Cheap Asses on Valentines Day.

[quote name='VanillaGorilla']Nah, Strells mom doesn't get out of rehab until the 26th, so she won't be around.[/quote]

Nice!
 
[quote name='VanillaGorilla']If your girl was a true vegan, she wouldn't eat chocolate, since it's made with milk, and apparently, tugging on some cow titties = cruel.[/QUOTE]

This is true.
 
[quote name='VanillaGorilla']If your girl was a true vegan, she wouldn't eat chocolate, since it's made with milk, and apparently, tugging on some cow titties = cruel.[/QUOTE]

She's not vegan.

And there is organic chocolate.
 
[quote name='Stuttering Billy']If your looking for cheap, but shows your "love" - go to foodnetwork.com look up "30 min meals" pick and choice a few course, whip that shit up and watch the see flow in.[/quote]

Amen brother! Stuffed 3 cheese shells, garlic bread and salad...here we come! I pretty much get my wife a season of one of her favorite shows. Cheapest find is sometimes on half.com. My wife gets me Dragon Ball Z and other animes I like. She won't buy me videogames anymore :cry:
 
[quote name='rabbitt']Okay.[/QUOTE]
I wasn't trying to be a jerk, just an FYI. :D I have organic yogurt in my fridge right now, and my boyfriend and I try to buy organic whenever possible. Though I think vegan chocolate exists anyway. It probably tastes like shit though.
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']I wasn't trying to be a jerk, just an FYI. :D I have organic yogurt in my fridge right now, and my boyfriend and I try to buy organic whenever possible. Though I think vegan chocolate exists anyway. It probably tastes like shit though.[/QUOTE]

I know :) I heard vegan chocolate is a bit yucky. The organic stuff at the Mustard Seed (a mostly-natural market) is about $3 a bar.
 
Man, it costs about $90 to send a dozen roses now (from a good florist). She's not even my girlfriend, just a female friend who's been kinda depressed lately and I wanted to cheer her up. Couldn't really afford it, but that makes the gesture a little more pronounced to me since I had to "sacrifice to give" in a manner of speaking. Either way, Hallmark holiday or not, I know she'll enjoy the flowers and cheer up when she receives them and that's easily worth my $90.
 
my wifes really been slipping the hints this year, normally we go to dinner or something the weekend after vday.
this year i have my father in law coming down for the weekend, im telling her were going to dinner and a movie friday night. we're spending the weekend on coronado island (local island off san diego)
im having flowers delivered on vday.
hopefully she enjoys it. we havent had a night away from the kids since our daughter was born 8 months ago. and i was deployed last year.
 
Reality's Fringe;3919551]Man said:
Maybe it's a California thing (?) but local epic bouquets from excellent florists go for around $30-40 (high end). Maybe not all roses (I think they are a little heavy anyway); most girls have a flower they like that are not roses. You can get down to ten for something nice, even. I know some CAG's hate on the flowers but I plopped down $30 for the lady for a surprise bouquet and it was so worth it for how happy it made her. I also got her a Grillz candy mouth piece to take the romantic connotation edge off. For how hackneyed of a gift flowers are suggested to be -- it sure seems a lot of girls love the hell out of them. So, IMO, well worth it.

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just don't do nothing (as my husband has done for the last 5 years... of course my birthday is 4 days after valentines so it sucks for him, but hell he hasn't done anything for my birthday since we were married either, but i digress)

I personally hate flowers unless they are potted because then at least they have a chance in hell of living more than 4 days... i usually get hubby some toy that he wouldn't buy like a remote controled something, or like this year i got rockport slippers and a mind puzzle type game, and i always make him a card... but in the end he just feels bad that i do these things because he "can't find anything" (we KNOW YOU ARE LIEING WHEN YOU SAY THIS) and then guilt trips me for getting him something because maybe i do it "just to make him feel bad" anyway

as for the monterey aquarium i used to be a member ther when i lived in cali last year, be careful w/ those "closed to the public" things there are still lots of people around for them, and often they are booked fast. other than that it's vry pretty there i always enjoyed it.

but what i'd really like is if he made something for me or just wrote a nice love letter and DIDN'T expect sex because he did it. just because you do something nice doesn't mean you get some, it just increases the likely hood of it.

and sexy cloths are not a gift for a woman 99% of the time, guys you know that crap is for you, so stop trying to pretend otherwise.
 
Here an Idea that hit it off big last year for my friend and I, we were talking about this same thing and decided to play on the afact all of us both are crazy about movies,

He used the fact his gf loved the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding,
he decided to surprise his gf with, a card/in a Greek/Greece inspired style, a homemade greek dinner (i.e. foodnetwork,) he created an greek atmosphere in his apartement, using music and dim lights and finally the movie for the evening was Her favorite movie was MBFGWedding..

She loved it! She was totally surpriced..
I did something similiar but used the movie wedding singer , and had eighties music.. and italian food like wedding catering.. totally shocked them..
 
[quote name='auralia']just don't do nothing (as my husband has done for the last 5 years... of course my birthday is 4 days after valentines so it sucks for him, but hell he hasn't done anything for my birthday since we were married either, but i digress)

I personally hate flowers unless they are potted because then at least they have a chance in hell of living more than 4 days... i usually get hubby some toy that he wouldn't buy like a remote controled something, or like this year i got rockport slippers and a mind puzzle type game, and i always make him a card... but in the end he just feels bad that i do these things because he "can't find anything" (we KNOW YOU ARE LIEING WHEN YOU SAY THIS) and then guilt trips me for getting him something because maybe i do it "just to make him feel bad" anyway

as for the monterey aquarium i used to be a member ther when i lived in cali last year, be careful w/ those "closed to the public" things there are still lots of people around for them, and often they are booked fast. other than that it's vry pretty there i always enjoyed it.

but what i'd really like is if he made something for me or just wrote a nice love letter and DIDN'T expect sex because he did it. just because you do something nice doesn't mean you get some, it just increases the likely hood of it.

and sexy cloths are not a gift for a woman 99% of the time, guys you know that crap is for you, so stop trying to pretend otherwise.[/quote]

Sounds like it sucks to be you.
 
As a general rule, if you play up the 'thoughtful' angle, us girls ingore the cost of the item (if yours doesn't, don't lend the goldidgger your credit card.)

If you're lucky enough to be living someplace warm, see if there's a field/roadside around with flowers in bloom. Go pick the flowers yourself- it'll be free, and she'll love that you went to the effort. (If the area's public/scenic enough, go have a picnic.)

If you opt to buy flowers, consider getting her birth flower instead of the usual roses- look here to find out what to get (they also list birth stones, if you want to try for a cheap jewelry thing). It'll probably cost less than roses (unless she was born in June, than you're stuck with 'em), and you get to be 'thoughtful' for figuring out the birth flower thing. You can save a fair amount getting silk flowers instead of fresh if she's OK with that- I know it sounds cheap, but there's some really nice silks out there now- try a craft store.

Actually, that's a good idea in general- there's lots of cute lil' things at the craft store I work at... you could buy a dollar bead kit and make a bracelet, mold your own chocolates, get some nice card-making stuff (none of this is very hard to do, talk to the clerk for tips.)

For the girls- just try to cater to the guy's interests, even if it seems 'off' for the holiday- I got my BF an Xbox Live points card and a couple small candies. I really, really thought about getting a Hilter/Nazi documentary DVD, but couldn't decide what specifically to get. You can also try making cookies or something- I've got a recipe for homemade buttercream frosting if anyone wants it. I made that one year with some sugar cookies (made with a just-add-water mix from the grocery store, cost a buck), it went over well.
 
[quote name='DuelLadyS'] I got my BF an Xbox Live points card and a couple small candies. [/quote]

if my girlfriend got me that, id slap her
 
I finally got something for my boyfriend at Target tonight. Got him three DVDs: Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Airplane!, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I thought that would be a pretty good set of DVDs to give him, and it'd be his type of humor too. I also got a nice vanilla jade candle and a "love checkers" set with a little chocolate in it. I might get some more things, but at least it's a fucking start! :D I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to find anything.
 
I bought my gf a candy thingy from ralphs that when you hit the top, the middle spins and stops on phrases like cutie pie and stuff like that. Later on today I'm going to Tiffany to get her something with her birthstone. And for last.......I'm making her a mix tape. Side A has song's she loves and Side B has anime/video game music she loves.
 
My girl and I agreed on making each other something for Valentines day. I always have hated this "holiday". Just another stupid way for rich people to get richer.
 
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