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Do people really surprise their spouses with new cars for Christmas as in those TV commercials?

Is it even possible or advisable to do such a thing without discussing it first? What if it means a higher insurance bill and five years of loan payments? What if the giftee would rather have selected the car for himself or herself? And GMC even has a commercial where the husband surprises his wife with TWO new trucks, one for each of them. Unless they're filthy rich, who can or would do this?

Posted - November 21, 2020

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  • 32700
    I don't know anyone who would do that.
      November 21, 2020 6:12 PM MST
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  • 44231
    Only those stupid enough to believe those ads. They deserve it, eh.
      November 21, 2020 7:00 PM MST
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  • 10049
    I know someone who claims her husband did so, but I seriously doubt it was a genuine surprise. At a minimum, there would have been a conversation about dream cars. 
      November 21, 2020 7:41 PM MST
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  • 52953

     

      I certainly don’t. I jes’ might get her bus token or a monthly bus pass if she aint ac’in’ right, but homeboy aint springing’ for no danged car for ol’ girl to tool around town spendin’ mah hard-earned duckets. Word!


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      November 22, 2020 2:32 AM MST
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  • 44231
    Amen, brutha.
      November 22, 2020 5:47 PM MST
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  • 17404
    My husband came home with a new car "for me" one time.  It is the only car I've had that I didn't love.  And I mean I really really didn't love it.
      November 22, 2020 8:10 AM MST
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  • 4631
    I've never done it, nor heard of anyone who has.

    About thirty years ago, when my sister crashed and wrote off my mother's Citrôen, I asked what Mum would like as a replacement and bought her a Honda Civic. (I was better off in those days.) She looked after it well and kept it for the rest of her life.
      November 22, 2020 3:38 PM MST
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