Actually, an Alaskan cruise is on my bucket list...but sadly - not hers.
She said she would fly somewhere but never take a cruise. She claims that she feels so helpless out on the water.
Now I don't know about you guys, but if the ship sank, I can tread water a helluva lot better than I can flap my arms and fly if I bailed out of a perfectly good airplane!
The only places she has really told me she wanted to see was Hawaii, Maine and Mt. Rushmore. Someday, we'll see all three.
We didn't want to waste our money on something that only lasts one night. She knows I don't wear jewelry. So we went out and got matching tattoos. It was her first. It's something different and you don't ever have to worry about losing it. When we hold hands our tattoos line up together like we are a match set.
We rented a condo in Branson, went to some shows, got on the Branson Belle, and just relaxed. You need to get away, it really helps. By the way, congrats!!
Sorry, but she's the most anti-tattoo person you'll ever meet.
She was really born about a hundred years too late.
If she was born 100 years late then take her to one of those ranch cowboy adventure deals. She can act like a cowgirl for a couple days. Ride some horses and eat food from a chuck wagon or bbq. YEEEEHAWWW
That would be too much like work for her. She grew up on a ranch. It didn't belong to her folks - her daddy worked for the owner.
Also, about 12 years ago, we lived on the Roy Fisher quarterhorse ranch in Eufaula (Raiford, actually). We traded monthly rent for ranch duties. So yeah...she's done lots of ranch work. That idea probably wouldn't even appeal to her.
Nice try, though.
You've told us a lot of things she DOESN'T like... but not really much about what she DOES like. Sounds to me like she's kind of a homebody, down-to-earth, focused on family and despises floofiness.
Does she enjoy working around the house? Is she a gardener, pet person, decorator or what? What kind of stuff does she do to relax and enjoy herself? Does she spend her evenings doing needlepoint or crochet or is she too busy scrubbing your bare wooden floors with lye soap and an old coarse brush to bother?
I find that despite the cliche, my wife actually loves home appliance stuff as gifts. Yup... irons, sewing machines, even vacuums. She likes some sparkly stuff, too.
We can offer up all the ideas we can come up with, but if we don't know anything about your wife's INTERESTS, we're really just shooting blindly.
Does she enjoy working around the house? Is she a gardener, pet person, decorator or what? What kind of stuff does she do to relax and enjoy herself? Does she spend her evenings doing needlepoint or crochet or is she too busy scrubbing your bare wooden floors with lye soap and an old coarse brush to bother?
I find that despite the cliche, my wife actually loves home appliance stuff as gifts. Yup... irons, sewing machines, even vacuums. She likes some sparkly stuff, too.
We can offer up all the ideas we can come up with, but if we don't know anything about your wife's INTERESTS, we're really just shooting blindly.
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You've told us a lot of things she DOESN'T like... but not really much about what she DOES like. Sounds to me like she's kind of a homebody, down-to-earth, focused on family and despises floofiness.
Does she enjoy working around the house? Is she a gardener, pet person, decorator or what? What kind of stuff does she do to relax and enjoy herself? Does she spend her evenings doing needlepoint or crochet or is she too busy scrubbing your bare wooden floors with lye soap and an old coarse brush to bother?
I find that despite the cliche, my wife actually loves home appliance stuff as gifts. Yup... irons, sewing machines, even vacuums. She likes some sparkly stuff, too.
We can offer up all the ideas we can come up with, but if we don't know anything about your wife's INTERESTS, we're really just shooting blindly.
You make a good point. I reckon I should describe Mrs GED for ya so maybe we can figure out what she would enjoy.
*sigh*
I wish I could describe her in a nutshell, but hell...I couldn't describe her in a bottomless barrell! 
Basically, Mrs GED is a God fearin', hard workin', family lovin' gal who enjoys long walks and a good book.
Her family is her most prized possession.
She's not a pet person, but she loves cows and horses. Like I said - she grew up on a ranch.
She loves good food but hates high priced reataurants. If we spend 50 bucks at a restaurant, she talks about how she coulda bought a weeks worth of groceries for that amount. Her favorite is probably Mexican, but she's just as happy with burgers and fries.
She loves TV shows like The Waltons, Andy Griffith, The Beverly Hillbillies and Dr. Quinn. She's a John Wayne fan but hates Clint Eastwood. She loves Elvis movies but not his music so much. She thinks Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott are the two most handsome men in exsistence but only if their dirty and filthy.
She demands honesty and loathes nonsense and laziness.
Her John Deere lawn tractor and her best friend Stacey are her two therapists.
She loves to cook but rarely finds time for it.
She's the most honest person you'll ever meet and feels compeled to tell me every time she farts and can not fathom why I'm not the same way.
She has diamonds and pearls but the only jewelry she ever wears is a cheap gold wedding band I bought her years ago and a silver necklace her best fried/therapist, Stacey bought her for her birthday this year. It's some kind of "sister" ring or somethingerother on a silver chain. I'm thinking that Stacey may have the same thing around her neck. They've known each other for over 30 years.
She doesn't like to travel and she doesn't drink nor smoke and can not understand why anybody would want to.
She hates guns, liars and thieves but she would let a thief take whatever material things he wanted. On the flipside, she would blow his brains out if he dared harm one hair on her kid's or grandson's heads.
She thinks a college degree is very important but yet she doesn't have one herself.
She thinks tattoos and multiple piercings is trashy.
She thinks that bars and casinos are the devil's dens.
She thinks computers and the internet are the spawn of Satan.
She prays regularly but will cuss you up a blue streak if you get her angry.
She prefers to listen to Conway Twitty and George Strait but one of her favorite songs is Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue.
She's kind of opinionated, but bases her beliefs on the Bible. If it's in the scriptures, it is law. Period.
I could probably go on and on
but I think y'all got the jist of her. Similar threads
