Best/worst Valentine's Day present you've received?

[fiveyearstime]

With Valentine's Day coming up, I was wondering what people's best and worst V-Day pressies have been. Share those highlights/lowlights here.

Worst: a Brussel net masquerading as underwear.

Best: A weekend away. Mainly because he'd gone to the effort of getting cover for me at work, and packed my case. (With stuff I would have chosen myself.) The first I knew of it was when he presented me with my coat.

Things I have given
Best: a positive pregnancy test.
Worst: a nasal hair trimmer

DP and I always get each other chocs, can't go wrong!

One year when I was a student I got three valentine's cards from three different unknown admirers. I was on the verge of getting together with someone else anyway, who gave me something else so they weren't him. One had a yeats poem in it, one had nothing but a hand-drawn heart, one was a silly cartoon one. I was sorry none of them were going to get anywhere but I felt so special! I had been the ugly duckling/swot at school and never even had one before.

Worst: from my teenage BF, nothing, and a story about how he'd bought a really nice, thoughtful gift for his previous girlfriend

Best: A piece of jewellery that I'd been admiring a few weeks before. Had totally forgotten about it, so that was a nice surprise.

Worst... Handwritten(on the living room floor, in pencil, in front of me) 'vouchers' for a foot rub put in a(also written in pencil) card that was presented to me, still soggy with saliva! I was pregnant at the time!
Best... A surprise trip to currys to choose any tv I wanted. I opted for a 42" plasma!
Oddly, I'm still with pencil-boy! and expecting sweet FA this weekend, even though it'll be 5 years on v.day since we met.
Arse wipe! But he's my arse wipe...
Lucky me!

Worst, a home crafted card with the words stuck on, ransom note stylee delivered to my very public workplace. I was 19, he was 16 and it felt like being stalked by a child at the time.
Best, every year with DH because we don't do VD and I know, like me that's exactly what we both want
It's the cheesiness that killed VD for me, not my Child of the Corn proto-kidnapper btw

the best
a red rose under each windscreen wiper of my wee yellow mini when l came out of work ..
the worst
the accompanying card..in loving memory

I don't do Valentine's Day.
Current worst, simply because it is so recent is my (now, just) ex bf texting to say he "wasn't feeling it for Valentine's and could I handle being friends?"
As it happens we both like each other but aren't in love and it's time to call it a day - so a bit of wounded pride and a quick sob and I'm fine.
But I'm very very irritated that one of our things in common is we both don't do VD - yet I get dumped over it!
Very annoying!

I have never had a Valentine's gift, or card. I would like one, one day. However I now realise that it's infinitely preferable to milk teeth and hoovers!

Worst: A request for a lend of money to buy me a card, after I had paid his rent(again) . I was breaking up with him anyway on the day!
Best: Just got flowers delivered to work in the last 10 mins so that

A small 'china' swan in the shape of a bowl iykwim with fake flowers in the bowl bit :o :o

Some wheel trims for my car as mine had been stolen. Not even new, they were from a scrapyard Practical, yes. Romantic, erm no.

Last Valentine's Day my STBXH was served with divorce papers.

Made me smile anyway.

Last year I got a lovely necklace that I would never have bought for myself because I am a Puritan who thinks jewellery is unnecessary. This year I am getting a pile of compost and some plants - by request, because DH is rushed off his feet and genuinely didn't have time to think. Plus, they are what I really, really wanted very badly. I love my garden!

I have got DH an antique book that I know he loves, a couple of Ted Baker tops, and some silly affectionate gifts. I'm also doing him a surprise 5 course meal this evening. I know it's completely OTT, but we have had a shit, shit, SHIT time and he has stuck by me like no-one ever has before. So to hell with it, I'm spoiling him.

Worst - an engagement ring that I had to buy myself because he "forgot his wallet"

Best - A quite night in with DP with nice steaks, the kids in be and a bottle of wine

Have never had a valentines card or present. A colossal waste of money IMO for presents given purely because of the expectation attached to them. Would rather have something spontanious than something because the day predicts it. I know far too many couples who argue all year round and then go all out for valentines day.

When me and xh got together he made it clear that valentines was a waste of money and effort, and our birthdays were within a week of it anyway... He has apparently changed his mind since we split up though.

My dp said his colleagues have all told him that I just tell him I don't do valentines because I don't want to put pressure on him and that all women expect something for Valentines. I really don't.

Best - when we were horribly skint and I was working dp brought me a picnic on my lunch break, with lots of french food, lemonade in champagne flutes and a music box for atmosphere. He had wanted to take me to Paris but with no money had to improvise.

Worst- my ea ex h gave me nothing, and when I was upset told me it was because I was a rubbish wife and he didn't love me anyway.

My ex knew that I did not like to receive flowers on special occasions as I feel it requires no thought (any other time randomly to show he's thinking of me - yes - although he never did this randomly. Special occasions - a very definite NO).

My birthday is the day before Valentines as well.

Last year a week before Valentines/my birthday I asked ex if I should make dinner reservations for V-day somewhere nice. He said "no, let me take care of the plans, I want to surprise you."

My birthday comes along and ex gives me a bouquet of red roses. I thought they were lovely as I thought he had something else planned too (especially as he knows I'm not keen on flowers and I had asked him about dinner plans earlier). He then tells me that instead of going somewhere nice to eat, we were just going to sit at Starbucks and have a chat because "we can't afford to go out." Turns out he spent about $70 on the roses, which I didn't want and could have been spent on a proper evening out without the kids. And because I was upset that he wanted to just take me to Starbucks...he then bailed on my birthday present too. He was going to take time off work for us to have a free dance lesson the next day, but instead he went to work and didn't bother with that either. Woke up in the morning to see him getting ready for work and he just left.

I've never had a 'best' gift as I've only ever been with ex...and he's a thoughtless, lazy, man-child.

I gave myself the best gift of all this year by getting rid of him.

Worst : a silk rose from a garage that I just left lying on the floor at his house to show him how crap I thought it was. It was like him- fake and cheap and best left.

Best : a surprise week in a cottage on Barra in the Hebrides. It was bliss. DH did it the first year we had Valentine's together.

so much for my blissful week in a cottage on Isle of Barra in Hebrides with DH, he has just told me it wasn't Barra, it was Harris.

The last St Valentine's Day I celebrated I made the mistake. We were going away to my parents as it was half term and I forgot to take the card and the present (a toblerone, long story) I quickly picked up card in a local garage and wrote it very quickly. My husband liked it but I always felt very guilty as he died 5 weeks later. He was unwell at the time but things progressed very quickly. I found the card and present some weeks later but still have pangs of guilt.

Never had one ??

Worst: Repeatedly nothing, I've been single about forever!

Best: 11 years ago today I had my daughter

Happy birthday too to Lulu upthread, hope you've been spoilt!

Best received = a tube of Smarties which were all orange (I never did find out what he did with the gazillion other Smarties which must have been left over in the construction of this one tube!)

In the past I had a long running competition with a uni friend about swapping awful Valentine gifts. He sent me a heart-shaped letter bomb (fake, obviously!) but I won by sending him a lamb's heart from the butcher :)