O/T: What are you getting the missus this year?

dirty bags, so I bought her a Dyson vortex bag-less. Same idea that works so well in the shop (Oneida). Is it such a horrible idea? The beige carpets really do need cleaning more than the once a week she manages to get in. What's so wrong with a gift that helps her do that?

Maybe my sarcasm meter is busted, but if not, you sir are going to the doghouse. And it's not even close . . .

A nail gun.

for some reason I'm reminded of this ...

My cousin, knowing his step daughter had a desire to travel and see the world, gave her luggage as a high school graduation gift. Nothing says "get out of the house" quite like luggage !

Lenny

Ooooops - didn't realize they were the same thing as I was merely responding to your msg ;)

Don't know, but I'm sure she'll tell me as soon as she decides.

in fact, that I have survived -- not once, but *twice* -- giving my wife a vacuum cleaner.

For Christmas.

At her request.

Am I lucky, or what?

Yeah, I was just having a little fun. ;D We exchange small tokens on holidays, nothing you might consider even a bauble. She just likes knowing that I still remember.

Mine just said "A short cruise". Okay.

Lucky you. A quick trip to MacDonalds sounds like a pretty inexpensive gift.

"Dave in Houston" wrote in news:77U%k.5867$8_3.5399 @flpi147.ffdc.sbc.com:

This has been my plan for the holiday season for a number of years now:

Scott

I think it will be another Husqvarna sewing machine, for embroidery. The good new about that is that she was looking at the $9000.00 machine and is now looking at the $3800 machine that was recently in the Houston Quilt Show and marked down about $1K.

Isn't a sewing machine sorta like a vacuum cleaner?

I use the Jet dust collector and the Festool Vacuum. She uses the Husqvarna Quilt Designer. I use the Ricar vacuum cleaner and the Roomba. she uses the Long Arm sewing machine.

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Every time I see the name Husqvarna, regardless of the product discussed, I feel just a wee bit s***ty for ever selling my 250cc Husqvarna dirt bike. Modern day dirt bikes are a whole lot better suited for heavy motocross, but.... I worked a lot of menial part-time jobs and chores to get the money together for that bike. It was a dream come true....a victory of sorts. My mother, who was never into baubles, was very happy to get a Nilfisk vacuum for her birthday once. (Mind you, inside the birthday card was also a reservation to my parents' favourite resort in the Swiss Alps.)

One thing I will always be grateful for and that was something my maternal grandmother always said: "We're too poor to buy cheap stuff." My grandfather always liked her saying that. He was a carpenter/ cabinet maker and had some really cool stuff. All Neander.

Every time I see the name Husqvarna, regardless of the product discussed, I feel just a wee bit s***ty for ever selling my 250cc Husqvarna dirt bike.

That was my first association with the Husqvarna name also, back in the early 70's. What, they make other things now????

I only had a few sports heroes in my youth. Torsten Hallman, Stirling Moss, and Mike Hailwood. All motorsports guys in one form or another. I used to collect marque badges, the small pins with a motor company's logo on it. My prized one was a Husqvarna pin. I put it on the lapel of my cousin, also a motocross buff, the day of his funeral.

Tazio Nuvalri, Juan Manuel Fangio.

DJM

"Robatoy" wrote

I recall only having one: Fred Parnell, from Baton Rouge, LA.

... guess what sport! :)