Extravagant gifts for YH

august0605bride

MH buys me really nice stuff. ?He also makes over 6 times my salary. ?I want to buy him a Tag watch for Father's Day, but I feel like I am buying him a gift with "his" money. ?Does that make sense? ?Is a gift you buy yourself still a gift?

GrowingFamily

I sure hope so, since I am a SAHM with no income to speak of!! I certainly hope DH does not look at the presents I buy him as something he bought himself! 

august0605bride

GrowingFamily:

I sure hope so, since I am a SAHM with no income to speak of!! I certainly hope DH does not look at the presents I buy him as something he bought himself!?

I know what you mean-- I am mostly home with the kids myself. ?I just feel funny buying him super expensive gifts b/c I don't contribute much to our income. ? As a result, I buy lame presents, and he buys awesome ones. I want to do something awesome for once, but I feel bad about the $$$

GrowingFamily

Well, it sounds like you can afford a nice gift for him, so I would buy it!  It's really the thought that counts in the end (not the price tag), but if it is something you really want to get for him & he would enjoy it, why not?

veloelle

The day DH and I got married, it became our money. Thank goodness because during our 9 year marriage, I made more than him, he was laid off, I quit my job to move for his job, I got a lower paying job than him, I went on a 10w maternity leave, etc. Had we kept track of each other's $$, we'd be screwed, lol.

I made more $$ than DH for about the first 4 years of our marriage. He bought me some really nice gifts. I never thought of it as buying things for me w/ my money. I thought of it as DH taking time to think of nice ways to buy things for me I wouldn't buy myself. I'm sure he'll love the Tag and love the gesture.