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Do all men go through this, because I have the same problem every freakin year.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your Family Tony.
Get here something that you'll have to make. Think of it like a labor of love. For the remodelling thing give her like gift certificates of you promising to help her paint the room or something...
Hope that helps.
My wife and I have and agreement. We get up early on the day after Thanksgiving and go to the big sales. She gets to buy one big thing that she wants and I buy one big thing I want. This year she got a new PDA and I got a digital camcorder. We're happy. The only other shopping we do is for my son and other people's kids. We tell our friends not to buy us gifts and we return the favor. We all get together for a party and the kids get gifts and we get drunk. Simple.
As for your dilemma, why not get her a gift card from the local nursery or landscaping shop. You indulge her hobby without buying the wrong gift.
Just don't buy her another sword...
Funny. I think you'd also appreciate http://www.scaryduck.com. It's not scary, and it's not a duck.
I've blogrolled you and will be back! Let us know how the gift goes down...
I have one thing to say DON'T I repeat DON'T get her anything with a cord.
She may use it to hang you with it.
How 'bout you come by Shelter Island this weekend and buy her a piece of art. I'm not even suggesting you get it from me. There's lots of neat stuff out there that's surprizingly cheap and everything out there is hand made by the artist that's selling it.
I hope this doesn't seem like a commercial 'cause I really do think it's a great idea.
Good Luck!
Fresh dead flowers. By that I mean fresh ones that have been recently de-rooted and killed.
Why is when you get a woman cut flowers they love it but if you buy a potted plant with the roots still on 'em they kill it?
I'm afraid I can't tell you what to get your wife for Christmas. I'm still trying to figure out what to get mine.
That was a beautiful message at the end, and right on target.
go for something unisex... you can't go wrong with a unisex gift 
and that reminds me...gotta get mine something too :D
Diamonds. Big ones.
you're screwed. Damed if you do and damed if you don't. Forget the vacuum cleaner. bad choice. Gift certificate is good. Try the massage guy. Think happy thoughts!
Merry Christmas!!
Get something that the two of you can do together, like a spa (and you can write about how guys don't do spas later)... or reservations for someplace nice... whatever, just make it for the two of you. This way when she yells at you for getting a gift, you can say, "I didn't get it for YOU, I got it for US." That'll win over her AND her family.
The two of you. One night in a hotel somewhere. Champagne. Chocolate covered strawberries. Perfection.
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I think you should get something really expensive but returnable. If after y'all are done opening presents and she's sitting there looking at you like "where the hell is my gift?" then you can whip it out and be like "See? I didn't forget!" but if she doesn't say anything and she isn't expecting anything, you can return it.
Gurustu is right on! That's perfect!
BTW, true story: I worked for a lawyer once who bought his mistress a vacuum cleaner for Christmas. I didn't know who to feel sorriest for, him or her. His defense? Well, she had been saying that she needed a new vacuum cleaner... what an idiot. Even his wife thought so.
Oh you have to get her something. But it can't be too expensive, or big, something cute or funny. Maybe a teddy bear, or some earrings. Not like going out earrings, but some fun earrings. Or a book, or a calendar. Its not that hard.
I have the answer: get her something. First, you avoid the problem of not getting her something, which will be sure to piss her off.
Then, when you give it to her and she inevitably says "we said we weren't getting each other gifts?"
Say something sappy. "You're my gift," works for me. Every time.
Slam dunk but you wanted far too long to ask me, Tony.
You have two options and better get busy. One is a dvd of all your old pictures of your family set to music ending in a nice snap shot of you two together in marital bliss. The second is a ring or pendent with all the kids and grandkids birthstones.
Get on it.
Peace
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