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FI is not really the romantic type... but im going to have to vote this year.
FI starts talking to a mutual friend and helps him plan out this nice romantic thing for valentines day down to reccomending what type of flowers and all that stuff all the while when i can hear the conversation (i was sitting next to FI) Friend asks FI is he had planned anything and FI's response is "nope i pretty much just plan on trying to not be an asshole" and goes on to explain the reason he doesnt do sweet/romantic things for me is because he used to do those sorts of things for his ex and she never appreciated it.
I know it probably shouldnt have really mattered but i kinda really sucked that the thought was there.... just for someone else.
a snorkel for scuba diving.... apparently it being yellow, my favorite color, made it extra special
i also got a card that he signed "with fondest regards".... i keep threatening to frame it
Mine worst wasn't from a significant other. It was during elementary school. We did like a 'Secret Santa' type thing but it was for Valentines Day. I recieved 2 used beanie babies that came from McDonalds Happy Meals.
Hm, receiving nothing from a previous relationship. I guess that's why FI and I agreed not to celebrate it. It didn't really bother me at the time though. I don't care for Valentine's Day no matter what my status is.
A red balloon that some stranger had blown up.
Yeah, beat that.
Backstory: Old boyfriend worked at a hardware store, store was having a SALE! so red balloons were being used to advertise. One red balloon got free. Old boyfriend thought I'd like it. Arsehole.
A couple years ago there was this creepy guy who had a thing for me and sent me this poem that he had found and fancied it up in photoshop. He emailed it to me Valentine's day morning and it was completely inappropriate. Worst "gift" I've ever received....
Mine happened to also be my first date in high school. A guy I barely knew called me up on Valentine's Day and asked me to the movies that night. I said yes. We decided on seeing a movie I didn't really want to see. We got to the theater and he went up to get tickets. He only ordered one. Then, he paid for it with a free movie pass. Luckily I had brought money and was able to buy my own ticket. I sure hope he enjoyed his free movie, because I surely didn't.
(When he called me up two days later to see if I would be his girlfriend, he was shocked when I said no).
my ex dumped me the day after v-day...guess that's pretty bad!
It has to be the "present" that my FI's cat left for me in the middle of the kitchen floor this morning.
my first boyfriend dumped me four days before valentine's day on a myspace comment, not a message, a comment on my public myspace page. so the first valentine's day i think i have a boyfriend for, nope just newly dumped
I would have to say the worst gift wasnt really about the gift but more about the presentation of the gift. this guy was a real winner. I had to plan my entire valentines day myself. I made it known months before that vday was important to me and that its one of the two days a year I would like for him to do the planning. it was talked about more than once. two days before vday weekend (when we were planning on celebrating) he tells me he hasnt planned anything and doesnt really know how and if i can plan something he will pay for it all and make it happen. he said plan whatever i want and he will show up and pay for it. super romantic. I had a simple night away and dinner planned in less than a half hour. he had months to do this and couldnt come up with anything?! so then we get to the room in the city we had for the night and he has a grocery store bag in his hand and stops and says "so do you want your shit now or later?" ...yep....he said it word for word exactly like that. so I say "my what?" he says it again ..."your shit, you know, like the stuff i got you for vday". me..."ummm i guess now would be ok". he pulls out a box of chocolates and a bottle of good booze he knew i liked. two seconds later he asks if i can open the chocolates now because he really wants to try em. he ended up eating the entire box throughout the weekend. it was the most unromantic vday of my life.
A giant red blanket.
I got it from my ex. I actually did use it alot, however....REALLY? a blanket?
I'm sorry but some of these are making me laugh! Guys can be such putzes sometimes! Thanks for brightening my vday. =] Mines not too exciting but last year DH got me an XBOX and Kinect for Christmas. Umm.. you mean to tell me you spent $500 of OUR money on an xbox because I *mentioned* thinking the kinect was cool??? Anyway Vday was approaching and I said don't get me anything fancy for valentines day (because he went way overboard for Christmas) and that was all I mentioned. He worked on valentines day so I assumed we'd be celebrating the next day. The next day rolls around and I got nothing.. when I brought it up he said "I thought you told me not to get you anything!!!!" Uhh a card would've been nice.... To top things off I remember him telling me his crazy ex told him not to get her anything and he still bought her flowers, needless to say I was not a happy camper! This year DH has to work again... did I mention I hate vday?
Mine was from my mom... She sent me a starter pack for a diet :( That hurt.
I also got dumped the day BEFORE Valentine's Day, back in high school. Then he said "at least I don't have to scramble to find a gift now!"....while he was STILL ON THE PHONE with me!
I received a pair of fake leather gloves once; just oozed romance.
This year was perfect. My bf isn't very romantic, but he bought me flowers, set up a Happy Hour with my girlfriends and their +1s, took me out to dinner at one of the best restaurants I've ever been to, and gave me a Nook (I didn't hint to him that I wanted one, but we talked about e-readers over the holidays and I mentioned that if I was to get one I thought the Nook was the best one).
We did get into an argument over something else afterwards, which I'm bummed about. We haven't really adjusted to LDR very well and the mis-communications we are having aren't fun. :(
DH took me to Walmart today to get some groceries for dinner tonight. He steered me to the candy aisle (not the V-Day aisle) and told me to pick out some chocolate because he didn't get me anything. Men! I refused to pick out my own V-Day present on V-Day, and he kept saying he didn't understand what the big deal was lol.
In all fairness, he got me a huge Christmas present that was insanely generous and completely covered all of our holidays for the next year...but I still would have loved a card or some acknowledgement that it was a special day :)
@ladyartichoke: Too funny! FI has been great about Vday gifts... my bf before him would get nothing at all so I guess those were the worst.
This is kinda of creepy funny. My first job at 16 was at a country club. One of the maintenance guys was probably 50-60 years old, but was mentally slow. Well i showed up to work with a Valentines fift and card waiting on me. There was some guys that worked there I had little crushes on so I was pretty excited getting ready to open it in front of everyone. The card had Minnie Mouse on it and the present was a fake pleather skirt and matching vest from Wal-Mart from the weird maintenace guy. I was so embarassed and basically try to avoid him for the rest of the time I worked there.
The worst gift I got was getting basically stood up on the only year I ever celebrated. I never really believed in V day and since my birthday is right after the holidays anways I never expected much, but one year I was dating a new guy and decided I was going to give it a shot and celebrate that year. Well he had a favorite band and I wanted to get him tickets so a couple weeks before on a Sat, my dad and line stood in line starting at 5am for tickets that went on sale at 11pm. I got great seat to a band I hated lol. Well come vday he stood me up. He made up this long excuse and I sort of believed it and he offered to take me out that weekend. Well find out he was drinking with his buddies. So I sold the tickets to his best friend's girlfriend and broke up with him. I loved the look on his face when he found out the front row tickets I had got him and that he wasn't going. Still don't celebrate lol.
Mine wasn't a bad gift, just bad execution. One of my high school boyfriends showed up at my locker before homeroom on V-Day and gave me a dozen red roses. Which would have been great any other time, but as it was the start of the school day and I had no water receptacle to put them in, they had to sit in my warm locker wilting until I left that afternoon. So I got to walk home after school with an armful of faded, sad-looking roses.
A guy who had a crush on me (but literally never talked to me) in high school just put a stuffed bear, a small chocolate box, and some antacid hearts. He didn't say anything to me, and I had no clue what to do. So it wasn't for lack of effort or a "crappy" gift, it was just SO awkward.
These are funny. My fiance emailed me a picture today. I guess it was a card. But it was like he googled "vday card pug" (I love pugs) and pasted the image on an email. omg. hahah. This was after I had responded to a prior email he sent and closed it by saying happy valentine's day. He thought valentines day was last weekend, and yesterday too...well I assume he did since he asked not because he said "Happy Valentine's Day" or made it known he thought it was Valentine's Day in any other manner. haha. This is the worst gift though: (a friend got it from her boyfriend) those "chicken cutlet" breast enhancers you put in your bra. True story, I am not kidding!
OK, i have to edit out of guilt. Apparently he did not forget but brought home an orchid plants and marshmallows two of my favorite things. The best is still the card he pasted a pic of in the email though.
I got dumped on Valentine's Day too! It was the worst valentine's day ever, I remember crying for days. It was bad. But 2 months later I met my (now) FI! So maybe it was the BEST present! Lol.
My worst Valentine's Day gift was back in 2009 when I was dating a MASSIVE D-BAG PRICK.
I didn't hear from him all day long and thought, "What's going on here?" Then, around 10 PM that night I got a call from my ex. He had been in JAIL for drunken, disorderly conduct...including getting into a fight with a cop. What a gem! Glad I kicked him to the curb.
On a happier note, my SO (and soon to be FI!) sent me three-dozen roses today, a stuffed animal, chocolates, and an "I LOVE YOU" text every hour, letting me know all the things he loves about me and our relationship. Oh, how I love my SO <3
I was "dumped for the weekend" by my sons father back in high school so he didn't have to buy me a gift... He asked me to be with him again at school on Monday... it was beyond sad.
My ex gave me a ring which I really liked but it was the wrong size, so he told me he'd size it. On Valentine's day he gave me the ring back... still the wrong size. He'd never bothered to take it to the jeweler. That was no big deal, but then he later confessed that he's forgotten that he'd given it to me in the first place (?) and said "Why don't you just go do it." I didn't, because it was going to cost me like $80 to size the damn thing. I have no idea what I ever did with it. He was acting like I was really inconveniencing him for not having fingers that fit the ring he purchased. But that's why he's my ex!
Mine Valentine's gift yesterday was my worst. And from my FH who is the best man I know....so it is sort of baffling. I'm dieting(plus can't do that much chocolate due to heart condition) and he gets me a chocolate mini cake and 4 roses. From the grocery no less...all because he figured out I had a gift for him. I wish I hadn't heard how personal and extravagant his gifts to his ex were. And I would say it was money but he just got paid for a side job and treated friends to a night out at a very pricey restaurant last weekend.....So I feel like crap.
Hmm. I got a "reasons why we never would have worked out" letter right around Valentine's one year... about three weeks after the breakup. It didn't really suck because by then I had started recovery, it was just kind of petty and hurtful.
This year, I got a card & note from FI. It was really sweet. And a note warning me to check all the food in the fridge (the door is faulty and was apparently cracked all night). So I got a card AND managed to avoid food poisoning! ;)
Nothing, and he asked to borrow twenty bucks as he was leaving.
Mine was getting a dozen red roses.... from the boyfriend that had dumped me 2 days prior. I spent the whole of valentine's day explaining to people that they were from my ex. Talk about salt in wounds. >.<
@dodgercpkl: One of my high school boyfriends dumped me 5 days before grad...and then AT grad, he hit on me because he thought I looked sexy in my dress. Oh no no, my friend, you lost all drooling privileges when you dumped me to live the "bachelor" life with your buddy over summer before college.
Hahaha, men can be so stupid. I have a few, one wasn't a bad gift at ALL but looking back the whole day just makes me cringe. My ex and I had been together for around 8 months when Valentine's Day rolled around. Due to misc. personal mishaps, we were both living at home with our parents, despite being 28 and 26, so we rarely had any alone time. I suggested we get a nice hotel room for Valentine's Day and have some private time...so we made a 'deal' that I would get us a room and he would take me to dinner and a movie that day. Since V Day was on Sunday, I suggested going away on Saturday night. He said no, because he wanted to celebrate ON the actual day. So we had to take Monday off from work. I didn't see him at ALL on Saturday, or really hear from him, since we had plans the next day anyway, despite the fact that we lived 3.5 minutes apart, literally, and it was Saturday night. Sunday he picks me up and on the way to the movie I feel REALLY sick. I ended up running into the mall bathroom and getting sick for a good 10 straight minutes, and he was kind of annoyed at me because we were late for the movie not because he picked me up 1/2 hour after he was supposed to, but because I took a few extra minutes to go and buy a toothbrush and toothpaste. I had to sit through the movie, then dinner, and then our 'romantic' evening despite feeling ill...and he never even said 'Hey, are you OK?' The gifts were good though, exactly what he thought Valentine's Day was about: Roses, chocolates, a teddy bear, chocolate covered strawberries and a heart charm for my Pandora bracelet.
Sometimes men can be so clueless.
SO ended up sending me roses, quite unexpectedly, on V-day this year. He's getting more and more romantic by the week.
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Mine was a scale ruler and angle finder. For our FIRST Valentine's day. I did need them, so it was at least a thoughtful gift. But not for V day. He did also give me a pasta card - super sweet.
I laugh about it now but I think I went on about it so much over the last year that he felt guilty. This year I receieved a very lovely Links on London charm necklace.
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