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Holidays:  Ideas for Hubby for Valentines Day?  |
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summerbreeze
True Blue Farmgirl
277 Posts
Laura
WA
USA
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 Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 10:33:51 AM
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I am at a loss as to what to get my hubby for valentines day. He does not have a sweet tooth so candy is out. I bought some cheap red lipstick and am planning to leave him a message with it on his bathroom mirror that morning and decorate it with hearts. I keep hoping I will come up with some romantic idea but nothing has hit me yet. Any ideas?
Laura
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kitchensqueen
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 10:54:14 AM
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We always do a nice dinner at home-- a fancy salad, steaks, and molten chocolate cakes this year. And I always make a nice hand made card (I'm using some rubber stamps he got me for Christmas). We're both still in college and married for just over a year, so we've never really had the budget for expensive gifts, but I always like the home made stuff better anyway. So I'd suggest making something-- maybe a nice framed photo or an old-fashioned love letter.
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Edited by - kitchensqueen on Feb 06 2007 10:56:27 AM |
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happymama58
True Blue Farmgirl
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Patti
Missouri
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 1:47:15 PM
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I posted this last year, I think, but what I've been doing for years is buy dh a red shirt, usually a red plaid flannel of some kind. Last year, I bought him a brushed cotton (heavy and really soft/nice) burgundy-red Carhart shirt.
I started this because when we married he had around 30 flannel shirts -- I kid you not -- most of the some sort of blue plaid. I started weeding some of them out very slowly at laundry time. I knew, though, how much he loved flannel shirts, so I knew he'd love flannel shirts for Valentine's Day. Anyway, that's what I do.
A good friend of mine told me a few weeks ago that each year she gives her dh a gift of something he's mentioned he'd like to *do*. Last year, she bought him an hour of flight instruction time, and this year she bought him a day at a minor league baseball team's camp for men who love baseball and always had dreams of playing.
Good luck finding what you're looking for!
Some people search for happiness; others create it.
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Persephone
True Blue Farmgirl
172 Posts
Katrina
Indiana
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 3:00:21 PM
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| I have a heart shaped notepad, and the night before, I"m going to write down all these sentences that start "I love..." and hide them all over the house, so when he goes about his morning routine, he'll find them all. Then that evening, we're going to have a dinner of aphrodisiacs, and exchange Valentines. |
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ali2583
True Blue Farmgirl
404 Posts
Alison
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Canada
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Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 06:33:28 AM
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Does your hubby like pizza? I made a heart shaped pizza about 3 years ago for Valentine's Day. Well, it wasn't quite heart shaped, but I tried, and hubby ate it anyways. He still talks about it. It's the thought that counts!
"God's gift to you is life. What you choose to do with that life is your gift to God" |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 07:44:43 AM
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I don't know if your husband likes candy or not, but you can easily make homemade turtles--and they're great!!! I bought a brown craft paper box, some little candy cups with hearts, some red tissue for wrapping, and a beatiful red dotted swiss ribbon for tying the box. I also bought him the 7th season of the West Wing, because that's his favorite...any dvd's or videos he might want?
If you're interested, I'll post the recipe for the turtles--they go over so well, and are just too simple for words.
Just think of all of the roads there are...all of the things I haven't seen....yet. |
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
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Posted - Feb 13 2007 : 05:33:38 AM
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I do something similar to Persephone's plan for most holidays (we're not big on gifts). I write about a dozen notes and stash them everywhere: lunch box (or right on his plate), coat or pants pockets, glovebox, in the special note caddy we have, in the book he's reading, etc. Some of them may be a little naughty (gotta to be careful now that there are children around who can read), some very silly, and all telling him how much I love him. He loves it. Just the other day I found a note that I had slipped into his jacket pocket one night ten years ago while we were still dating.
Trina
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farmgrlchick
True Blue Farmgirl
439 Posts
Theresa
Columbus
Montana
USA
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Posted - Feb 13 2007 : 08:14:41 AM
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Last year I did something similar to Persephone....I took all the heart shaped sticky pads and wrote down things that I love about my man...then shaped them into a 'big'
heart on the bathroom mirror...He loved it! This year I bought him concert tickets to see John Gorka who is in our area on Saturday...Hope he likes it!
Farmgirl Blessings,
Theresa
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primjillie
True Blue Farmgirl
138 Posts
Jill
Antelope
CA
USA
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Posted - Feb 13 2007 : 09:30:32 AM
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| I'm getting mine cologne. He loves to smell good, but won't buy it for himself. We have the grandkids on Valentine's Day, so it will be more of a "family" party, but that's okay! |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Feb 13 2007 : 8:24:11 PM
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We usually do a dinner either out (this year in) and I make him some goodie he likes (cheesecake, chocolate chunk cookies, fudge) and usually a card (this year homemade). We don't do extravagant gifts, just something we think the other one likes or needs. I made him a 4 cd set of music he likes that he can play in his truck coming home and going to work. He will probably bring me a bouquet of mixed flowers because he knows there is never a bad day for flowers in my book! One year he got a new stainless vacuum thermos! Not romantic, but exactly what he wanted!
Theresa- I love John Gorka, hope your husband does too!
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Edited by - bramble on Feb 13 2007 8:25:45 PM |
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