Thursday, November 19, 2009

Decisions, decisions...

Since the Pretend Husband went into business for himself, there's been a bit of belt-tightening in the KAT household. To the point where anything involving money results in a long discussion and/or debate.

For the PH's birthday last month, he wouldn't let me buy him any gifts. Which I smoothly got around by not buying presents, but instead buying food and making him breakfast, lunch, dinner and three desserts (it probably would have been cheaper to just buy him a Wii game already!)

With my birthday and Christmas coming up, negotiations have been going at a feverish pace. We agreed yesterday to purchase garage door openers as our only Christmas gifts (which sounds lame, but I am so, so excited about them, which just makes me lame, I guess). As for my birthday, the PH tried to convince me to institute a ban on gifts, but I wasn't having any of that (especially because he can't bake to save his life so I'd basically be getting chicken for my birthday).

I told the PH I want a purse for my birthday (not even an expensive one-- one that costs less than $30 at Marshall's). I've needed a purse for awhile now, but have been holding off on getting one so it can be my gift. But then my electric toothbrush died the other night so I threw that onto the birthday wish list. Which led to the following email from the PH yesterday:

Do you want a toothbrush or a purse? One or the other, my friend. Choose carefully. I will still love you if you only have one tooth (if that helps the decision making process).

I would complain that it's going to be a pretty sad birthday if I get only a toothbrush or only a purse, but it's still better than the alternative-- a plateful of chicken as my only gift.

5 comments:

X said...

Can you just get one of those cheap spinbrushes at target that cost less than ten bucks and then get a purse? Then again, if the purse is only 30, can you get your own purse and get the toothbrush? Do you and the PH have your own brush heads and share the body (me and my husband do this) because then it's not really a gift for you but a family gift, and thus doesn't count...

Sorry if I made the problem worse.

sj said...

i think x's solution is brilliant.

a family toothbrush. LOVE IT.

and i shared this story with everyone because it truly was hilarious. the PH is awesome.

kk said...

we go through this all the time. the "let's get a big joint gift to each other" and then I cave and buy gifts anyway.

Because really, who doesn't love to open gifts?

(PS: go for the purse and grab a $2 toothbrush at CVS)

Sam_I_am said...

I don't think I'd want a family toothbrush. There is a strict ban on C using my toothbrush, even if it were a different head, because we'd probably mix them up. Tell him you want a purse with a toothbrush wallet.

Soda and Candy said...

Purse.

You can buy a regular toothbrush for like $2 and get by with that until times are a bit less lean...