* Graph data skewed to help my point.
While doing some research about how people are searching for gifts on Google, I came across a phenomenal anomaly.
gifts for boyfriend is searched twice as much gifts for girlfriend
gifts for wife is search a fair amount more than gifts for husband
What can we make of this? My assumptions:
| Boyfriend’s perspective | Girlfriend’s Perspective |
| Girlfriends try really hard to buy gifts that impress us so that we want to finally marry them. | We’re so thoughtful, lovely, beautiful, sweet and make excellent gift purchasers because we love our boyfriends so0o0o0o much and want to make him happy. |
| We don’t need to look hard for gifts because we know our girlfriends so well already (girls are suckers for romantic things like chocolates & flowers). | Boyfriends are useless at buying us gifts and don’t think. They think that chocolates and flowers do the trick. |
To all the boyfriends out there – don’t let your girlfriend upstage you when it comes to gifts. Think of it like a competition and you’ll be sure to win (I’m biased, but recommend something from RedBalloon – and that way you can go along too).
To all the girlfriends – drop some subtle hints about what kind of gift you want, make it easy for us poor fellas.
| Husband’s perspective | Wive’s Perspective |
| If we don’t buy a good gift – she’ll bloody crucify us! | It doesn’t matter what I want to buy for him, he’s going to get something for himself anyway |
| She doesn’t need to put much thought into buying me a gift, because I’ll just buy it for myself anyway and she’ll put her name on it so the kids think she’s the thoughtful one | Sweet old hubby, tries so hard but never quite gets the right thing |
To all the wives out there – take back control of the gift buying. Get him something he would never buy for himself and next time when it’s your turn to receive, maybe he’ll buy you something a bit better?
To all the husbands – bring back the fun in buying her something nice. Think back to when you had to court her, back in the early days. Maybe some kind of romantic getaway?
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I dunno about this one. My gifts have gone from a cartoon characture of my hubby on his bike with pics of the things he loves to a Learner flight in an aeroplane. From a chocolate explosion sent to him at work to selecting something that he likes – hobbies etc. The right back at me – sometimes he forgets about the important dates as he says he has lousy date remembering skills though can talk under concrete – a little like knowing a little about a lot LOL. Mothers Day and Birthday both passed without him remembering, well we have been married 33 years, I supposse I could state seasonal dementia!
Your graph data is mind blowing.Good post and good stuff you have shared.
Great!
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