# I goofed and need an emergency anniversary present **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-goofed-and-need-an-emergency-anniversary-present/336406 "2005-12-20T03:51:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-goofed-and-need-an-emergency-anniversary-present/336406/1 "2005-12-20T03:51:35Z")
For my husband! Tomorrow! Yeah, I forgot our anniversary. Eight years. I am a waste of air. Help me, Dopers! I need something neat that I can get quickly. Up to $100. He’s geeky, into science and computers, loves movies and reading. Anyone? I’m going to go slam my head in a door between checking for replies. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-goofed-and-need-an-emergency-anniversary-present/336406/2 "2005-12-20T04:02:21Z")
Science and computers and movies and reading. Somewhat vague, but it gives you a lot of options. Does he have a favorite movie or TV series? Pop over to Best Buy or Barnes & Nobles and grab the box set or the first season on DVD. Or a bunch of books about quantum computing. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-goofed-and-need-an-emergency-anniversary-present/336406/3 "2005-12-20T05:05:07Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > For my husband! Tomorrow! > > Yeah, I forgot our anniversary. Eight years. I am a waste of air. > > Help me, Dopers! > > I need something neat that I can get quickly. Up to $100. > > He’s geeky, into science and computers, loves movies and reading. > > Anyone? I’m going to go slam my head in a door between checking for replies. If you’re not signed up already, open a Netflix account for him. You can do it right now, online, and you’re covered for tomorrow. You could tack on a gift certificate from CompUSA or something, too, for good measure. I’m sure you could purchase one online, and that your husband would receive email notification of his gift. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-goofed-and-need-an-emergency-anniversary-present/336406/4 "2005-12-20T05:40:04Z")
You, naked, with a couple of bows, is really all you need. (I know a guy who did that with his wife, and he said it worked like a charm.) Failing that, [here’s a handy guide](http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20051218) for geeky presents. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-goofed-and-need-an-emergency-anniversary-present/336406/5 "2005-12-20T06:14:34Z")
Off the top of my pointy little head, how about a year’s worth of monthly movie tickets for the 2 of you? Kind of a like a date a month for a year, guaranteed. You can buy passes like that at theaters, I think. A note saying he gets to pick the film every time. You could hide it in a tub of popcorn… Other than that, the naked with bows thing would probably work 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-goofed-and-need-an-emergency-anniversary-present/336406/6 "2005-12-20T07:10:09Z")
Give him card saying how much you like his many interests. The card is your gift certificate, too, worth 100 bucks for him to spend on a few sites you write down. A site connected to a hobby of his, of a site like this: [http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/](http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/) Does he have a wishlist at Amazon? ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-goofed-and-need-an-emergency-anniversary-present/336406/7 "2005-12-20T07:39:22Z")
_Serenity_ comes out tomorrow on DVD, if he’s a fan of Firefly. 🙂 Or you could just get it for me… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-goofed-and-need-an-emergency-anniversary-present/336406/8 "2005-12-20T11:32:36Z")
Science, geeky & a man? Get a Swiss Army Knife. One of the Swiss Champ models. They are **killer!!** > **[Swiss Army SwissChamp Red](https://www.dlttrading.com/swiss-army-swisschamp-red)** > > DLT Trading offers popular brands along with hard-to-find knives, and personalized engraving options. Find the knife you've always wanted online today! Order today, & fib (a little) by saying “the order was late”, then show him the online image. Well, you _were_ late in ordering, right? So it _isn’t_ a _total_ lie. And the Swisschamps are _really_ nice. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-goofed-and-need-an-emergency-anniversary-present/336406/9 "2005-12-20T13:52:36Z")
Good answers everyone, and now I’ve got some new ideas for Christmas. In the middle of the night, I sat bolt upright and said, “Baseball tickets.” I got tickets for the three weekend season opening games for the Cleveland Indians and he’ll be delighted. But the reason I finally managed to think of something was my attempt to predict what Dopers might suggest. Thank you all! ---
**Author:** ![KP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9adbd/32.png) [@KP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-goofed-and-need-an-emergency-anniversary-present/336406/10 "2005-12-20T14:24:34Z")
_IF_ he’d into sports (I’m not): one set of Sports tickets [maybe even a couple for his friends, depending on gis favorite sport) _plus_ the Gol-Darnedest game/tailgate party you can dream up between now and then. Yeah, the party’ll run you over budget, but you can scrape that out of the household budget, and the Food Channel will give you some killer ideas. You must, after all, atone for forgetting. All us guys do. Then again, I’ve always loved cooking and entertaining, so YMMV.