3 Things Your True Love Really Wants for Valentine’s Day

3 Things Your True Love Really Wants for Valentine’s Day

Many would be surprised to know that although a woman might appreciate the box of chocolates, flowers and spa gift cards, there’s something else your better half could truly use:  the gift of more time.

Think about it for one second.  A young mother with 2 or 3 small children, the mom that works full-time plus keeps the house in order or the executive who spends days, night and weekends with an eye on the corner office; they all want what is literally impossible to receive.  Or is it? 

Here’s Some Ideas

• Hire a service to come in and clean for a week or month or even a day.  Now, that is what I call true love. If your significant other is housekeeping-averse, as I am, this is the gift he or she will remember.  It gives them more time to spend with family, friends and the gift giver as well. 

• Have a D-I-Y home improvement project that you’ve both been talking about forever.   Whether it’s for the house or the yard, consider hiring a professional to come in and do it for you.  Really, I’m not kidding here.  I’ve been trying to find time to redo my kitchen island.  It’s not a big job, it just bugs me.  Hiring a carpenter to come in, would be a great present.  It doesn’t have to stop at the house, landscaping would be nice.  You know those 9 feet tall shrubs the builder put in which now cover the front windows?  Wouldn’t it be nice if we could hire someone to remove and replace those, honey? 

• Sign them up for a class on a hobby they always wanted to do.  One year my SO surprised me by buying himself a guitar because he really wanted to learn how to play.  So what I did was buy him guitar lessons as a Valentine’s Day gift.  He loved it, and best of all I can now listen to some great music. (Not that his version of Smoke on the Water was bad;)

Well it may be a little late to get these gifts for today.  Don’t forget about birthdays or Christmas .    In this over-scheduled, and stressed world we live in, more time is what we could all use a little more of.

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!