Do girlfriends and wives really mean it when they say 'don't get me anything for Christmas'?

If you're asking that question, you've obviously never had a wife or a girlfriend.

Means there getting it on the side and have guilt.

I mean it! Took a couple holidays to convince the husband I really meant it. Neither of us exchange gifts. It's awesome!

When we used to it would be stuff neither of us wanted. Not a good use of the family budget. We do nice dinners for Birthdays and anniversary. For Christmas I try to mind my manners at his inlaws and he tries to limit how long we are there ;)

No women don't mean it. They assume their BFs/husbands will forget and they utter those words to offset their inevitable disappointment- so she can remind herself later that he was instructed not to bother with a present.

A man who wants to be rewarded nicely on Christmas (with a specially wrapped gift) will spend the year hunting for just the right present. When and if he succeeds, he will strike gold Christmas night.

laceeey wrote:

When and if he succeeds, he will strike gold Christmas night.

What does that mean?

My wife wrote:

What does that mean?

You obviously don't know how to pick out presents for your wife.

laceeey wrote:

My wife wrote:

What does that mean?

You obviously don't know how to pick out presents for your wife.

What does that mean?

Born in the USA wrote:

Means there getting it on the side and have guilt.

They're

laceeey wrote:

No women don't mean it. They assume their BFs/husbands will forget and they utter those words to offset their inevitable disappointment- so she can remind herself later that he was instructed not to bother with a present.

A man who wants to be rewarded nicely on Christmas (with a specially wrapped gift) will spend the year hunting for just the right present. When and if he succeeds, he will strike gold Christmas night.

INCORRECT!

Some mean it. Some do not.

Just like anything else.

To the OP: It is an idiotic question with the ridiculous implicit assumption that all girlfriends and wives are the same. Each person is an individual.

If she says that, send her a flower arrangement to her work and take her out to a great Christmas dinner.

The fewer and cheaper the gifts you get em, the bluer your balls are gonna get.

laceeey wrote:

No women don't mean it. They assume their BFs/husbands will forget and they utter those words to offset their inevitable disappointment- so she can remind herself later that he was instructed not to bother with a present.

A man who wants to be rewarded nicely on Christmas (with a specially wrapped gift) will spend the year hunting for just the right present. When and if he succeeds, he will strike gold Christmas night.

I think the secret to getting women a good gift is to pay attention to what they say they want a couple of months before and then suprise them after they forgot how they wanted it. But it does take a lot of effort.

NO!

It is a known fact that women prefer to get snow globes over anything else.

Spending a ton of time/money/effort on finding the perfect gift reeks of desperation.

All girls do is bullsh'it. Of course they want something.

All girls do is bullsh'it. Of course they want something.

My wife and I set a limit, but about 75% of limit you buy yourself. The last 25% we try and buy each other what we think the other wants. It seems to work.

Seasonal Best wrote:

Didn't work out so well.

I guy I know did that on his first Christmas with his girl friend. Yeah, didn't work out well then. But now they've been married over 50 years so guess she got over it.