Throwing Darts for Gifts
My husband’s birthday is right around the corner. This is always a stressful situation for me. In my family, we make it easy: 3-4 months before our birthday we hand out a list of good ideas (that include the page number of the catalogue we saw it in if necessary). This happens at Christmas too.
Somehow, this method was omitted from my husband’s education. I am expected to THINK about what to get him and then get him what I THINK he will like. This is a recipe for disaster. Take, for example, the time I decided to buy him a guitar - he bought himself the EXACT SAME GUITAR!! And this was only about 2 or 3 months before Christmas. What kind of a person buys themselves a gift that close to Christmas? How am I supposed to get him a good gift when he’s out there all year long buying things he wants?
So now I shop last minute for him. It’s the method he uses when he shops for others and it seems to work out well. Now, instead of thinking “Fender Guitar, black” and try to wait for a sale, I think “electronics, whatever I find” and throw darts at the ad in the paper.
He always says nice things when he gets something electronic.
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