My commiserations fletchsmile. Birthdays are best avoided when monetary gifts are involved. PRE-PLANNING is usually the key to frugality, but there are still wonderful things you can do on the fly.
If you had done your pre planning you could have swiped an empty bottle of high priced Bubbly from Wine connection and filled it with Spy white cooler. She wouldn’t have noticed.

I am not sure what your spending limits are, but let us say you are feeling generous and that you will splurge out on 100 baht!

Head yourself over to tesco and grab one of their lovely 29 baht potted flowers! They make a wonderful gift.
If you want something bigger and don’t mind a risk, malls can be a wonderful source of free plants. They come pre-potted and of mature growth. You can find them located around seating areas, and they can simply be pulled out by the base of the trunk, with accompanying pot, from where they rest. Transfer them into a colored plastic bag, which can then double as Gift wrapping.

You will have to wait until maybe as late as 9pm, but stop by your local supermarket bakery and see what is being discounted down by 50%. Any plain bakery can be enhanced by items in the general grocery section. Just sprinkle and pour some chocolate sauce then put the condiment back on the shelf (the next day the same item will be on the discount bin)
Now get yourself some toothpicks from the food court. Use the ear wax trick and make yourself up a quick 20 candles. Pop those into the top of your bakery items and light them up. When you give it to your wife tell her every time you look at her she reminds you of a 20 year old.

Grab yourself the previously mentioned Spy Cooler and fill up a couple of champagne glasses.

Raise your glass and toast her. Apologise profusely for a belated birthday present but tell her you think of her, every minute of every day, and that there is nothing in the world you could buy here that would be worthy of such a beautiful princess.

Then whip her off to the bedroom and let your tongue do some magic work on her privates. In a state of orgasmic bliss she will forget your cheap gifts and the one week delay.

Potted plant – 29 baht
Discounted bakery – 30 baht
Spy cooler – 30 baht

He's probbaly becomes Jewish or JW to avoid it


reminds me years ago, I was doing visits on my community round, and one of my patients was a JW. Anyway, been sorting out his meds and some therapy. At the end of the visit, we were just having a general chat and as it was Christmas, I wished him a Merry Christmas and enquired what he and his family be doing. A deadpan reply of "we don't do Christmas", wanted the ground to swallow me up then and there.

Great idea, and i will make it a future tip!

As all Cheap charlies know, Christmas is a time of receiving and re-gifting.

Great stuff and brilliant post, you little obfuscator you misleading us all.