Buying a good Valentine’s Day gift isn’t hard. Bros either put too much thought into it or not enough thought.
It’s simple — think about your girl and think “what would she really want?” Now toss all those ideas away because they’re expensive and now ask yourself “what would she really appreciate?” Much better.
It’s possible to get her Valentine’s Day gifts that she’ll not only love, and appreciate, but that will also benefit you too. Here are some gift ideas for the both of you, even if the gift tag only has her name on it.
A Total Spa Day
Your woman works hard every day, or maybe she doesn’t work at all, but either way the days are brutal on her psyche and her physical appearance. She looks tired and beat down. She needs a rejuvenation of the mind, body and spirit. She needs a stranger rubbing her and a mani/pedi, pronto.
Drop some serious dime on a total spa day. Find a place that does it all — massage, mud, saunas, steam, cleansing, nails, feet and those cucumbers on the eyes treatments.
How This Benefits A Bro: This is beneficial to the bro for two reasons — the first reason is “happy wife, happy life” and I realize she’s not your wife but if she’s in a better mood it makes life so much easier. She won’t get pissed that you’re a slob, an occasional moron and putting off committing to “the next step.” You’ve got a Get Out Of Jail Free card for at least a couple days.
A secondly, she’ll be gone THE ENTIRE DAY — play eighteen and grab beers or just sleep all damn day. Your call!
Take A Trip For Two
Her chief complaint is that the two of you “never go anywhere” and she’s got a point. The last time you traveled out of town for an event besides a wedding was a funeral. You never make it past the planning stage of a weekend getaway because you’re lazy and probably saving up vacation time for the next time an uncle suddenly kicks the bucket.
Take her somewhere, anywhere, that involves packing a back for at least three days.
How This Benefits A Bro: A vacation always brings a new sense of happiness to even a stale relationship. Especially if the trip involves escaping the cold weather for a locale a little warmer. Recharge your batteries and escape real life for a while.
Take A Class Together
“We never do anything together,” she complains, so she must not be counting living together, eating two meals together, sleeping together, watching Netflix together and all of the other things you do as a couple every single day. She must not be present for those instances of togetherness. But you get what she means. It’s together but “boring” together.
Take a class together to learn a new skill — cooking, dancing, macaroni art, graffiti, pie chart making, anything that involves going and doing something.
How This Benefits A Bro: Would it kill you to learn something new? No, it wouldn’t, especially when you want to eat something new or create a new pie chart chronicling how often you eat pie.
Wine Subscription
She loves to come home and unwind with a glass of wine. You love beer, she’s into the crushed grapes. Don’t judge, bro. Instead of settling for the typical $5 bottle at the drug store, splurge to get her a new bottle of wine delivered to the house every month. She’ll learn a little bit more about wine and you’ll be able to watch what you want on TV because she’ll be passed out on wine.
How This Benefits A Bro: Didn’t you read that last line? She’s passed out, crank up the Xbox!
Tickets To A Show
Her favorite band is coming to town, a Broadway show is opening, an exhibit at a museum — all of these involve planning and tickets. You can do both. You can plan and you can buy tickets. It’s a night out (include dinner in the plans) and she’ll appreciate the effort. Effort equals extra vagina.
How This Benefits A Bro: You probably have the same tastes in music, culture and, even if you don’t, she’ll know you’re sitting through three hours of EDM music for her. You’re putting in the effort. And what does effort equal kids? Exactly.
A Cleaning Service
Any productivity or time management guru will tell you (if you ever care to talk to one) that it’s often in a person’s best interest to pay other people to complete the most time consuming tasks in life. For example, it’s better to pay a woman $50 to clean your apartment instead of taking the two hours from your own life to do a half-assed job.
If she’s always keeping the place neat, pay the extra money to get it done for her. No woman really likes cleaning, even the crazy women who claim they do.
How This Benefits A Bro: Clean house and happy, unsmelling of bleach girlfriend. No-brainer.
A Home Repair
You know that list of stuff around the house she’s been begging you to fix for years well you see where we’re going with this so just fix the damn stuff already.
How This Benefits A Bro: Less nagging and more time playing with power tools.
Lingerie
Now we know what you’re thinking “No way dude, the last time I bought her lingerie she flipped the rails and said ‘this gift is just for you!'” Well, she was correct but that’s because you can’t buy lingerie FOR YOU even if it’s kind of FOR YOU (who the hell else see it?). You’ve got to buy lingerie FOR HER. You’ve got to remember what she already owns and also keep in mind the places and reasons she could possibly have for wearing lingerie. Well first, any of the above gifts AND lingerie is a solid idea. Shoving off on a weekend trip, the night after spending a day at a spa, a dancing class and too much wine are ALL GOOD REASONS to put on sexy lingerie.
Also important is buying the right lingerie. You’ve got to go all out. You’ve got to head over to Fredrick’s of Hollywood and drop down cash on amazing lingerie like the outfit at the top of this article. Another sweet deal — BroBible readers can get 20% off any orders of $75 or more plus FREE shipping on everything. All they’ve got to do is use the promo code FOHSPR20 when ordering.
How This Benefits A Bro: You don’t really need me to explain this idea, do you?