Valentine's Day gift?

[Marc Myer]

For once, I'd like to do something really special for my wife. Or at least something better than chocolates and flowers. Seems I'm always doing something for someone else, but nothing to keep in the family.

Any good ideas? OK, any mediocre ideas? Lame ideas?

[Margaret Turco]

Well for most people a trip to Hawaii would be great, but I guess that won't work for you.... You mean something you can make on the laser?

[Brian Robison]

How about a frying pan or maybe a vacuum cleaner, wives LOVE that stuff!

[Steve Clarkson]

How about engraving a REAL rose???!!!!


(sorry.....I couldn't let that one go)

[Bill Cunningham]

All I have at at home is my wife and my youngest daughter (two other daughters are married).. I usually take them both out to dinner, but my daughter left for two weeks in Cuba this evening, so it will just be my wife and I this year.. If I make her something she thinks I'm just being cheap..ha.. so dinner it is...

[Marc Myer]

Ha! That's a very real concern.
Plus my wife already KNOWS I'm cheap. OK, Hallmark card and some flowers, I guess. It's easier anyway.

[John W. Love]

I remember seeing a thread on here about laserable bakeware. What woman doesn't want cookware. After all a womans place in the kitch....

ok that loud smack you just heard was my wife hitting me over the head with a piece of granite. And now I realize that what a woman really wants is diamond jewelry, a nice dinner on the town and for the husband to clean the house for the next month.

[Mike Null]

Well, I can tell you from experience that anything with a cord is not considered a gift--contrary to what most of us on SMC think.

For my wife it goes like this: diamonds, gold, designer handbags, money, dinner. In that order.

We usually do dinner.

[Frank Corker]

Marc, knowing what laser people are like, it's a good possibility your wife doesn't see much of you. I would opt for a meal for TWO in a good restuarant where you get yourself into a suit and she can dress up and you can actually be together for the whole evening. I might have stretched to the rose thing, but it would probably be dead by the time you got to dining. Have them bring a nice bottle of wine to the table.

Mike; Does your wife know my wife?

[Steve Clarkson]

Shouldn't it be an engraved bottle of wine? A romantic kinda guy would engrave something beautiful and unique on the bottle and drop it off at the restaurant the day before......if it's good enough, maybe the restaurant will even ask you to do more!

[Frank Corker]

Good plug!

[Belinda Barfield]

Nothing with a cord, nothing for the kitchen. Does she like to read? Autographed copy of something by her favorite author.

Go to the local spa and get a gift certificate for a massage, day of beauty, whatever you think she would like. Go home and engrave either that certificate, or a certificate of your own design on wood, acrylic, something cost effective. Give her the certificate during the dinner that Frank planned for you. When she goes to the spa have her present the certificate you made for her, along with the actual certificate issued by the spa. You get to laser something, all of the ladies at the spa will think you are oh so sweet, and maybe, just maybe it will generate a little business for you.

[Mike Null]

Steve

It's not hard to tell who doesn't have a wife.

[Brian Robison]

BTW, I thought everyone could tell, I WAS JOKING!
So last night I ask my wife what she would like and she tells me about this deep fryer!!!!!! I said NO WAY!
I'll get you a deep fryer but NOT for Valentines day.

[Steve Clarkson]

steve

it's not hard to tell who doesn't have a wife.

rotflmao!!!!!!!!!!!