Re-gifter? Me?
I’m Distraught! Jesse accused me of “re-gifting” his birthday present this past spring. The worst thing is that he’s been thinking this since April and if it hadn’t come up in random conversation on the show today, I’d never have known!
Jesse tells everyone not to get him a gift. Not because he doesn’t want them, but because he doesn’t want to feel obligated to get YOU one on your birthday. I always get him something funny and inappropriate, usually from Spencer’s. This year I decided to do something more thoughtful. Big mistake! Now, as often as I get accused of not having my “man card”, I am still a guy. I went out the day of Jesse’s birthday, bought him a gift and a card, threw it in one of my daughter’s recycled gift bags and dropped it off at his house. The entire transaction took scarcely an hour and I never left my truck. (A man always keeps a pen in his truck in case he has to sign an emergency card. i.e. wife birthday, anniversary, etc.)
When it came up this morning and I swore it was a real gift, he says “Show me the receipt, then!” What an ass! I shred my receipts, as everyone should. I have pulled up the reconciled transaction from my Quicken account, though. Here it is…
Notice the date, the store and the price. I went to the Aurora Mall, bought him a Packer hat that I thought looked cool and that he didn’t have and dropped it off. He claims it had cat hair all over it. I call bunk on that!
Let’s face it. If I was going to re-gift Jesse, I’d do something big, funny, and obvious, not try to sneak it under the radar. As with everything else, he’s going to believe what he believes and never come around. My honor is being questioned though, and I’m actually kinda bummed about it. I guess I’ll have to actually do what he’s been telling me too all these years and just stop buying him a birthday present.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:40 am
So I just read your re-gift blog. Suggestion, instead of shredding your receipts right away, because some places try to double dip you, keep them in a box for a month or until they clear your checking account. We have a box we keep receipts in and every month we shred them. I tried viewing your quicken link but I guess my computer is reading it as a link to a webpage and it doesn’t work.
Oh, hey, real weird question, do you do bill pay through quicken? And if so, how much do you pay for it monthly? My dad has it and he pays less than I do for mine and it’s not fair…in my opinion.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I actually pay on-line through my bank, but keep the records in Quicken. It’s free. Thanks for the advice, and thanks for reading my blog. -Shotgun
June 18th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Shotgun! What Jesse said was not cool at all. I actually really had a radio crush on that so called bad boy…but not anymore! lol! Your my radio crush now…he’s just jealous your sweet and sensitive and think of other people than just yourself unlike mr. hottie over there….love ya.