Valentine's Day? Again? Damn....

Look, let me be honest here. I've been married now for - yikes! - almost 15 years. And every year, come the end of January, I start to get a bit narky.

You see, Valentine's Day is rearing it's head again. And, well, once you've got over the first bloom of all things raunchy (eg, edible knickers, penis-shaped pasta, etc) it starts to get a bit tricky about what to get. You know, you still love him and all that blah blah, it's just that he'd probably think you were a nutter if you gave him a heart shaped cushion - or get frankly nervous if you gave him a whip with a feather on the end.

It seems the shops are of the opinion that we either want to constantly ravage our OHs - or that we "weely, weely wuv dem". Shudder.

So you resign yourself to the age-old favourite standbys such as chocolate. Heart shaped. With his name on. From Thorntons. I've done this before haven't I...?

Well, I've been trying recently to help out some of you by putting together some ideas that you could try this year that you might not have thought about before. Hope they help: http://photofairytales.co.uk/Valentine.aspx (I will just warn you, there is a cuddly bear on there, but only to add balance to an otherwise quite calm, loving and thoughtful range of ideas!).

Now, because I feel it's a little naff to buy my own OH something from my own website, I'm still utterly stumped - so if you have any suggestions I'd be very grateful. Oh, and budget wise think Tesco rather than Tiffany, OK?

Sarah x

Tags: day, gift, love, present, romantic, valentine, valentine's

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Permalink Reply by Tracey ~ Moderator on January 28, 2010 at 9:35pm: Sarah what a fab post - you made me giggle and oh yes I know exactly what you mean about Valentine's gifts for your husband of x amount of years!

Love your ideas on your site, sadly though this is my first year separated and have no one to buy for big awwwww for me lol. But seriously some fabby gifts on there! Well done x; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Sarah Thexton on January 29, 2010 at 9:43am: Oh Tracey, that's sad (or good, depending of course...!). I guess the silver lining is that at least you won't be getting any nipple twirlies - or a "romantic" new ironing board - or a card with the price still left on it (which I usually get - the card I mean!).

But hey, you DO have someone to buy for - you! Buy yourself something totally and completely girly - something you just know he would have hated in the house - and revel in it!!

Sarah x; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Tracey ~ Moderator on January 29, 2010 at 1:07pm: Haha you sure it was just the card and not the nipple twirlies :-P

Hmmmm now theres an idea I like the sound of! Treats for me!! I shall have to ponder on this some more x; ▶ Reply to This