Valentines Day help!

Princess_nola1

Hi! Been a whole since I last posted.

My husband & I have been married 18 months, together 3 years. This year is the first time were going for a meal to celebrate valentines dau. The thing is, although we say we're not buying gifts for each other, you can almost guaranteed that I'll receive flowers at work.

I'm totally pants at thinking up gift ideas, and it's his birthday only a week before!! I've bought him aftershave for his birthday & will bake a rather awesome chocolate cake for him then, but would really appreciate some ideas of what I could get my DH for valentines day?!

All help appreciated!!

Nola x

Faith177

One year I made OH a scrap book of our time together.

I did it month by month included gigs we had been to photos ect. I wrote lyrics out and decorated it with things relevant to that page. So the Jan he had come to my mums for New Year shortly after we met I put in the wether forecast for that week and covered the page in snowflakes.

I did a bit for each of our pets.

It only took me a couple of nights and was very easy once I got started. Facebook was a great help for tracking things we had done.

CP26

What about a framed word cloud?

Google Wordle and you'll get a website where you can enter a list of words that describe him - the site will then turn it into a word cloud. If you want some words to appear bigger than others just include them in the list more than once. You then generate your word cloud, change the font and colours and that's it really.

You can then get a nice frame and just print it out.

I did this for my OH for his birthday. I found a nice little glass block frame in Asda. I also handmade one for a friend once using the stick on letters you can get for card making.

lika_86

If you both agreed to not get each other anything then don't feel you have to just because you think he might break the agreement, otherwise, what's the point even pretending in the future that you won't get each other anything?

InsideInsurance

Underwear for yourself to his tastes and he just has to unwrap you to get to see his present :A

As an allegedly hard to buy for guy, I am not really bothered for a material present on valentines day and would somewhat argue that "flowers" are not really a present any more than the card is.

Most gifts are fairly unisex even if traditionally seen as more feminine, a growing number of guys in our office have flowers arrive for them each year. Outside that then if hes into gadget/funny things then Red5/ Mankind type shops have lots of little things or does he have any hobbies you can get something for? I've seen plectrums for playing guitars with love messages on - should come with a warning to the buyer though that plectrums are often lost

Maysie

does he have a packed lunch? Make him a thoughtful surprise. Heart shaped sandwiches, put a lovely dovey note in, heart shaped anything really biscuits?

itsanne

Stick with just a card but make your own, including the verse. How rude you make it depends on who else might see it .

Tiddlywinks

Most of the ideas above are lovely BUT are they what a guy wants to receive or just a girl's idea of what is 'romantic'?

If you want to do something that he will like then just prepare a favourite meal or buy a takeaway and watch a movie... just time relaxing with no pressure is a great gift.

maman

I really wouldn't get him a gift. I'm sure he really won't expect it. Flowers are more of a romantic gesture than a gift. What about a nice bottle of bubbly at home before you go out for your meal? I'd go for a nice gesture like that rather than a proper gift.

Nottoobadyet

This year I'm long distance from my OH due to work, so I had a bunch of photos from our last holiday printed and sent to his housemate to delivery on Vday. I started a photo album for us last year for our anniversary, so he can add these.

Printed photos are special in these days of Facebook. Also agree with maman on the bubbly idea.

Georgiegirl256

Maysie wrote: »

does he have a packed lunch? Make him a thoughtful surprise. Heart shaped sandwiches, put a lovely dovey note in, heart shaped anything really biscuits?

While the above idea is very sweet, it's also IMO very twee....

I think most blokes would squirm at the above idea, and depending at what the guy does for a living, he might be surrounded by all his work mates (ie builder etc) and they take the !!!! out of him! :rotfl:

While us females might think it's cute and lovey dovey, I don't think it would really appeal to most blokes. They want blokey stuff like being cooked a nice fat juicy steak or something!

Tbh, (you can probably already tell!) I don't like Valentines Day....:p I think it's an over commercialised day with shops filled full of rubbish and tatt. I don't need one particular day of the year to let my husband know how much I love him.

OP, just because you think your OH might be buying you flowers, doesn't mean that you have to buy him anything. But, since you asked for ideas, how about a mix CD of all his favourite songs, or ones that mean a lot to you as a couple? There, that's about as much as you're going to get out of me, I don't do romance! :rotfl: