Patented dual-anniversary technology
Posted on March 15, 2007 @ 10:29 pm
My wife and I take a nontraditional approach to celebrating certain holidays. I’ve written about Isolation Day before, but it doesn’t end there. We’ve also put a unique spin on our wedding anniversary this year.
You see, a wedding anniversary is one of those bothersome “mutual” holidays. When it’s my birthday, people spend money to buy me presents, and it’s a net holiday gain for me. In the case of a wedding anniversary, however, I buy my wife a gift, she buys me a gift, and we go out to dinner together. Since we share a checking account, we both end up with a net holiday gain of exactly zero. Our gift-giving and dinner-buying efforts essentially cancel each other out, and we’re right back where we started. It’s what economists call a zero-sum game. At least I think that’s what they call it. Economists bore me.
Anyway, we’ve developed a solution to the whole anniversary problem. This year, my wife and I will celebrate separate anniversaries. She gets celebratory rights to our wedding anniversary, whereas I get the anniversary of our first date. On our wedding anniversary, I’ll buy her a present and take her out for a nice dinner. That produces to a net holiday gain for her. Then, when the anniversary of our first date rolls around, she’ll return the favor. Yes, I realize the two anniversaries still technically cancel each other out, but having them take place several weeks apart at least softens the blow. It’s like replacing one boring anniversary with two extra birthdays each year!
If you think separate anniversaries are crazy, you should see how we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. That poor, poor llama.
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That’s a pretty good idea actually. That’s something we’ll have to consider doing.
You guys are adorable. Too adorable. Now I shall have to…DESTROY YOU.
*dun dun DUUUUUUUNH*
That’s a good idea…
…unless you’re wedding and first date anniversaries are only two weeks apart. That’s less than a month, in case you’re oblivious to the incredibly obvious.
Looks like I’m stuck with a zero-sum gain.
You guys celebrate with a llama, too? Cool! I thought I was the only one!
That’s great. Our daughter’s birthday is the day after our anniversary (no, not the same year), so we usually celebrate by shopping for Polly Pocket dolls at Target.
My wife and I have three possible wedding anniversaries. She’s Polish and we got married in Poland, where, before you get married, you’re supposed to go to your local town hall and get an official copy of the document that everyone has indicates your civil status. Obviously, we don’t have such things in the States, so I literally had to go to court to get permission to do that. And basically, at court, I said that I wanted to marry K, that she wanted to marry me, that I wasn’t married, etc. Then, we had the civil wedding. Because I’m not a Catholic, the priest said that it might hasten things at the curia if he could say we were already married, civilly speaking. So we got did the civil wedding about three months before the church wedding and about six weeks after appearing in court. Finally, we had the “real” wedding — with the all-night party that follows. So we have a choice: first “wedding” (though I don’t remember the date), civil wedding (May 15), or church wedding (Aug 14)…
Generally, my wife and I don’t celebrate things like birthdays. But (very long story omitted here) I went all out, especially on our last anniversary (the first). We might settle on something like this, but our first “date” when we first met (it was a long distance relationship — she was in Michigan and I was in Virginia) are within a few days of each other in March!
And no, there was definitely more than a few days between first meeting and marriage — waaaaay too many years difference to think about after the fact.
cool
Yes it’s called a zero sum game, lol im no economist!
Great idea, makes 1 celebration into 2.