No Money to Buy Gifts for My Wife on October 20th

As a husband and a father, it feels terrible to reach this day and have nothing, not even something small, to give to the three people I love the most.

My wife and I have two beautiful daughters who are smart, well-behaved, one is 13 and the other is 14. Honestly, as October 20th approaches, I really want to buy gifts for my wife and daughters, but I don’t know what to buy or how to buy them since I don’t have the money. My monthly salary is around 12 million VND, but when I get paid, I transfer 10 million to my wife for household expenses, and I keep about two million in my account to cover automatic deductions for electricity and water bills, which is just enough. My wife is very understanding and never asks for anything, but I feel as a husband and a father, it’s terrible to reach this day without even a small gift for the three people I love the most. I hope the readers can offer some advice.

Dung Tien

https://youtu.be/i-7vmE1zPEU

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Không có tiền tặng quà cho vợ ngày 20/10

Tôi làm chồng làm cha, đến ngày này không có món gì dù nhỏ để tặng cho ba người mình thương yêu nhất thì tệ quá.

Vợ chồng tôi có hai cô công chúa xinh đẹp, học giỏi, ngoan ngoãn, đứa 13 tuổi, đứa 14 tuổi. Nói thật lòng, gần đến ngày 20/10, tôi rất muốn mua quà tặng ba mẹ con nhưng không biết mua gì, mua bằng cách nào vì không có tiền. Chả là lương tôi tầm 12 triệu đồng mỗi tháng nhưng đến khi nhận lương, tôi chuyển cho vợ 10 triệu đồng để chi tiêu gia đình, còn tầm hai triệu, tôi để lại trong tài khoản để tự động trừ tiền điện, tiền nước là vừa đủ. Vợ rất tội, không đòi hỏi gì nhưng tôi nghĩ mình làm chồng làm cha, đến ngày này không có món gì dù nhỏ để tặng cho ba người mình thương yêu nhất thì tệ quá. Mong độc giả chỉ cách giúp.

Dũng Tiến

https://vnexpress.net/khong-co-tien-tang-qua-cho-vo-ngay-20-10-4805175.html

American English speakers

https://youtu.be/rUoy367M2x0

No money to buy gifts for my wife on October 20th

As a husband and a father, it feels really bad to reach this day without having even a small gift for the three people I love the most.

My wife and I have two beautiful daughters, both smart and well-behaved, one is 13 years old and the other is 14. Honestly, as October 20th approaches, I really want to buy gifts for the three of them, but I don’t know what to buy or how to buy it because I don’t have any money. You see, my salary is about 12 million dong per month, but as soon as I get paid, I transfer 10 million to my wife for household expenses, and the remaining 2 million stays in my account just enough to automatically pay for electricity and water. 

My wife is so understanding and never asks for anything, but as a husband and a father, I feel really bad that I can’t even manage to give a small gift to the three people I cherish most on this special day. I hope readers can suggest some ways to help.

October 20th is Vietnamese Women’s Day.