1 ounce of gold per year married?

2ltdjorn

So the wife and I are celebrating our 2nd wedding anniversary this September. Last September I was in 120F heat in the Helmand Provenance in Afghanistan, and I missed it. The wife and I have decided to add an ounce of gold each wedding anniversary. This year I have to buy 2 ounces for last years missed opportunity. Does anyone else have a similar tradition?

scrapman1077

I started giving my wife roses for each year, 5 for the fifth 10 for the tenth and so on, at 25 she asked for silk instead of cut roses, this year she will get 37 silk roses. We have roses all over the house !

66Tbird

Just the 120F+ every summer. Last year we had a spooky day at 127. You could walk right up to the hawks in the brush because they were fighting to survive. I ran the drip to help them out. Already got my gold this year in a couple Saints

guitarwes

We usually buy something for the house that we can both enjoy for a while (i.e. remodel a room, build a deck, add some new funiture). My wife is very practical, thank the good Lord, and doesn't get caught up in the hype of commercial occasion giftings......although I do something special for her every now and again out of the blue.

Adding an ounce of gold every anniversary is a great tradition. When you celebrate your "Golden Anniversary" you'll have 50 oz!!! That's a good stack.

mrpaseo

<< <i>We usually buy something for the house that we can both enjoy for a while (i.e. remodel a room, build a deck, add some new funiture). My wife is very practical, thank the good Lord, and doesn't get caught up in the hype of commercial occasion giftings......although I do something special for her every now and again out of the blue.

Adding an ounce of gold every anniversary is a great tradition. When you celebrate your "Golden Anniversary" you'll have 50 oz!!! That's a good stack. >>




My wife and I are the same way, we do not wait for a calendar day to show our appreciation for one another. When the feeling strikes, we do something nice for one another, that's all it takes. That said, I like the idea of an oz of Gold per year (Though after 17 years it would be hard to catch up now).

As for missing anniversaries, as the OP states, I too have missed many a days due to my long distance travels to the sand box's of the world. That and in my early military days I would pull the 24 hour shift for other Soldiers because I was single and they were married with children. The holidays seemed more important to them so I pulled the shift. Both of these events over the past 20 years caused me to miss a lot of the commercial holidays. I must say, it has not hurt us one bit to miss them.

Ray

tneig

I give my wife silver bullion for gifts, in nicer forms. She said she likes more personal things of course and I try. Just made here 4 raised cedar planting beds. We both like the off the grid stuff more and more, and I'm seeing how thats the only way we'll make retirement. She has two silver plated hearts jewelry boxes I'm working on filling.

I'm slowly trying to show her about the security of things and retirement investments. I'd rather see her with 'a building stack', then getting bling things that won't help us in our upcoming retirement plans (which are short). She's been collecting stuff from the usmint for 10 years, and I'll like her to see more gain concepts in a different forms, like bullion, or base ASE's instead.

So for something nicer, I'll start giving here some gold little by little maybe in some gold heart, but not as much as an ounce at a time yet! She has four adult children, some with kids. As a mom, she has and would dump her stack instantly if they needed anything - so I'll build up an extra stack for her in secret as well.

However, she deserves more than an ounce of gold each year for the 3 she's been married to me... Doah!

TwoSides2aCoin

With a wife, you don't need gold. You're rich. Get the "honey-do" list finished.