How to annoy your partner with a gift
| June 14, 2011 | Posted by doyouwoo under Buy 'em cool gifts! |
Before we get into some great romantic gifts ideas for him and for her, maybe we should look at some of the areas to avoid when shopping for great romantic gifts:
When buying for either sex, it is best to avoid these types of ‘romantic gifts’
1. Tools – think he/she would look hot with that new cordless drill? That means home improvements. Since when is that romantic?
2. Jewellery from a shopping channel – can you imagine her gushing to her friends “He saw it on QVC and said he just had to get it for me….”.
3. Workout Gear – prepare to enter the “Are you saying I need to work out?” conversation of death where there are no winners…
4. Gift Certificates – romance = showing them you know and understand them. A gift certificate shows you kind of know what stores they like…
5. Self Help Books – just because they intimated to you that they are feeling down does not mean they want you to ‘fix’ them. Just talk it through.
6. Pets – that kitten/puppy is cute and adorable for the first 5 minutes until your partner realises the sheer effort involved in caring for it. And they will secretly be blaming you each time they are cleaning up poop.
7. A stuffed animal – along the same lines as the gift certificate – it just smacks of lack of effort.
8. The comedy gift – a t-shirt with a funny play-on-words! Awesome. For a day.
9. ‘Sexy’ Underwear – tricky one this, because if chosen well this is actually a great gift. The problem is that very few of us are on the same wavelength as our partner on what is ‘sexy’ – women want sexy but practical, men tend to choose something they saw in their friend’s copy of Hustler from the 90s…
10. Your favorite x – tickets to the game YOU want to see, a book YOU want to read, a meal in YOUR favorite restaurant… not good.
Now we’ve got that out of the way, let’s move on to the best romantic gifts for him and for her!
