Thought I'd make a post here to:
a) procrastinate from doing work
b) troll
c) generally get ideas
So as I'm sure you're aware the festive holidays are coming up, everyone is either rushing around the shops buying things for people or leaving it until 6pm on December 24th...
But this year it's different (in this situation). What would you buy your boy/girlfriend for your first Christmas together?
I'll have only been with my girlfriend for 6 weeks when the 25th comes round and I'm not sure what to get. Nothing too over the top, but something different to what I'd buy for general friends.
£100 after going out for six weeks?! You mad, man?
I'm seeing somebody and it's still all very unofficial and not really a proper labelled 'thing' so I'm in a similar boat - we both love the Science Museum so I'm thinking of buying him something geeky from that, plus (he loves random photography) printing off a few photo I've taken so he can do with what he likes.
I think the important thing at this stage is to get something that's different and reflects her. You guys are still fairly new but you've got the exciting finding-out-about-each-other stage down, so go for something she likes. I think, particularly with relationships, it's far more important to go for something suited to her based on your many conversations with her than to go for something 'traditional' like jewellery or something.
Last edited by Dreaming. : 24-11-2011 at 12:59 AM.
I personally would put £100 in a little box and wrap it up. That way my girlfriend could go out and buy whatever she wants and I could avoid going to the shops and/or buying the wrong thing.
I'll go out with you. Then I would get a £100 present ;)
&, of course, your lovely self too!
And I agree with the above, get her something meaningful and that she'll know you've spent a bit of time and effort getting together.
I got my gf some random stuff last year and we'd been together about the same amount of time. I just asked her what she wanted tbh! Then picked a couple of them so she'd still be surprised. I think the things that went down best were a season of a TV show ane a bottle of her favourite perfume.
I'd been with my Man nearly a year for our first Christmas (because we got together in January) so it was a slightly more serious relationship but if I remember rightly I think I only got him a T-shirt! I think he got me a teddy.
Very boring!
Perfume is always nice if she wears it, but try and make sure it's one she wears or will like. Same with jewellery, if she really liked cats for example you could get a necklace with a cat on it and it's a bit more personal and less lovey-dovey traditional than a heart necklace, for example.
Definately don't go over the top and spend too much. I'd say maybe £20? Do you know how much she'll be spending on you, roughly?
I personally would put £100 in a little box and wrap it up. That way my girlfriend could go out and buy whatever she wants and I could avoid going to the shops and/or buying the wrong thing.
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Get her something meaningful. Maybe a box full of things to do with what she likes? Favourite animal? Book she wants? Gadgets etc? =)
I really quite like that idea - lots of little things with thought.
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Definately don't go over the top and spend too much. I'd say maybe £20? Do you know how much she'll be spending on you, roughly?
Congratulations by the way!
Thanks Yeah I was thinking about £15-20 but I have no idea how much she'll be spending on me. I'm the romantic kind and from what I gather so far, she is too, but obviously don't want to go too mad because we will have been together 6 weeks. Not 6 years.
Might try and bring the subject up so we're both reading from the same page kind of thing...
I'm buying my "Christmas" presents in January when things will be cheaper and the shops quieter, that is, IF I go to the shops and not just online.
If people moan about my presents being late, they'll have to deal with it.
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I think the suggestions of something she'd like but nothing over the top price-wise are good suggestions.
I started seeing my partner about 4 or 6 weeks before his birthday, I got him a gourmet chocolate pizza (it was about £15 or £20 I think). I thought it was a fun gift and knew he liked sweet things, he really liked it, it didn't last long
I always like teddies. Theres a lot out there if she has a favourite animal or something, or a favourite colour. You could get her a teddy and some other things the same colour like bubble bath
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You said it.
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I always like teddies. Theres a lot out there if she has a favourite animal or something, or a favourite colour. You could get her a teddy and some other things the same colour like bubble bath
I like the idea of a teddy. I will have to have a look around. Don't know when, work is taking over my life at the min, but it'd have to be ready for the 14th when I last see her before xmas or at New Year.
And and I am going through this now too. It's a lovely predicament :3 I was going to get her an apron but then she went and bought some on the weekend. So I *would* have been spot on :P
Welllll....my bf just dumped me, so im not sure what to do with the presents for him ¬_¬
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