Valentine's Day gift hell and heaven this year?

[HQPlanning]

Hello Mumsnetters!

We've got a debate going over here at MNHQ... essentially it's... what's your idea of a Valentine's Day gift from hell and a Valentine's Day gift from heaven?

We'll go first...

Valentine's Day HELL = a meal on the day - nothing worse than a set menu in a restaurant filled with other couples mooning over each other.

Valentine's Day HEAVEN = massage, facial, spa day... anything! I want to be shut in a room with pinkly plonky music and no sign of a laptop or phone anywhere near me.

We can't wait to hear yours.....

Heaven is lingerie, I’d be chuffed if I got some

@WhyMeLord

Heaven - a damn good shag, you know, one of those where you put some effort in and hoover the bedroom first as you're going to be there a while

Hell - dunno, accidentally time travelling back to March 2020?

Oh God this gave me the shivers just thinking about it

Heaven: A small well thought out card with heartfelt words

Hell: A ridiculously large musical card with a question mark badly penned or worse still felt tipped inside

Heaven- my husband enjoying a spa day with me. He doesn't. Wouldn't. So we don't.

Hell- it being ignored completely which we often do from sheer embarrassment! Or opening the door to an amazing bunch of flowers that were for the lady over the road.

I'd love him to be the kind of guy who was able to pick out something I'd love/do something extravagant/tell me how he feels. That isn't us, though.

Heaven = a day off work

Hell = a day off work with DH.

We've been married 30 years nearly, I insist that Valentine's Day is for singles and teenagers, not Basil and Sybil Fawlty (our nicknames).

Heaven - a small bunch of tulips or a bottle of Aldi’s Jo Malone knock off perfume.

Heaven - one of DH’s ‘thoughtful ’ gifts or nothing at all!

@Xiaoxiong

A few years ago DH and I fell down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia and spent valentine's day looking at pictures of the saint's (alleged) skull crowned with flowers and reading about how he was beaten with clubs and then beheaded. Was quite an enjoyable evening, combined with a nice bottle of red, a restaurant kit box to share, and an early night!!

My idea of hell would be going out to eat that night, or being given sexy underwear. Super cringe.

Best answer.

Heaven: actually being in the same country is a good start. Same location even better. Thats a fail for this year yet again.

Hell: any gift from the valentine section of the supermarket like the Teddy bears or pink wine etc.

I would love a meal out having spent the past two years being told to stay at home.
Perfume, candles,chocolates and a bottle of champagne. In reality I will probably get a card and a pack of sweets of the kids.

Heaven - a luxury holiday in the Maldives.

Hell- wine, Chrysanthemums.

Well, we've never done Valentine's Day (I was always brought up with it as something single people send anonymously)

but whether you enjoy a spa day or not I'm not sure going off to be by yourself is really in the spirit of a Day For Romance. @HQPlanning has a weird idea there.

If I were going to celebrate it, I think I'd like to have fish and chips and go to the pub. Or the other way round.

Heaven: reservations for dinner somewhere REALLY nice for a weeknight in March - quiet enough for great service, busy enough that all the food is fresh.
Hell: reservations for dinner at a crappy chain on February 14.

Heaven - spending time with my partner. We are going for a meal but not on 14th.

Hell - ‘sexy’ underwear

Text box isn't blue? Why is someone posing as mumsnet hq?

Heaven would be a meal out in a nice restaurant of my choosing without kids. In all likelihood it will be a family meal at nandos (as it is it falls over half term and we have a 5 month old baby). I'm ok with that as long as I don't need to cook.

Hell would be getting lingerie as a gift. I'm back in my pre baby clothes but I'm still a lot fatter than I would like to be and having the rolls out on show would not make me feel good. I also do not want a teddy, I'm a grown women and haven't needed to sleep with one since I was 5. It's sweet of course but pointless and I will donate to charity after a week.

@MenaiMna

Heaven: reservations for dinner somewhere REALLY nice for a weeknight in March - quiet enough for great service, busy enough that all the food is fresh. Hell: reservations for dinner at a crappy chain on February 14.

Why not reservations for dinner somewhere REALLY nice on February 14?

Well we are planning a day out followed by a nice meal for 2 from M&S! probably some flowers as well!

Ignore me! Just got very confused!

heaven: a meal planned and bought an cooked up by my DH, including something chocolatey for dessert

hell: anything I have to organise, I do enough of that 365 days a year

Valentine's Day is for teenagers.

He's cooking a nice meal for us (as he does every night) and I might give him a flash of my tits and not elbow him in the ribs when he snores on the sofa.

Anonymous48 because it will be a lacklustre overpriced menu cooked & served by people who are either lonely or resentful that they aren't celebrating. Valentine's Day should be meaningful to me as it's when we were engaged but the commercial aspect 20 years later just annoys.

Maybe I've always remained a teenager at heart then as I would be so so disappointed if DH made no effort.

@ImInStealthMode

Hell is valentines presents.

Heaven is no valentines presents.

This.

@CanofCant - oh, I'm sorry! I totally read it wrong.

@NETSRIK

Text box isn't blue? Why is someone posing as mumsnet hq?

I wondered that too.