OT: Valentines Day

Yeah, despite their tough shells :D females are suckers for the well-thought out gift. A remember my galpal telling me once about special cookies she loved from her childhood. Drove back to her hometown (5+ hours round trip), hunted them down, and got half a kilo for a Valentine's day present.

Sadly, I seem to have used up my best idea at one go, so this time its gonna be flowers again. I swear, trying to think up thoughful gifts would drive me nuts if i wasnt there already...

Andrew Lim

Originally posted by spence
What does she like, SD? Something thoughtful usually trumps something expensive.

S.
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SD,
I'm in the same situation as you for being short on cash and waiting to the last minute to buy something "special". you might try your hand at poetry. It doesn't have to be any good. Girls just go nuts for that "touchy-feely" emotional stuff. Also, you might buy her a stuffed animal or something, put it the front seat of her car with the poem rolled up. Then for the extra touch, slip a CD she's wanting or one that has "your song" on it in the player. Then, after she gushes over the suprise of a bear and poem, she'll start her car and get the added bonus of a suprise CD playing "your song". Just a thought for ya;) used to work on my fiance'. Now it's gonna be nothing less than an expensive dinner and whatever else she wants to do PLUS the poem. I swear, you get engaged and they already think they have the ring on your finger;)

Thanx,
Jake
 
but...if you want to reach a woman's heart..(usually without surgery)..think back (and this hard for men) to a special night...to the place you were and describe little details of the night what she wore (DON'T guess), the events of the day leading up to the night, the place, the feeings (don't be scared) you were having...maybe even the apprehension you felt...and how she made it better/special/wonderful/just right.

Then WRITE it out on a nice card, or piece of stationary. Do NOT be funny. Repeat: Do NOT be funny.

That, dinner or flowers or whatever...will make you golden.
 
I'm stupid when it comes to girls and relationships.:footinmou:o:footinmou
 
When my Barbie and I were still working, actually even after I retired, I would send her a nice bouquet of flowers with a rose for each of our anniversaries at the shop where we worked.
What was really neat is that all the other gals would ooh and aah and say, "I wish my husband would do something like that."
That made my Barbie the envy of all the gals, even the ones in the upstairs office.:)

Just be sure whatever you do is because you want to do it and not because you're looking for special favors.
The ladies can see through that anywhere and that will cause you more grief than you want every time.
 
Poetry and a stuffed animal...hmmm...
I used to be really good at that mushy stuff.

(And it only adds one thing to my list of a million things to get done this weekend.)
 
If I may suggest -

Forget silken or satin sheets.

Equivalent of a teflon coated frying pan, or ball bearings. You really don't want to dive into one end of a king sized bed and continue sliding across it to land on your head on the other side. It's also like trying to catch a greased pig to get the pillow case not to squirt off the bed.

Trust me on this.
 
LMAO!!!

Unfortuneately I know this...but this knowledge was acquired with much difficulty.
My mom has transformed my old room into a “guest room” and once upon a time changed out my cotton sheets with flannel. (Why the heyll you would want anything flannel in a Texas summer?) Anyway, I can’t stand sleeping under anything that soft...well...I take that back.

(Hey, ever slide off a bunk bed 4 times in one night?)
 
If I bought my wife flowers she would be upset because I had wasted money. But if I tilled up the garden and planted flowers, she would be happy.
 
Every year, I write a poem. ChairWoman of the Board said I should send y'all this example of one of the first ones.

You fix the dinner,
I'll bring the wine
And if I get you drunk enough,
You'll be my valentine!

What can I say? Her wedding gift from me when we married was a Browning (Belgium) Take-Down .22 Auto. Woman collects knives. Her favorite "house gun" is a sawed-off 12 gauge. Her wedding gift to me was a new 6" Model 29 S&W. Can't you just feel the love in this room??
 
Valentines Day has come and gone. Hope you all had a good one.:)
 
Mine went well. Got her a dozen roses on Thursday, Friday made her fresh asparagus soup for lunch, and gave her chocolates and cards, and this evening ( Saturday ) fixed her a nice steak, spinach souffle, and garlic/onion/butter potatoes, for dinner tonight.

With us, it's the day after Valentines day that is special.

The reason is that some 22 years ago on Valentine's Day I took her up to meet my mom at Tahoe, we made the drive back to our apartments after a long day ( somehow through the church we went to I ended up in the apartment next door to her through the efforts of a retired Baptist minister and the skullduggery of the head of the local head of the mental health office ), and I had her in my arms kissing and about to pop the question, when the guy across the way whistled to call Duke, his dog, back in.

After I pulled her off the ceiling, I looked at her and decided to pop the question the next day, and sent her home. That's why the day after Valentine's day is a special one. Here's to you, Duke!
 
Well, Rusty, I must say I'm impressed by your efforts. Hopefully, the 15th was as special.

S.
 
Yep, it's all over except the memory. Flowers and a couple of bottles of decent wine seemed to do the trick.
 
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