I remember back when we bought our house. We had a one year old and my DH worked days and I worked nights so we didn't have to have child care. We closed on the house 3 weeks before Christmas, and we were so broke after that. We decided to only spend $25 on each other for Christmas. I went to Burlington coat factory and they had a beautiful jacket that was on clearance for $25. So, that is what I bought my hubby. Christmas morning when he opened it he thought I didn't stick to the agreement, but I told him how I got the jacket on clearance. He hands me TWO presents. I opened the first one and it was a fake pointsetta plant. I was like "um, ok" and he says "You LOVE pointsetta's" (No, actually I hate pointsetta's, but he was going on about how it would look nice in the window of the new house, etc) I didn't say anything, I take the second package and it's a second fake pointsetta. Suddenly I remembered JC Penney's had a display of fake pointsetta's 2 for $25. I said "You SOB you walked in, saw the pointsettas and said cool. I'm done."
I had those things for years and we would laugh every year as I put them out and made a big "fuss" about my bee-u-t-ful pointsettas. That was the last awful present he ever bought. Suddenly he became Mr. great gift idea! And I think he payed Rusty off to destroy them so that I finally threw them away! |