tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203077889905915553.post2076879076891822149..comments2023-10-30T04:06:45.798-07:00Comments on arduous blog: Consumption Gone Wild!ruchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17043512641324366469noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203077889905915553.post-3629443461120101102007-12-14T08:38:00.000-08:002007-12-14T08:38:00.000-08:00I'm with you. Not that I have kids yet, but hirin...I'm with you. Not that I have kids yet, but hiring a cleaning service would be the best gift ever! Hmm, perhaps I should make sure Dave reads this blog now...Shortyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10895392967136479141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203077889905915553.post-36233914653555756602007-12-12T10:58:00.000-08:002007-12-12T10:58:00.000-08:00My husband got me flowers and I thought that was p...My husband got me flowers and I thought that was plenty. The terminology is definitely weird, though.Megan Bellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12641072960352209952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203077889905915553.post-88471312990161521792007-12-07T09:25:00.000-08:002007-12-07T09:25:00.000-08:00I've never heard the term "push present" before ei...I've never heard the term "push present" before either (kind of a gross term, if you ask me). As it happens, Husband got me a pair of diamond earings for my first mothers day (which was about 3 weeks after the Bean was born). Not because I hinted, but because diamonds are the Bean's birth stone, and he gave them to me essentially as a future heirloom ("these are the earrings your father gave me when you were born... they're your birthstone").<BR/><BR/>But it wasn't a quid pro quo kind of thing, I carried the baby so you should reward me with jewelry. <BR/><BR/>That being said, pregnancy did ruin my body, so we're paying for my new gym membership out of the joint checking account...ScienceMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03835999326698667079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203077889905915553.post-16509790773898885672007-12-06T19:46:00.000-08:002007-12-06T19:46:00.000-08:00I once spoke to someone who said her husband gave ...I once spoke to someone who said her husband gave her jewelry as a gift after the birth of their child. I thought it was sweet and romantic. But she didn't use the term "push present." She made it sound like somthing he had thought of himself, a spontaneous gesture of appreciation (At least, that's how I interpreted it).<BR/><BR/>Now that *is* sweet--if it really is a spontaneous gift of appreciation. But how romantic is a gift if it's something a woman has to hound her husband into?! I had never before heard the term "push present" before reading this NYtimes article. The article is written in a manner that really does highlight crass materialism.<BR/><BR/>Getting up with the baby and doing all the diaper changes--now *that's* a "push present!"The bean-momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00411250616280191525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203077889905915553.post-72443859755497074292007-12-06T13:26:00.000-08:002007-12-06T13:26:00.000-08:00I got a pair of worker trousers in the kind of tea...I got a pair of worker trousers in the kind of tear-proof fabric that carpenters wear. They're actually very good for snowbarding since there's space for padding the knees. Great push present.hgghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11704795751892647176noreply@blogger.com