Providing you can drop enough hints

I get fed up with being bought christmas presents that I do not want or are never going to be used.

The number of cheap shoddy cycling products I have been bought over the years is unbelievable so this year I have dropped a few hints on what I want.

Could do with a pair of decent pair of summer gloves- but even I do not know what I want till I go to the shop and try them out.

So how do you manage to drop the hint to the wife or kids on the actual manufacturer and model of the presents that would make your day?

And just to cheer us up- what is it going to be?

And my system is to drop the hint that the gloves are getting a bit past it and the wife knows that I only use one shop. Then when she goes into the shop- the staff are already primed on the size- model and colour that I chose last week