My DH is apparently the expert on deciding when a shampoo bottle or toothpaste tube is ready for the trash - because these things keep jumping back out of the trash and on to the shelf!
It's an ongoing joke around here. Last night I had to BEGGGG to please throw out this styling product I had tried three times now - it was supposed to leave my hair smooth and silky and instead left it like straw. I forced DH's hand through my hair and when lots of strands came out (because it was like straw and all sticky) he finally agreed the nearly full bottle could go in the trash. Even he - with his full thick head of hair - wouldn't touch the stuff after that.
Aesthetically speaking, he's got a great eye (for architecture and art) but as far as my fashions, it doesn't often go much higher than my ankle. All he cares is that I wear comfortable, flat shoes. That's why when he does compliment an outfit I'm wearing, I know it really means something.
If I left it up to DH to pick my clothing, I'd be wearing docksiders, baggy khakis, and button-down cotton long sleeve shirts all culled from the second-hand store. He doesn't believe in buying new clothes because he's into recycling. I buy him new clothes and he does not like it. "I can get the same thing at the second-hand store for pennies." Though he does often wear what I buy, if I pick well - i.e., new stuff that looks just like the older stuff he prefers. I have bought him slightly - just SLIGHTLY - trendier stuff, and it sits unworn or he re-gifts to his brothers.
As I mentioned earlier, watches are probably the only thing he gets into - but again, he's very particular and the watches he likes are very unusual, and often vintage. If I think about it tomorrow, I'll post a link to the watch I got him one xmas (after lots of hinting on his part).
Although I did recently buy a pair of Cole Haan orange boat-like ballet slippers, I don't dress up to please him - I do it to please myself. And I learned long ago to accept that I can't dress him up like he's my paper doll. He's always neat and clean and has his own personal aesthetic that is uber preppy, so we don't necessarily look too out-of-synch.
Electronics - accck. Bad topic for us. We desparately need new t.v.s and I've assumed this is the "guy" thing to buy... but he's just as clueless as I am so we're struggling with this. Same for cars, which we'll be in the market for in the next year or so.
Home depot -he's got that covered. I won't go in there; gives me a headache from the dust. He practically *lives* at home depot. Anything involving the yard or plants - that's his thing. Our yard is amazing - it's tiny but packed with plants, flowers, tomatoes, etc.
To his credit he never ever whines about my clothing budget. He understands it's my "thing." And I only rarely complain about the empty bottles jumping out of the trash and back on the shelves!
