DH and I don't exchange gifts, including Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthday, anniversary or Christmas. I come in and say "Look what you bought me for ________________." And he takes it out of the box, asks questions about how it works and how I'm going to use it. He saves all his gifts for his annual guitar workshop registration fees and air fare. In fact, I left him at the airport at 6:30 a.m. yesterday morning.
This is what he "bought" me for Mother's Day.
http://www.joann.com/ottlite-13w-des...lamps&start=22 I had stopped appliqueing after my cataract surgery, because reading glasses just weren't doing the job for hand work. I was at a retreat and an applique teacher did a 2-hour demo for those who consider it the "A" word, and listened to her as she talked about her magnifying light. I bought it on the way back home. Luckily, it was 50% off.