My spouse's birthday is next week and I thought I had the perfect idea to get them a new phone (they've been complaining about their old one a lot but haven't talked about getting looking for a new one much). Fast-forward to yesterday when they mentioned they were looking at the trade-in value of their current phone ($5). If they buy themselves one before next week I'm going to be so annoyed!

[–] FancyPantsFIRE 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it count if I’m that person? 😅

[–] corefoundation 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm like this too. Having enough money to get anything I could wish for I cannot think of a material gift that I would really appreciate. I would already buy it if I could think of something.

[–] FancyPantsFIRE 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty similar, I don’t want much, and what I do want I tend to buy. It drives my wife nuts because she never knows what to get me.

[–] yenahmik 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Update: I had to bust out their gift early because they were about to buy a used one off FB.

[–] FancyPantsFIRE 2 points 1 year ago

At least you beat them to the punch!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My spouse and I stopped doing gifts for each other 9 years ago. If we do buy a gift, it's random and not tied to a holiday. It's definitely tied to us being frugal and not wanting to buy unwanted things. Christmas has always been a weird one because our families are the complete opposite.