Wiki, if you're reading this...STOP! There's cookies and cream ice-cream in the freezer.

[Deactivated] on 18/03/2015 - 00:54
Last edited 18/03/2015 - 22:03

Edit: Original title was "wedding annif gift ideas", had to edit so that my wife wouldn't read this thread:b

Hi,

Its going to be my 10th wedding anniversary in a couple of months. The original plan was to go away for a second honeymoon but we don't want to leave Gran alone for too long. So instead we're throwing a party (live music, dancing,good food,cake…etc) and our friends and families are coming over from overseas :)

Anyway, I really want to get her something special even though we've agreed that our gift to each other is the party and having people we love and who loves us share this milestone with us. But I don't know what to get her. I'm looking for something that says "thank you for still being my favorite person in the whole world" and " I'm really not that weird. I just say the craziest shit just to make you laugh …or sometime to infuriate you because I still can't decide which you is sexier: you laughing or you mad at me" and also " thank you for not nagging or trying to change me" … you get the gist :)

So what should I get her?

cheers,
JJB

Poll Options

  • 3
    Something of high monetary value (jewellery?)
  • 12
    Something of high sentimental value (a poem?)
  • 19
    Something that will remind her of me ( a baby?)
General Discussion

Comments

  • CrazyMexican on 18/03/2015 - 01:13
    +3

    Printed canvas ? A nice picture of you two together ?

  • Banana on 18/03/2015 - 11:19
    +3

    JJB, wouldn't your wife see this? Pretty sure she is a hardcore-ozbargainer!

    • [Deactivated] on 18/03/2015 - 12:55
      +3

      Then the answer is obvious.

      He needs to acquire an OzBargain t-shirt for his beloved lady.

      <3 Extra win and cuteness if Jar Jar can score one for himself so they can match!

    • [Deactivated] on 18/03/2015 - 15:08

      She's too busy to check ozbargain atm. She's put me in charge of bargains :-)

  • [Deactivated] on 18/03/2015 - 13:05
    +2

    How about some sort of photo album/book (with printed out photos.. something tangible rather than a digital album or whatever is hip these days) covering the years you've been together? You could include notes throughout it with your thoughts/memories relevant to certain photos, you could personalise it completely. Your kids could also help draw stuff and decorate it. Kind of like a scrap book, I guess?

    Would be creative, unique, sentimental, visually exciting, and (IMO) best of all you can use the gift of words (as cheesy as that sounds), which I reckon pwns anything you could buy by a million miles. Could throw some poems you've written or pre-existing ones, or quotes even, in there. Whatever comes naturally :)

    edit - wouldn't even have to be restricted to photos either. Maybe find things you could print or stuff from your past together which you could paste into the book… gig tickets, movie tickets, anything really memorable that you've shared or discovered together.

    • [Deactivated] on 18/03/2015 - 17:20
      +2

      The twins are doing something similar…on a bigger scale.They want to turn one of our kitchen walls into a magnetic chalkboard..as their present to us. Kind of like this but with a lot more photos of us and notes, thoughts, poems, scribbles…etc

      They are still at the stage where they are going through the albums and shoeboxes ( my wife keep mementos in shoeboxes)..and asking us about the stories behind them. They seemed to be amazed that we had this whole life before they came along :)

  • [Deactivated] on 18/03/2015 - 21:45

    The 3rd option was meant as a joke but if I can't find anything else…

    Seriously, what do you ozbargainers give their spouse for their wedding anniversaries?

  • iridiumstem on 18/03/2015 - 22:03

    I wanna say something awful. How about, getting a large present box, put yourself inside it with the wrappers and say that you are the present.

    *Cannot guarantee that Wiki wouldn't just ask for a refund or return as a joke as well.

    • [Deactivated] on 18/03/2015 - 22:18
      +3

      Done that… minus the box and minus the clothes but with ribbons and a tub of home made cookies and cream ice cream with extra chunky bits of oreos added in. She laughed so hard when she saw her "present" that she fell off the couch…and still couldn't stop laughing.

      No request for a refund or return was lodged :b

      • iridiumstem on 18/03/2015 - 23:18
        +2

        :) How about something simple as this* then?

        *Youtube link

        • [Deactivated] on 18/03/2015 - 23:48

          LOL! Taking notes:

          1.Cut a hole in a box
          2 Put your junk in that box …

          Genius! :)

        • iridiumstem on 18/03/2015 - 23:53

          @Jar Jar Binks: I don't know, what was the terms and conditions of your last presents like?

        • [Deactivated] on 19/03/2015 - 16:20

          @AznMitch:

          what was the terms and conditions of your last presents

          No returns and refunds accepted :)

  • vikvance on 19/03/2015 - 19:39
    +1

    Go for the jewellery.

    Money buys people love … Research has proven this.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2559018/Money-CAN-bu…

    • [Deactivated] on 19/03/2015 - 21:38
      +2

      Money buys people love

      There's love and then there's love.

  • [Deactivated] on 19/03/2015 - 21:07
    +1

    From a woman's perspective, definitely jewellery, maybe rose gold or platinum. And do it with a sentimental poem at your party. Hearts will melt, tears will be shed, i guarantee!

    • [Deactivated] on 19/03/2015 - 22:14

      I've found the perfect ring but I don't want to give it to her in front of everyone.

  • Sammy2000 on 20/03/2015 - 10:59

    This poll is missing the 4th option.

    Didn't read post, looked in freezer for ice cream

    Is a new freezer full of ice cream a present?

    • [Deactivated] on 21/03/2015 - 18:59
      +1

      Is a new freezer full of ice cream a present?

      Love is blind but do I want my wife to look like this?

  • ConnanyIrsh on 21/03/2015 - 01:03
    +1

    I suppose a tattoo is out of the option? Have you though of that ?

    • [Deactivated] on 21/03/2015 - 18:56
      +4

      My grandparents both snuck out one day and each got a "Do not resuscitate" tattoo on their chest. It kind of took out all the romance of getting matching tattoos.

      • ConnanyIrsh on 24/03/2015 - 05:29

        My idea was something small, like a finger tattoo or something. I'm not into big tattoos either.

        By the way I haven't seen another idea above: A watch with a good engraved message or quote, or similar bracelet?

        You got me reading here, you're such a romantic soul, good going :)

        • [Deactivated] on 24/03/2015 - 18:04
          +1

          a good engraved message or quote,

          When we gt married, we opted for a plain gold bands with an outside engravings. One has "Grow old along with me" and the other "The best is yet to be". It sums up pretty well how we feel about each other and our marriage.

      • [Deactivated] on 24/03/2015 - 12:25

        Sorry Jar Jar, but that is gold. It's kind of romantic in a dark humour sense (assuming they aren't both terribly ill at the moment and the tattoos were done in sadness). They're making their desires and rights (?) known - taking charge of their life even in the end. I've always thought about getting a DNR tatt once I'm old and/or poorly enough to need to ponder that stuff. I'm kind of imagining a grandparenty couple getting it done together with a bit of a cheeky thrill… a final tongue in cheek, take-charge 'f-you, this is my body, my life!' to the world. I think that's pretty cool and admirable.

        Is it legally binding though? hmm

        • [Deactivated] on 24/03/2015 - 19:00
          +1

          Is it legally binding though?

          Nope

        • [Deactivated] on 26/03/2015 - 00:08
          +1

          Is it legally binding though?

          Gramp collapsed at the dinner table. I remember looking over at Gran and for what felt like an eternity, I hesitated…By then Wiki already had him on the floor and was performing CPR. The ambulance came. I must have called them. Its all a blur.

          Gramp was in an induced coma for 10 days.They couldn't bring him back. They said he was brain dead. They wanted us to give consent to switch off his life support. We did.

          I'm happy Wiki was there. I would always have wondered what if I hadn't hesitated? would he have made it? It is really hard to let go of someone you love, even when you know its what they would want you to do.

          It's kind of romantic in a dark humour sense

          Look up Georgette and Bernard Cazes. They were distant relatives of wiki's. Their deaths made the news in France and worldwide.

        • [Deactivated] on 26/03/2015 - 00:11
          +1

          @Jar Jar Binks: A 'living will' is more effective than a DNR tattoo.

        • Scrooge McDuck on 27/03/2015 - 20:13

          @Jar Jar Binks:

          Hhmm… What's more immediate than a living will, less defacing than a tattoo and says, "Please get my head and as much of my body as possible into a freezer ASAP, but don't jump the gun."?

        • [Deactivated] on 29/03/2015 - 10:29
          +1

          @Scrooge McDuck: Marry Mr. Freeze?

  • iridiumstem on 21/03/2015 - 01:14
    +1

    How about a short trip to the places you and your wife have met and do things that you guys have done in past? Being all nostalgic and stuff.

  • Natt on 21/03/2015 - 18:38
    +1

    Can you recreate your first date?

    • [Deactivated] on 21/03/2015 - 21:15
      +5

      I fell in love with her before I ever saw her face. It was during orientation week. It was so crowded. All I could see was her back and her hair… I couldn't take my eyes off her. I didn't properly meet her until 18 months later. I recognised her immediately. She was/is even more beautiful that i could have imagined. I asked her out and she politely declined. She was nice and friendly though , probably because she could tell how embarrassed I was.

      We became friends. We would spend hours talking to each other and never run out of things to say. we would hang out at each other's place all the time( we lived 15 minutes walk from each other). All our friends thought we were sleeping together but we weren't. Its like having an imaginary friend for years and then you finally get to meet them and they even more perfect than you could have ever dreamed them to be. They get all your jokes. They don't think you're weird.They are so easy to be with.You can be yourself when you're with them. As if that wasn't enough , she smells really nice, has the sexiest french accent and breasts /mind=blown!

      Then she graduated from uni and had to leave the country within 28 days. I remember when she told me about it. My whole world came crashing down. That was the first time she spent the night at my place.She kind of moved in and we spent almost every hour of those 28 days together. I think it was her way of saying goodbye and making memories.As for me, I was just living in the moment. That or I was in complete denial. Up until she got on the plane, I thought this is not happening. She's coming back. I stood rooted at the international departure terminal, waiting and waiting and waiting. It must have been for an hour but it felt like an eternity. She didn't come back . Not on that day anyway.

      So to answer your question, we went from being strangers to best friends to lovers to fiances, before we ever had our 'first date'. Can't remember when or where the first date was :)

      • Scrooge McDuck on 27/03/2015 - 20:25
        +2

        That was beautiful.

        • [Deactivated] on 04/04/2015 - 10:57
          +1

          That was my face when I read you were going on a hot date with Turnip. Isn't that a little incestuous? o.O

        • iridiumstem on 04/04/2015 - 10:58
          +1

          @Jar Jar Binks: YOU CAME BACK :D

        • [Deactivated] on 04/04/2015 - 11:21
          +3

          @AznMitch: Aarrgh! so tempted to make a bible/easter-related joke ..but I won't. I'm just going to say,

          Hey Mitch! :)

        • Scrooge McDuck on 05/04/2015 - 10:44

          @Jar Jar Binks:

          incestuous?

          Why? Because we OzBargainers are all your children?

        • [Deactivated] on 05/04/2015 - 11:31
          +1

          @Scrooge McDuck: Dunno. I always feel weird when someone I'm fond of dates someone else that I'm also fond of.

          Actually the idea of you two going on a date is starting to grow on me. Have fun :)

        • Scrooge McDuck on 05/04/2015 - 13:51

          @Jar Jar Binks:

          Have fun :)

          Thanks Dad!

        • [Deactivated] on 05/04/2015 - 14:14

          @Scrooge McDuck: If I was your father, I would suggest you watch There's something about Mary. This is the kind of thing every man should know before they go on a date.

      • eve on 05/04/2015 - 02:06
        +1

        How about a HIMYM 2 minute date inspired version of your love story?

  • lemc6125 on 22/03/2015 - 00:10
    +1

    Diamonds.

  • Natt on 22/03/2015 - 00:15

    So no then :p

    Can you sing, perhaps you could write a song to perform at the party based on what you have been posting.

    "I love you cause you get me" …and you smell nice ..

    :)

    • [Deactivated] on 23/03/2015 - 20:47

      I can sing and I have a guitar. I've done something similar for her 30th birthday : ran her a bath, sprinkled with rose petal. There was candles everywhere. I serenaded her with my guitar. She loved it.

      Whatever 'gift' I get her, its going to get her, its going to be my special gift for her and her only, I don't want to share that moment with anyone else.

      Edit:Almost forgot about the glow in the dark stars on the ceiling. We had to have the stars because I sang my version of this coldplay song :)

      • Scrooge McDuck on 27/03/2015 - 20:41

        Whatever 'gift' I get her, its going to be my special gift for her and her only, I don't want to share that moment with anyone else.

        I heard that Aunty V loves ice cream, what about this with an ice cream scoop on the other end, recast in aluminium and engraved with a cheeky message?

  • Davo1111 on 23/03/2015 - 02:22

    If you have a baby, it will end up costing you heaps. So really it should be under 'monetary value'

    • [Deactivated] on 23/03/2015 - 21:09
      +1

      If you have a baby, it will end up costing you heaps.

      It would be selfish and greedy I think for us to have another child. we've already been blessed with 2.

      What is the greater danger - nuclear warfare or the population explosion? The latter absolutely! To bring about nuclear war, someone has to DO something; someone has to press a button. To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values-there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally - and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing.
      -Isaac Asimov

      • iridiumstem on 24/03/2015 - 20:22
        +2

        I think you are really lucky if you think breeding is easy. I have to smooth it up with smooth talk, romantic dinner and chocolates… Even then she can go, "I don't feel like it today" or "is this why you are dating me?" and it all goes down the drain.

  • muncan on 24/03/2015 - 20:03

    We muncans switched from PC to Mac for our 10th anniversary, because aluminium.

    • [Deactivated] on 24/03/2015 - 20:19

      lol.

  • digitalterrorist on 24/03/2015 - 21:46

    At 10 yr anniversary, a smart OzB'er would update their pre-nup or get one of they don't have one. ;)

    • [Deactivated] on 24/03/2015 - 22:44
      +1

      She wouldn't leave. She'll miss me too much ..and I'm willing to bet half of everything that I own on that ;)

  • iridiumstem on 24/03/2015 - 23:22
    +3

    I know this sounds silly, but how about getting a photo shoot for this anniversary and get one for consecutive ones? That would show that you two have came a long way and you could share that with your family as well.

    • lemc6125 on 25/03/2015 - 14:48
      +1

      I love this idea!

  • Food on 26/03/2015 - 16:27
    +1

    Oh dear JJB, what happened to you?

    • moogi27 on 26/03/2015 - 21:22
      +1

      Wiki is still around? Hmm

  • ConnanyIrsh on 27/03/2015 - 01:27
    +1

    His account is disabled lol :) What happened ?

  • easternculture on 29/03/2015 - 11:38

    where is candy or SHEEP option in poll

  • punter1 on 05/04/2015 - 13:07

    Buy her a Bose QC20i

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