Buying gifts for your girl is long, right? However much you love her, buying gifts is the ultimate hangover feeling. Then valentines day rolls around and you haven’t got a clue what to do. You even consider breaking up with her to avoid the dilemma (seriously – I’ve heard this with my own ears – cold world).
You’re not quite sure how to approach it because you don’t want to buy anything too extreme and end up with an unplanned engagement on your hands because she’s got the wrong idea and you’re too pussy to tell her but then you also don’t want to leave it and get nothing and end up getting kicked in the head. Where’s the middle ground!?
The following items are all safe gifts. They’re thoughtful and can be personalised to suit her preferences (if you remotely know anything about your girl that is). A few of them are also gifts that women love to receive yet hate to buy. I personally hate spending money on perfume but I love to wear it so that’s awk if no one’s prepared to buy it for me. Sure for women will have to suffice.
Note: I am using these links through Amazon as I am an affiliate for them. I have not been asked to review or promote these products, more simply they are gift ideas I have thought of myself but found via Amazon (besides, Amazon ALWAYS has dope deals so if any of them do take your fancy you’ll most probably be getting a sick discount anyway).
Top 10 Valentines day gifts (not in order because well…they’re just not)
This book is a winner for YOU as well you know. Your girl learning how to handle her tantrums and leave you alone when the game is on? Win. Her learning to survive without needing to text you 24/7 – especially when the game is on? Win. Her becoming fiercely independent and realising she doesn’t need you? Ok, not that much of a win but independence is sexy right!?
Do not underestimate the power of books. Books aren’t really common gifts especially from a man to a woman so showing that you’ve spent a little time looking for a book she may enjoy reading or discussing with her friends will definitely get you laid brownie points. I read this book a few years ago and I still refer back to it today. Not because I’m a mess and need someone to tell me how to handle my love life but there are points within it that we all (men too) overlook when angry or not thinking rationally. So many “oh sh*t yeah, what great advice” pages floating about.
2. Extendable Self-portrait Wireless Bluetooth Remote Selfie Handheld Stick
If you or your girl didn’t get a selfie stick for Christmas (I actually didn’t which I’m somewhat surprised about) then now is the time to get one. Not just so you can fit in with the rest of the worlds population but because your girl will go wild once she knows you’re actually giving her permission to take photos of you both on valentines day weekend.
You can get them in a range of colours so you can dictate that at least when you purchase (if you’re slyly going to enjoy holding it anyway) but if this valentines day gift is truly for your girl you can opt to get a pretty pink or blue. Orrrrrr just plain without colour if you want to feel like an actual adult.
Ok so although this film doesn’t portray love in it’s true form and emphasies the beauty of how beautiful relationships can be (quite, quite the opposite in fact) this is a film that I think ALL women love. It’s absolutely hilarious I even watched it twice in the cinema.
It’s not too much of a chick flick so you won’t have any trouble watching it with your girl without wanting to blow yourself up in the microwave plus there’s like a bazillion hot women in it sooo? Yar. Your girl will enjoy watching it on a Friday night in with the girls too so if you seriously can’t bear Cameron Diaz she’ll at least have backup pals to watch it with her.
4. 12 Red Roses Fresh Flower Bouquet
Horribly cliché but who doesn’t love flowers?! Well, I’ve never received any from a man so I cant really judge whether I’d like them or not but I’m sure I’d be buzzin hint hint somebody pleaseeee send me flowers
I’ll leave this for you to browse through but as I stated earlier, fragrance is often a luxurious item many people don’t actually like buying themselves. Much rather spend the £50 on chocolate and popcorn or bills that barely drag me out of debt. Meh.
Some suggestions though are:
Victoria Secret Love Spell
Calvin Klein Euphoria
Boyyyy if you REALLY want to impress your girl this valentines day, turn up with a gift wrapped Urban Decay set. She’ll literally be like wtf and probably assume you’ve cheated on her and trying to make up for it but, whadevs. I gave this advice at Christmas – we love makeup. What we love more is when someone buys that makeup for us. We don’t actually enjoy the amount of money we spend on it a year, we just enjoy what it does to our faces. A man picking out makeup that his girl uses regularly, out of ALL the makeup available in this world… mind blowing stuff. She’ll love ya – trust.
7. Duronic BL1200 – Table Blender
Ok this seems like a weird one but trust me – ask your girl how many smoothies she’s had since her New Year’s Resolution pledge and when she gives you the answer go order one of these. It’s an item no one really wants to buy… a blender. Oh yaaay a blender.
The benefits of them though and the convenience is totally worth the money and if your girl did want a health kick, giving her one of these along with endless bananas and strawberries she’ll crack right onto the morning smoothies. Probz also assume you’re slyly calling her fat so careful how you present her with it, preferably not after she’s just smashed a Burger King.
Well, because… we all want one of these.
9. Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir Home Candle 200g
I’ve chosen Jo Malone because they’re the best candles to Instagram… LOL (not joking). Every person has at one point owned a Yankee so forget those this valentines day and opt for something she can Instagram the sh*t out of.
They do ‘burn’ better (I’ve been told – I don’t actually own one myself) and the scents are more prominent than some out there. Women love candles and if you’re able to light it and set the mood for the night to come then surely it’s a no brainer.
I bloody love trainers so either buying them myself or receiving a pair makes my entire week.
A lot more women are browsing through JD and Footlocker these days compared to a few years back when only lesbians and hockey girls wore trainers so casually so spending the time to pick out a pair of kicks for your girl will surely turn you on as much as her… unless she ends up teaming them with a TN hat and Mckenzie tracksuit in which case: run.
So there’s my list of 10 valentines day gifts to buy without running the risk of being dumped. Do any of them shock or surprise you? Or do you agree and like the idea of some of them? Let me know in the comments below!
Thanks for sharing everybody!