# Small gift for beautiful girlfriend: suggestions? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 2, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-gift-for-beautiful-girlfriend-suggestions/205209 "2003-10-02T21:11:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-gift-for-beautiful-girlfriend-suggestions/205209/21 "2003-10-03T12:34:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cajela \* > **Anyone giving me a stuffed animal after six months would merely be proving that they did not know me. I’d be pissed off. Unless a very personally specific joke was involved.** I see how someone could feel this way, but I just love stuffed animals. My SO and I have been together for nearly 3 years, and I still enjoy getting them from him. Of course, now the toys are a little more specific (he knows what colors I like, which animals I like, etc) than when we first got together, but that only makes me like the stuffed animals even more. ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-gift-for-beautiful-girlfriend-suggestions/205209/22 "2003-10-03T15:40:03Z")
by **Handy** > [@](#): > > Give her a photo album with pictures of you in it Nuh-uh. Give her a photo album with pictures of her in it. Or at least an album with all things her. Poems, songs, her first baby tooth [you need her parents for that] People - be it man or woman - like to read about themselves. Or a stuffed animal. **No** cheap jewelry. You might get it thrown at you. Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-gift-for-beautiful-girlfriend-suggestions/205209/23 "2003-10-03T15:47:48Z")
Hate to be a party pooper, but I say _blegh_ on the stuffed animal. They’re just clutter to me. I’d much more appreciate a small plant or a piece of funky (not necessarily expensive) jewelry. I also love getting candes. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-gift-for-beautiful-girlfriend-suggestions/205209/24 "2003-10-03T16:34:01Z")
If you’ve been in her home, esp. her bedroom, you know whether she likes stuffed animals or not – if there aren’t any, anywhere, she doesn’t. I have two in my living room (well, three if beanie babies count), including Soda Doda, a companion for more than 45 years, sitting next to the fireplace, and four others in my bedroom, including the bunny I sleep with and the tiger that was my “transitional object” when I was a wee twickster – totally beat to hell, but holding a place of honor. (Plus two at work – yikes! I had no idea I was this bad about stuffed animals!) ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-gift-for-beautiful-girlfriend-suggestions/205209/25 "2003-10-03T16:48:49Z")
heh, **twickster** 🙂 About the stuffed animals: I don’t know her age. If she’s very young she may not like them [or pretend she doesn’t] Honest; Try giving something that is purely about **her**. ---
**Author:** ![WhetherMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@WhetherMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhetherMan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-gift-for-beautiful-girlfriend-suggestions/205209/26 "2003-10-03T17:56:39Z")
Tell her that you wanted to give her something very special…something for a beautiful woman. You went to a museum and found the perfect gift…a gift that reflects true beauty. Buy her a really cool wall mirror. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-gift-for-beautiful-girlfriend-suggestions/205209/27 "2003-10-03T18:15:53Z")
A thong bikini would make me raise an eyebrow. Scented candles, meh. But a funky old candlestick would be cool, I think…then again, my tastes don’t run toward the usual chintzy-cute girl sort of thing. For me, myself, personally, an odd sort of antique knick-knack is just the thing. Something weird, though, or at least something I’ve never or rarely seen. I’ve gotten a few presents like that. An ancient Roman hairpin (really quite inexpensive; I saw it at a coin shop). A funky old cameo pin. A pair of dangly locket earrings. A brightly-colored scarf. My truest desire (at the moment) is a big black brightly-colored flower/fruit embroidered piano scarf. I could wrap my entire self in it and look GLAMOROUS. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-gift-for-beautiful-girlfriend-suggestions/205209/28 "2003-10-03T18:27:30Z")
Since it’s a small gift, why not just put a ribbon around your penis? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-gift-for-beautiful-girlfriend-suggestions/205209.md?page=1)