What are you getting your honey for Valemtine's day?

julifish

julifish

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I'm at a loss for what to get my husband for Valentine's Day. So help me out and share what you are getting your honey and any fun plans you have in the works. I need some inspiration!
 
We haven't done gifts for years. We don't always even go out, but this year I told DH last night I wanted to go to dinner, so we will. We don't do cards either.

Sorry, I'm absolutely no help. :p
 
We don't exchange gifts or cards either. Both of us have birthdays this week, and then next week, we'll be having our baby the day after V-day. So really, we've got enough special occasion stuff going on this month. It'll be just another normal day for us. LOL
 
If we remember, we'll exchange cards. Our anniversary is a few weeks after (10 years this year!), so we save it all up for that.
 
I love Valentines' Day but DH doesn't (insert "commercial holiday made up by greeting card companies" rant here). So we compromise with the traditional candy and flowers so that I can feel like we acknowledged the holiday and he can feel like he didn't have to put too much time, effort, or money into a holiday he dislikes. So yeah, no real help here. With his birthday in Jan. and mine in March, we probably wouldn't do big gifts even if we did exchange.
 
We're buying each other wedding bands :D They're some inexpensive bands for our 'transition' time - he's lost a bunch of weight but is too scared to have his band adjusted because it will ruin the design on it, and he's not prepared for that. We always want our bands to match, so we're just going to go ahead and get new ones for now til we're both done losing and can have someone really good adjust our original bands or recast them. They're one-of-a-kind, else we wouldn't be so worried about the work being done on them.

Normally, though, it's nothing more than a token gift - a big package of Twix for me, and a steak in the fridge for him.
 
I have officially relented. We don't "do" V-day. I've decided it's a made up holiday which makes couples fight (you never buy me jewelry! you never get me chocolate! You always forget!) and single women feel sad and alone. LOL. And that was what it was becoming for us... I was always upset because he doesn't care about V-day and kept fighting me on it when I talked about it. So, I've decided he's right. Also, I figure it's a good reason to expect him to profess his love for me more frequently because there's not a day when he's expected to do it. We should be doing it all the time, right? ;)

This year we might eat out together sans-kids. If I can arrange it with the free babysitters (g-parents).
 
Yeah - probably no gifts here either. We haven't really talked about it, but it would be nice to go out to dinner. We haven't done that since our anniversary in August. That night I went to the hospital, and we haven't been out alone together since the baby was born two days later.
 
none here either. well. that's supposed to be the rule. he usually breaks it and gets me chocolate covered strawberries.

Supposedly we go out to dinner and then we buy stuffed animals or something for the kids.
 
Probably nothing but a card for the actual day....I am getting a new laptop as a combine birthday/Valentine's Day gift and he is going to get an iPad next month as a combined gift.....
 
We don't generally do much more than cards. He works weeknights, so we won't even be doing dinner out this year.
 
We don't really do much. Usually DH plans a sitter & we go out without the kids for a couple of hours, best gift ever IMO...

I do know I'll be getting some heart shaped earrings from Kay's (we got them on special last week when we had date day and I was getting my wedding rings inspected for warranty)
 
Nada-We don't do Valentines Day here...it's just another day we are happy to be married to each other-like all others.
 
We haven't really done anything since having kids. Since my birthday is 3 days after, we have take-out at least once between the 3 days, but no gifts.
 
I always make him a nice steak dinner... already got the steaks - $1.99/lb manager special today... woot!
 
Nothing. DH works second shift, so we can't go out to dinner even if we wanted to. VDay is not a big deal to me, so I don't mind. He might surprise me and show up with some candy or flowers, but I'm not going to hold my breath. I doubt he will even remember that it is VDay unless someone else mentions it or he sees something on TV. :)
 
My birthday is on Valentine's Day and I've never particularly liked it (the holiday or the fact that my birthday is on it) so we don't do a lot... or at least I try not to. My husband and kids usually manage to surprise me despite that. LOL

Anyway, I bought DH and each of my kids 'like' books for Valentine's Day. I got the couples one for DH and I. I also got DH a keepsake box from Shutterfly with a picture of us on our wedding day on it. We will go out to dinner at some point but not ON Valentine's Day. Its usually so crazy that we go before or after and this year with it being on a week day it just doesn't work out for us. DH is taking the day off work to spend with me though (I'm taking off work too) and we'll probably have lunch together somewhere just the 2 of us in between going to have lunch with our kids at their schools (we will take them lunch, not actually eat school lunches!).

We don't do a lot for Valentine's Day.
 
Usually it's just a card and a little candy or something.

This year, my volunteer club meeting falls on that night and the "older" women's group is cooking us dinner. So basically my night will be having a very nonomantic dinner with a group of 70+ year old women. I don't think there is a card for that :)
 
We don't usually do much. A card, maybe some candy, and dh usually picks up some flowers at the grocery store for me to arrange in my own vase. After owning a flower shop for 5 years and being insanely busy the joy kind of went out of Valentine's Day. LOL
 
Well I have some of it figured out now...it was so fun to read what everyone does or doesn't do.

We are having date night tomorrow (Friday) night while the kids to go Kid's Night Out at the Y. We're making Indian food here at home and watching The Hangover 2. I think I'm going to get him an hour massage gift certificate. If he doesn't use it I will. :)

Our anniversary is exactly one month after Valentine's day but we usually do at least a little something for both. This year we are getting each other Broadway series theatre tickets for next season. 1 season (8 plays) is the same price as 2 individual plays - plus that means 8 dates for us. :)
Oh, and we'll be on a cruise on our anniversary so I already booked us for dinner in the steakhouse on the ship.
 
I bought him lingerie :P well, technically not for him...but it's all for him, lol.


Other than that, we'll exchange cards, and we're going out the next weekend to the beach, to relax, play putput, and eat at Steak n Shake. Valentine's is our dating anniversary so we try to at least celebrate it.
 
We don't usually do alot, but we do generally use the holiday as an excuse to go out to dinner without the kiddos. This year my in-laws kept the kids and we ordered carry out, I baked a dessert, and we watched The Office. It was low key, but fun. I am also planning to buy him a box of chocolates, and leave little notes with reasons I love him underneath all the chocolates.
 
We'll go out to dinner (with the kids, actually) and I special-ordered him a few of his favorite chocolate bars from when he was a kid. I had to special order them because they don't sell them here in the states.
 
Meh, no clue. I think v-day is a bit overrated, but SO got me an iPad for V-day/mothers day (tomorrow here in Norway) so now I have to get him something :p
 
YepBrook said:
I have officially relented. We don't "do" V-day. I've decided it's a made up holiday which makes couples fight (you never buy me jewelry! you never get me chocolate! You always forget!) and single women feel sad and alone. LOL.
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This. If you're in a couple, why do you need a special day in the first place (wouldn't it be so much more special to do something nice randomly??) and if you're not in a relationship, it just reminds you that you're not. I've always referred to it as Singles Awareness Day. :D

If it were up to me we wouldn't do anything but my DH just wants an excuse to get chocolate. I believe his exact words were "I want you to get me chocolate but not one of those cheap red boxes from the store." Yay Valentines. :D
 
I don't remember the last time we actually did something, but I know a couple of times he has surprised me with a bouquet of flowers.....even though I think they are a waste of money, I still like getting them once a year :)
 
YepBrook said:
I have officially relented. We don't "do" V-day. I've decided it's a made up holiday which makes couples fight (you never buy me jewelry! you never get me chocolate! You always forget!)
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^ ^ Yep. I've given up on anniversaries and birthdays too. My DH is not a big fan of 'special occasion.' Sadly I grew up in a family that celebrates EVERYTHING, lol ... So I basically buy stuff for him that in much need of replacement; i.e a new bag for work, new shoes... He does not buy things for himself even if they're broken, so I'm the fixer :D
 
We always celebrate V-Day with my inlaws and the kids, we do a seafood fest and chocolate fondue and it's lots of fun. It's a yearly tradition we've had for almost 10 years. We don't buy gifts for Valentine's Day.
 
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