buying gifts for women

[fabricdragon]

If you are a guy, buying a gift for a woman, this may be of some help... good luck!

If you are a guy then there are a few differences in buying for women that you need to be aware of.

The first is that this present will be read as information about your feelings and intent to her.  yeah, i know you guys dont always do that, but trust me its pretty

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[faireraven]

Addendum to #8 that my husband added

[linaerys]

I need to figure out a way to send this to The Penguin.

Great ideas!

[fabricdragon]

well, there is always taping it to the fridge......
or emailing him a link going "have you seen this ? i know YOU wouldnt be this clueless, i mean you know i do/don't have pierced ears, and i wear ____ and _____ already. do you really think most guys don't?"

My hubby knows i have pierced ears, and i dont know how anyone could miss the purple and green thing.... so he knows this.
but as a store owner i was shocked by how many men dont know if their wives have pierced ears, or what colors they wear.....

[laurensa]

If you are buying a general type of gift certificate, it is often a good idea to add in some small personal item, like earrings, or a carved stone heart, or almost ANYthing, just to prove that this was a deliberate thought out present, and not a copout.

My DH, being a very intelligent man, likes to give me gift certificates to Border's or JoAnn's. Now, for some people a GC may indeed be a cop-out. For me, it's all the joy of getting a new book for Christmas, coupled with the joy of going into the store, GC clutched in fist, and wandering blissfully through, deciding what to get..He doesn't pick out a book for me, for the same reason I don't buy CD's for him--there is no way to find something he would like, that he doesn't already own, and he knows generally what kind of books I like, but, for example, has no clue WHICH Terry Pratchett books I need.