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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, Do you have children?  Assuming they are old enough, could you enlist them to help DH come up with something more thoughtful?[/quote]

I would leave the kids out of this. It's between OP and her husband. DH and I don't like to waste a cent, so we decided early on to just be open about what things we want as gifts. Also, we keep Christmas and Chanukah for kid gift giving only. A month before his (or my) birthday I ask him (or he asks me) what he wants. I also come up with a bunch of stuff I was considering getting him and he is honest about what I should cross off the list. Open communication works for us. Some may consider this unromantic. We both end up happy. I think there is too much room for hurt feelings when anyone expects another person to be a mind reader. My husband's parents and sibs always give him gifts he has no use for or that are not his taste at all and they have known him his whole life. He told me I was the 1st person who cared to get him something he actually wanted.[/quote]

Is all your money joint? If you buy him exactly what he's told you he wants, with money that belongs to both of you, how exactly is it a gift?[/quote]

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