Valentines Day – Unique Gifts For Him and Her

Valentines Day – Don’t Take It So Seriously!

Valentines Day is one of the most commercial days of the year in the Western World, along with Christmas Day, Easter, and Mother’s/Fathers Day.  A whole mega industry has been set up around this day (always on February 14), and florists usually make most of their money for the entire financial year in the week leading up to this fanfare of flowers and chocolates.I can hear every flower in the world shiver in the lead up to this day for lovers, wishing that their stems won’t be chopped by a sharp pair of secateurs.

Ironically, Valentines Day is not a public holiday, but I’m sure a lot of people call in ‘sick’, especially if it falls during a week day!

Usually, most people in relationships don’t have a choice to ‘not’ give their partners a gift because the mass promotion of Valentines Day has more or less created social pariah’s if you don’t give your significant something like a rose that’s about to die or some chocolate that requires a whole week of exercise before it’s worked off.

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But what if you don’t want to conform? What if you want to buy something a bit silly or alternative to rebel against the mega industries associated with Valentines Day?

Well, I’ve got a silly list of unique Valentines Day Gifts based on my (and other people’s travels around the world). But really, this is just a collection of silly posts of items that from around the world that some crazy people may want to consider giving to someone else.

Whether these may lead to a nice day in bed with your significant other, well that might be debateable, but anyway, here goes!

Silly Valentines Day Gifts For Him

• Statue of Priapus from Turkey. Try explaining this one in customs

• Natural Viagra, also from Turkey. Ironically, to make him look like the Statue of Priapus.

• National Pornographic T-Shirt from Hungary

• Every Beer From the Beer Index.

• A packet of My Nuts from Taiwan.

Silly Valentines Day Gifts For Her

•  A boob job thanks to the plastic surgery benefits of the Finnair Frequent Flyer Program.

• A beauty treatment from this Hair and Beauty Salon building illustrated by paintings in Tanzania.

• Proposing and getting married at the Drive Through Chapel in Las Vegas.

• Serve her Breakfast in Bed with some Balut – Crunchy Duck Fetus.

• Treat her to a beautiful Dinner of Cow’s Nose in Peanut Sauce!

There you go. If you choose any of these unique gifts for your loved one, you can’t be accused of being boring or buying the same mass produced crap that everyone else buys! But this probably goes to the other end of the Valentines Day scale, or maybe these are a celebration of an anti-Valentines Day!

If any of you are ever foolish enough to consider giving one of these gifts to someone, let me know how you go in terms of success rate by leaving a comment below!