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Last year, we took a look at Valentine’s Day from a guy’s perspective. This year, we’d like to celebrate the most trippin day of the year with a few Do’s and Don’ts for the fourteenth of February. I made my Valentine’s Day bones with flowers and cards, but now - a little older and a little wiser - I think I’ve got some insight on this made-up holiday that’s worth sharing.
If you’ve got suggestions for Do’s and Don’ts for Valentine’s Day, feel free to share them in the comments section. We’ll choose our favorite suggestion, and the Valentine’s Day wiseguy (or girl) will find himself with $110 worth of cologne and skin products on behalf of The Body Shop. To double your chances, post your Do’s and Don’ts both here and at The Body Shop’s Do This, Not That.
DO buy a card. For whatever reason, women love getting cards.
DON’T buy only a card. Even if it’s one of those awesome ones that plays music when you open it, a card alone does not guarantee an argument-free V-Day.
DO tell her that her hair looks good.
DON’T sigh in exasperation when you get the bill at dinner.
DO go out to dinner.
DON’T think that you can score a rad table if you haven’t already made a reservation. At this point, you should just give up. The ship has sailed, my friend.
Now, we’d love to hear yours…
I think a guy should play it practical-romantic. Tell her she is awesome and you love doing nice things for her, but it just seems silly to make a big deal and spend a ton of money just because it’s Valentine’s Day. I think a level-headed girl will get it. Plan a normal day together to simply enjoy each other and then at some point surprise her with flowers and a card (or something small that you know she’ll like). Nothing overboard, just something that says you love her and wanted to do something special - no matter how small.
Mind you - I’m spending Valentine’s Day a black lab named Lolo.
DO: Plan something. Even if you are surprising her with something totally different and playing off the whole, I’m don’t really care thing… At least plan something so she doesn’t think anything is going to happen and gives up on the day
DO: Surprise her. Be spontaneous. Dinner, flowers, card, perfume, placing a ribbon around your penis, just something that will make her continue thinking that she doesn’t truly know you, and that will intrigue her.
DON’T: Complain about how this is a Hallmark day, and how restaurants charge 3 times more.
No matter what a man does, it is only to live up to the woman’s expectations.