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I mean, there have to be many people who are dating and haven't reached that level in the relationship?
Maybe it's just me, but it seems I'm always looking for this type of card every year. hehehehe
An unexploited niche! hmmmmmm......
You can even find whole sets of them decorated with cool cars or Spiderman or something un-sissy like that. ;)
I mean, there have to be many people who are dating and haven't reached that level in the relationship?
People actually date? my circle of friends really don't seem to do that. In fact I was actually living with the woman I am married to before our relationship took a romantic turn.
And they *buy* valentines cards? I'm used to giving and receiving hand-made ones - which neatly transforms the problem from "I don't like what any of these cards say" to "what can I possibly say that won't sound lame?" Useful ingredients are hand-made paper, which you can probably get from a local art-supply store, caligraphy pens, and whatever other tools you like for creating analog visual art.
I'm used to giving and receiving hand-made ones
1.) The grade school angle: Kids buy punch out cards for their classmates, and make cards for their parents in class... so if you don't make a nice card, you risk looking lame. Think red-construction-paper-and-lace-doily type lame...
2.) If you do a really nice job on a hand made one, that's just as bad as giving a card with the L word on it... hehehe.
Why buy a card at all? If you're not to the L word stage yet, just take her out to a decent restaurant, and buy a non-committal piece of jewelry (like earrings), a non-romantic book she's been wanting, a bottle of perfumed bubble bath, or something casual like that. Card not needed in the presence of a wrapped box. (That is all assuming she's the type that requires V-Day festivities. Myself, I'm just looking forward to a quiet night at home...)
That is all assuming she's the type that requires V-Day festivities
Hey! Such things are not an exclusively female desire ;)
2.) If you do a really nice job on a hand made one, that's just as bad as giving a card with the L word on it... hehehe.
Really? I do think there's a line in the middle that is neither tacky nor horrendously serious.
Maybe next year do it by last name: a,b,c from 12 to 1; d,e,f from 1 to 2, etc.
Would make everybody's life easier.
On second thought, maybe I should see if there are any cards left, just to be safe.
lawman
Hey! Such things are not an exclusively female desire
True... I surprised the heck out of my boyfriend the first year we were together with an evening in a hot tub, complete with champagne, strawberries and sliced kiwi, and shaved chocolate for dipping the fruit in after fishing it out of the glasses. :) Best part was when I made him shave the chocolate that afternoon, and wouldn't tell him what it was for.
But I was specifically addressing the idea of going out with someone you won't say "I love you" to... which makes me wonder why you'd feel obligated to get a card, or do something super elaborate at all...
On the subject of handmade cards though... unless I knew the man was an artist or craftsperson who was given to making things in the first place, I'd definitely perceive more "intent" in a lovely handmade card than a mass-printed storebought one, no matter what either card actually said.
That said, I've been making all my greeting cards for pretty much all the holidays myself for years... It's more fun, IMO>
