If you’ve been having trouble coming up with unique ways to show your love on the 14th, the Strib has come to your rescue. Whether your date rolls with punks, preps or whip-wielding, vinyl-clad dominatrixes, they seem to think they’ve got you covered. Personally, I was hoping they’d have a ready made date for disaffected urban hipsters, but no luck. So would anyone actually go on a Strib date in a box, or have you managed to come up with plans without the benefit of this sage advice?
Valentine’s Day — Strib Style
Feb 3 2006 — 2:00am
13 Reader Comments
4:05 pm
The rule for Valentine’s Day around home is that it can’t directly involve anything commercial… gifts, dinner, entertainment… One year, with fresh new snow on the ground, I came up with an excuse to go outside for a while pretty late at night. I took the weed-sprayer thing, you know, the one with the wand-nozzle and the pump-up handle… I took the weed-sprayer thing, put water in it, a bunch of red dye and filled the yard with hearts on the snow. Valentine’s Day morning, she opened the blinds in out room that look over the back yard, 100 hearts (and lots of footprints!) The front window, more hearts. Every time she passed a window I got bonus points.
4:11 pm
I think getting your nose pierced would sort of ruin the rest of the evening. Ow!
4:21 pm
I agree with bland, the commercial aspects associated with Valentine’s day are a no no. Resturants use V day to jack up prices and it’s waay too busy. Cards and candy are cheesy. I’d much rather prefer to stay at home with take out, donning a belgian chocolate thong and watch movies from my wantedlist subscription.
4:42 pm
choco-thong… reminds me… It’s not like it belongs in Make magazine or anything, but the year I was treated to the lady of my life wearing edible-undies made from warmed and pressed fruit rollups… well… it’s impossible to dislike that!
4:47 pm
Wow, the comments from a single post have put me off belgian chocolate and fruit rollups forever.
5:42 pm
sarah – My work here is done.
7:11 pm
I’m sitting on some reader emails asking for unique Valentine’s Day suggestions (all from men, of course). I’ve never been a huge fan of this holiday, despite being such a romantic girl.
11:40 am
last year on valentine’s day, I sat on my kitchen floor drinking cabernet, listening to iron & wine, and crying. i called up the guy that i had kind of been dating. he invited me to the king & i (on the strib’s list of recommended locales). i spent most of the evening bickering with his friends about race relations and emo bands. then he asked if he could come home with me. i agreed. we never went on another date. can’t say i’d recommend the king and i for valentine’s day. or perhaps i just can’t recommend a valentine’s day that involves getting drunk and booty calling someone you don’t like all that much anyway.
(then again, maybe this year i’ll go to the king and i for mojitos with my friends. that sounds pretty fabulous).
1:41 pm
You sound like a really fun person.
2:28 pm
I am laughing so hard right now…
4:17 pm
I got a coffeemaker last year for V-Day. Nothing says love and sex appeal more than an appliance, right? I guess that’s why I don’t see that person any longer?? I am a sappy romantic but would prefer to use the other 364 days of the year to be nice to my sweetie — it means more and it’s not so contrived (or nearly as commercial). I like practicality, too, but save that for some other time, like Groundhog’s Day.
11:25 am
One year I got my wife a nice diamond/emerald pendant for Valentine’s Day… and she got me a book. That concluded our celebration of this silly holiday.
12:38 pm
It’s conversations like this that truly give me hope for the future of romance.