unique and sweet shit for your girl's birthday

Grafwritah

Got a b-day coming up for the litle lady and I always get dogged because I'm not a mind reader. Any ideas on special gifts or gestures?Stipulations:1.) No played out shit. Flowers, go out to eat = played.2.) I'm poor. Like my credit card is about to start burning up here real quick. So it has to be low cost.Gifts are cool... here's kinda what I was thinking about as an example - I was gonna get some digital photos printed up of me and my kids and maybe a pic of me and her or something and put in a frame. Thoughtful yet inexpensive. Things along those type of lines.Any previous successes? Clever ideas?

Mel_Gibson

Day spa gift certificate.

Cosmo

You should hand make her a "Book of Coupons" that she can redeem at any time, like "One Coupon For A Back Rub" and "One Coupon For A Picnic In The Park" and whatever else she might like. You should do this in addition to getting her a real gift that you spend some coin on, but it also will knock her socks off. You write, right? Then you can make it all fancy looking and shit. Trust me, she'll love it.

But also spend some money and get her something nice as well. Trip to the spa or something, plus a nice dinner.

wholewheat

I hear Reynaldo has some new auctions up.

Grafwritah

Day spa gift certificate.

This one is really, really good.

I hear Reynaldo has some new auctions up.

This one is really, really funny.

My girl would kick me in the fucking balls if I got her a record of any type or price. :P

Reynaldo

I hear Reynaldo has some new auctions up.

Don't sleep. I bet she would dig this:

Grafwritah

I hear Reynaldo has some new auctions up.

Don't sleep. I bet she would dig this:

Haaaaa.... Rey, I wouldn't bid on your auctions anyway 'cause you're already



Hopefully you have a better grasp on inflation and compounding interest, though.

day

You should hand make her a "Book of Coupons" that she can redeem at any time, like "One Coupon For A Back Rub" and "One Coupon For A Picnic In The Park" and whatever else she might like. You should do this in addition to getting her a real gift that you spend some coin on, but it also will knock her socks off. You write, right? Then you can make it all fancy looking and shit. Trust me, she'll love it.

But also spend some money and get her something nice as well. Trip to the spa or something, plus a nice dinner.

This is realness.


For our anniversary I told my wife we were going out of town. I took her to the Queen Mary overnight (woo hoo right? /sarcasm) but the next day we took a boat to Catalina and stayed the weekend.

Point being - out of town trip. Cheap bed & breakfast (that was another time) or just drive somewhere and have a picnic. It doesn't have to be material it just has to be from the heart.

SPlDEY

I took my girl to Disneyland, and bought her a Shag limited edition t-shirt with elephants.

- spidey

Mr_Lee_PHD

Leave some of those coupons blank so she can write what she wants to do on them.

Wake her up with breakfast in bed and a single flower of her favourite type / colour.

Take her for a picnic somewhere real nice.

Make her a collage from photos and some poetry.

As long as its personal, genuine and has meaning, she'll love it.


OOH OOH >>>>> A MIX TAPE!!!!!!

Bsides

i dunno, the coupon idea is pretty played. Kinda reminds me of a bootleg mothers day gift.

One time a friend of mine wrote down everything he liked about his girl on little folded strips of paper and gave it to her in a really nice silver box. He said for her to take one out everytime she felt bad about herself.

It worked good. This was like highschool though.


Best advice is to figure out what she likes or what shes into and get her that. Handbags are usually pretty safe too.

knewjak

i dunno, the coupon idea is pretty played. Kinda reminds me of a bootleg mothers day gift.

yeah, thats what came to my mind too.

A ticket that reads:
"Good for one Vacuuming of the House"

gloom

Best advice is to figure out what she likes or what shes into and get her that. Handbags are usually pretty safe too.

yeah cosign on this...my girlfriend loves clothes, but never wants to throw down money on out of the ordinary type shit, she just conserves money and buys boring things she can wear to work...so for her birthday a couple months ago i went to a couple "boutique" type spots and just talked with the girl behind the counter and got my girlie a bunch of ill clothes, handbag, sunglasses...she was mad surprised, and it definately "paid off" if you smell me on that one...

gloom

One time a friend of mine wrote down everything he liked about his girl on little folded strips of paper and gave it to her in a really nice silver box. He said for her to take one out everytime she felt bad about herself.

i must have skipped over this...THIS IS FUCKING SMOOTH, can someone say christmas present...

Danno3000

I hear Reynaldo has some new auctions up.

Yo, this is the greatest idea! Really--records for your girl? What genius! If she doesn't like them, she can always give them to you. It's a win-win situation.

You fools think I'm joking, but when my better half gets a present it's always an LP and she doesn't even like music so I always get the record. I wish I dated Josh.

Cosmo

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

HerbalEssence

It's only fitting that this be my first post, but my boys girlfriend put me onto this stuff:
http://www.origins.com/templates/products/sp_nonshaded.tmpl?CATEGORY_ID=CATEGORY6704&PRODUCT_ID=PROD304

Shit went over magnificently with my girl (I took all of the credit of course.) Then I got to give her a massage with it...then she tasted sweeter than a plate of yams...then...then...then

Origins =

Otis_Funkmeyer

Once I serenaded a girlfriend for her birthday, I played and sang a couple of songs that were meaningful to us on the acoustic guitar. She got teary.

Best gifts I've gotten: My GP3 and Iriver.

DjArcadian

Dig up some old photos of the two of you. Something she may have forgotten and get it framed. Always better than anything materialistic.