Do you and your spose exchange gifts.

[tink20]

We, usually do, but I feel like we are just going out buying "something", just to have a gift, whether we want it or need it. What do you guys do for Christmas?

 

[Hannathy]

No we don't. Not once the kids started giving gifts to us. If I saw a joke type gift when I was shopping I might get that but not always.


so the answer is no.

 

[eeyoremum]

No we don't. I don't feel because the date on the calendar says christmas, birthday, anniversary means you have run out and buy a gift.

I however am very low maintenance (no jewelery, make up, perfume, hair product) and I HATE shopping so I don't want to go to a store if I don't have to.

 

[kwitcherkicken99]

I try to find something that DH has mentioned that he'd like to have, but won't purchase for himself.

A couple years ago it was an xBox 360. He had wanted one, and told me that he was going to get one on several occasions, but then would come home with something for the kids instead.

Last year it was a new golf bag. He needed one, but wouldn't get one. I helped spur that along.

This year, he said that he missed working day shift because he is missing watching sporting events. Best Buy had satellite radios on sale so I got him one of those. He's got no idea that it's coming.

Conversely, DH bought me a great birthday present - a lot early (the complete series of the TV Daria). I was 100% happy with that. Last night, on my actual birthday... brought home a new necklace as a combo birthday/anniversary present. My old one is showing signs of age and he felt it was time for a new one.

 

[luvsJack]

Yes we do. Usually two things, something we need (or the house needs) and something we want.

Hopefully this year I will be getting a set of Wolfgang Puck Pots and a Camelia Bracelet with Disney charms. Or it could be a breadmaker and a open heart necklace. Or it could be new area rugs for the family room and a really expensive pair of soft leather gloves.

Dh is getting a new TV for the family room and a blu-ray player and a train-horn for his big truck.

 

[maslex]

Well, it depends what the money situation is on any given year. Some years we don't give each other anything, other years in might be a few things that we had wanted throughout the year that we just didn't get around to buying.

 

[Acklander]

We fill a stocking for each other, usually will fun stuff, nothing important. We don't do birthday or anniversary gifts for each other, but have fun with the stockings

 

[olwyngdh]

Always! There is nothing that makes my Christmas happier than watching other people open the gifts I have bought or made for them. My husband feels the same way. DD25 is the same way too. DD8 is still all about what she gets, but she loves shopping for people and giving gifts too--I think the joy of giving beating out the joy of getting is something that comes with age.

 

[sweetpea29488]

It's just my dh and me and we love to spoil each other. (Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries) We love to buy for each other. And we spoil our furbaby and our DN

 

[cats7494]

Absolutely! Like another poster said, we love to spoil each other.
I love getting presents for my daughters and husband; I feel joyful when I am able to surprise or make them happy. My DH is the same way.
We work really hard for our money so we like to splurge once in a while.

Whatever works for each couple/family...

 

[indimom]

At Christmas, usually Yes. We don't buy a lot of "extras" for ourselves throughout the year, so at Christmas we have plenty of options of things we know the other would like but won't buy. It's fun to try to surprise the other with something they have forgotten about or just wouldn't expect.
They are not always expensive things, usually not. One of his gifts this year is a $15 Starbucks gift card because he loves their coffee, but always talks himself out of buying one because they're "too expensive." So, now, he can treat himself a couple times next year.

Birthdays and Anniversary, we normally go out on a date. He did repair my engagement ring for our 15th anniversary this year. I thought it was beyond repair. What a fantastic surprise.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

Always! There is nothing that makes my Christmas happier than watching other people open the gifts I have bought or made for them. My husband feels the same way. DD25 is the same way too. DD8 is still all about what she gets, but she loves shopping for people and giving gifts too--I think the joy of giving beating out the joy of getting is something that comes with age.

I love sitting back and watching everyone open their presents.

 

[mickeyboat]

Usually. Although I would like DH not to buy me anything this year so we can take a trip in February.

 

[5lilfish]

We do! We have not started having our kids buy gifts for eachother and/or us. Other than a gift from my parents, we are the only ones that buy for eachother. I definitely get the most joy out of Christmas from giving gifts....but it is nice to get a couple gifts too

DH and I like to exchange our gifts late at night (or even after midnight) on Christmas Eve...after Santa has come. It's quite and peaceful, and it is so nice to sit there and see everything set up for the kids to come down on Christmas. We always have a small, Mom/Dad gift left under the tree to open with the kids on Christmas morning.

Jess

 

[tink20]

Oops, I just noticed my typo....spouse. Sorry!

 

[wdwmom0f3]

We never do because we like to take the kids to Gatlinburg every year for the week of Christmas and come home Christmas eve. That's our Christmas gift to each other, and he couldn't be happier about it. Besides,he loves that place like I love Disney. I always pick up a few things there that we like.

 

[Handbag Lady]

Yes.

It is always a want and rarely a need. We don't have kids so that explains a lot, I'm sure.

We do set an amount so that one person doesn't feel bad either way if the other out spends the other.

I only have seven people to buy for each year.

 

[BELLE1109]

We give each other a trip each year and do stockings. No kids either so it may change in the future

 

[Pakey]

No we never have (been married a long long time).

I do not like gifts. I'm very picky, I'm not sentimental. I can afford to purchase myself anything I want. The last thing I want to do is wear/display/eat/drink something I do not want. Even our adult children and their spouses do not buy us gifts.

 

[SC Minnie]

We do. They aren't usually huge extravagant gifts but we do get each other something. Even the years that we get something for the house we always get each other a little something to open Christmas morning.