Any Ideas for Husband's Christmas Gift? - RV-Dreams Community Forum

BaxtersMom · RV-Dreams Community Member

Any Ideas for Husband's Christmas Gift?

Workinrvers · RV-Dreams Family Member

Doran Presuure Pro tire pressure moniter, nice set of binoculars, metal detector, handheld GPS fo Geocaching and hiking, nice digital camera, lafuma reclining chair.

This year I asked dear old Santa for an 18 volt cordless drill to use on my back stabilyzer jacks on the fifth wheel. Keeping my fingers crossed because Santa said I'm getting too big to sit on his lap and I felt a little odd standing in line at the mall, the candy cane was good though !!

I guess a lot depends on his interests and tastes, hope this helps some. Good luck

Phil Bob

Old Snipe · RV-Dreams Family Member

My family always gives me a gift certificate for Camping World. That way I get to pick out what I need (like). I enjoy getting that kind of a gift.

ken and cindy · RV-Dreams Family Member

A handheld, portable, infrared temperature gauge ? Like these here . Great safety tool for checking tires etc..and just plain fun to use :)

Linda · Hostess

What about an inflatable boat?

ken and cindy · RV-Dreams Family Member

Linda wrote:

What about an inflatable boat?

That would be standard equipment woudn't it ?

Paul and Bonnie · RV-Dreams Family Member

ken and cindy wrote:

A handheld, portable, infrared temperature gauge ? Like these here . Great safety tool for checking tires etc..and just plain fun to use :)

My husband has one of those temp. gadgets and he loves it.

BaxtersMom · RV-Dreams Community Member

Well, Linda, the boat idea would be good if he wanted to venture out by himself. He has too much fun losing me off of small watercraft!

-- Edited by BaxtersMom at 23:02, 2006-11-30

BaxtersMom · RV-Dreams Community Member

Hey, there's still tools out there I can get him, huh? He'll probably be glad to not get another pair of slippers. Thanks for the great ideas!

Tmcblane · RV-Dreams Family Member

Get him a set of the stabilizers for the 5th wheel. They work great and it's a gift for him that serves both of you.

Actually, as fulltimers you lives revolve around the truck and RV, so with that in mind some solar panels, assorted meters and gadgets are always wanna have's. GPS for guidance and the savings on Marriage counseling will more than pay for the purchase.

Additional batteries, fishing gear, nice lounge chairs, or just a good ole certificate to camping world and let him do his own shopping. Guys are like women, we aren't so much about the thought of the gift but the usefulness of it.

-- Edited by Tmcblane at 20:05, 2006-12-01

Joan On The Road · RV-Dreams Family Member

About 20 years ago I bought Jim a velour lounging suit that I thought would look great and be real comfy. It hung in the closet for years, never worn! And it became a family joke :) I never bought him much for Christmas or birthday's after that because he's real picky. We are much more likely to shop together, see something he likes and I'll say "well Merry Christmas" or "Happy Birthday".

Last year we bought the flat panel Sony that sits on our dash. Last week we were in Macy's and I encouraged him to try on some comfy slippers. "Just try them on, you've been wanting some for a long time!" So he did, they were comfy, and I said "Merry Christmas".

Everyone's different. I'm real easy to read and he buys me jewelry, computer software, movies, books...but he's just about impossible. However, we have had some success using the Amazon Wish List. He puts stuff up there and then the kids know what to buy...that is if he doesn't buy it for himself before Christmas rolls around ! :) Drives us crazy!

This year he's been talking about a DVD recorder where you can put in a VHS tape and record it to a DVD. So I'm encouraging him to pick one and put it on the Amazon Wish List and one of our rich (!) kids will buy it for him/us.

Merry Christmas,

Joan

Roz · RV-Dreams Family Member

Greetings, All who have followed this thread!

I have followed the posts with great interest, as this is a subject close at hand. I worked for a wonderful guy for 18 years. Being a dyed in the wool type "A", he even carried this trait into his Christmas and Birthday wish list. He simply went out and bought precisely what he really wanted, had them gift wrapped and attached a price tag on each gift. All of these wrapped gifts were staxhed in a certain place for the family to "shop". The family members simply picked up a wrapped gift, in their price range, placed the correct amount of money in the cigar box and attached a "to/from tag" to the gift and under the tree it went.

In all the years I have known Henry, he always got what he really wanted and never had to return a single gift for a different size or color! But best of all, he enjoyed the shopping immensely while his family equally enjoyed not having to shop for a very "persnicity" guy!

Like it or not, it always worked for Henry and his family!

Charles Henry