# So what did you give(and get) for Valentine's Day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339 "2006-02-13T21:15:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Seren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Seren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seren)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/41 "2006-02-14T20:57:05Z")
My boyfriend just delivered a card to me at work. A card with a paper heart inside of it. And on the back of the heart? The alphabet written out in morse code.\* He’s great. 🙂 (or … . … / --. .-. . .- -) I can’t wait to see what the rest of the evening will bring. - We’ve been talking for a while about how neat it would be to learn morse code and all of the devious ways we could use it. Looks like we’re gonna start now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ILovCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@ILovCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILovCoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/42 "2006-02-14T21:11:22Z")
I got us a tin of chocolates and him a purple heart shaped pillow with “Forever” embroidered on it. He sang to me for VD at lunch over the phone. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/43 "2006-02-14T22:48:37Z")
Just some [candy](http://photobucket.com/albums/f256/seisos/) ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/44 "2006-02-14T22:56:01Z")
I don’t have a boyfriend, but my roommate/cousin’s boyfriend got me a chocolate rose and a card. Sad, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/45 "2006-02-14T23:03:01Z")
Not at all, myskepticsight. I tend to think any holiday is what you make of it. My SO got a faux silk robe that I MADE WITH THESE TWO HANDS OF MY VERY OWN. (Can you tell I’m proud of it?) And I got a $25 gift certificate to JoAnn’s, which is my most favoritest fabric store in the whole world! ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/46 "2006-02-14T23:44:08Z")
**Mika** , I give you [http://www.designerfabrics.ca/shop/scripts/](http://www.designerfabrics.ca/shop/scripts/), my very favourite fabric store in the world. And bad. And dangerous. I got the fabric for every wedding dress I’ve made there. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/47 "2006-02-14T23:51:11Z")
_drools slightly_ my boyfriend is going to \*kill \*you. He already tells his mom (who got me the sewing machine) that she’s created a monster. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/48 "2006-02-15T00:01:26Z")
I got three cards from large to small. I put the small card in the bathroom where he was bound to see it before he went to work. It just had a heart and said I LOVE YOU. This was the only one he’d seen when he kissed me goodbye this morning. In the kitchen, I put the medium sized card with three key lime truffles from See’s candy…and he said he thought, oh, what a nice surprise! Two cards and a few pieces of candy! Then, in front of the front door on the window ledge (positioned so that he’d HAVE to see it before he opened the door, I had the largest card and a whole box of his favorite candy, bordeaux. Hee heee heeeee! He was very, very, surprised and happy! 😃 I got flowers that never showed up. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/49 "2006-02-15T00:08:41Z")
> [@Faruiza](#): > > I got flowers that never showed up. ☹ Me, too! Mr. Stasaeon is going to be ripping mad when he gets home and finds out his wife didn’t receive the flowers he’s had me waiting for all day. I did get a card this morning though, and lots of hugs and kisses. I hid caramel hershey kisses all around the house in pairs of red and pink - easter egg hunting style - so my husband keeps running into them. I also hid some mini Snickers and other small wrapped chocolates for variety. It’s 4pm here, and the flowers should have been here late morning/early afternoon. I want to go take a shower and have a nice long bath - they’ll probably show up then. :rolleyes: Nothing I hate more than just getting settled into the tub, nice and relaxed, and someone knocks on the door - especially when the person knocking has something you’ve been waiting for all day and you want to go get it! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/50 "2006-02-15T00:10:13Z")
In spite of being put wise by the most recent episode of _The Office_, I hooked up on February _13th._ So I got a petulant (and hopefully jokey) observation that I’d neglected to bring flowers, and gave a non-commital shrug of the shoulders. And sweet, sweet lovin’. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/51 "2006-02-15T00:11:56Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > This is the coolest V-day celebration evah. He will love it. Thank you for saying that! I’m a little apprehensive because I’ve never really gone “all-out” like that for a holiday before, but he does a lot of really great things for me and I just wanted to make sure tonight was special for him. Oh, and I just got done watching the weather channel: Clear to mostly clear skies until dawn WOOOHOO! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/52 "2006-02-15T00:25:57Z")
… Shut up. _goes back to drinking in bitter lonely singlehood_ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/53 "2006-02-15T00:38:58Z")
> [@ILovCoffee](#): > > He sang to me for VD at lunch over the phone. _Why does it hurt when I pee? Darlin, sweet darlin’ what have you done to me? Sweetheart, your love is so free Cupid’s arrows are stingin’ me I gave you my heart and you gave me VD_ I’m so sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/54 "2006-02-15T01:28:18Z")
I got a teddy bear holding a heart. 😃 (And I’d planned to send ElzaHub flowers signed “Love, Bob Vance. Vance Refrigeration” - but we’re trying to watch the money right now.) E. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/55 "2006-02-15T01:51:57Z")
I carry a big old leather LL Bean pack for my work stuff. I found a one pound box of turtles in there when I got to work. I got her some crystal and a dozen red roses. I’m a traditionalist. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/56 "2006-02-15T07:06:34Z")
YAY! My flowers came! It was a dozen roses - he says they are not at all the colour he ordered, but I love them anyway - some are peach and some are white. ~swoom! And they were delivered with a sweet little teddy bear, and a box of dark chocolate (I can’t eat much junk food, so these will be a _wonderful_ treat for a while!) Yeah. I’m a bit of a traditionalist. I like flowers, stuffed toys, candy. Makes it easy on Mr. Stasaeon, let me tell you! 🙂 And then I had… dare I say it? \*The best \* sex of my life. He’s been holding out on me. I still can’t walk right. Damn, I like Valentine’s Day! We should have it more often. :eek: Stop throwing things at me! ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/57 "2006-02-15T07:26:01Z")
My wife and baby girl Anya surrepticiously tinkered with _my_ web page to create a Valentine’s card! [http://www.dulcemichaelanya.com/Vday/Vday1.htm](http://www.dulcemichaelanya.com/Vday/Vday1.htm) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/58 "2006-02-15T07:42:44Z")
I was surprised by a small gift, card, and brief note from \*\*Anaamika \*\*on Saturday (I haven’t so much as opened the Valentine’s Day Exchange thread) but didn’t receive anything from anyone otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/59 "2006-02-15T08:02:49Z")
My mother got me a pair of boxer shorts with hearts on them three Valentine’s Days ago, and somehow that turned into a tradition. This is three years in a row, so I guess it really is one now. She gave me a nice-looking aquamarine pair of boxer briefs this evening. It beats last year, when she sent me two plain pairs and said “Anyway, I didn’t get a pair with hearts this year, since you’re alone.” “That would have been very thoughtful of you… if you hadn’t gone out of your way to call attention to it,” I said. I like to think of that as the closest my family has ever come to doing something straight out of _Arrested Development_. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339/60 "2006-02-15T08:18:47Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > It beats last year, when she sent me two plain pairs and said “Anyway, I didn’t get a pair with hearts this year, since you’re alone.” > “That would have been very thoughtful of you… if you hadn’t gone out of your way to call attention to it,” I said. I like to think of that as the closest my family has ever come to doing something straight out of _Arrested Development_. That’s pretty funny. And in my mind she made quote marks when she said “alone,” and spilled her martini all over the place. For Valentine’s Day, I got a mixed bag of a lot of my favorite things, from candy to DVDs. In return, I gave flowers and tickets to a play this weekend. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-give-and-get-for-valentines-day/344339.md?page=4)