SO I get my wife.....

[Mike19]

I grew up in the 50s and 60s in the New York suburbs. These were the cutomary rules for Valentine's Day gifts between husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend:

1.Only the male gives the female a gift. A female may give a greeting card to the male, but that was unusual.

2. There were only 2 accetable gifts for Valentine's Day: roses and/or a box of chocolates. The amount spent depended upon one's income level.

I guess things have really changed in 50 years: now the husband gives the wife a tool for housework and the wife gives the husband a very expensive toy.

 

[Aspidites]

I grew up in the 50s and 60s in the New York suburbs. These were the cutomary rules for Valentine's Day gifts between husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend:

1.Only the male gives the female a gift. A female may give a greeting card to the male, but that was unusual.

2. There were only 2 accetable gifts for Valentine's Day: roses and/or a box of chocolates. The amount spent depended upon one's income level.

I guess things have really changed in 50 years: now the husband gives the wife a tool for housework and the wife gives the husband a very expensive toy.

I think it is more cultural, what would happen on the coasts is not what would happen in the south or midwest.

 

[RFord04]

Hahaha, I work at Big Lots, and theres always this little commercial skit that they play over the PA/music system that reminds me of this.

The guy in it gets his wife a vacuum for Valentines, and the lady says "Oh Jim, you shouldn't have... I mean you really shouldn't have. Take it back."

The guy responds "uhhhhhhh... I can't. I threw away the receipt."

It went on to stress that you keep your receipt afterwards. You certainly are a lucky guy. A dyson is a nice vacuum, but it's still a vacuum, lol.

 

[GCool]

I grew up in the 50s and 60s in the New York suburbs. These were the cutomary rules for Valentine's Day gifts between husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend:

1.Only the male gives the female a gift. A female may give a greeting card to the male, but that was unusual.

2. There were only 2 accetable gifts for Valentine's Day: roses and/or a box of chocolates. The amount spent depended upon one's income level.

I guess things have really changed in 50 years: now the husband gives the wife a tool for housework and the wife gives the husband a very expensive toy.

Toy? If you make money with a bass is it a toy or a tool?

BTW a lot of this has changed in the last 50 years ...

 

[GCool]

I have asked this question of all the women I know and every one of them has said that a) it does not matter who makes the money and b) a vacuum is not an acceptable gift for Valentines under ANY circumstances. Even my mother who is 87 has said that if I got my better half a vacuum for Valentines she would personally slap me for being an inconsiderate ass.

A friends wife said it is usually cultural what is acceptable but if her husband got her a vacuum, and she is a stay at home mom, they would have one hell of a fight and he would be on the couch.

And yes both of us work (she makes 6 figures, I don't) and she does most of the housework because it has to be done exactly to her specifications and if it is not EXACT she redoes it anyway.

well maybe be one day God will bless you with an old P!

 

[GCool]

NOTE... we both said we where not getting each other any thing for V-day.. just a nice dinner with each other ... so I snuck and got a much needed vacuum she has been looking at and would not buy for some reason ... I had most of the money saved up for this 66 p... but she loved giving that bass to me more than any thing I could have given her.... like I said I have the best wife in the world!