MiLords and MiLadies;
Welcome to your first April Challenge! This challenge was the inspiration of RED_POPPY1 (Thank you Rita!)
What's the most romantic gift you've ever received?
The Parameters:
Gift can also mean a verbal / or written,anything that comes unexpected, a gift which is not for a special occasion like birthday xmas etc. Something that's totally out of the blue!
Specifics are up to you!
Romance is what you make of it....
For several years I had a long distance relationship with a guy who just didn't
spend much money on bought gifts from a store, though he could certainly afford it.
He did shower me with such a wide assortment of gifts that he made or developed or recreated, that I can hardly remember all of them. We shared a common past, so he was not a stranger to me, nor I to him.
He lived rather far from me, so the gifts often arrived in the mail, another great
treat, because any gift in the mail is a special treat.
Hardly any of the gifts I received were of great monetary value. One of my friends at the time pronounced
him to be a cheap guy, but I didn't see it that way. After all, we couldn't go to dinner much, or spend
much real time together, so we had our own type of entertainment to make and enjoy.
Whatever we listened to on CD or tape, would be copied and sent to the other to listen. Listening to those were
my "Friday night dates."
One gift was a recording or tape of the song, "Desperado" by the Eagles.
That tape arrived in a recovered/repurposed flower container that was shaped like a wooden wagon.
At each end of the wooden container was glued a Queen of Hearts card
from a deck of cards.(He later told me he had some partial sets of cards) The recorded tape
was inside the 'wagon bed' I still have this container, and the Queen of Hearts cards are
still attached to each end of the wagon.
Another gift was a plastic bag full of shells from a beach that had a special kind
of snail shells. I still have these too. I kept them and plan to use them this summer
in a garden in my yard. (A few have been used over the years for different gifts to
special people. I clean them, polish them, and use them for different things such
as a tiny flower or weed flower container) One was regifted as a crayon holder for a young person.
Pictures with homemade frames of items or topics he knew I liked or enjoyed were sent in homemade frames that just "fit" the item. A mask that had been made from feathers and a plain kid's mask are another item I remember receiving.
Nothing was ever fancy, but everything was made for me and my likes and interests.
From this array, I think the greatest gift was the time and trouble he would take to create or
send something that I would like.
The relationship ended strangely and abruptly, but the little
gifts and the attention to details are something I miss still.
Comments (27)
Awww that's really sweet. Those are the kinds of gifts I like the best!
Those are the best kinds of gifts. Simple, sweet and made just for you. Great post!
Thanks for the email. Thinking about ya.... Guess thats why my hair is so gray!!!! wink
ending strangely and abruptly . . . sounds like the next write.
I think that I like those gifts better than the store bought ones! Great entry.
What a sweet post! My hubby use to write love poems and send them to me.... that hasn't happened for a long time and I miss them.
Those do sound like lovely gifts. : )
I think these are all very lovely gifts! So sweet.... Thank you for sharing... peace
Personilised gifts are the "true romantic " ones, from the heart, made to be remembered, easy to buy a gift...but to make a gift takes time and love.
RITA
what a nice blog today, what nice gifts you got, so i guess your back in school agin huh? Well the oldest is here he wants to see his new webkinz so later gator
he sounds like he was a sweetie
@Catlady73 - I will be working the rest of the week and next Monday. Then I will take a couple of days off and work more. I didn't work enough in March, so it will be a tough month. Thanks for asking.
That kind of gift is the best. One that involves thought and careful consideration of the receiver. Great romantic gifts!
simple gifts just for you with obvious thought are very special. Thank you for sharing them.
Hey Cyn! Very nice blog. I hope you are doing well today. My PITA parents are still lying in wait, if you want my opinion. I have one in particular. The rest are PITA in training. :) I am so ready for the year to just be done so I can enjoy summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's cool that someone could be so creative and individual with gifts. I like that.
The best gifts I ever received were those that were handcrafted. They contained something the the maker, who was thinking of me when they put their time and effort and love into them.
I would treasure those gifts far more than any store bought one's, the one's he gave came from his heart.
The best gifts are the one's that require a lot of thought and not the one's that require a lot of money. Making tapes or cds for each other is a neat way to get to know each other as well as each person's music taste is so different.
It's not often that a man can give such thoughtful and caring gifts! I am impressed with his abilities. My husband is also not all that romantic, he tries, but twenty three years later, I accept it to be what it is. While he is not as good in the gift giving area, he more than makes up for it in what he always adds to the wonderful cards he writes to me. He is sensitive and introspective, (he's a scientist) and so his words are often "the gift".
Dear Cynthia,
It's the special personal gifts I think that are most romantic. Too bad the relationship didn't work out.
I have had only one "long term" relationship (if three years could be called long term.) I know Pat still loves me and she would probably still want to be with me if we didn't live so far apart, but she destroyed our relationship when she cheated. That was the end for me.
During our three years, I got her teddy bears. Her last name is Barry, and she liked bears. I must have got her 50 bears, and she kept them in the bedroom, stacked in the closets, etc. She even named each one as I gave them to her. I'd always stick them somewhere to surprise her. I actaully forgot all about that until I read your entry here.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
those really are so much more romantic than anything purchased
How sweet! Something handmade says more than anything someone could buy. And how sweet that you still have some of the gifts!
It's take a special kind of man to take the time to be so creative and even now, although the relationship is over, you still have some of those special gifts. That says a lot.
The simple and handmade gifts are the best thing to recieved.