The Great 'Cheap but Romantic Gifts' Hunt

System

For my wife's 50th birthday I got lots of photos of her right from being a babe all the way up to date, scanned them, and presented them as a slide show on the PC. Accompanied with a couple of Andy Williams tracks this went down a real treat. :-*

Ally

I ran out of Ideas for my partners 30th - i usually end up spending a ridiculous amount on gifts and this time i wanted to start new, the MSE way  ;D

So, thought long and hard about him and what he would like, what would be perfect for him.  He needed a wallet, so i got one for him and filled it with pics of both our girls, and a few other things, which along with the wallet were not really cheap so won't mention them , however, one was a savings account (the card) which I put a little in to start him of on the rightuous path of the MSE ;D.  Finally, the hardest and cheapest was 30 lurve vouchers ;D Ok, it took 8 hours to make them  ::)(could have bought them but they would not have been personal then) It was fun thinking up of ideas to put on the vouchers - but his face was priceless when he found them in there - he couldn't believe I had made them up myself on the computer - he thought I had bought them!!  So, yes, they did look very very good and he said the best gift (apart from me and the babies ;D) that he had every been given  ;)  The 2nd hardest thing was obtaining his signiture for the savings acc and other things without him knowing what it was for!  

cathy_3

My son was at uni and was totally skint for his girlfriends birthday

so he  bought an old brass key   from a car boot sale for 10pence  old fashioned type  not a yale key

polished it up got their names engraved on the shaft for 80p

put it in a box amongst some tissue paper he found in a shirt packing that he hadnt opened

and stuck a little card on the front saying

"you now have the key to my heart"

and she was over the moon

;D ;D

r.mac_2

Cathy, that is soooooooo romantic! Do you have more than one son???!!!!! ::)
Rx

cjarvis

I am not sure if this qualifies but you could get a gift for the football fan in your life AND (they say) to get the option to win US$250,000 in diamonds, now is that romantic or what ?

I found this at
http://www.3lionssport.com/id185.html

halloweenqueen_2

Go into Tesco at about 8pm and look at the flowers! I bought one of their finest range bouquets usually selling at £12.50 for 40p and a another £7.50 one for 40p, if I had gone in for them half and hour earlier I could have (wouldn't have!) paid full price.
Volunteer to go and get a few bits from the shop, get all the reduced bargains and cap it with the flowers, don't forget to take off the big yellow reduced sticker!! ::)

RachelD

Sometimes it's not the gift that matters but the wrapping. (OK, there are exceptions- a diamond or two would still be acceptable in the raw)
For my best ever wrapping you need a roll of clear cellophane (I got mine from a flower market but it could be recycled from shirt wrap if the gift is small ) , any plain wrapping paper, and assorted petals from the garden. Put the gift in a box, wrap with plain wrap (we had run out of wrapping paper on the occasion I first did this and used some of a red paper tablecloth ). Sprinkle some petals on to the clear cellophane, set box on top and put lots of petals on top of box, wrap in cello- some petals will fall down the sides but that's a bonus.

Messy to open so choose location carefully.

damski_2

1.Have soak in bath with bargains from Boots (or free with Advantage Card). Make yourself smell lurvely.

2.Light a few candles and arrange around the room (for best effects do when night time) - Do not set fire to house, this is not romantic.

3.Slip into something comfortable (free from a Redoute code)?

4.Place a rug in the middle of room (preferably one bought for free from Redoute)

3.With bargains ordered from Tescos or Sainsburys with money off codes and free delivery, make a sexy picnic for 2.

4.Open the chilled Virgin champagne (3 bottles for £6 (ish))

5.Turn on the music - bargain music centre from Boots (£26 instead of £99).

6.ENJOY YOUR EVENING IN TOGETHER.  THE BEST GIFT OF ALL IS LOVE AND ITS FREE.  YIPPEE.

Tania
xxx

PS If you are on your own, there is a thread for something that buzzes and is free, so you can enjoy the evening by yourself. I'm sure someone knows and will enlighten you all. ::)

great response

works everytime for me

lyniced

flowers from

https://www.flowersbypost.com

is always very cheap - I think prices start at £9 and thats including delivery.

peffard

The best romantic gift ever bought was a "star name" certificate from eBay (was about the £15 or £20 mark).

It was totally customised and they put my wifes photograph on it was well.... went down ton's better than a bunch of flowers for her 40th....

Other best gift was a trip to Hawaii, but I don't think that falls into the category of "cheap".... lol 8)