Disguise a high recognition branded gift
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My SO has always hankered after a particular piece of jewellery that comes in a high brand awareness box, as these things do. The moment she sees the box she’ll know what’s in it, diminishing the surprise somewhat. Or so it feels to me.
Sooo, do I stop overthinking and let the box be the surprise, or take it out, repackage it in something anonymous and as she unwraps it enjoy the surprise and give her the box with all the papers etc separately?
Sooo, do I stop overthinking and let the box be the surprise, or take it out, repackage it in something anonymous and as she unwraps it enjoy the surprise and give her the box with all the papers etc separately?
SpartacusF said:
My SO has always hankered after a particular piece of jewellery that comes in a high brand awareness box, as these things do. The moment she sees the box she’ll know what’s in it, diminishing the surprise somewhat. Or so it feels to me.
Sooo, do I stop overthinking and let the box be the surprise, or take it out, repackage it in something anonymous and as she unwraps it enjoy the surprise and give her the box with all the papers etc separately?
Yes. Get a generic gift box and use that.Sooo, do I stop overthinking and let the box be the surprise, or take it out, repackage it in something anonymous and as she unwraps it enjoy the surprise and give her the box with all the papers etc separately?
^^^ Put the box in a bigger box.
Or make a game out of it, we did this once with tickets for a show she wanted to see.
I hand her a Christmas card with clues, she then had to find each envelope in turn, which had another clue, until she had train, hotel and show tickets.
I too gave my Mrs a item of jewellery that she had hankered after for ages.
I bought her a pair of Fairfax & Favour boots that she had expressed a muted interest in, I put the jewellery box, wrapped, down one leg.
On the run up to Christmas she knew she had boots, because of the box shape gift under the tree, she opened them on the day with a 'thank you but that was predictable' look on her face and was genuinely bowled over when she found the 'bonus' gift.
Ultimately good women appreciate the thought and consideration more then the monetary value.
If you have chosen wisely, wrapped yourself, put some thought into the presentation that is what they want.
Or make a game out of it, we did this once with tickets for a show she wanted to see.
I hand her a Christmas card with clues, she then had to find each envelope in turn, which had another clue, until she had train, hotel and show tickets.
I too gave my Mrs a item of jewellery that she had hankered after for ages.
I bought her a pair of Fairfax & Favour boots that she had expressed a muted interest in, I put the jewellery box, wrapped, down one leg.
On the run up to Christmas she knew she had boots, because of the box shape gift under the tree, she opened them on the day with a 'thank you but that was predictable' look on her face and was genuinely bowled over when she found the 'bonus' gift.
Ultimately good women appreciate the thought and consideration more then the monetary value.
If you have chosen wisely, wrapped yourself, put some thought into the presentation that is what they want.
Tango13 said:
Buy a tub of lard/margarine, melt in the microwave, place the jewellery inside the molten lard/margarine, put it in the fridge so it becomes solid and gift the lard/margarine to the wife 
A friend of a friend played rugby at uni and lived in a house full of rugby players (5iirc). They used to play a game called "hide the poo" which is fairly self explanatory. This tactic was employed by one individual.
The game was unanimously cancelled when it was found after a few weeks by the recipient. Amazed someone wasn't seriously hurt in the aftermath tbh.
Many years ago, I bought my wife a 22ct gold necklace and earrings for her 40th. It was Indian jewellery, but in a kind of Egyptian design, so quite unusual.
I also bought a box of chocolates, then carefully opened the sellophane wrapper, removed some of the chocolates, and replaced them with the gold set, then re-sealed the sellophane wrapper and wrapped the box of chocolates in wrapping paper.
We were away in Devon at the time with my BiL and niece. When she took off the wrapping paper, I said I couldn't think of anything really to get her, but maybe we could look together for someting in the coming weeks. Although not really showing it, she was a little disappointed. My niece (who didn't know) asked if we could have a chocolate anyway, so my wife pulled off the sellophane and was very pleasantly surprised with the contents.
What made it even better was that she wore the set that day, and on 2 separate occasions, complete strangers commented to her how nice her set was. My niece still mentions that from time to time, many years later.
I also bought a box of chocolates, then carefully opened the sellophane wrapper, removed some of the chocolates, and replaced them with the gold set, then re-sealed the sellophane wrapper and wrapped the box of chocolates in wrapping paper.
We were away in Devon at the time with my BiL and niece. When she took off the wrapping paper, I said I couldn't think of anything really to get her, but maybe we could look together for someting in the coming weeks. Although not really showing it, she was a little disappointed. My niece (who didn't know) asked if we could have a chocolate anyway, so my wife pulled off the sellophane and was very pleasantly surprised with the contents.
What made it even better was that she wore the set that day, and on 2 separate occasions, complete strangers commented to her how nice her set was. My niece still mentions that from time to time, many years later.
Ambleton said:
A friend of a friend played rugby at uni and lived in a house full of rugby players (5iirc).
They used to play a game called "hide the poo" which is fairly self explanatory. This tactic was employed by one individual.
The game was unanimously cancelled when it was found after a few weeks by the recipient. Amazed someone wasn't seriously hurt in the aftermath tbh.
This seems to be one of those uni tales that crops up every few years or so. Either a well known uni gag, the same group of people famous for it or just a thing that never actually happened.They used to play a game called "hide the poo" which is fairly self explanatory. This tactic was employed by one individual.
The game was unanimously cancelled when it was found after a few weeks by the recipient. Amazed someone wasn't seriously hurt in the aftermath tbh.
It's genius though and the world is better for this story existing
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