Tate is completely incapable of keeping my Christmas gifts a secret.
Oh wait, I already wrote this post LAST YEAR.
This year, though, Tate has taken his lack of secret keeping to new levels.
When I like something, particularly when we’re getting close to Christmas, I make sure to drop obvious hints to my husband to help guide him in his gift purchasing endeavors. I do this because I’m an awesome wife and also to make sure he doesn’t buy me a vacuum or a crock pot for Christmas. So my “hinting” this year has centered around my adoration of Etsy and showing him w-w-w dot etsy dot com and showing him my wishlist on Amazon.com.
Tate tries to be sweet, he truly does. He bought me a gift from Etsy. And he bought me several gifts from my wishlist on Amazon. Sweet, right?
Here’s where he went wrong, though. He used MY Etsy account and MY Paypal account to buy the gift on Etsy. And he used MY Amazon.com account to buy my gifts from Amazon. All these things are linked to MY email address.
I suppose that I should look at this like instead of unwrapping my presents Christmas morning and being surprised, I was suprised when I opened my email and got a sneak peak at my gifts.
Marinka
Twitter: MarinkaNYC
December 20, 2008 at 12:36 am
Hey, look at the bright side! Maybe he’s buying them for someone else!
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Krista
Twitter: marriedlife
December 20, 2008 at 1:33 am
Smooooth! that’s really actually quite hilarious!
Hey, at least he gets your hints even if the execution isn’t so great!
Vic
December 20, 2008 at 5:41 am
Be glad you’re getting something at all. There are men around here who haven’t even started their Christmas shopping yet!
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CourtneyRyan369
December 20, 2008 at 8:29 am
Awww. At least it wasn’t a vacuum…
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Sandy
December 20, 2008 at 8:36 am
Well, could be worse. He could not listen to you at all and get you god knows what.
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wright
December 20, 2008 at 8:38 am
Well, at least he bought you want you want. My hubs hasn’t even been shopping yet. Who knows what I might end up with!!!
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kj @ Where my boys at?
Twitter: KJ_is_GFree
December 20, 2008 at 9:28 am
at least he’s shopping for you more than a day or two before Christmas…. unlike my hubby who still has yet to start.
iMommy
December 20, 2008 at 9:35 am
At least you know it’s not a vacuum, now
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Moriah @ Please Pass the Salt
December 20, 2008 at 10:52 am
Hey, well, you’re not alone. I do ALL of our bills, which means I already saw the credit card statement. Which means I also know what I’m getting, although I haven’t actually seen it in person. Such is the life of the mother… at least you didn’t have to purchase and wrap it yourself!! lol
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lceel
December 20, 2008 at 11:32 am
Maybe he thought you wouldn’t see the bills until AFTER Christmas. Maybe.
Well … I tried.
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Lynette
December 20, 2008 at 11:55 am
He gets an A+ for Effort?
Well, look at it this way. No crock pot.
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Twenty Four At Heart
December 20, 2008 at 12:06 pm
After years of being disappointed I’ve kind of given up now. Most men can’t create that magical sense of surprise for Christmas morning that I still crave (probably from childhood). My husband will only go out shopping once a year on Christmas Eve. Everything is picked over by then. He buys whatever a sales lady tells him is “wonderful”. He won’t shop for his own parents. He only buys for me and leaves the rest of the gift giving up to me. He never knows what our kids are getting until they open it xmas morning. At least your husband is TRYING. And getting you stuff you actually will enjoy having. My husband is missing the Gift Gene completely.
mep the braggart
December 20, 2008 at 12:54 pm
My husband is not great on surprising me with things that I love (there have been some surprises though). I wanted one item for Christmas. I pretty much spelled it out for my husband MONTHS ago. He waited until last week to look into it, and discovered and then reported to me that the item is sold out. There is always hope he is just trying to trick me, but I doubt it . . . At least you know you are receiving some things you want!
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NGS
December 20, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Can I just say that I would love a vacuum for Christmas? I tried dropping the hints – looking at vacuums compulsively when in stores, checking out ratings in Consumer Reports with him right there, even cooing over someone else’s vacuum in their house…to no avail. There are no vacuum-shaped boxes under my tree…
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Devan
December 20, 2008 at 2:00 pm
whoops!
Julia
December 20, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I think I am getting a crock pot for Christmas. Kind of excited actually.
That’s hilarious that he used your accounts to pay for your presents. Men!
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Stephanie
December 20, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Maybe you write him a guide to creating his own online accounts for Christmas… or even set them up.
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Rachel
December 20, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Ha Ha Ha. That’s like my hubby. He buys stuff and then forgets that I check our bank acct daily and then they show up on the acct and I have to play dumb
LOL. Merry Christmas.
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mysuestories.com
December 20, 2008 at 10:17 pm
sweetie, just be happy he tried.
the planet of janet
Twitter: planetofjanet
December 20, 2008 at 11:57 pm
pretty slick.
but at least he takes a hint.
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Bec
December 21, 2008 at 8:37 pm
My husbands the opposite. I *want* to know what I’m getting for Christmas but he refuses to tell me. The bright side is that I can just leave his presents laying around and he wont look
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Alex Elliot
December 21, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I know I shouldn’t laugh but….
Last year a bunch of my husband’s relatives started congratulating him on training for a triathlon. He had no idea what they were talking about. Apparently I had accidentally update my wish list on his amazon account and I had put in triathlon training books etc. Hey, it was my computer! How was I to know that he had been logged into amazon on it!
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Devilish Southern Belle
December 21, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Well, that is one good way to look at it. My husband and I rarely ever even get one another gifts, heh.
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UrbanVox
December 21, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Me and Vic have an agreement…
you see… we’re both awful people to buy presents to… me because anything will do… lol… and her because she’s just difficult like that…
so we decided that no surprises…
it works wanders!
and we get what we want…
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The Glamorous Life
December 21, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I want to be sympathetic…but my husband doesn’t buy me a gift. NONE. Oh I buy him something every year…but he doesn’t get me anything.
So I would happily take an email about a soon-to-be mine gift anyday over NOTHING.
Sandy toes
December 21, 2008 at 10:39 pm
I ALWAYS give my husband HUGE hints..catalogues open, email ads, cut out pictures…I do it all! It works!
-sandy toes
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amy @ milk breath and margaritas
Twitter: amy2boys
December 21, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Awww. It’s the thought that counts. Or something like that right?
Something about this is very sweet.
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Kim@ Forever Wherever
December 21, 2008 at 11:14 pm
That cracks me up about him using your Etsy account to buy you gifts! That sounds like something my husband would do!
Merry Christmas!
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Anglophile Football Fanatic
December 22, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I have the exact same problem. In fact, Puppy gave me my presents & told me to wrap them. ’s okay with me, though, because I hate surprises.
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Robin
December 22, 2008 at 10:35 pm
LMAO. I laughed at this. I just envision him being SO happy with himself for getting you exactly what you want without realizing you’d know exactly what he got you!
My hubby is good at keeping the secret. But he starts asking me several days before Christmas if I want to open one of them yet! He cannot STAND waiting! As much as I’d love to get an early gift, I love torturing him , so I make HIM wait to give ME my presents! The option isn’t there for the kids. He likes teasing them.
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Jennifer
December 27, 2008 at 8:27 pm
my husband didn’t wrap my present and asked which store would have the best price on it. Kinda takes the fun out of Christmas.
Colleen - Mommy Always Wins
December 30, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Heh – I just snorted when I read that. My hubby’s horrible, too. I drop the over-obvious hints and let him feel all proud when he gets me something I’ve told him to get 52 times. Its never wrapped and he can never wait until Xmas, but husbands are like four-year-olds that way. Gotta love them anyway, right?
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