Wife's Christmas Present

[NWICY]

After 30 years I'm out of ideas. As the saying goes, we both have everything we want or need. Our two girls are grown, on their own, and they'll get her several impactful gifts.
I need creativity. So out of desperation and possibly exposing the matter to rude and cruse ideas I'll open the discussion. And maybe some of you will get an idea out of it as well.
Technology, done. Jewelry, done a long time ago. Home help, done. Spa stuff, done. Clothes and winter warmy stuff, done. Sex toys, she has me.
Ready, set, go!

A trip some where nice? I would love it if my SO would score me tickets for the B12 tourney (not real romantic but I would love it. )

 

[JayV]

Varied reading. True crime murder podcast. She's a homebody. Off work and nest. No outdoor. Kitchen dominant but runs a kitchen store. Disco.

Tour of H.H. Holmes' Chicago.

 

[NWICY]

Ooh a charcuterie tray, FANCY!

 

[Gonzo]

Tour of H.H. Holmes' Chicago.

There's a post office on the site now, but great idea.

 

[FallOf81]

I like the getaway idea to see a Broadway type show plus fine dining. We've been to New York twice. What would be some Midwest destinations for this? Not St Louis as we live near there. KC? Chicago? Nashville?
Thanks!

 

[Gonzo]

Varied reading. True crime murder podcast. She's a homebody. Off work and nest. No outdoor. Kitchen dominant but runs a kitchen store. Disco.

Overnight stay at Villisca?

 

[keepngoal]

Ember heated coffee mug. Found at Costco, wife is beyond the moon about it.

 

[FriendlySpartan]

Varied reading. True crime murder podcast. She's a homebody. Off work and nest. No outdoor. Kitchen dominant but runs a kitchen store. Disco.

A lot of those true crime podcasts do live shows, not sure about Iowa but they would for sure stop in Chicago. Grab her and yourself a ticket or one for her and her friend who also listens (she for sure has one) to go.

 

[FouchodeHond]

Gift certificate to the place where your bud needed pickup line help.

 

[Tony Gunk]

I was going to do something similar to the following for my wife's 50th birthday -

In a spreadsheet, write down 7-8 categories like "What I love about you", " My favorite memories" , "What I look forward to", "Remember when?", etc.

Type out entries under each category so they total 365. Cut them up and put them in a music box, memory box, jewelry box, etc.

If you have good handwriting unlike mine, handwrite them.

Write out a nice card telling her to pick one thing each day.

 

[CyCrazy]

We don't buy each other anything. 17 years in its for the kids.

 

[swiacy]

My wife loves to cook, bought her a setting with an Italian chef who sells a half day in his kitchen to learn how to prepare and cook a special dish from the old country. Bought her and her best gal pal tickets & accommodations for one of her favorite performer’s concerts. She loves roller coasters, bought her and grandkids passes to a day at quality amusement park. I drove her at drop off and then picked her up except for gal pal event.

 

[FallOf81]

We don't buy each other anything. 17 years in its for the kids.

Yes we went through that stage and agree. Gifts to each other plummeted. Now we are empty nester. Girls on their own. Very far away. Independent.

 

[FallOf81]

Gift certificate to the place where your bud needed pickup line help.

But honey it's for the girls that can't afford clothes.

 

[AgronAlum]

We don't buy each other anything. 17 years in its for the kids.

Same. We needed another TV and wife came home with one a couple weeks ago and said, “Here you go, this is our Christmas present”.

 

[CyCrazy]

Same. We needed another TV and wife came home with one a couple weeks ago and said, “Here you go, this is our Christmas present”.

Ya this is what we do, whether a tv car or what not.

 

[NorthCyd]

Stop buying gifts for each other and taking random guesses on what the other may want. Instead go out for a really nice dinner or agree on a major purchase that you both want instead.

 

[Big Daddy Kang]

After 30 years I'm out of ideas. As the saying goes, we both have everything we want or need. Our two girls are grown, on their own, and they'll get her several impactful gifts.
I need creativity. So out of desperation and possibly exposing the matter to rude and cruse ideas I'll open the discussion. And maybe some of you will get an idea out of it as well.
Technology, done. Jewelry, done a long time ago. Home help, done. Spa stuff, done. Clothes and winter warmy stuff, done. Sex toys, she has me.
Ready, set, go!

don't get her a watch. there's a clock on the stove.

 

[LeaningCy]

I like the getaway idea to see a Broadway type show plus fine dining. We've been to New York twice. What would be some Midwest destinations for this? Not St Louis as we live near there. KC? Chicago? Nashville?
Thanks!

Chicago theatre district: https://www.choosechicago.com/articles/chicago-theatre-district-guide/

 

[CycloneDaddy]

My wife has requested tickets to 1 of the following events at the Des Moines Civic Center:

Lion King
Dear Evan Hansen
Aint Too Proud

If I throw in a gift card to Splash Im set.