blackxrose said:If you guys can't get the picture from I've already posted, he's very difficult. We've been best friends for the last 3+ years and I still can't figure out what acceptable presents are for him. If I still haven't gotten it after the first 2 years then I know it's not me lol. I'm about to just start calling around and seeing if there are any cheap strippers for hire around here..
blackxrose said:If you guys can't get the picture from I've already posted, he's very difficult. We've been best friends for the last 3+ years and I still can't figure out what acceptable presents are for him. If I still haven't gotten it after the first 2 years then I know it's not me lol. I'm about to just start calling around and seeing if there are any cheap strippers for hire around here.
Sounds to me like he is very easy to buy for, not very difficult.
He doesn't like presents and hates spending money, and doesn't like a big commotion being made over a silly, trite thing like a birthday. So you taken him out to dinner as already agreed upon, and you give some inexpensive "token" present ... perhaps something humorous and fun to play with. Perhaps just some boring clothing item you know he needs. (Or best of all, something for him which you know he won't use, but which you can enjoy using! haha .. like a bathrobe, t-shirt or box of chocolates. :lol: ) And don't feel guilty about it, because he really doesn't want any more than that. Anything more is not going to bring him happiness, it will just annoy him.
Maybe the difficulty is in accepting that he doesn't like presents or fusssed over? Maybe mixed with guilt about your being away to the funeral at that time?
But many adults, particularly men, just don't care about birthdays and gifts. For many it is awkward and unpleasant to be fussed over. So don't feel guilty. Go to the funeral and have a good time. (Not to be disrespectful to the dead, but funeral get togethers, if everyone is being straight up about it, are usually fun.) And I'd recommend letting the birthday be a simple, inexpensive commemorative event, which is all he wants. :twocents-02cents: