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i want to get my boyfriend of one year something good for Christmas and i have an idea or two, but then again i’m horrible at picking out gifts for guys. he’s 15 (i’m 14) and we’ve been going out for a year as of 11-10. he likes
-military stuff (he wants to join the AF)
-harley davidson
-Dennis Leary
-guns
-video games (xbox360… he’s such a dork)
-war
-golf
-guinness junk (he’s irish *rolls eyes*)
-rock music
-The Lonely Island
-dogs
-politics/conservative stuff

i’m trying to put down anything and everything, but i’ll stop there. i was thinking about getting him Dennis Leary’s book "Why We Suck" for his birthday (a few weeks before Christmas) and an Iraqi coin from productsforgood.com for Christmas… but i’m not sure. last year i baked him a huge basket of everything imaginable, so i wasn’t planning on cooking him anything. if anyone has any ideas about what to get him (that’s reasonably priced), what they have gotten from their gfs, or what you’ve bought your bf, please let me know! nothing slutty or sexual please thanks!!!!

get a picture of you and him and frame it =)
memories are for ever ♥

–laura

I come from a poor family. We never really had alot growing up. Don’t get me wrong, we had what we NEEDED. I’d say we were "simple" At Christmas time for example, we would get 2, maybe 3 gifts each (I have 4 sisters) The most lavish, "big" gift usually some sort of clothing item, like a sweater, or new pair of jeans. One year I got a sweater, a curling iron and crayons (I was 12 years old that year) and I WAS greatful. It was difficult in school though when all the other kids told what they got for Christmas…..I was embarassed to tell them that was all I got, so I would make something up. ANYWAYS, my husband comes from a very different family. His parents have money. Every year for his birthday, or Christmas they literally spend THOUSANDS of dollars on him. For instance, last year for xmas, he got an autographed, framed Walter Payton Jersey and a plasma tv for his work office (we don’t even have one in our home, but his mother insisted he put the one he got in his office at work) For me? I got 2, Dollar General candles. I’m not kidding. My mil said it was because I wanted my kids to get the wii, so she helped us buy it and that was part of my gift…though we had to put "From Santa" on the tag because it was for the kids.
This year for xmas my husband is getting a new Harley Davidson from his parents and I’m kind of upset about that! My car is falling apart….2 of the windows don’t work, the heat only works on high, when it works at all and I am always having to fill my front tire because it apparently is leaking. I do realize that it is not my in laws responsibility to be fixing my car, but besides that, there is lots of other things in our home that would be very useful/needed besides a motorcycle!
Now, I love my husband more than anything, he pays the bills and I truely feel loved by him. He’s the best father to our 3 boys. We have been married for 20 years. But it just bothers me that every year I work so hard to make xmas special for everyone else and I get crap!
So, am I just acting spoiled? Am I just being a brat? I know I’m not my in laws child (my husband is an only child) and they aren’t obligated to spend the same amount of $ on me…..I just work my butt off the spend every penny I have to make sure my kids have a great xmas. And believe me, the mil tries to out do us, or offers to help pay for things, but insists that we can’t put "From Mom and Dad" if she helps, it HAS to be "From Santa"
I keep telling myself that this is not what Christmas is about. And I’m trying to stay focused on what really matters, that we have 3 healthy children, a nice home, jobs….etc….

As a side note, my husband does buy me something for xmas, usually he spends about $100 or so as that is all we can afford after we spend on the kids.

I think you are justified in feeling slighted. I don’t understand your MIL’s logic but I also don’t understand your husband. You have obviously tried to make up to your boys for when you were young but sometimes we literally give until we hurt. I did the same thing myself for years. I really do get joy in giving but after awhile you look around and think I got shorted. You can’t change your MIL so you need to figure out what you can do to make yourself feel special. And don’t be afraid of looking selfish. I don’t know how you feel about riding on the back of a motorcycle but maybe you and your husband can take a nice long drive and have a romantic picnic somewhere.

My mans 23rd birthday is coming up in a week. Ill give you a list of things ill do and gift…. If it were to you would you be happy? What would you change/add? THANKS.

-Breakfast in bed
-Steak dinner with beer
-Birthday cake
-Birthday card

GIFTS-
-playboy magazine subscription (year)
-lotto tix
-tickets for elitch gardens (six flags)
-cologne
-movie bucket (gift certificate, popcorn, candy)
-homemade harley davidson blanket that i made.

PLUS a happy ending !!!

Am i missing anything? Thanks.

Yes. You’re doing too much. Just cook him a nice dinner, and instead of presents, get some lovely rose petals and a giant ribbon, strew your bed with the rose petals and tie the ribbon around yourself (you’ve already undressed and showered) and call him into the bedroom for his birthday present.

Anything else is just too much hard work and too expensive.

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He has never treated me very good. Actually he has treated me pretty badly. He was not there for me when I lost our baby last December 13th. He treated me like I lost our baby on purpose. I was so devastated that I fell into a deep depression. His mother even asked him if he was going to come see me in the hospital and he told her no. She was always telling me I should leave him because he doesn’t care for anyone but himself. I wouldn’t listen!

Then on Christmas Eve I showed up at his house like Santa Clause and I brought him allot of gifts as well as a stocking stuffed full and he didn’t even get me a card..I asked for a cheap little friendship ring.. nothing expensive. I wouldn’t have cared if it only cost him $10. but that never happened.

Then when Valentines rolled around I bought him a heart shaped chocolate cake that said "I love you Jeremy" and I wrote him a sweet poem and gave him a card. And again, he never even gave me a card or a single carnation (which I would have been happy with).. nothing. Months went by and I found the card and poem in his closet unopened! He didn’t even care enough to read what I took my time in composing for him. That really hurt.

Then July rolls around and it’s his B-day. I got him a really nice gift and a Harley Davidson cake and a really awesome card that had the song, "Just to see you smile" "I’d do anything that you want me to do". He loved it. Then he ignored me when it was my B-day just a month later.

I am really tired of putting any more effort into this relationship. I am so tired actually, physically and emotionally. He has taken just about all that I have.

I have tried to prove to him how much I love him and nothing ever worked. I have helped him when he is falling down drunk and can’t get into bed. I would have to undress him and put him in bed. I used to go get food for him when he was too drunk to get to the store. I gave him massages when he ached and foot rubs with lotion. I pretty much babied him.

He repayed me by constantly standing me up and ignoring me when I needed him most and then by cheating on me more than once, which he was caught red handed doing.

I am not blaming him for any of this… I allowed it. I was stupid enough to keep giving to a man that just kept taking.

Anyway, tonight he calls me up and asked me if I would like to go the movies this weekend! Something he has done only once in 14 months. WE haven’t spoken in 3 weeks. Why all of the sudden be nice? Is it because Christmas is coming around and he is hoping I’ll be like Santa again? I mean really does he honestly think I am THAT stupid? He probably does just look at my track record
I really liked everyones answers except for Lovetotalk’s. I think though that I want to try to give him one more chance. Maybe he really does love me, maybe he will give me the ring, maybe things will change and he will start treating me like someone he loves. But I promise this will be his last chance he gets and if he blows it and proves to me that he really is a self asorbed a**, I will never talk to him again! I am just not quite ready to give up on him yet.

You’re question brought tears to my eyes. I wonder if my ex and yours were seperated at birth lol. I dated a man just like this for 16 months..I miscarried in November and he had the audacity to tell me he "thought I was lying" and that he didn’t think it was his. A lot of other horrible stuff too…we went to the movies 2 times in 16 months and he never did sh*t for me.

First and foremost, I DONT think you were stupid for what you did. You are a kind and caring person and kindness does not go unpaid. (Even though at times, it seems pointless). Basically, you have the ball in your court and he’s scared of losing you. And he should lose you, bc you deserve better. People get comfortable when they have a good thing and don’t appreciate it. If you move on (and I guarantee that’s his biggest fear) he will freak out.

I hope you walk away soon. I finally did after my ex choked me..but it took me "that much" to finally leave.

Pls email me if you ever want to talk

anne.cooper83@yahoo.com

If you get a chance please answer my question?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Agm2IgaxIBFrleOnGc6Qnqfsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20091207214210AAxdb2i

I’m trying to buy one for my Dad for Christmas (Yes, I know, kinda late) and I can’t find them on the website. Does anyone know how much they cost? I’m on a pretty tight budget and I need to know how much they are so I can plan my other gifts around that. Thanks (:
I know I can buy cheap ones else-where–but I want to get my dad the one at Harley Davidson that says POWMIA on it.
And I’m not literally shopping for it online–I’m trying to figure out how much they cost before I go to the Harley store. And I realize the prices are double, and I don’t care. I just want to know how much they cost.

I agree that you should go to a local shop. Every one around me carries them.
I don’t know how if at all superstitious you folks are, but do you know about the ceremony that goes with installing them?
I’ve never attended (because I don’t have one), but understand that only another rider can get it, and put it on. It has to be a gift from another rider for its magic to work. I guess the gremlins are bound by certain rules.
As a rider, you’re always supposed to carry one, to give to a fellow rider under the right circumstances.
Anyway, not so much for this ceremony, but for a story on how it started, check out this months issue of The Horse Backstreet Choppers. It’s the one with the girl holding a candy cane. Oh, and a really nice red Shovel.

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Or do you bite the bullet and fake smile all Christmas day….? Telling them "Oh I love it…really"

I just got a bitching leather Harley Davidson purse AND Harley Davidson earrings…I CAN’T FOR CHRISTMAS….whoohoo

I got a new computer chair for my birthday, more than a week early. I’m pretending it’s a big deal…but it’s not for ME, it’s for all of us. Oh well, as long as I get a day off from dishes and cooking, that’s all I really want!

Hey, maybe you can go with him for my Christmas present and make sure he gets me something I would never buy for myself? I like jewelry!

it needs to say all the normal plus this is the part i’m not sure how to word

casual wear jeans and t’s ok the theme is harley davidson
small intimate wedding
no reception but we are all going to eat dutch at a local restaurant after the ceremony
no gifts please

Okay –

You would invite them to the ceremony as usual and then if you want to put in small words in the bottom corner "casual attire – please, no gifts"

Then you would place a second "card" (i.e.slip of paper) in (you can print it up on your own computer) that says

"We will dining on separate checks at XYZ restaurant immediately following the ceremony. If you would like to join us, please let us know so they know how many parties to expect."

You won’t "invite" them to eat out with you and then have them to pay. You just let them know that you are eating there and they are welcome to as well.

You should however provide some type of "free" refreshments immediately following the ceremony- even if it is just cookies and punch. That way if people can’t eat out with you, they can still have something to eat and greet you before you go out to eat.