That Special Valentine Gift

"This was an article I was writing for the Baron Banner for Valentine's Day =] Hope you like it."

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Are you sick of sending your usual identical pre-made valentines to your friends and loved ones? Want to go creative and give your valentine a present he/she will remember for a lifetime? Here are some ideas of what to give to your valentine*:

• Ask for an appointment and go to the nearest hospital to undergo surgery to have your heart removed and locked safely into a treasure chest. Then when approaching your beloved valentine, present romantic Pirates of the Caribbean music, and entrust your valentine with your heart.
• Secretly snip the shrubs in their front yard into hearts and cupids the night before. In the morning before he or she leave for school, leave a trail of Sweethearts and arrows that lead to their car that will be decorated with hearts, flowers, and a banner that says, “I love you” or "Happy Valentine's Day!"
• Ask her/her parents or guardians, while your valentine is sleeping, if you could come in and decorate their bedroom. Throw flower petals all over the bed covers. Hang an “I Love You” or "Happy Valentine's Day" banner. If there's a television or a computer screen in their room, tape a poster/large picture of you and your beloved together on the screen. Lay a bouquet of roses, a love letter or a poem, any extra presents, and a videotape or DVD of a movie or slideshow you have compiled together for your valentine.
• Find a cardboard box that’s big as a refrigerator or one that you can stand in. Tape the cover flaps together and then cut out one side so you can open it like a door and step in. Afterwards, wrap up the box with wrapping paper or colorful paper and wrap it in a giant bow for the top. Attach a tag that says, "From your secret admirer." When you’re finished, ask a friend or a relative to help you and pretend to be a delivery person Hide in the present box and have your “delivery person” ring the door of your valentine’s house and present the box to your valentine. When he or she comes to see the present, you jump out of the box from the opening you cut out with a loving Valentine’s greeting.
• Put a car canopy over your house pool that covers all the way down on both sides of the canopy. Make sure you have enough canopies or a long enough canopy that can extend all the way down the pool. Decorate the outside the canopy with valentine hearts and flowers and anything lovable. Inside the canopy, make it dark and stick or hang glowing hearts, cut outs, Valentine banners, teddy bears, roses, flowers, greeting cards, and photos of you and your beloved. Decorate it however you wish in a Valentine way. When you’re done, put a paddle boat in one end of the pool and post at the front end of the pool a sign that says, “Our Valentine Love Tunnel.” Invite your valentine over and give them a romantic paddleboat ride through your specially-made love tunnel.

Those are a couple of ideas to give your valentine, and if you can’t afford to any of those things, you can always make a homemade gift at home. It’s the thought, effort, and love put into the gift that counts. Just don’t get a stranger to present a Valentine Gram to your beloved. Go do it yourself and show how much you love your Valentine.

*You have an option to wear a cupid outfit or not.