If you’re reading this then you know you’re already screwed. Today’s the big day and you’ve got no dinner reservations or thoughtful gift to give your lucky lady. If you’re desperately trying to salvage the situation and prevent your girl from severely decreasing the amount of your sexual encounters over the next 3 months, then quickly read our last minute Valentine’s Day gifts and ideas. You don’t have very much time.
Cook Dinner
Hopefully you can cook. Plan a nice meal for dinner. Go three courses – appetizer, main, and dessert. Don’t forget the booze. Buy a bottle of nice wine or better yet some chilled champagne. Girls love to hit that champagne so don’t get the cheap stuff which’ll just give her a massive sugar headache by the end of the night, thereby ending your after hours activities. Most stores have champagne on sale today so you can get a bottle of Veuve Clicqot for about $40 instead of the regular price of $60.
Plan a Picnic
The keys to making this picnic a success is accessories and location. Anyone can brown bag a couple sandwiches, grab an old blanket and hit the park. What you need to do is pack a picnic basket with real dishes, real silverware, and real champagne flutes. Again with the champagne! Some good locations for a picnic are the beach, a rooftop, a nice spot after a short hike, or even on the top of your car at a great spot overlooking the city lights.
Fake-Out Dinner
This is for the girl who already knows that you didn’t have the foresight to plan ahead. By this time her expectations are so low that when you tell her that you’re taking her to Outback, her eyes will fill with small tears of joy. Very small. Little does she know that you just spent 2 hours calling every upscale restaurant and finagled yourself a late dinner reservation. And if that reservation falls through, then at least you can actually go to Outback and proceed to make googly eyes at eachother over a bloomin’ onion.
Bake Her a Cake
This could be either very sweet or very bad depending on if you know anything at all about baking. All girls love it when men ‘try’ to do things which they deem impossible. Go all out with frosting and pastry bag writing of her name. If all goes to shit , at least you two can have a good laugh about it over a bottle of champagne.
Buy Jewelry
This is the last resort for last minute Valentine’s Day gift ideas. If you think she’ll really go psycho mad or crawl into a ball and sob uncontrollably because you didn’t love her enough to plan an over the top romantic evening, then go out and buy her something expensive. At this point anything expensive will do. Maybe even something with diamonds if she’s that materialistic. But then you gotta wonder why a not so historical day in February, pushed heavily by the media so that consumers can go out and stimulate the economy, could really be that important to her.
So there you go, our few ideas to salvage your Valentine’s Day. If you don’t go with any of these, just be sure to come up with something fun and creative. Don’t be that unoriginal slacker who emails or prints out a Valentine’s ecard and calls it a day.
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