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Ladies, what do you think of this gift?


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You like to hunt and so does your husband. He has hunted much longer than you have and you are just getting started.

You husband goes out and buys a brand new shotgun for duck hunting.

For your birthday, your husband gives you his old gun (still a good gun, but the gun he replaced with a new one) as a gift.

Thoughtful gift...or not?

Opinions?

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Sounds kinda like my mother in law watching the movie or reading the book (and highlighting passages) before she gives it to me as a gift. If you give her something else along with it that is new (things hunting related), it may not be as bad.

Ok, so I like the shiny new things! grin

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If the "husband" buys himself a new gun, why not just give her the old one. I bought myself 2 new rod/reel combos this year and gave my husband one of the old ones, I would never save it for his birthday. I do not like hand me downs for gifts on my birthday, anniversary, or Christmas. Remember women are much more sensitive creatures than men. Because I like to go out and purchase most of my own toys, I would prefer my husband give me a nice card with a note in it promising to do the laundry for a whole month or something like that. Oh yeah, he actually has to follow up on it and "get r done". My husband can come up with the strangest gifts!!! One year he gave me an old kerosene railroad lantern he saw in an antique store. Give me a break!

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Why should I get the "hand me down"? If he gets a new one -I get a new one-it would always be in the back of your mind that you could shoot better-its psychological-if he doesn't want it what's wrong with it. It's like dumping cheap fishing stuff on kids and expecting them to do well and be excited about fishing.. Sell the old gun, there's a market for them too.

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Hand me downs are never a gift. When you were a kid you didn't want you older brothers raggidy jeans for a birthday or christmas gift. Everyone wants something new for a gift, we may not always get something new but that is what we want.

Hope

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That is what I told him...and he disagreed!

If he gives it to her and teaches her to shoot it or whatever...but not as a gift...I told him that is fine. But as a gift? No way!

He says "But it is a really nice gun and worth good money".

I told him he would be much better off to trade it in and get a new gun...even if it is not as "nice". It would still be new and it would be all hers.

He thinks I am a dope and is still going through with it....

For me, as I collect antique lures, an old lure as a gift would be nice. But, not this....

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I am an antique, I don't want to surround myself with them. Just my upbringing, my entire childhood consisted of 2 furniture styles.....early Salvation Army, and late Goodwill..............

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I guess it all depends on your specific point of view and how your related to the "hand me downer". I have 2 guns that were handed down to me from my Dad, the one was a 16 guage shotgun that my grandfather bought brand new sometime in the late 40's early fifties. My Dad gave me that gun for my H.S. graduation. The other was a 12 gauge that was his own that he passed down because he quit waterfowl hunting several years ago. With that said, they are two very important "gifts" that I could never forget or replace. SO it all depends on the circumstances and specific situation on how you look at a "handed down" gift! Good luck finding common ground with the hubby! grin

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NOT!!

Buy & give her the "new" gun and you use your old one.

Your wife is not a "hand me down" don't treat her like one.

Think of her, not yourself.

If you do not want your old gun, go trade it in & buy two new ones. Hey a matching set!! How romantic is that!! smile

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ABSOUTLY NOT!! As you can see I don't post much, I'm not an expert on most things, but this one I know. DON'T DO IT! The gun isn't good enough for him, it's not good enough for her. Give her something nice and the gun as an extra, maybe, but not the gun itself. I speak from experience.

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Doesn't this fall under the category of "What's yours is mine and what's mine is yours"? I just bought my wife a brand new Browning shotgun for her birthday with absolutely no intentions of "me" ever using it. She was happy. Also, that wasn't the only thing she got, kind of a "side-show".

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