Don't know if any of you girls got suckered into this... before FH and I were engaged, I told him I would put $2000 in for a new tv once we were engaged as an 'engagement ring' for him. Anyone else do something crazy like this? At the time, I thought, oh whatever, it's a fraction of what he'll spend... now I have this monstrosity in my living room! Anyone else say/do anything crazy before getting engaged?
lol oh godddd.... but the tv is hotttttt thats the first thing i told fh that we're buying when we get a place together
ilonka020
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i wanted to get him something nice to, but i didnt have the money so i didnt, but i think ill get him something for his bday.
soonT0beMrsD
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thats awesome! fh always complains and says its not fair that i get a ring and he doesnt
FalNBill
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We have one like that... our deal was i would let him take some of the money we reicved as gifts from our engagement party and put it towards his first love... his plasma tv.
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i have a 53 inch OLD SCHOOL HUMUNGO TV in my living room and its not even operational! Yeah that's right it doesnt work and he still hast moved it!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
THe thing is a monstrosity but i have to admit going to a smaller tv i feel like im squinting
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I bought FH a PS3 for his 'engagement gift' and since we had just moved in together and he was starting his first full-time job after grad school, we splurged on a few things.
we now have a 46' samsung LCD 1080p tv... surround sound speakers, a nice stand, a wii....
I admit it is nice having the tv, especially since we got a DVR as an e-gift
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Niiiiiice TV.........I told FH I was going to get him a Bulldog because he had told me we weren't getting engaged for years...but now that we are I keep telling him' we can't have a dog now A.) b/c of where we live and B.) b/c he won't clean up after it, he barely cleans up after himself, let alone a dog.
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lol! we just got the same TV!
crazeee18
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i told him that i would buy him a present once we got engaged too....i just bought him a rolex submariner...im still paying it off lol
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yeah llike i could ever afford anything like that lol....i thought jets tickets would top his present (for our anniversary) andwhat does he do? he goes out and spends nearly 2 grand on a necklace! i will never have him beat ever,.....i thought i had him last xmas , and then an hour goes by after we open presents, and he wips out another present, and its a mac book laptop! ugh
lol i wish i was a millionare cause i would buy him his dream truck
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nice lol
Dr Meg
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I wanted to buy FH an ipod as an engagement gift and he said absolutely not. But he wants to put a plasma tv on our registry. He doesn't get it when I say 'no one is gonna spend that much money on us.'
he gives me butterflies
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haha. too funny. i told him he could get a new car, of course i didnt have to put anything into it, except for the 'okay' lol i rule!! hahahha nice tv though!
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Posted by Dr Meg
I wanted to buy FH an ipod as an engagement gift and he said absolutely not. But he wants to put a plasma tv on our registry. He doesn't get it when I say 'no one is gonna spend that much money on us.'
1. Most places have a completion bonus where if an item on your registry doesn't sell, you can buy it yourself 10% off after the wedding.
2. There's a website called honeyfund.com that lets you create a honeymoon registry. I watched the tutorial and it seems that they dont actually get involved with your money, and people click 'I'm buying X,' X gets marked purchased, and then they get a little thing to print out that says 'I bought you X' which they include in their card with a check. I think there are also ways to pay by credit card/Paypal but they involve the Paypal fee. You then type in whatever you want and what it will cost for your honeymoon, broken down however you want. 'dinner for 2 .... $150' 'bottle of champagne for the first night.... $75' '100 miles of airfare to Aruba... $120' etc. you can break it down however you want.
I don't see why you can't do that with non-honeymoon things. It's a little goofy but for high-ticket items you really want, who is stopping you from doing '$100 toward the tv of our dreams' and list 20 of those. People can pick how many $100s they want to give you.
Probably tacky, but it would enable you to 'register' for high-ticket items in a way that would allow guests to contribute.
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LOL! DOn't tell my FH this whole 'engagement ring' for him thing. He is an electronic junky!!
Well the summer of 2006 we went away in Aug. to Mexico i paid for the trip and told him that's his engagment gift. We didn't get engaged until Fall of 2006. So he got his gift early it was a great trip.
