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: I lived in Paris at the time and thought it was strange that ex had asked me to come back to the UK that weekend. He gave me a card that was still in its cellophane wrapper and then told me he hadn't written in it because he wanted to wait until the 15th to split up with me! Wish he'd just told me over the phone!

2nd worst: Framed picture of a different ex. He had cut himself out really badly and you could see that he had his arm around his previous GF. When we split up very soon (minutes later, probably), he asked for it back, so presumably another lucky lady received it too.

Best: DH doesn't make a big deal of it as he thinks it's a bit of a "Hallmark Holiday" but he always makes us breakfast in bed. Think I'll try to get up first and make it for him tomorrow!

Worst - a radiator key.
Best - a night at a posh hotel complete with 5 course dinner.

Worst was from my first boyfriend, just a card, looked like the cheapest nastiest one he could find, still had a 20p price label on it (this was 1983) & an awful rhyme, some of which I can still remember "... I like you lots and hope you'll be my valentine today"

Best was from the much better next boyfriend who was up half the night laying a trail of rhyming cryptic clues around the university hall where we lived, each leading to the next & finally back to his room, where there were excellent chocolates waiting

DH is predictable - there is always champagne and often nice knickers

I have just seen a bloke leaving Sainsbury with a big bunch of roses and 2 creates of beer,
I can think of several potential outcomes to that one

violet Perhaps he's gay?

WonderMuffins

of course they do.

Best=I'd only been living here a short while after moving from another place,started to make friends, and I received my First Ever Valentine's card
Worst= when I realized that the sender was the old geezer down the road who I knew was sort of sweet on me, and he'd seen me walking towards him en route to the shops while he was mowing his grass, rushed inside to put his teeth in and rushed out again to say hello and gave me a cheesy smile like this

NHS dentures, you gotta love 'em.

I conceived two of my DC on Valentines Day - it's obvious what I give DH probably the worst I have given (to DH when he was still a DP!) was a card I wrote whilst very drunk when we were away for the weekend, I wrote it in the toilets of a pub and spelt his name wrong

Best one this year, I have been ill and feeling a bit fed up, to cheer me up DH gave me an early present, a necklace I have been coveting for ages and which was originally planned to be a 40th bday present as it's expensive. I'm very lucky.

"Rushed inside to put his teeth in"

Musical, sorry for the loss of your DH.

I have never gone out with anyone wet enough to give me a Valentine's Day anything, thank Christ. It would certainly be a dumping / divorcing offence in my book.

Jacana, that is very, very funny.

I remember one year when I was going out with an ex, I was looking at all the cards with "I love you" blah blah all over them and just feeling they weren't how I felt. I got him one instead with a load of dancing chickens on it; inside it said "You're poultry in motion," which I thought was v funny (I like chickens and think they are funny generally).

Ex did not laugh very much. Or maybe not at all.

Think that might have been the clue to us both that I was going off him.

Best: Big box of chocolates in a heart shaped box. I loved it and thought it was really sweet.

Worst: Nothing as DH has just informed me I am getting tomorrow because he forgot.

Apparently we don't need to do Valentine's Day because he likes to make spontaneous romantic gestures at other times of the year, not on a commercially pre-ordained day.

Romantic gestures I have received from DH on a non-commercially pre-ordained day = 0 in 8 years together.

Tomorrow I will cat's bum face while handing over the hat that I have lovingly knitted for him.

Hands down last year I had my ds on valentines night, the best pressie ever.
Maybe my dp got the worst present when I poo'd on him during childbirth ha ha

Worst - Mary Poppins DVD??!! (Not my husband thankfully)
Best - My husband, we got married on Valentine's Day.

People get Valentines presents?

I think of Valentines day as a teenage thing when you get cards for boys you fancy and then ignore them all day so it's not obvious you sent it.
In a marriage surely its a bit pointless? If you know who sent the card then it seems to be missing the point of not singing it and sending it to someone you fancy. Agree with doing something romantic when you feel like it in a relationship. Overly romantic blokes can be a bit wet for my liking though. There's a lot to be said for reserved Scottish men who aren't perpetually simpering and fawning.