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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach
in Alaska
USA
603 Posts |
 Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 2:27:54 PM
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My husband gave me the exact same gift he gave his mother......
Why do I feel like shooting him.
"life is drab without a lab"
http://web.mac.com/thomja/ |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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Beverley
True Blue Farmgirl
2707 Posts
Beverley
atlanta
Michigan
USA
2707 Posts |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 3:40:07 PM
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Because men are stupid!!!! That is one of my mottos!!!! I would want to shoot him too unless it was a really good present!!!
Folks will know how large your soul is by the way you treat a dog....Charles F. Doran
beverley baggett Beverley with an extra E...
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 4:10:37 PM
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That is bad!! He should be shot, but with something that would remind him that you and his mother are probably totally not alike at all and would never want the same thing. I would never let mine live this one down! What was it?
I asked mine for a wheel barrow. Didn't get one. But he did get me the digital picture frame. It's pretty neat if I could just figure it out and not have to have my daughter do it for me. She has to do all our computer stuff and anything electronic. She's pretty handy.
Yeah, he owes ya big time! Don't let him get away with this.
Kris
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach
in Alaska
USA
603 Posts |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 5:12:38 PM
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Kristin, HE GAVE ME a digital picture frame! Oh, that made me laugh.
He bought one for his mom, didn't have time to load the pictures so guess who?
And then he gave me one without the pictures in it!
Of course on our first christmas, I received NOTHING.
I should be more grateful.
"life is drab without a lab"
http://web.mac.com/thomja/ |
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Beverley
True Blue Farmgirl
2707 Posts
Beverley
atlanta
Michigan
USA
2707 Posts |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 7:03:25 PM
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My first valentines day my hubby gave me nothing, I threw such a hissy fit ( now I am ashamed to say I did that) but I did , so he has never made that mistake again!!! But for other stuff I just figure out what I want and tell him so he will get me something. He just isn't good at that stuff and after 16 years together I figured that out a while ago, I just have to come out and tell him. I have to figure out what to get his mother every year or she would not get anything, so she doesn't get what I get ...hehehehehehehe
Folks will know how large your soul is by the way you treat a dog....Charles F. Doran
beverley baggett Beverley with an extra E...
http://bevsdoggies.googlepages.com/ |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 8:08:56 PM
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We went to walmart and I put what I wanted in a cart and handed it to my hubby then went to the car while he checked out so I didn't see what he bought! But that's just the way my hubby is and I accept it and have learned to find it kind of cute. I could leave it up to him and be upset or I can take care of it and know I'm getting something I want!
Farmgirl Sister #17
Blog
www.willowtreecreek.wordpress.com
Felt and Fabric Crafts
www.willowartist.etsy.com
www.willowtreecreek.com
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Carol Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
4033 Posts
Carol Sue
Washingtonian
USA
4033 Posts |
Posted - Dec 28 2008 : 12:24:00 AM
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Oh you girls have made me giggle. Men is right. Mine gave me 20 dollars the day after Christmas, he forgot Christmas day. but it was to go to the quilt store. He scores points. He does pretty good most of the time. On the forgetting part, I give him credit, we have been without water for over a week because of crazy pipes freezing and then refreezing. We haven't had this problem before...ughhh. So he had every right to forget.....lol
Farmgirl #39
www.Quitemoments.blogspot.com |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
2099 Posts |
Posted - Dec 28 2008 : 07:17:37 AM
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My husband is hovering around waiting for his turn at the computer, so I made him read this. He looked at me blankly and said, "But she got a digital picture frame. What's the problem?"
He got it after he thought about it for a few minutes. But I guess it's just the male way of thinking. |
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - Dec 28 2008 : 07:18:53 AM
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I'm sorry, Jo, but I had to laugh. That is just how men think. "Wow! Cool gift! Shopping done." I'm married to one just like him. After 27 years, I fully understand that he is the way he is and I can either adapt or be hurt all the time. So, adapt I have! This year he did just as I asked- gave me a coupon for a certain money amount with the title- "To Be Used For Seeds". I've been going through the SeedSavers catalog the past few days making my list! I am a happy girl. :)
Karin
Farmgirl Sister
# 18 :)
www.perfectlittlemiracle.blogspot.com
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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach
in Alaska
USA
603 Posts |
Posted - Dec 28 2008 : 8:56:46 PM
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I'm glad I'm over it now, I just went and turned it on. He is an otherwise perfect husband, and I'm glad he's mine.
But gee is he a dummy sometimes.
"life is drab without a lab"
http://web.mac.com/thomja/ |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Dec 28 2008 : 9:13:18 PM
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Mine would think that was the thing to do too...MEN!!
My husband slipped and called me "sis" about a hundred times the first year we were married. Thanks a heap! Anyway...your husband owes you!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
1008 Posts |
Posted - Dec 28 2008 : 10:12:31 PM
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Mine got mad at me the other day because my sheep were out in the hay field (they are ALWAYS in the hay field!). He actually YELLED at me and told me to build a new fence!!! I told him I'D build a new fence if HE knitted ME a sweater!!! That shut him up REAL quick!
I told him when we first put the fence up that it would NOT keep the sheep and goats in (it's about 3ft tall), but he wouldn't listen. And one strand of hotwire does NOT work on sheep. Also, fence posts 30ft apart do NOT keep goats from working the fencing loose! GRRRRRRR!!!!! Why ARE men so stupid? Guess that's another of God's great mysteries..... (LOL!!) ~~~ Tracy
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
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Jami
True Blue Farmgirl
1238 Posts
Jami
Ellensburg
WA
USA
1238 Posts |
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Farmtopia
True Blue Farmgirl
1465 Posts
Zan
New York
New York
USA
1465 Posts |
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simplyflowers
True Blue Farmgirl
489 Posts
Jamie
Locust Grove
Virginia
USA
489 Posts |
Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 09:48:54 AM
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That post has brightened my day!!!
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison
Check out my blog!! http://bestcoupleintown.blogspot.com/ |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 10:12:12 AM
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Mine would actually do anything just to make me happy. He really does try. He's a good guy, most of the time.
Kris
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Maori proverb |
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MsCwick
True Blue Farmgirl
775 Posts
Cristine
Farmville
Virginia
USA
775 Posts |
Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 11:21:11 AM
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We didn't exchange any gifts this christmas. we rented two movies and a game and spent the day with the dog. It's about presence with a "C" not presents with a "T". Which was nice, so I said we should take some cute candid photos of us hanging out with the dog on christmas day, and he turned the game on and ignored me, so I got really upset and put the camera away and then he got made at me because I got upset, and he made me cry on christmas! ....:*( So we went to town and got a 6 pack of beer and another movie and it was all better....still no pictures though.
We're using our christmas money we got from others to go to the mountains for new years day. |
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vermont v
True Blue Farmgirl
194 Posts
Victoria
Chester
Vermont
USA
194 Posts |
Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 12:18:55 PM
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I think the only men that are able to figure out what women really want for a gift are the guys in the movies on the Lifetime channel! But that's because they're men and we still love them. If you want something get it for yourself; its a lot easier!!! |
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Jami
True Blue Farmgirl
1238 Posts
Jami
Ellensburg
WA
USA
1238 Posts |
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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
1008 Posts |
Posted - Dec 29 2008 : 7:57:01 PM
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Zan-- MY husband doesn't take out the trash, we have a toilet that's about to fall through the floor, and our bathtub was plugged up for nearly a WEEK before he decided to UN-plug it! (I tried several times with no success)
-- but you know what he IS? A MECHANIC! I guess that explains why I have a van that's been sitting for nearly 5 years needing a new tie-rod, and a Chevy Lumina that blew a head gasket that's still sitting where I parked it -- steaming and HISSING -- nearly THREE months ago!!! I am now driving a 1980-something V-8 Caddilac GAS HOG with a "Salvaged" title that's about on it's last legs. Every time I hit a bump, the radio either goes out-- or comes back on. The horn works.... SOMETIMES. The "Dinger" in the door works occasionally too, but not the one time (just a few weeks ago) that I locked the keys in the car and had to call a tow truck to break into it so I could go home!! Also, the windshield wipers are posessed. They go off when the feel like it, NOT when I want them to, and the headliner (which is PINNED to the roof) is raining little black pieces of foam so we can't even roll the windows down without it looking like a black snow flurry inside!
But, I suppose I shouldn't complain too much-- at least I DO still have a set of wheels-- even though one of them went flatter than a pancake (or maybe a crepe better describes it!) in the parking lot of Wal Mart (same place I locked the keys in the car!) just recently. The whole front end on the drivers side went "CLUNK". I've never seen a flatter tire! If that car were a ship out at sea we would have rolled over!!! Sigh....... but, then again... thank Goodness he's not a Plummer! (LOL!!!) ~~~ Tracy
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
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corporatefarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
389 Posts
Tamara
Pikeville
TN
USA
389 Posts |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 09:28:13 AM
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What a great post! I am sure he thought it was a great gift. My oldest daughter swears that all the men of the earth share one brain cell - sometimes if you're real lucky, you get to talk with a guy who has been gifted with that brain cell for a short period of time.
Peace to you,
Tamara
www.thegoodearthfarm.com
The earth is in our hands - please handle with care
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5 acre Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1007 Posts
~~~*Terri*~~~
WA.
USA
1007 Posts |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 7:36:22 PM
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Women are so great(grin  ), good thing men are not like us....LOL!!! 
Not really, tis good we were all created differently....
Farmgirl Sister #368
http:/froccsfrillsfurbiloesandmore.blogspot.com
http://thecontentedwoman.blogspot.com
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K-Falls Farmgirl
Chapter Leader
2096 Posts
Cheryl
Klamath Falls
Oregon
USA
2096 Posts |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 7:50:29 PM
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Sometimes I think We who have Sons really need to TRAIN them from day one to do all the things We girls find IMPORTANT.
I have to admit, My Son is exceptional. My son is a super husband and Daddy. (I know I am bragging here.) but It worked and the fact that I produced two younger sisters for him to grow up with too. Mama's start the lessons!
http://www.k-fallsfarmgirl.blogspot.com/
Come visit the barn at http://barndoorcreations.blogspot.com/
Cheryl #309
Farm girl sister
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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5 acre Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1007 Posts
~~~*Terri*~~~
WA.
USA
1007 Posts |
Posted - Dec 30 2008 : 8:09:37 PM
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Just returned from a trip to the other planet that our men live on(teehee) and did not understnad a thing they were talking about on there!!! LOL!!! 
Now, really....we need to be thankful....for our mens....
Farmgirl Sister #368
http:/froccsfrillsfurbiloesandmore.blogspot.com
http://thecontentedwoman.blogspot.com
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