Hell's Christmas

[zoobie]

Every Christmas, no matter how much I try, my wife decides against my wishes and buys me electronics made with extremely high standards from China.
I tell her every Christmas to stay away from electronics....because these needs research to buy with any intelligence.
And every year, she hands be computer parts and the like having no idea what they're for.
This year, it's some tiny phone from China so small I can't even dial that's supposed to be our main house phone.
Then, the icing on the cake. A brand new Walmart Cyberhome DVD player once again made with the highest of standards in China.
Now, she actually wants to open the DVD player to watch some lame movie.
I see now that the road to hell is, indeed, paved with good intentions.
How do I inform her that she's just bought a bunch of crap with good intentions and I don't want to open it because once you do, you can't return it?
Or is she just insane?

[sacajaweeda]

Women. You can't live with 'em. Can't bury them in the back yard.

[crazysane]

Just be alll like, "WOMAN, dis be my house and you best be warned to keep yo place!!!" Also wear a jock strap, for when she kicks you in the nuts.

Seriously, ask her to get you gift cards. and just be like, "Well, dear, I had a particular dvd player in mind, and while I appreciate the thought (I really wanted a dvd player), The one I had picked out has several features I want. I love you, and thank you, but let's go get that one."

rephrase as your wife can handle. Or just lie and say that only certain brands will work with your TV. If someone tells her different, they don't know what they're talking about.

[ROF]

I think your insane. My better half buys the same stuff all the time and not just on holidays or birthdays. Look at it this way if you really don't like what she got you smile, use it a few months, and then sell it to one of your friends, or better yet one of hers. She tried to do something nice. Just because it doesn't meet your standards and trust me my better halves choice of tech rarely meets mine just use it and if it's really all that bad you can always find someone to buy it. I've sold stuff on eBay for twice the price it was bought for so I'm quite sure without being a fool or making her out to appear as one you can get rid of the stuff and might even turn a profit.

Who knows you may even find that something you considered junk maybe quite useful.

[Cobra]

Moved to Off Topic.

I would personally accept it with a smile but gently suggest in a few weeks that your wife not buy things like that again. She is, after all, just trying to please you. I hope that someday I have a wife who does things like that.

Now, stiff upper lip, old bean.

[smearbrick1]

I do my best to educate my wife on the quality of different brands of electronics. My wife would never go to Wal-Mart and buy a Cyberhome DVD player.

When it comes to our home theater receiver, she tells everyone "we wanted one that had multiple optical inputs".

I'm so proud of her.

[ps2daddy]

I would suggest a list of santas favorite top 10 items for him and have her pick a few of the list.

Provide webpage links with pictures and prices

We both do this for each other and both get what we want.

(My wife was leaving the house the other day and showed me this list that Santa left in front of the door for me to see, (e-mailing works better I think))