What can be a perfect gift to give her at valentine's day?

Hey everyone. i am looking for some nice ideas regarding how to make V day the best?

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Vaca? Jewelry? New pet? Chocolate? Coupons for personalized practical or fun services? Cook or clean for her? Take her to fine dining establishment? Florist delivery? Plant a rose bush for her? A whole day about her?

Infinite options... It all depends on what she likes and would appreciate. Whatvwould she appreciate?

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Vaca? Jewelry? New pet? Chocolate? Coupons for personalized practical or fun services? Cook or clean for her? Take her to fine dining establishment? Florist delivery? Plant a rose bush for her? A whole day about her?

Infinite options... It all depends on what she likes and would appreciate. Whatvwould she appreciate?

Ohh yeahh... after considering all the options... she does love pets and eating lot of chocs.. I thought about taking her to a fine place to dine but now i am thinking to do something inhouse like i can cook, i cook good, so i can cook for her plus i can do alot other things.

What do you think?

Cook for her and do the dishes afterwards. Have a lovely box of chocolates for the dessert. Flowers on the table.

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Don't get her a new pet. I'd be irritated if my husband did that. I like animals but that's a big responsibility and also a personal choice. I'd prefer a spa package: mani-pedi, massage, facial, or other options other posters mentioned.

Cook for her and do all of the clean up..

My choice has always been, flowers, and a nice dinner OUT. There is nothing wrong with a small gift as well given over dinner, say, her favorite perfume. You asked a lifetime romantic.

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If it's a relatively new relationship, cooking and cleaning up afterwards is great. If it is a more mature relationship, I say take her out to dinner. Flowers are a given either way and a card that you pick out that has a special meaning for the two of you.

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I'd die if a man (husband or date) cooked and tried to clean up the kitchen...first of all, they don't know how you want things. When I have a cleaning woman, they always put things back in the wrong place, then your doing stuff. My vote is flowers, (yes a card), dinner and let's add dancing......that's what we used to do.

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No offense Irene, but you don't give men enough credit. When my brother and his family were visiting, my 16 year old nephew cleaned up the kitchen one evening and did a great job. Although he did crack me up because when he finished he used his pants to dry his hands instead of the towel. Over Thanksgiving my niece's fiance took care of the first round of clean up. He put food away, loaded the dishwasher and hand washed the cookware, just like I would have.

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I'm NOT putting the man down, my ex was as clean as a pin...my complaint was for myself, liking things put away a certain way. I know men cleaner than I... it's about putting things away as they were. P.S. I like to go out especially for V-day (that would be Valentines Day). No offense taken, I've been around long enough to know what I want.....the kitchen is mine.....no offense LisaSTL, we were talking about a certain day only.

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Well, in my kitchen I don't like it when my husband does the dishes because he doesn't do them to my standard. And after all these years he doesn't know where some stuff goes and then when I go to use it another night I can't find it and he doesn't remember where he put it. That's annoying. And I pretty much don't want anyone else doing them either...my neighbor came over one night and was helping me out after dinner and she grabbed the hand towel and was going to dry some plates with it that I had washed by hand. I have to have a fresh towel to dry off freshly washed dishes. She laughed at me and said, "Well we only used it to dry clean hands before the plates, what's the big deal?" Skin cells, and particulates that may not have been perfectly removed from the hands and ended up on the towel...that's a big deal to me.

I'm so with you, not because of germs, but putting plates in the wrong cabinet and such....then you can't find anything, .oooh! Growing up, the kitchen was my Grandmother's, as my Mother worked and did't cook. No one messed with her kitchen, she would schoo us out...but my man can do anything he wants in the garage...LOL

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As guys, we are doomed to never fully understand our women. (I think that's a part of the attraction.) My wife loves a quiet brunch in a nice restaurant - especially if they do mimosas well. I would never have figured it out on my own. I have learned (through a series of complete failures) that every woman is different and they will have very different ideas about what makes a great Valentines' Day - you get a sense of that from the responses above.

Just ask her what she would like. Have her give you several ideas. Pick one or two and, maybe, add a little bit of a personal touch to make it more "from you."

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I never when younger wanted to be asked, I thought he should know.....I now understand, men can't read minds,
just surprise us...and mimosas's work, brunch is very nice. Mimi's does a nice mimosa brunch on the weekend.
I've never been disappointed, but since question is being asked.....

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He gets the plates in the right cabinet but when I pull one out a couple of days late to use and it's greasy or has small particles of stuck on food that he missed and I have to rewash it...yuk.

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

I'm so with you, not because of germs, but putting plates in the wrong cabinet and such....then you can't find anything, .oooh! Growing up, the kitchen was my Grandmother's, as my Mother worked and did't cook. No one messed with her kitchen, she would schoo us out...but my man can do anything he wants in the garage...LOL

Most things in my kitchen can be figured out easily enough. All the plates in are in one cabinet, all the coffee mugs/cups in another, etc. I actually tried to organize my kitchen so anyone could walk into it and figure out where to find anything. But then I'm the type who alphabetizes canned goods and organizes various holiday decorations in color coordinated bins

We're different, I'm not organized and have them where I can find them.

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Maybe I need a support group. "Hi. My name is LisaSTL and I'm an organization freak."

I have a vertical row of small drawers that are each about 5 inches wide right next to my stove that I use for kitchen tools. The top drawer has solid wooden or vinyl spoons, the second drawer has slotted (wooden or vinyl) spoons, the third has vinyl spatulas, the fourth has metal utensils, and the bottom drawer has my potato mashers and rolling pin. He gets the spoons, spatula, and metal items mixed up so I try to make sure to empty the dishwasher quickly after the cycle so he doesn't get any "helpful" ideas. He gets irritated with me for being so picky about the way things are put away and doesn't understand why it matters which cooking utensils go in which drawer.

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haha, they probably have them...somewhere, maybe called OCD.

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I was trying not to admit that Irene! Hahahahaha

@LisaSTL wrote:

I was trying not to admit that Irene! Hahahahaha

funny, could be worse. I need an injection of OCD..

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I don't alphabetize my canned goods but they are faced and all of them are organized by category and variety. Oh, and I wipe all of my cans down with a damp cloth before I put them away. My neighbor says my pantry reminds her of the movie "Sleeping With the Enemy" with Julia Roberts...

I was kind of an organization person when I was younger. It became less important to me as I grew older. We are all different, thank goodness. It would be boring if we were all the same. You could ask ten woman what they like for Valentine's Day, and get ten different answers. I do not have a significant other in my life, but if I did I would like flowers and dinner at a nice restaurant.

Heard on the radio today that the top three things women wanted for Valentines Day were (in declining order):
A babysitter for a night for themselves
Sleep
Dinner at a fancy restaurant

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I think it's an age dependent thing: my kids are grown, I can sleep when I want...I really could have dinner at a fancy restaurant whenever I want but it is nice when my husband suggests it.

@walesmaven wrote:

Cook for her and do the dishes afterwards. Have a lovely box of chocolates for the dessert. Flowers on the table.

yeah i can do that,, its a good aoption

@JASFLALMT wrote:

Don't get her a new pet. I'd be irritated if my husband did that. I like animals but that's a big responsibility and also a personal choice. I'd prefer a spa package: mani-pedi, massage, facial, or other options other posters mentioned.

Seriously i dont like having pets.

@Irene_L.A. wrote:

My choice has always been, flowers, and a nice dinner OUT. There is nothing wrong with a small gift as well given over dinner, say, her favorite perfume. You asked a lifetime romantic.

a perfect dinner with a nicee small gift would do it i reckon

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