What do the Men of the Lounge want for Valentine's Day?

[desi_de_lu_lu]

What do men like for Valentine's Day anyway? What is the most thoughtful, romantic, loving thing you can receive?

Fess up.

 

[RIOT]

Home baked cookies, of the chocolate-peanut butter variety.

 

[Spitfire]

If I even think of it, I will get in serious trouble with the rules and regulations of this Lounge.

So: Year, cookies sounds nice.:whistling

 

[desi_de_lu_lu]

If I even think of it, I will get in serious trouble with the rules and regulations of this Lounge.

So: Year, cookies sounds nice.:whistling

lol lol

 

[Nathan Flowers]

Bah, does it really matter? Only six percent of us are going to receive something anyway.

lol

 

[desi_de_lu_lu]

Bah, does it really matter? Only six percent of us are going to receive something anyway.

lol

My statistics professor once told me:

"There are lies, damn lies....and then there are statistics."

 

[Feraud]

Six percent??

The ladies have been getting a free ride on Valentine's Day for too long!

 

[Meggan_Lane]

I agree! We should step up the game for our gentlemen Poor fellas

 

[Rhofal]

Well, a voucher "For turning a blind eye when the next Ebay item(s) pour in" would be nice lol

On a more serious note; the feeling that you share mutual love and respect are very hard to express in gifts I think. So I believe more in the small token variety of gifts, rather than expensive things.

Cheers,
Peter

 

[Edward]

Meh. I'm not exactly a fan.... I'd be very glad just to let it cancel itself out again this year. Actually, I'd forgotten it was oming up until somebody mentioned it in connection with plans I've already made.

Bah humbug, commercially invented "holiday" designed to sell overpriced flowers and greetings cards, etc.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Edward, we are totally on the same page. It's a bogus holiday promulgated by the greeting card and gift industries. Relationships are hard enough without additional invented-holiday performance pressure!

I hated it when I was married, and now that I'm unattached, it's (delightfully) a total non-event...

 

[Samsa]

My statistics professor once told me:

"There are lies, damn lies....and then there are statistics."

Was your professor Mark Twain?

 

[desi_de_lu_lu]

Was your professor Mark Twain?

Ironically, yes.








Seriously, is that where that quote came from? Because that will be the one NEW thing I have learned today.

 

[pigeon toe]

I really have no idea what to get for my boyfriend since I'm going to be on another continent for Valentine's Day! Last year I made a picnic, complete with dessert, and we had lunch on the grass outside of the arboretum in Santa Ana (I think it's Santa Ana, anyway). True, kinda girly, but I knew he wasn't going to plan anything, so I decided to plan something I would like as well!

So, if your lady were a billion miles away, thus ruling out any fresh baked goods or anything else like that, what would you fellows want? Help a girl out!

 

[leaette]

last year i sent my hubby a box to his work. there was a card in it and some candy. hershey kisses, red hots, etc. oh and i was pregnant at the time, so he got a card from the baby too.

he said he really liked it and everyone at work was jealous.

it only cost me a few bucks.

i have NO clue what to do this year.

 

[desi_de_lu_lu]

So, if your lady were a billion miles away, thus ruling out any fresh baked goods or anything else like that, what would you fellows want? Help a girl out!

Thank you.. it seems we have a few curmudgeons :whistling replying to the thread, but honestly I wanted some feedback from the male perspective..to see what a guy would want.

 

[MaryDeluxe]

Home baked cookies, of the chocolate-peanut butter variety.

Riot... I'll bake you cookies if you bake me a birthday cake! lol

 

[Kilted_Surveyor]

A Beretta Silver Pigeon V, 12 gauge, 28" barrel length and the 2 day cravats I'm watching on e-bay. Pretty good chance I'll get the cravats, the Beretta however.......

 

[Miss 1929]

Past gifts that were big successes:

Vintage ties (you really can't have too many)
More tux shirts
Sock garters!
Studs and links
The ultimate gift one year, a top hat in it's original box

This year, since I have exhausted a lot of vintage possibilities, I am giving him a Meyer lemon tree! He loves Meyer lemons, and since we have a big yard...

I am usually working on Valentine's day night, so I don't usually get to do the dinner by candlelight routine. But no gig so far this year... so maybe dinner with lemons...

 

[leaette]

if you have some more disposable income and a heaping-load of confidence...

how about a sexy photograph of you that was professionally taken. like a pinup picture.

someday i will do this. "someday" being the key word