VANITY: Need luxury Christmas present recommendations for wife

12/19/2006 | Myself, ccmay

[ccmay]

This is directed at upper crust ladies or those who would like to be.

I am quite well off, but have lousy fashion instincts, taste and sense for what women want. For my wife's present I typically just go to Tiffany's or Louis Vuitton on Christmas Eve, and buy what the cutest sales girl recommends. I had to do this for a number of years before my wife forgave me for the cookbook I gave her one year.

I'm trying to do better this time. Any women want to tell me what's hot among the ladies who lunch this year? My wife is 40 and skinny enough to wear any designer. Suggestions for "romantic" gifts that will be, ahem, repaid in kind are particularly welcome.

thanks,

-ccm

[lakey]

They're assuming I finally got a mink coat.

[Theresawithanh]

Has your wife given you any hints as to what she would like? We ladies are usually very good at that, even those of us who aren't 'upper crust' and who have no desire to be.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Get her a mixmaster. Puke will tell you all about it.

[Vor Lady]

If you haven't gotten the mink, hang in there. Every year when my hubby asked me what I wanted for Christmas I always said a diamond tennis bracelet. After 27 years, guess what I got last year for Christmas, yep, my diamond tennis bracelet! Now, of course, I'm too paranoid to wear it anywhere....

[Pukin Dog]

Get her a convertible.

[NRA2BFree]

I have a gorgeous diamond necklace that I will sell you. It's got 262 diamonds and it's set in platinum. I haven't had it appraised for 4 years but it appraised for $11.2K then. It's a beautiful necklace but I never wear it any more, and I have so many other diamonds that I could wear if I went out somewhere. There's no point in me keeping it. I have an 18 carat gold and diamond ring that has a 6.5 carat center stone with pave diamonds and rubies set around it. I designed it and had my jeweler make it. I also have a 4 carat diamond and gold ring that is a stunning ring that I would sell too. In fact, I would sell you all of my other diamond jewelery too. I sold all of my businesses and moved to the country where I am 150 miles from "real" civilization. I don't need them where I live. The rattlesnakes aren't impressed. LOL! I would much rather have a gun than a diamond, and a SUV rather than a Porsche. LOL! All of those would make your wife look like the wife of a well off husband. Right up your alley! :o)

[jwh_Denver]

Yeah, I've noticed these hints are going to cost me some bucks. Her little hints....diamonds.

[Cagey]

What about a Pony?

[exile]

Ironing Board Covers. If it works for Walter E. Williams, it'll work for the rest of us.

[lakey]

My paranoia: I stopped asking for the coat when PETA people threw paint on women wearing animal furs.

[Xenalyte]

[Shimmer128]

And all i wanted was you.