Do You Exchange Valentine’s Gifts? Here’s What Our Team & Readers Say…
Celebrate love with these Valentine’s Day gifting ideas.
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Here’s what our Hip team shared about their Valentine’s Gifting Traditions:
“My hubby and I exchange gifts for Valentine’s Day but it’s never anything too extravagant. I’ve never really been a huge Valentine’s Day person. Having said that, we do usually get each other some sort of candy/treat we like and then something fun like a board game, book, or video game and he usually gets me a bouquet of flowers. Last year he got me a Nightmare Before Christmas paper bouquet which I loved because I can keep it up all year and I didn’t have to worry about them dying.” – Liz
“During our first years of dating, we exchanged small gifts like chocolates or candy. It felt more like gifts just for the sake of giving a Valentine’s Day gift. I do like the idea of putting more thought into a gift to celebrate. I love Liz’s tradition of having something fun incorporated with the gift so I’ll likely go with some cutesy Valentine’s candy from Target and a card or board game for my husband this year. And since Valentine’s Day is on a Friday this year, we plan to treat ourselves to a dinner out. We have a few restaurant gift cards too so all the more reason to celebrate!” – Emily
“I LOVE Valentine’s Day. My husband and I don’t exchange gifts but usually go to dinner. I do decorate and I always get my kids a small treat bag or mini gift and probably always will because I just find it fun.” – Amber
“Before we had our daughter, we’d go out to dinner and celebrate. My husband would send flowers or candy with a card. Once she was born, those early Valentine’s Days with a baby/toddler were a blur, and we probably didn’t do much. As she’s grown, we’ve included her in our celebrations. My husband makes dinner and gets us flowers and candy—nothing extravagant. This year, I’m making my daughter a Valentine’s basket since her school doesn’t do exchanges in 7th grade and we’ll go out to eat as a family. And of course, I’ll decorate…I do for every holiday, big or small because I can’t help myself!” – Jessica
“My husband and I don’t exchange gifts – sometimes cards. We do treats for our daughter, and I send little things to the grown kiddos and all the grandkiddos, too.” – Liza
“We will sometimes exchange gifts but we always go out to eat. Usually a long lunch somewhere fun to celebrate the day. But I always get my kiddos a Day treat. I don’t care if they’re in their 60’s. If I’m still around, they’re getting some Valentine’s goodies.” – Cass
“I think my hubby has missed every single Valentine’s Day that we’ve been together due to his job, so I send him with some sort of surprise note, and the babies and I always do a mini ‘party’ with crafts and all the Valentine’s themed goodies. It’s not a huge holiday in my mind and I expect nothing, but it is the perfect excuse to do all the things with LOVE. This year we are making a heart chain and writing one thing we love about a family member each day until the 14th.” – Chelsey
“My boyfriend gifts me some peace and quiet since his family goes on vacation for Valentine’s Day every year. This year they’re going to Japan. What ends up happening is he gets me gifts while he’s on vacation (this year I asked for matcha and skincare!) and I pay for someone to clean the house/do landscaping so he gets back to a sparkly home. Win-win for both of us” – Madison
Some of our Hip sidekicks don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day at all.
“Never been a fan of Valentine’s Day and we don’t exchange gifts or really celebrate at all over here. When my kids were little, we did the classroom Valentine’s for school, but other than that I don’t get my kids anything for Valentine’s Day either.” – Trish
“My hubby and I do a big fat nothing for Valentine’s Day, and we’re totally good with that. 😆 My husband calls it a Hallmark holiday, and honestly… I kinda agree. 😬 I totally get buying Valentine’s exchange goodies for the kids when they’re in school, but I don’t really see the point in exchanging gifts with my husband. There are so many other important days to celebrate – birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day… the list goes on. Plus, I personally love it when my husband does something sweet on a random day, like bringing me a coffee or filling up my gas tank. That means way more to me than flowers on Valentine’s Day!” – Collin
“We don’t go out of our way to celebrate Valentine’s Day. As Collin said, it feels like a Hallmark holiday that I just feel that it adds to the consumerism that I don’t feel good being a part of. That said, I do always find us doing something special just for the sake of showing love to each other. We will normally cook a nice meal that the kids will love and there may or may not be heart shapes involved.” – Sara
“No gifts and we try to avoid restaurants that day. My husband still gets the kids a candy or small treat. One year he forgot and my daughter was like what the heck, Dad? LOL” – Lina
“When my husband and I got together we decided on no Valentine’s Day, too. He did get me a computer mouse one year but I think he had ordered it and it just happened to arrive on Valentine’s Day.” – Elizabeth
Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at Hip2Save, we love and appreciate you all. ❤️
We use to celebrate when our children were younger and buy them little gifts, but now they are grown. We’ve been married 40 years now and we usually just go out to dinner.
Hubby & I might exchange something small – card, candy, funny stuffed animal – but we prefer experience gifts. This year it will be going to a Savannah Bananas game in April. For Christmas, we purchased Georgia Aquarium passes for the year. Our favorite gift is spending time with each other and our kiddo.
We don’t typically exchange gifts for Valentine’s day but we always plan something special for the two of us. It could be a weekend getaway or an upcoming event. It doesn’t even have to be around Valentine’s Day. We have learned that you have to make time for each other and this is the perfect opportunity to make it happen. Love notes are the best gift I have received 🙂 I always make a little something for the kiddos (You’ve been Struck or You’ve been Hugged).
sometimes. mostly we make a heart shaped food at home…. pizza, meatloaf. I love food, so they have all been great!
We typically only do something very small for each other. Our wedding anniversary is only a few days later though (didn’t think that through when that was the only date the venue we wanted to get married at had available haha) and for that we usually do something bigger or we take a trip so sometimes it kind of ties in with Valentine’s Day. I usually like to put together a little treat/drink box with all of his favorite snacks or I will do some sort of “punny” gift basket. My favorite gifts are always practical ones for things that we may “need” (that are actually convenience “wants”) but I don’t want to spend money on. We both like to do a lot of gardening, canning, raising chickens/birds so I love it when he gets me gifts related to those things.
Nope! We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day or sweetest day
Our days can be busy so it is nice to have a “holiday” reminder to celebrate each other and show appreciation and love. Hubby and I do celebrate Valentine’s Day. I usually get a dozen roses or an assortment of a mixed flower bouquet. I usually get him a smaller sized bag of Lindt chocolate (his favorite). We go out to dinner to celebrate. Taking time to give small gifts, eat, & chat together is lovely.
We don’t exchange with each other. We only get gifts for our young grandkids
We do not exchange with each other but we get gifts for the kids.
My husband and I have been married 32 years. In the early years we would give each other a gift of candy or flowers. My favorite gift was a heart felt letter about all of those years from my husband, it was the best thing ever!
I give Valentine’s gifts but the hubby gives me “Non-Valentine’s” gifts in protest of what he calls a Hallmark-holiday. lol My favorite gift I’ve given him was a personalized box of candy from Russell Stover. My hubby is a diabetic, so I got sugar-free chocolates in a heart shaped box with a custom ribbon across the front that read “Marksalot” which is my nickname, or term of endearment, for him. He loved it. And I’m pretty sure I got the deal on it from Hip2Save. 🙂
No, my husband and I don’t exchange gifts! In fact, I try to convince him not to give gifts for anniversarys or birthdays either. It probably sounds weird to most people, but that’s us! 😉
We do not exchange gifts, but we do try to just do something together. Usually it’s just going out to eat. We always have a family Valentines dinner on Valentines Day, so our date ends up being on another night, but it works great because then we get to celebrate twice!
We do but with a little something, nothing big, just a reminder that we appreciate each other
Valentine’s is my hubby’s birthday so we don’t exchange gifts. I do get gifts for my galentines and kids of course (I am gift giver). We do celebrate some years later in March. My favorite gift was when he planned a weekend at a bed and breakfast in Virginia Beach for the weekend. It was a surprise to go away!
We go out to dinner near Valentine’s Day. Not the day of
We normally don’t exchange Valentine gifts. We usually go out to dinner though.
My husband and I just exchange cards and candy. I do get the kids a little gift!
My only yearly tradition for probably a decade now. I make iced sugar cookies that look like conversation hearts with my own little ideas written on them. They’re fun and cute!
My boyfriend made me roses made out of colored duct tape last year. They are in my office. they are so cute and he spent so much time making them it means so much to me. 🙂
Our kids are older and to continue keeping that spark alive, I make homemade cards for my hubby and get him some of his favorites for a basket. It’s the little things!!!
We don’t exchange gifts and avoid restaurants that day. We do get the kids a small treat.
I still send Valentines to my grown daughters but, the longer my husband and I are married, the more Valentine’s Day isn’t that big a deal. I might get flowers and/or we might go out for dinner. He’s my Valentine the entire year.
I try and do something cute for Valentine’s Day. My best one was bacon roses on sticks in a vase!
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It is first year of just my son, dog and myself for Valentine’s day. I usually go all out for everyone include my fur babies. My son will get a gift basket with colognes, candies and some other trinkets. Doggy will get a treat and my God children always get things from amazon you guys post on Hip2save and I send out cards to some of my close friends that live far away.
we don’t anymore, but I usually get the teens something small like a chocolate heart.
I give a card and some little gifts to my daughter to let her know how much I love being her mom. ❤️
This is one holiday we skip giving each other gifts. We do tell each other how much we love them and leave it at that. We celebrate our birthdays, other holidays like Christmas and our anniversary.
I give gifts to my son, my dog, my mom.. but very rarely to my husband. He always forgets and uses the excuse that “every day is Valentines day” in our house 🙂 so I don’t really get him anything special for Vday. I do give him random gifts throughout the year cause..”everyday is Valentine’s day” .
My husband and I don’t typically buy gifts for each other every Valentine’s Day, but rather try to find something to go out and do together. This year we will be going out for dinner and then to a concert.
my favorite thing is flowers and I received a heart shaped necklace ! not always roses or exspensive flowers but just some to put by my sink that i can enjoy
We do not celebrate Valentine’s Day. The small things that show love throughout the year are more important than the doing something big on one day just because the day has a holiday associated with it.
We do something small for each other; a favorite candy or treat and maybe a special dinner with a decorated dessert. Nothing extravagant. It’s a pause in regular daily life to appreciate relationships. The hype of Valentine’s Day can be a reminder of lost love or loneliness, so I want to remind those around me that they are loved and important.
I feel similarly about valentine’s day. Sometimes (probably every few years) I will send valentines to my friends and family, and I think that’s a nice reminder that I care about them.
The last time I exchanged gifts was when my kids were young. They are now adults and living on their own, so I will wait until hopefully one day I have grandchildren to do it again.
After getting divorced after 23 years of marriage, my boyfriend and I celebrate Valentine’s Day to make sure we both don’t take each other for granted. We go out to dinner – even though it is crowded – exchange gifts and cards. The other thing I do is celebrate love by noting all the non-romantic relationships in my life – my kids, parents, sisters, brothers, friends. I simply reach out to them and tell them they are important to me and I am so grateful they are in my life.
We celebrate it as a love day and we celebrate everyone in the family. Last year we did a “just add ice cream” box for our kids and we got lots of fun ice cream toppings like chocolate rocks, gummy bears, sprinkles, mini caramel filled chocolates etc and we used the toppings every Monday for family nights. The kids loved it and it was a great way to celebrate our family for months not just one day.
I love Valentine’s day! I usually get the kids and Husband something small. If I am lucky, I get something too. My favorite thing is spending time with my family, and going out to dinner. I hate cooking! Also, I love it when my husband gets me anything Hello Kitty!
My husband and I don’t typically celebrate Valentine’s Day, other than maybe a card. I do always try to get something, like a little gift bag, or basket for our daughter though!
My grand kids celebrate in school however I do not celebrate Valentine’s Day. My husband died in 89 so I have been alone so nobody to celebrate it with. It is just another day here.
I am NOT a fan of this ‘holiday’ at all. It just seems so forced to me and usually shows a generic/expected type of acknowledgement. I much prefer those ‘little acts of love’ that are done for the right reasons and not designated to being publicly recognized one day a year. I do celebrate the 14th with cards and treats for the kids; but I really hate this day.
We do not exchange gifts anymore. When my children were younger they would each get a goody bag but now that they are grown, we stopped the tradition.
Just the kids.
We exchange smaller gifts for Valentines day just because we still have kids at home. I have never recieved or gifted a large gift for or by my significant other for Valentines day. It is usually candy or beef jerky. Don’t judge, my boyfriend can eat his weight in beef jerky.
My husband has a heated workshop (Wisconsin winters — brrrr). He has been so kind as to keep my geraniums in there over the winters. Some of the plants are several years old and still going strong. And what is crazy is they continue to blossom during the winter. My husband knows I do not like cut flowers from a florist (over-priced & short lived). But when he comes into the house in the middle of a snowstorm with a bouquet of fresh geranium blossoms he puts a HUGE smile on my face.
That’s so sweet. I love how it’s something that is special to you!
This is our first Valentines together so we will see ❤️
My husband and I don’t really do anything big for valentines day. We prefer to celebrate days that are special to us (anniversaries and birthdays) rather than days that are for everyone. That said – I usually will buy a small treat and a card for valentines day for my spouse. Personally, I am not a huge fan of valentines day… I feel like it sets folks up for dissapointment. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard from friends that their valentines day date didn’t turn out how they wanted or from single friends that they feel left out.
We exchanged gifts the first few years we were dating/married, but now we just enjoy being together. We have no kids, and my husband travels a lot – so there are often years he’s not even home on V-Day. He usually will send flowers, especially if he’s out of town.
No, my hubby and I do not celebrate Valentine’s Day, but we do with our kids. The cutest thing about that is our kids are all in their 20’s and its sweet to see their reactions when they get a Valentine from mom and dad.
My husband and I usually just get each other a card from dollar tree since they are waaaaaay cheaper than anywhere else. They are just as good and what matters most to us is what we write to each other.
We tend to buy the kids little valentines baskets or gifts and usually my husband and I just trade cards and maybe something small (a candy or snack). We try to celebrate it by going out to dinner but never on the actual day since we are two working parents and two kids. this year although it does fall on a Friday, we were contracted to go and sing and play for a valentines banquet event. This is special because I get to do what I love, with the one I love.