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March 2018 Moms
mdfarmchick
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GTKY: Gift Ideas for SO
mdfarmchick
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Alright everyone... what’s Santa putting in SO’s stocking? And what are you getting them for Christmas from you?
Re: GTKY: Gift Ideas for SO
—Fender guitar picks
—A hook to hang his guitar on the wall
—Ball end hex keys—something about making it easier to deal with the crib
—a plane Christmas ornament ((tradition))
—new case for the Hero Session because ours is cracked
—new camera lens protector
—dashboard magnetic phone clip
—Snoopy ornament ((tradition))
We aren’t doing big gifts this year because we have gone on family vacations instead.
I bought myself a black fresh water pearl necklace and told him what he got me.
For his stocking, he'll get a chocolate orange in the toe (his favorite candy), and probably some more chocolates thrown in there. Usually a new bottle of cologne, some beard grooming stuff, and a few airplane bottles of booze. I saw a Jerky Cane on the Man Crates website that I might throw in there too - a plastic candy cane tube filled with beef jerky bites in fun flavors.
EDD March 12, 2018
@ashleyf911 I always put 2 chocolate oranges in my husband's stocking! His favorite Christmas candy for sure.
So far I'm getting my husband a couple of funny t-shirts (he's a funny t-shirt guy), a pair of sweatpants with his school's name (he's in grad school), and a rocketbook. https://getrocketbook.com
He's an engineer and a huge tech guy - he has dozens of notebooks everywhere that he's constantly writing in. This notebook scans everything you write into it in the cloud and then you microwave it and it clears the book. It blows my mind, I think he's going to love it!
I asked him for a roomba and a gift card to get a prenatal massage!
Married: May 2008
DD Born: March 2018
DS Born: April 2019
Due with #3 December 2020!
@JBcakes08 yes, but apparently worth it! But that’s why he only gets them on special occasions. We did see them at Nordstrom Rack for $18 the other day!
- Nice sweaters for work in tall sizes - DH needs Large Tall - which is hard to track down. I found some at Land's End a few years ago that he loves to wear to work in the winter.
- Game of Throne Ornament
- Sour Patch Kids
- Photo Mousepad for his desk at work (Coscto has very reasonable ones)
- Bluetooth Earbud - he requested this so he could listen to podcasts at work without it being obvious ear buds
- Cookies
- Books - he had an Amazon list going for this, but occasionally I read an article and there is a book mentioned or referenced I think he'd enjoy (he likes nonfiction - boring :P)
- Portable Charger - used surprisingly often
- Google Cardboard - Cheap Virtual Reality Headset
- Ozark Trail/Yeti/RTIC tumbler - keeps coffee hot forever!
- Raspberry Pi
- Legos (I got him a Mini-Cooper set a few years ago, that I'm pretty sure was the best gift I've ever gotten somebody)
Guys, I just checked out DH's Amazon Wish List and there is a 10-key calculator on there. What an accounting nerd!Suggestion for FTDs: Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA by Jimmy Fallon
(not winning any literary awards, but I think it is cute)
Dx: PCOS
Married: June 2013
TTC#1: January 2015
BFP #1 8/24/15 | MC 9/3/15 at 6w2d
BFP #2: 12/12/15 | DD born 8/29/16
TTC#2: June 2017
BFP #3: 7/15/17 | DS born 3/20/18
Stocking: Candy, Wallet Ninja, phone charger, chapstick, gift card
DS 6/3/2016
MC 1/12/2017
BFP 7/19/2017
EDD 3/31/2018
For cologne DH wears Brooks Brothers and it smells sooooo nice. He doesn't wear it to work so I always get excited when he spritzes it on!
On the cologne front DH normally wears either Tommy (old school) or Polo-I think Polo Blue is my personal favorite
For Christmas presents we normally go pretty minimal so the majority of the gifts under the tree are the kids. Stocking's are normally candy, a couple of DVD's, an orange in the toe (tradition) and for him any little fun cooking things I can find like spices because he likes to experiment in the kitchen. I got him a mini cobbler kit last year that came with a little pan and he absolutely loved it and uses that little pan all the time to make himself a personal sized cobbler so I'm looking for something just as fun this year.
Our presents to each other are normally "experiences". Last year I got him expensive Roger Waters tickets for when he came to Pittsburgh to play in September. He was so excited and then had to wait 9 months haha. This year he's already bought himself/us tickets to 5 Penguins games (went to one already, one is Thursday and the rest are in February) so that's basically his gift. His birthday is also the 14th and he's really been into working out and fitness recently so he's getting workout themed gifts for that. The kids normally get us something small, with DD in Kindergarten this year her school has a Christmas shop and today is the shopping day actually so she'll get him something there and I'll take DS out to get him something small too.
DH has been talking about taking guitar lessons but his guitar got beat up in our last move, so he needs a new one. I plan to get him a gift certificate to a shop that offers lessons so he can pick something out. For under the tree I was thinking the hook to hang it and his banjo on the wall. and put some picks in the stocking. We'll be at my mom's house and she'll do the stockings.
This baby. That's what he's getting for a late Christmas gift. lol
No but in all seriousness, we decided we are going to take a date night in the next few weeks before Christmas and each have $100 to spend on ourselves and just pretend that we bought each other the gifts. And then we'll have dinner and go home and drink cocoa and watch Christmas movies. It's our last Christmas as just us so we both agreed to this tradition now. I don't know, it just sounds more fun. And it avoids the awkward gifts you get that you don't really need. (Which my DH is famous for doing every year, lol)
And then today I decided to bite the bullet and get him an Apple Watch. He's been wanting one for a while, and I keep saying we can't afford it. Well I just realized that he has $300 of birthday money he's been saving. And so I decided that could make up for the cost. And literally minutes after I decided this, I got a facebook message from someone wanting to buy something we've had posted forEVER for $150. So I feel good about my decision to surprise him with the watch. He's going to be excited like...a little boy on Christmas! Lol
We don’t buy for ourselves or each other all year, and he’s been working mandated overtime for weeks. I got a lot more this year for him than I usually do, but he deserves some updated things.
I got him an Xbox one S on Black Friday which was the biggest thing. A good beard care kit, a new watch and wallet, a belt, several of his favorite flannel shirts, new undershirts, a personalized keychain with our son’s picture and initials, a tablet and a sturdy back scratcher. In his Christmas Eve box I’m putting new pajamas, his favorite tea and apple cider K-cups with a sweet treat and a new mug, summer sausage and crackers. Maybe a movie or small book
We also each pick out an ornament for the tree each year.
Im thinking of getting him a few bottles of really good wine (we’re winos), massage, possibly Jay Z concert tix (if I can figure out a babysitter), clothes...
Now off to checkout those underwear @npkat