What are we giving my sister?

A friend entrusted DH with posting cards and getting a prescription filled. Yes, you've guessed it!

A friend entrusted DH with posting cards and getting a prescription filled. Yes, you've guessed it!

I bought myself a handbag for dh to give me with his agreement and handed it to him to wrap. He has lost it. I know all his hiding places.
I do the cards. He posts them.

Yes, just the same here.

I am now waiting for the usual Christmas eve question " Have we got any wrapping paper ?" He will be wrapping my gift but I doubt he will have actually gone out and bought it himself. He will have recruited one or all of our three DDs to do that.

Mine sits beside me at the dining room table and after he adds his name to a card pops it in its envelope affixes the printed label and the stamp.

You are not alone. DH does write his own Xmas cards now after a bit of badgering but he wouldn't buy anyone anything - he says they have all got enough and so have we. He'd like us all juts to have a nice meal together - that I have cooked of course!

He never writes cards the excuse being his spelling and handwriting are rubbish, it's true
He does buy and wrap my present but I have to give him a wish list to choose from. The rest is all down to me.

Mine is the same but since he's retired he's decided he likes ironing and does it all!!

Mine's the same, they won't change, so I don't bother any more. He would not know if a friend had not sent a card, or we had not sent a card to a friend, but I care about these things, so it is really my choice. He sometimes voices an opinion on a gift, but would not dream of actually going to the shops to buy it.

It's the same here.
He does ring his sister to see what she and MIL would like, when I ask him to do so. He does then come with me to the shop where I know said items can be bought and will choose if there is a choice. I then wrap and write and he arranges a visit to deliver. I hand him said gifts on the doorstep and he gets the thanks.
His friends and colleagues never get cards or gifts on any occasion from him.
I even have to buy my present from him, which I give to him with paper, tag, scissors and sellotape!
I often ask him what would happen if he didn't have me and he replies that he would call our daughters

Not alone Alea. I don't recall DH choosing and buying a gift for anyone - other than me - since we married 47 years ago. Or indeed wrapping one. He now writes 3 Christmas cards for his distant family as I refuse to do those but never a birthday card. It bugs me sometimes but in fairness there are loads of positives - like the ironing - which I try to remember. Often I don't mind but just sometimes it infuriates. What would he do if left on his own? No idea!