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

[Dave in Houston]

in Houston

[Tim Daneliuk]

[MikeWhy]

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?

[Dave in Houston]

[Gary A in KC]

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

[Gerald Ross]

A nail gun.

[lenhow]

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

[Tim Daneliuk]

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

[joe]

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

[Doug Miller]

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?

[MikeWhy]

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.

[tom]

Mine just said "A short cruise". Okay.

[Upscale]

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

[Elrond Hubbard]

"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:

to New Yorker cartoon)

Scott

[Leon]

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.

[Robatoy]

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Every time I see the name Husqvarna, regardless of the product discussed, I feel just a wee bit shitty 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.

[Leon]

Every time I see the name Husqvarna, regardless of the product discussed, I feel just a wee bit shitty 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????

[Robatoy]

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.

[Dave in Houston]

Tazio Nuvalri, Juan Manuel Fangio.

DJM

[Swingman]

"Robatoy" wrote

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

... guess what sport! :)