Credit Crunch Valentine Present Ideas

Today we have visiting with us Victoria Blisse with tips on how to make Valentine's Day a holiday we can afford.

Hi Anita,

Times are tough for all of us right now and as Valentine's day comes round I am sure you're wondering about how to treat your special someone without breaking the bank. Well I am here to tell you that the most touching gifts are ones that are from the heart and these presents don't have to cost the earth! Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing.

Write a love letter

For this you might need to purchase some nice looking writing paper or a blank card but if you shop around you can buy good looking paper/greeting cards very reasonably! My top tip is to check in markets as they often have the best prices and a large selection. Don't wander into a large chain store type shop unless you can afford to pay that bit more as you will just get frustrated when you look through all the lovely cards and you realise you can't afford them.

When choosing a pen to write your love letter with make sure it is full of ink and isn't going to run out on you at any moment! Writing in colour is always sweet but bear in mind that poison pen letters are often written in red and it can be seen as quite an angry and harsh colour. Make sure it is comfortable for you to write with and don't try using a cartridge pen if you're used to a ballpoint. It might sound romantic in theory but a letter covered in ink blots is not that sexy. Try scribbling on a spare piece of paper to check your pen is OK then you're ready to write!

When you sit down to write your letter be in a relaxed state of mind. It might help to have a photo of your lover or some other memento to look at for inspiration. Don't force it just write how you feel. It doesn't need to be Shakespearian in its grandness; the whole idea of a love letter is that it comes from the heart. If all you want to write is "I love you with all my heart" then that's all you need to write. If you are more inclined to go on for a few pages then do so. Write as much or as little as feels right.

Content wise try to keep to your own words. If you quote someone else, give them credit for it. It is not going to impress your dearly beloved if they find the heartfelt letter they received was actually composed by some dead guy to his wife several centuries before! Again I stress the most important point; a love letter is from the heart. Be sincere and true to your feelings and give your lover something they can keep to remind them of you.

Ladies, if you fancy adding a little squirt of perfume to your letter then feel free but please spray the letter from arms length as you do not want to knock your lover out with potent perfume fumes as he opens his letter!

Make a scrap book

All you need is an exercise book OR several pieces of paper hole punched and strung together. Once you have your book decorate the front and back cover in any way you like! Collage images from newspapers and magazines over it, use stickers or wrapping paper or just draw. This is your present to your lover; you decide what you want to do with it.

The contents can be whatever you want too. Photos, love letters, famous (and relevant) love quotes, pictures you've drawn, a page of graffiti all based around the "I luv u" variety you used to cover your books in at school, poetry... the list goes on.

I made one for my husband when we were first together. In mine I added a few pages of love quotes from various Terry Pratchett books because we are both big Discworld fans. I put in a few quotes from songs that reminded me off him in along with some pictures, a graffiti page and an introduction. It took me a long time but I was very pleased with it when I finished and my husband still has it now.

Fill your book with what you know your lover will love and you just can't go wrong!

WARNING!

This option can be time consuming, especially if you decide to do a lot of drawing and writing yourself. Make sure you start it a while before you need to present it as a gift, you don't want to have to rush it to be able to present it in time do you?

Ok hold onto your hats folks now we're getting into the sexy adult suggestions.Give your lover something sextra special this year!

Vouchers

No, I'm not talking gift vouchers for your local department store I am talking sexy love vouchers. Hundreds of Ecard sites have these online, you can even find them to print out online too or you can simply type or write your own.

All it has to be is a slip of paper which gives details of a treat your lover can claim from you. They can range from the cute and practical to the seriously sexy and can be redeemed whenever your partner feels like it.

Voucher suggestions:

*An hour long all over body massage.

*Butterfly kisses to be placed wherever your lover wants them!

*A meal cooked by you and the washing up done by you too.

*A night of passion!

*Acting out a kinky fantasy of their choosing.

You can be as saucy as you like and you can give as many different vouchers as you like! A cute little extra to slip inside the valentine card you send to your love.

Sexy Lotto

This idea is a step up from the last. It involves the same kind of vouchers but this time you write lots of them, suitable for both you and your partner to carry out. You place some of these vouchers in a hat or a pot or a bowl (fold them up especially if they're going in a see through container) and then take it in turns to draw out a piece of paper then carry out that action on/to or for your lover!

Similar suggestions as before apply but you can get a bit more explicit this time!

*perform oral sex on partner for 10 minutes.

*Give your partner 10 spanks to the bare bottom.

*kiss your partner for 5 minutes anywhere but on the lips.

*Do a slow sexy strip to the music of your choice.

*Tell your lover a fantasy of yours in explicit detail.

See I told you! This suggestion can be as sexual as you like. Add things you and your partner will feel comfortable doing, you do not want to embarrass them after all, you want to get them horny baby, yeah! (Oops dropped into Austin Power Mode there)

Make sure you have some time to yourself for this. You don't want children/flatmates walking in on you whilst playing this game! Also you want to feel totally relaxed and comfortable; worrying about keeping the noise down in case mother hears will not enhance the experience!

Erotic Ebook

Pop over to http://www.victoriablisse.co.uk/my-books and browse through the many titles I have on offer. My eBooks start from just a few dollars each and I can guarantee the hotness of each and every one of them. This would be an especially good present for lovers with eBook readers but you don't need one to enjoy an electronic book you can read them on your PC and laptop too!

Sexy Photos

This will work best if your love is at work on Valentine's Day or somewhere other than in the house with you. Take some sexy photographs of yourself with a digital camera. They can be as graphic as you like. Please remember though if you're sending them to your partner whilst he/she is at work that he/she could get into trouble for looking at very explicit photos in the workplace! All they need to do is titillate. A picture of you in some seriously sexy lingerie (hey I'm talking to you too boys!) or just a picture of your lips or a shot of your cleavage or your "bulge" inside your jeans. Get creative and take a shot you know will get your lover erm, "interested".

Then send your picture via email or text message to your loved one.

If you're not sure about how to do it then try sending it to yourself first until you get it to work. It is better to do this than to send the photo to the wrong person or not managed to attach the right photo to your email. That could cause all kinds of confusion!

Now you have your picture ready to send you need to think of a suitable titillating subject line and/or message text.

A simple "Happy Valentines Day" will suffice, I am sure the picture will then speak for itself BUT be as creative as you like! Or if you really want to mess with their minds just send a typical chatty email and have your sexy picture attached, cheeky and fun and who knows? You might get spanked for it later if you are lucky.

I hope these give you some ideas of how to treat your lover without having to spend a fortune. I'd love to read all your ideas too so please leave them in a comment so we can all share in your inspirational ideas!


Thank you, Victoria, for your creative ideas.


And here's an excerpt from her book "Getting Intimate."




I could not believe it had been six months or so that I’d been putting myself through the gym torture. Granted, I felt better for it. I was more flexible and filled with energy but I was not seeing my curves fall away in any significant manner. And of course, the curves that were going were the ones I wanted to keep! My bra had gone down a size and my hips seemed to have shrunk, but no amount of concentration seemed to make my podge of a belly disappear.
I persevered though, mostly because of John and partly because of mum. She had bought me the stupid gym pass in the first place and I’ve always been told it’s rude not to accept a present graciously.

It wasn’t so bad. At least the gym held good memories for me and with John around I always had someone to talk to while working my bum off. I could look at him lustfully, too and then take him home to have my wicked way with. Although he was perfectly capable of having his wicked way too, come to think of it. He might have been a virgin when we first met, something I still found unbelievable, but he soon got the hang of things. And oh, he was imaginative. He kept me satisfied but paradoxically that only made me want him more. I wanted to find out all the ways we could orgasm together.

I was lost in lurid fantasy as I pushed the door of the gym open. The usual mix of sweat and antiperspirant products mixed with hot plastic and rubber greeted me as I walked in. That was not what surprised me. What did surprise me was seeing my John talking to the stick insect.

It was a gym. The place was filled with lean, mean, perfectly-formed female bodies but there was one I disliked more than all the others put together. I’d discovered from the simpering of her friends and her personal trainer’s barked instructions that her name was Sam. But in my mind she remained the stick insect. She was as thin as a rail and beautiful with it. She had bright, natural blonde hair and sparkling eyes, and although I beat her hands down in the cleavage department hers were pert and always peeped out the top of whatever sports ensemble she was wearing. Men would literally drool down them when talking to her.

Jealous? Me? Well okay, maybe I was just a little bit. She was everything I wasn’t. She was effortlessly gorgeous and instantly charming. Most of the men in the gym wanted to fuck her and half of the women too, but up until that moment I was sure that my John barely even realised she existed. He loved big women, real women. He adored my curves and he told me that at every possible moment. He begged me never to lose them and I told him I couldn’t if I tried. And boy, was I trying.
But at that moment my world shattered. I couldn’t hear what was being said over the noise of the packed gym but her eyes were full of lust and he was pointedly not looking at her. Why on earth would you not meet the gaze of a person, unless you were trying to hide something or you were feeling guilty about something? I saw exactly what a moment later, when she covered my John’s strong hand with her own thin, little dainty one and squeezed. He looked up at her then and smiled. She walked away.

I was stunned. My John had been captured by the stick insect.


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Thanks again Victoria,

Anita


Valentine? Really?
Anita told me about this post but I couldn't believe women really would go to all this trouble for their boyfriends/husband.
But hey, I've never been in a serious relationship so what do I know.

I like the idea of sex vouchers - I usually have to pay for such fun.

But ladies if you want to give it away.

Call me,

Jack