Ideas on what to give my deployed boyfriend for his birthday/christmas?

Sammy

Well his birthday is Dec 22nd and Christmas is only 3 days later... So I want to give him a nicer gift (im on a budget, nothing over $200-250) He's currently deployed so I'm very limited as to what I can send. I already sent him a care package for Thanksgiving with a bunch of food and hygiene products as well as some sedimental stuff.

I'm running out of ideas. If he was here it'd be easier.. I already asked him what he wanted and he said he doesn't know.

-He cant use a phone, so no phone accesories
-Nothing too large because when he comes back he's won't have a lot of room
-Isn't a photo guy, so no cameras
-No more sedimental stuff (we've been together over 3 years, he's had enough lol)
-no typical care package gifts
-no alcohol, porn or racy pictures, or weapons
-cant even burn him a CD because of the law
-cant wear jewelery because he's an electrian and its out of rags
-cant wear any civilian clothes
-no military crap, they dont want to be reminded that theyre not home for the holidays
-no food that will expire (takes about 1-2 weeks to get there)


IM STUCK. :( and I can't give him nothing on his birthday/christmas that wouldn't be right...

any military wives/girlfriends that have been stuck in this spot? any men that have deployed and really wanted something?

or any ideas will help at this point.. Thanks :)

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you say no food that expires quick, what about chocolates? though they might melt, so maybe some rock candy. You say no civilian clothes, does that include socks? A clock with his favourite character maybe, or a nice photo frame with both of you. Not sure if i helped, but just some thoughts :) x

I'm low on money and my wife's birthday is on Tuesday. I really want to make it special for her. Any ideas?

Master Bla

Serious answers only, please.
Thank you everyone! :) I'll take your ideas and make it a really nice day.

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Depending who wakes up and goes to work in the morning, or maybe both of you do? START THE DAY RIGHT

-- make a point to say ' good morning, I love you! you're wonderfull, happy birthday sweetheart" and make her a coffee, grab her a muffin or pick a single stem flower from the garden. Give her a quick back rub or play with her hair.

Do what you can with the time you have just to start out the day. If you spend all day thinking about this, but forget about the morning.. it's going to be very hard to make up for her thinking you fogot..
The, when you get home, do the housework for her, or with her, and put on some music while you do it. Spin her around the house, tell her she;s amazing and cook her dinner.

At night, turn the lights down low, continue that backrub into a full body massage, and spoil her with love. If you can't afford massage oil, make some by using a little olive oil and add in a couple drops of lavender oil ( to relax) or peppermint extract ( to awaken).

Make her night even more special after with love session focused on her needs..

and that will be all the gifts she'll need...

just your complete love, admiration and attention :)

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I'm low on money and my wife's birthday is on Tuesday. I really want to make it special for her. Any ideas?

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Master Bla

Serious answers only, please.
Thank you everyone! :) I'll take your ideas and make it a really nice day.

Answer
Depending who wakes up and goes to work in the morning, or maybe both of you do? START THE DAY RIGHT

-- make a point to say ' good morning, I love you! you're wonderfull, happy birthday sweetheart" and make her a coffee, grab her a muffin or pick a single stem flower from the garden. Give her a quick back rub or play with her hair.

Do what you can with the time you have just to start out the day. If you spend all day thinking about this, but forget about the morning.. it's going to be very hard to make up for her thinking you fogot..
The, when you get home, do the housework for her, or with her, and put on some music while you do it. Spin her around the house, tell her she;s amazing and cook her dinner.

At night, turn the lights down low, continue that backrub into a full body massage, and spoil her with love. If you can't afford massage oil, make some by using a little olive oil and add in a couple drops of lavender oil ( to relax) or peppermint extract ( to awaken).

Make her night even more special after with love session focused on her needs..

and that will be all the gifts she'll need...

just your complete love, admiration and attention :)

what can I give her?

snake

It's going to be my wife's birthday and I don't know what to get her
the thing is that I don't have money .
she sayd that she doesn't want anything , But I know that she knows that I'm gonna give her something I wanna give her something nice but I only have 100 dollars available the rest of my money it's to pay rent and bills. any advice ?is there something nice for a nie wife for one hundred dollars?

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Recipe for inexpensive but memorable Birthday Gift

Need
10 Tea Candles
1 Bottle of Pretty Smelling Bubble Bath (No Bubble Gum fragrance.
1 Dozen of Roses from Wal-Mart
1 Loving and Heartfelt Birthday Card

Start the day off with Breakfast in Bed
Throughout the day,do as many household chores as you can.
Fix Supper. . .and it doesn't have to be a romantic meal (just getting her out of the kitchen is a jewel)and don't forget the clean up.
After dinner,sit and watch TV or a rented movie.
While she is watching the TV or rented movie,excuse yourself to go to the Bathroom (tell her you are going to take a quick shower)where you will start a Warm Bubble Bath.
Start the tea candles in safe places throughout the bathroom and avoid placing them on the Bath tub.
Put your roses laying on the Bathroom Counter and perhaps one across the handles of the tub faucets.
Return to where your wife is watching TV or rented movie and sit with her and start rubbing her feet.
Little bit by little bit,start to undress her and continue until she is completely undressed and then begin to lead her to her awaiting Bubble Bath.
Leave her alone to sit and enjoy the Candle Lit Bubble Bath,when she is done she may or may not want to have sex but you could just go to bed and hold her and tell her how greatful you are for having her in your life.
MOST IMPORTANTLY.........mention nothing about your lack of funds to give her more. . . to do so takes the moment off of her and burdens her with financial worries.

GOOD LUCK



P.S. Don't tell her where you got this idea,let her think it was YOUR idea.

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I'm throwing a baby shower soon and wondered if anyone had good shower game ideas?

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it's me

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They played this one at mine. You get sets of two people, when it is husband or wife or boyfriend and girlfriend its great, now you blind-fold one person and give them one of those cups of pudding and that person has to feed the other person. Whoever gets the pudding to the "baby" the quickest wins.
Also you can easily print these out. Get everyone to write down these things about the baby. Get them to guess
Gender:
Length:
Weight:
Time:
or anything else, my friend threw in a few funny ones at the end. These are great for the mom to be to read when she is at the hospital.
This one gets everyone in the mood for the new little addition. Purchase ten jars of baby food - all different varieties. Print out a sheet that lists each flavor and post it somewhere in the room. Cover the bottom of the jars with foil and print a number on each one. All guests should have a plastic spoon, a paper plate, and a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. Pass around each jar of baby food one at a time and have each guest place a small spoonful of the baby food on their plate. Have them taste it to try to guess what food it is. On their sheet of paper, have guests write down the number from the jar and what flavor that they think they are tasting. Sweet potatoes are usually hard to identify, so you might want to get a jar to try to fool everyone. Be sure to have your camera ready for the faces everyone will make when tasting the baby food.
Give blank cards and envelopes numbered 1 to the number of guests (say 16) to each guest. Ask them to write a birthday card to the baby for that year of his/her life with appropriate comments and advice for that time of their life. It's a great gift for the baby, especially as a means of remembering older relatives who are present at the Baby Shower Party.
Just go with it. Make it really fun and special for the mom and dad!

Please suggest a birthday gift idea for my wife's birthday?

Dharanidha

Hello there,

Thanks a lot for taking time to read this.

When is the Birthday?
4 days from today

What are my current plans for the birthday?
Currently I am planning for a quick lunch other than greeting card and flowers. But this is the usual every year.

The constraints being:
1) we have a 2 month young baby (first kid) so wifey prefers not to be out of home for more than an hour or two (so that she can feed the baby when required at home)
2) generally I do not like the idea of beauty packages like manicure/pedicure/et al. But she does love it!

Warm Regards,
Dharanidhar

Answer
First get a babysitter, then go to a nice dinner, go home to give baby a feeding, head back out for a movie & then back home & enjoy the rest of the night with eachother's company - a good, old-fashioned date for the birthday girl & new parents, but allowing time for the precious baby to be feed....good luck & enjoy....

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what to get for afganastan?

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kristy U

hi, my husband looks to be leaving forAfganastan soon. I am wanting to get things to prepare us, like for communication..like webcam another laptop etc....what should IZ do from the bigest to smallest ideas thankyou so much to all who take the time to answer

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I am a British Army wife so my experiences of communications when my husband is deployed may be different from yours, but for what it's worth!....

The access they have to comms. will depend on where they are and what they are doing. Some people have access to the internet pretty frequently but others much less so, so don't panic if you don't hear from him via the net often and he can't chat for long.
We have usually found phone calls pretty straightforward but your husband might want to take more than one phone as some cell phones work... in some places!
We have a system called 'eblueys' where we can send a letter via the internet which is automatically printed out and sealed in Theatre. It's a heck of alot faster than snail mail.
My husband and I both have dictaphones, and when he is deployed he takes one and a supply of tapes. We each chat into the tape every day (I leave mine on when I am cooking or chatting to the children so he can hear the sounds of home) and then we post them at the end of the week. Trust me, when you are alone and missing him dreadfully at night there is NOTHING like being able to just flick the tape on and hear his voice.

Here is a quick list of the things we always pack (excluding kit, wash kit, and civvy clothes)

LOTS of wet wipes (in tubs, the packets dry out)
Extra socks (they get through far more than they would at home).
Immodium (they all get upset stomachs!!)
Asprin
Linen handkerchiefs which you have washed and ironed (they come in handy for lots of things and they smell of home)
Don't forget contact lense solution if he uses it
phone chargers
stationery
pens
dictaphone & tapes
family photographs
A Christmas stocking if he'll be out there for Christmas.
(Don't laugh!...I send my husband a small gift every week, so he has lots on Christmas day and he keeps them in his stocking!)
Blank Birthday and Christmas cards so he can send them to the family from Theatre.
A portable CD player
CDs
Books

This is all I can think of for now. I know how very hard pre deployment is and I'll be thinking of you. :)

Dad is getting Married this weekend need a nice gift idea!?

drlng

My dad is getting married this weekend after 4 years of being alone.(We lost my mother to cancer.) It will be an out of town, intimate, wedding and it will be very emotional for me and my sisters. I don't have a problem with his future wife, but we are not very close so... i would like to give him a gift on the morning of his wedding with a good sentimental value. The problem is, i've procrastinated and now i need to come up with something quick. Any ideas??
Thanks!
By the way.. please look closely, and it was never written as IDEAL.... that thing you think is an L is actually an exclamation mark! =)
Thanks for the ideas.. keep them coming! Also, just as a note, I willl also include a gift for both, but I just wanted to do something special for him on the morning of with my sisters and I

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Try something like a photo album, so that he and his new wife can start building memories together ( you can personalize it for them, or give them a gift card to have it done). It's personal for both of them, not just your dad, you might not want to seclude your "step mom". Maybe include a disposable camera to kick off the plan....
Good luck to you!

ok, for the "just for him portion":

Write him a letter, telling him how you feel. There is nothing that you can buy that will be better than telling him.
There is nothing better than getting a letter from a child that tells you how you make them feel.
(My son writes me letters for Birthdays and special occasions, I save them all and cry when I read them, they are better to me than "gifts")

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First time to DisneyWorld?

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whip_24

My wife and I are planning to take our 3 year old son to WDW next fall. This is our first trip there and we are kind of overwhelmed as to what packages we need to consider. We won't be going to more than 1 park a day, so we have almost completely ruled out the Hopper. Where should we look for discounts? What are some ideas as to how to save $. We live outside of Pensacola, so it will be about a 7 hour drive.

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With a 3 year old I can understand not wanting to do a hopper. As the family gets older know it is a fun must. :)

As far as your quesiton you want to stay on property. Forget the fact that people say outside hotels are cheaper and have shuttles. Know you can pay the exact same if not cheaper on property and the shuttles they offer only run specific times. We have gotten Value Resort rooms for as low as $63 a night during the off season... no safe nice place off property can offer that. Not to mention if you drive it is about $14 a day to park at the parks. By staying on property you will not have to worry about that and plenty of modes of transportation to get you to and from the parks, resorts and Downtown Disney.

Depending on how much your family eats the only other thing you might want to look into is the meal plan. I would either go with the Quick Serve plan or the One Snack, One Quick Serve and one Sit Down a day. Can be a fun way to enjoy the parks even more and eat at some great places. I am sure your 3yr old would not enjoy the fancy sit down places but you can use those credits on Character Meals which I know they would love.

Another perk to staying on property is you do not have to carry your gifts around. If you want to buy something in the parks or downtown disney you can have it taken back to your resort for free. Can make a great way to sneek birthday or holiday gifts without your child knowning.

Overall though, stay on property, adds for extra magic you wont want to miss out on. Also be flexible on when you can go, if you can skip peak times you can save hundreds of dollars. Be sure to book through Disney too.

For the Lady's...I needs gift ideas for my beautiful wife!?

sloboomer

my wife of 20 years is having her 47th b-day on the 30th,and i basically suck at buying gifts for her! She's very attractive,loves the simple thing in life and love surprises. we have a great marriage ( in all ways! ) very open and share everything together. i need some romantic ideas (anything goes here!) and gift suggestions...I do have some ideas romantically but would love more advice..thank y'all for any ideas!

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Congratulations on the 20 years of marriage. (:

If she's a simple gal and perhaps going out doing the traditional stuff (dinner, movies, spas) is not the way you want to go, I would suggest finding a nice recipe and make her a romatic dinner with candles everywhere, birthday cake and all. Fireplace roaring, glass of wine (or whatever) and talk while she sits and watches you cook. Talk about your ideas for a vacation together, etc.

If having lots of friends around is the ideal, plan a quick surprise party either at your house or a local establishment.

If actually BUYING something is your dilemma and jewelry is not the answer, think of something that she can enjoy year round or a gift that keeps on giving. Golf lessons, cooking class, favorite magazine subscriptions, a Nook from Barnes and Noble if she's a reader (they are coming out with a color touch screen version soon, if not already out.) How about a pet! (:

Just some random ideas outside of the spa idea everyone else has.

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Please suggest a birthday gift idea for my wife's birthday?

Q. Hello there,

Thanks a lot for taking time to read this.

When is the Birthday?
4 days from today

What are my current plans for the birthday?
Currently I am planning for a quick lunch other than greeting card and flowers. But this is the usual every year.

The constraints being:
1) we have a 2 month young baby (first kid) so wifey prefers not to be out of home for more than an hour or two (so that she can feed the baby when required at home)
2) generally I do not like the idea of beauty packages like manicure/pedicure/et al. But she does love it!

Warm Regards,
Dharanidhar

A. First get a babysitter, then go to a nice dinner, go home to give baby a feeding, head back out for a movie & then back home & enjoy the rest of the night with eachother's company - a good, old-fashioned date for the birthday girl & new parents, but allowing time for the precious baby to be feed....good luck & enjoy....

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Any ideas for my homemade I.O.U gift certificates for 18 year old girl? (Please read!)?

Q. I am going to make some homemade 'I.O.U' gift certificates for my younger sister, with things written on them such as 'day at the cinema' and '1 batch of cookies' so whenever she wants to she can hand me 1 to 'redeem' it. It is part of her birthday gift.

I really need lots more ideas other than the cinema and a batch of cookies, the more ideas the better! Please help me, I am stuck for ideas!

Thank you very much, I'll pick a best answer :o)

A. Well I'm not sure what exactly you're looking for so here are a couple of ideas

1. Day at the Spa: You give her a massage, pedi and mani or what ever you're able to do. Maybe a homemade natural facial?
2. Assistant for the Day: You're pretty much her slave for the day, so you can do her laundry, etc.
3. Get out of Jail Free Card: She can use it whenever she gets you really upset.
4. Breakfast in Bed
5. Chores: You do whichever chore she has to do
6. One home cooked dinner with dessert
7. One Saturday night on the town with Free chauffeur service
8. Half an Hour of relaxing foot massage after a particularly grueling day
9. A Luxurious bubble bath
10. One carwash with a promise to fill up the gas tank - Totally Free
11. One free offer of returning your library books/DVDs.
12. A night of playing your favorite game.
13. One quick trip to the store when you are out of aspirin. Or midol. Or tampons.
14. Get the blame for something she did
15. Side with her when she's completely wrong and fight her battle

If you want you should also check out some wife coupon ideas online and edit it to suit your relationship.

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First time to DisneyWorld?

Q. My wife and I are planning to take our 3 year old son to WDW next fall. This is our first trip there and we are kind of overwhelmed as to what packages we need to consider. We won't be going to more than 1 park a day, so we have almost completely ruled out the Hopper. Where should we look for discounts? What are some ideas as to how to save $. We live outside of Pensacola, so it will be about a 7 hour drive.

A. With a 3 year old I can understand not wanting to do a hopper. As the family gets older know it is a fun must. :)

As far as your quesiton you want to stay on property. Forget the fact that people say outside hotels are cheaper and have shuttles. Know you can pay the exact same if not cheaper on property and the shuttles they offer only run specific times. We have gotten Value Resort rooms for as low as $63 a night during the off season... no safe nice place off property can offer that. Not to mention if you drive it is about $14 a day to park at the parks. By staying on property you will not have to worry about that and plenty of modes of transportation to get you to and from the parks, resorts and Downtown Disney.

Depending on how much your family eats the only other thing you might want to look into is the meal plan. I would either go with the Quick Serve plan or the One Snack, One Quick Serve and one Sit Down a day. Can be a fun way to enjoy the parks even more and eat at some great places. I am sure your 3yr old would not enjoy the fancy sit down places but you can use those credits on Character Meals which I know they would love.

Another perk to staying on property is you do not have to carry your gifts around. If you want to buy something in the parks or downtown disney you can have it taken back to your resort for free. Can make a great way to sneek birthday or holiday gifts without your child knowning.

Overall though, stay on property, adds for extra magic you wont want to miss out on. Also be flexible on when you can go, if you can skip peak times you can save hundreds of dollars. Be sure to book through Disney too.

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