What should i get my girlfriend for her 18th birthday?

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It's this wednesday.

I got her a couple of books but i wanted to get something nice. Some people have suggested a bracelet or something (nothing expensive and extravangant). We've only been together a month and stuff so i dunno.

Any other suggestions?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe a simple CD + chocolate

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't overkill it if it's only been a month. If you got her some books already, just get her some chocolate and flowers also and consider mission accomplished.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, I'm single and miserable.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Oral sex.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Cook her a delicious dinner. (also oral sex. and books.)

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"honey, you're 18, i can only go downhill from now on." wink wink

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

All at once. (xpost)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"honey, can i have diner now?" wink wink

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Never give a woman a gift she can't wear in the evening.

-Oscar Wilde

― thee music mole, Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

*wonders how Mole's gifts have worn well*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

pop her ass cherry

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Oscar Wilde's dictum holds up well for me, Ned. Her most treasured gifts are the ones she can wear in the evening. I sometimes buy her alcohol, but she usually pours it over her head at some point in the evening, so that qualifies too.

― thee music mole, Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Passionate times!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

We've been best friends for years also so its kind of a best friend present too.

Oral sex would be a great gift but we're taking it super slow.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 19 February 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

GOD Argunaut/Snappy!!!! haha!

Make her something small but says you spent a little time on it. I gave my girlfriend a little tea box for valentines day.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hari, slow is good. But tHen I wouldn't give her jewellery.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah jewellery would freak me out if somebody gave it to me.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

give her a glass crucifix, inside which is a lock of your own hair steeped in hamster blood

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno about the glass part. What if it breaks?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

well, just play along. Tell her it will only break when it's time to get busy. Whether the break is intentional or not, it doesn't matter.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

whatever you do, don't tell her you liked her better when she was 17.

― Aaron A., Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

stop calling her lolita, for one.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Your full attention.

― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Having a 17 year old girlfriend is kind of cool now i think about it.

(i'm 19 by the way)

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think people would think it cool if I had a 17 year old girlfriend.

Back when I was 19 and did have a 17 year old girlfriend, I can't remember what I bought her, but I do recall that we had a party that night, and announced our engagement. Maybe the engagement ring was also the present, but I think there was something else. This isn't a suggestion.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought you were older, Hari.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll tell you want you shouldn't get her-- pregnant.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought hari was 24.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm kind of young.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 19 February 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I was totally sure Hari was older than me! You gotta have PERSPECTIVE to wet yourself.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 20 February 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I have still never gone out with any form of teenager. I wonder if this sorta bugs me or not.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 20 February 2005 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never gone out with anybody who, after time, hasn't proven to be emotionally a teenager.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 February 2005 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

remy are you on aim?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 20 February 2005 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

hari, also.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 20 February 2005 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

deaditealright

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 20 February 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

jeremy7211, now yeah.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 February 2005 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

As featured in the Observer and now on my 'must purchase list': buy her some Paul & Joe Lipstick. The packaging is heavenly.

http://a1377.g.akamai.net/7/1377/5720/20050204190053/www.sephora.com/assets/dyn/category/C10431/C10431_hero.jpg

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Is the lipstick actually made out of butterflies, kittens and flowers?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

get her drunk and invite your buddies over for a sausage eating party. be sure to ask first tho. ;)

― birthdaybang, Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone should write a song with the same title as this thread.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

sounds like a television personalities song, if the television personalities were emo

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 21 February 2005 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

What does getting your girlfriend/wife makeup-as-a-gift really mean?

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 21 February 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

it's better than getting them a tube of clearasil

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 21 February 2005 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't get her makeup unless you know her colours. DO YOU KNOW HER COLOURS HARI? HER TRUE COLOURS?
Don't buy jewellery unless you specifically know what she wants. The best presents is stuff you want, but you don't want to spend money on.

― Nellie (nellskies), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Fine, I'll bite:

PORN CONTRACT!!!!

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

It would like never ever occur to me not to completely trust Marianna about stuff like this. She's pretty wise.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Hari, don't listen to what I said. I was a bit out of it. Sorry. Get her red satin underwear that you can easily tear off.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

gah, twee make-up is even worse than non-twee makeup.

I'm pretty rubbish at presents but i find rotating round a few specific Comme des Garcons perfumes works well.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ordinarily I would agree with you about the colours business. But this isn't a Marcia Klein to Daisy Steiner, 'A bit of lippy in case you ever want to pretty yourself up' gift. It's not an array of beauty products from Clinique and, importantly, it's not a tub of Creme De La Mer.

The books and CDs are the main gifts, yes? This one purchase of some supercute lipstick helps girlify it up a little without being too sickly. Besides, it's small and it's more about the packaging than anything else - if you get her colours right on top of that, well that's a bonus.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Put Anthropology by Dan Rhodes (which I discovered via my first ever visits to NYLPM) and a nicely decored mixCD of girly trax in an envelope and drink some champagne with like 100mg or so of pure pure shit per glass in it and after you go home try messing with popsicles up her box and then head, cuz that shit don't get aaaaaany tastier from now on, papi. Get it.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

GODDAMN! It is not twee makeup!

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The packaging is sooooooo tweeee.

(I'm very anti-makeup in general)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Make-up could be bad: she could see it as a sign she's not pretty enough.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed, I will never give you makeup for your birthday.

I don't think I could EVER interpret getting lipstick as a sign that I wasn't pretty enough. Dude, you're not buying her concealer and a face mask.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 21 February 2005 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm going to have to agree, pop her ass cherry. next time you see her just start fuckin her in the ass. good luck.

― uytuytty, Monday, 21 February 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Swa-vay.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 21 February 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't buy her lipstick. She has to find colours that suit her and you'll probably just fuck it up and get some beige shite.

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Again. It's not just any old lipstick. It's the Paul and Joe lipstick with the supercute pakaging. It's about the packaging, people!

I give up.

Truth be told, you've just started going out so she's pretty much going to like anything you get her.

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I am all about the austere and modern, kittens are not austere and modern.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Kittens are qavatars of the decadent twee baroque.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Viva El Presidente Fred.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps you could get the lipstick, but take the actual lipstick out of it (put a string in it and make a candle or something) and just give her the packaging?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Well i did a pretty fine job.

i bought a necklace and bracelet that she will love (i know her taste well and her sister helped me pick it, wasn't expensive at all). I also got some chocolates (in a heart shaped box) and a couple of books. And i made a card for the first time ever.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

her sister helped me pick it

Either really smart or really daft. I'm hoping for the former.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok just gave her her gifts. She really liked the jewelry, i could tell.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

1.5 mil, in unmarked bills kept in a swiss bank account. cold, clean, and effecient.

that's how I like my gifts.

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Keep up the good work, Hari.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I would've suggested a William Shatner CD.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post, Yeah you're an inspiration to us all!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Note how Hari followed Oscar Wilde's dictum, and it worked?

― thee music mole, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yo don't get her a rice cooker, my boy fucked his shit up with that.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever you do, do NOT -- I repeat -- do NOT get her this

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Last night they played that early Seinfeld where Jerry and Elaine are trying to date and Jerry doesn't know what to get her for her birthday, so he gives her $182. George then gives her exactly $91 dollars.

― scout (scout), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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