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American, here, and yeah I'm pretty sure this wife is fat lol. Every single thing on that list is junk food.

Writing things down so you remember them is still remembering them. It's not even cheating!

I've started doing this the past year, and this year's birthday was great! Much less stress on my end of trying to figure out what to get, or do, and much more surprise and love on their side of feeling like I was listening. In my defense, I'm always listening, but if I don't write it down I'm 100% guaranteed to forget after a week.

Lists are awesome. I made one for all kinds of stuff and they come in handy all the time.

Got a list for:

• Games (local multiplayer, LAN, singleplayer)
• Movies
• Series
• Music
• Restaurants
• Gift ideas
• Addresses
• Recipes

And every time I encounter something interesting, I add it to the list.

Then when I need ideas, I can just look at the list and get tons of great ideas.

You cared enough to write it down! That's exactly as good as remembering! And that's so important to the gift!

Sorry, this is wholesome, but also very unhealthy. So thumbsup but also thumbsdown. :shrug:

Solid choices.

I also like getting those pickled spicy sausages on road trips, helps with the travel constipation but also means no kisses till I can brush my teeth.

There isn't really any indication of how often they buy her these things. It could just be once every couple of months, or when she's had an especially bad day.

Yeah. I mean your first clue is that Taco Bell is number one on their list.....

Yeah, kinda. It's not really tenable to be your spouse's dietician or de facto parent. Gotta just keep loving them for who they are or move on.

We have different forms of love than.

Orrrrrrrr......they just have one of those Men In Black eye flasher memory wiper things. They ask you "Hey, what do you like from the menu?" "OOOOH! The chicken strips on the second page of the menu looks good!" "Cool. Hey, look at this cool toy pen I got!" "What?" FLASH! "Hey, have you checked the second page of the menu? I bet those chicken strips look pretty good to you, don't they?" "OMG BABE! YOU KNOW ME SO WELL!!!"

And then 30 years later you have dementia. Yeah, this just got dark REAL QUICK!!! But you didn't think decades of manipulating your brains ability to remember things came without consequence, do you? I mean, The MIB just flashy brain people once, and then move on with their lives. You've been flashy brained like hundreds of thousands of times. Anytime he says the wrong thing, "Hey, check out this cool pen..."

And that, fellas, is how you avoid arguments with your wife!

There are 12 things on the second page, surely one of them will work!

But seriously, having a rough idea does work most of the time but I gave up with my wife because while she does have favorites she gets sick of them and also various foods don't sit well with her so it is a crapshoot even when she picks. I just can't keep up with that.

Yea you see it right. It’s a small picture that only shows up on your own device, why not have some fun with it? I dunno if you know this, but almost everyone who is married actually has *looks around* .^sex^ with their wife.

Kinda looks like a pregnancy photo or something

But this gives the illusion of memory for the wife. Same outcome less chance of error.

I genuinely have a sub list of things in my shopping list of things my wife likes so when I do groceries I know a range of snacks to get her when she doesn't know what she wants.

A true lover will do what works.