes, you can sterling ones that are engraved AND usable.

 

Kashmir, dude, no wonder you can't get a girlfriend!! LOL!!

 

I like giving gifts, I just don't really care about receiving them. I think I would be the perfect boyfriend - I get the girl nice stuff for her birthday and whatnot, and her gift to me on my birthday or christmas or whatever is not wasting a dime.

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prettybaby Established Member

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Gift giving all together IS a waste of time.

Your personal opinion about the whole concept of gifts in this world isn't exactly related to my thread :confused:

Lucky_One Established Member

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You can also do something like a Tom-Tom. A new iPod. A great leather credit card case. A cashmere scarf to keep him warm while he's without you.

 

One of my BF's fave Christmas gifts was a case of a certain wine that we had and loved when we went to a posh restaurant. I noted the name and vintage when he went to the rest room, and ordered a case of it from Total Wines. he knew exactly what it was when he opened it. I gave him a wine diary, too, and we take the labels off our favorite bottles and note where we had it and what we thought of it.

johan Established Member

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Don't make a big deal out of it. From what I recall you haven't been with this guy for very long. Give him something nice, but not too elaborate. Otherwise he'll think you swallowed the hook.

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Your personal opinion about the whole concept of gifts in this world isn't exactly related to my thread :confused:

 

Come on, I've been offering you the insight of a stubborn guy about what would be a good gift.

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Don't make a big deal out of it. From what I recall you haven't been with this guy for very long. Give him something nice, but not too elaborate. Otherwise he'll think you swallowed the hook.
Yeah because that's all most guys are looking to do, get you to swallow the hook.

 

Not a chance he'll be happy and appreciative if she gets him something elaborate, or otherwise.

 

:rolleyes:

IrishCarBomb Established Member

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A bottle of Jameson 12-Year Special Reserve. Classy. Elegant. Delicious. Timeless. Manly. Perfect.

 

Not that I drink whiskey or anything...

johan Established Member

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Yeah because that's all most guys are looking to do, get you to swallow the hook.

 

Not a chance he'll be happy and appreciative if she gets him something elaborate, or otherwise.

 

:rolleyes:

 

I don't understand your point. Most guys don't want a girl to buy in too soon. And elaborate gift giving early on risks giving that impression. If you don't like that, you'll have to move to another planet.

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I don't understand your point. Most guys don't want a girl to buy in too soon. And elaborate gift giving early on risks giving that impression. If you don't like that, you'll have to move to another planet.
I think I'll stick with Earth for now.:)

 

Anyway, I just happen to think your advice is stereotypical loveshack crap advice. Your post assumes this guy is some kind of an ass who when receiving a nice gift will think "ha, she's on my hook now" when the reality is MOST guys are not like that. It's just cookie cutter advice to me. Just my opinion though.

 

I never gave a thought to a gift a girl gave me other than being appreciative. Now, a wedding ring I could see being too "elaborate", or a car, but 99% of the gifts she could possibly give will be fine as long as he cares for her.

 

If he doesn't, then whatever gift she gets will have no bearing on when/if he thinks "she's on my hook". It will happen anyway.

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prettybaby Established Member

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I don't understand your point. Most guys don't want a girl to buy in too soon. And elaborate gift giving early on risks giving that impression. If you don't like that, you'll have to move to another planet.

I see where you're coming from. It's okay to go a little over the top with him though. We've known each other for a decade actually. So although we've only started dating back in December, he's not some stranger I happened to meet 4 months ago.

 

That being said, my ideal present would indeed be small and simple, yet special enough. But I can't seem to think of the perfect one. He's not much of a drinker either, so no whiskey.

 

You guys really are hard to shop for. A tie and cufflinks seem so boring.

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What I'm looking for is a nice gift to buy and I have no ideas at all!

buy him a high end Braun electric shaver. its around $250 or so. works great and he'll use it every day :)

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That being said, my ideal present would indeed be small and simple, yet special enough. But I can't seem to think of the perfect one. He's not much of a drinker either, so no whiskey.

 

Small and simple but straight from the heart. That's what you want. One girl gave me a book that had every e.e. cummings poem ever published. That was nice.

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A thoughtful one. The best present I've gotten is a teddy bear. Apparently at one point I've shared a childhood story with my girlfriend about a teddy bear i used to have as a 4-5 year old which was stolen during a shopping trip and i really cried about it. So, she basically reunated me with my long lost teddy bear :love:.

alphamale Established Member

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to be more specific the Braun Series 7 is what I have and i love it.

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He's not much of a drinker either, so no whiskey.

 

Hmmm... perhaps he'd like some Vagisil then?

 

(I'm kidding of course. We at IrishCarBomb, Inc. support sobriety and modesty towards alcohol and in no way condone alcoholism or drunken behavior. We hope to support all people, and happily look forward to doing business together in the future. We thank you for your concern.)

 

A girl I dated once got me a nice wallet for Christmas. I still use it to this day. It's nothing significant, but also nice to have.

 

A friend's girlfriend got him a blue-ray disc player. He thinks it's the greatest gift he ever received.

 

Another friend got a NetFlix membership for 6 months. The guy loves movies, and it's also something he and his girlfriend can enjoy together as they like to hang out and watch movies. He seems to love it.

 

My dad bought my mom a membership to the "*edited out* Dining Club". They both love to go out to eat, and the gift was for free meals every month from randomly selected restaurants that the dining critics approved of. She loves it; he enjoys it too.

kashmir Established Member

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Oh yeah, booze is nice too.

 

Now, heroin would be a GREAT gift. That **** isn't easy to get around here.

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Two tickets to a concert in another city, with dinner out and a hotel.

kashmir Established Member

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Two tickets to a concert in another city, with dinner out and a hotel.

 

That would be pretty sweet. But make sure it's a band he likes and not some chick band like maroon 5 or guster.

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what kind of taste in music does he have? based on that, you can get him a guitar pedal or look on ebay for memorabilia or something. I don't know about the plane thing. the concert idea is any given day sort of thing to me, unless its like backstage. you can get him his favorite band's songbook. but honestly I think that when people think about gifts, they concentrate too much on someone's interests. Maybe your gift should be something new.

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If jewelry, then try to find a custom jeweler and have a guitar pick, put your initials on one side and "i love you" on the other and mount it to hang from a chain. Shouldn't be too expensive and shows your love in a way that will appeal to him. Then get two nipple rings hang airplane charms from them, lay on the bed nude and offer to fly him to paradise. It would work for ME and I don't like to fly.:D:D

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