Ok fellas, don't blow it. V-Day is a easy no-brainer, practically handed to us guys. Ya don't have to try to come up with some 'special' gift the wife is going to like (like birthdays or Christmas), you just have to get some flowers or candy and your golden. If you do V-Day right, you can slide by with lousy gifts the rest of the year.
I'm going to share what my past Valentines Day 'gifts' to my wife have been. Over the top, stupid, cheap, and my wifes friends and co-workers all think 'It's so sweet!'
This all started with us coming up with stupid ideas at work for V-Day.
1st yr - (this one take some guts) I recorded a CD on my PC of me singing (I can't sing) of You are the Sunshine of My Life by Stevie Wonder (Yes it is a sucky song and my wife doesn't like it either - all the better). I played it with headphones on and sung to it - so all you could hear on the CD was me, no music. It was bad. So then I went out that night and took all the CD's out of her truck and put that one in so she would hear it on her way to work. She had to pull off the road because she was laughing so hard. If you try this one, be sure to make the CD disappear soon after!
Large 3'x4' Valentines Day 'card' made out of plywood and junk I had around. Looks like one of those construction paper card you made in 1st grade but alot bigger. Put it outside the house so she would see it when she left for work. (Now it is hung on the garage wall - so she sees it on occasion)
This one cost a few bucks - had a big rock engraved (gravestone places sometimes do that stuff) that said "Didi, I love you, Dan" and put it next to the side walk of her work. Her co-workers told her all day how I must really love her. Now it sits along our sidewalk so she sees it whenever she leaves.
Car I was going to junk - spray painted candy heart type messages on it and parked it next to her truck at work. Again, her co-workers told her all day how I must really love her, but did think it was kinda weird!
Another benefit of doing stuff like this: if you tell them your only getting them a card this year, they're kinda relieved.
My idea so far for this year, if there is still snow on the ground: Take an empty dish-soap bottle and fill it with yellow colored water and write 'I love you' in the snow outside our house.
I'm going to share what my past Valentines Day 'gifts' to my wife have been. Over the top, stupid, cheap, and my wifes friends and co-workers all think 'It's so sweet!'
This all started with us coming up with stupid ideas at work for V-Day.
1st yr - (this one take some guts) I recorded a CD on my PC of me singing (I can't sing) of You are the Sunshine of My Life by Stevie Wonder (Yes it is a sucky song and my wife doesn't like it either - all the better). I played it with headphones on and sung to it - so all you could hear on the CD was me, no music. It was bad. So then I went out that night and took all the CD's out of her truck and put that one in so she would hear it on her way to work. She had to pull off the road because she was laughing so hard. If you try this one, be sure to make the CD disappear soon after!
Large 3'x4' Valentines Day 'card' made out of plywood and junk I had around. Looks like one of those construction paper card you made in 1st grade but alot bigger. Put it outside the house so she would see it when she left for work. (Now it is hung on the garage wall - so she sees it on occasion)
This one cost a few bucks - had a big rock engraved (gravestone places sometimes do that stuff) that said "Didi, I love you, Dan" and put it next to the side walk of her work. Her co-workers told her all day how I must really love her. Now it sits along our sidewalk so she sees it whenever she leaves.
Car I was going to junk - spray painted candy heart type messages on it and parked it next to her truck at work. Again, her co-workers told her all day how I must really love her, but did think it was kinda weird!
Another benefit of doing stuff like this: if you tell them your only getting them a card this year, they're kinda relieved.
My idea so far for this year, if there is still snow on the ground: Take an empty dish-soap bottle and fill it with yellow colored water and write 'I love you' in the snow outside our house.
