Was it what you actually wanted?
The most thoughtful, personal gift I ever helped a man give his wife as a present was . . . dirt. My best girlfriend, Sena, was raising African Violets. She had all the pots she need to transplant them, but she needed several cubic feet of African Violet potting soil. As her bff, I informed her husband, Steve, that Sena hoped and prayed for him to go down to Home Depot and purchase it.
"Are you sure?" he asked me.
"Yep, Steve. If you don't buy her some dirt for Valentine's Day, Sena's gonna be real disappointed. Candy and flowers are nice, but Sena would be happier with the dirt."
