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DrPizza

DrPizza

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Wife work 7pm to 7am shifts now... I take her dinner fairly often..

Tonight, I ran out to the store to get some sub rolls (we were making steak subs with venison)... grabbed some chips and grapes to go with them while I was there. Noticed a dozen roses on the reduced produce rack. 99 cents. So, I figured it's the thought that counts 😉

Bought them, snipped the ends of the stems, picked the outermost petals off (making them once again look like unopened buds - trick that many unscrupulous florists have used for years) removed the dead leaves from the stems. Went outside, grabbed some fern leaves for extra greenery, stuffed it all into a vase, carefully rearranging the fern, baby's breath, and roses to make them look their best...

Presto!

Took dinner to wife with the vase of roses and made all her coworkers jealous 🙂
Made the wife very happy too!
All for 99 cents and a couple of minutes of work... I'm such a cheap bast**d 😀
 
heh, reminds me of the time when I was dating my wife in Nashville. A local florist would sell a dozen roses for $3.99 brand new. The only catch is you had to get a minimum of two dozen. 🙂

So my wife got alot of roses while we dated, made her roommates insanely jealous!
 
Originally posted by: Ime
heh, reminds me of the time when I was dating my wife in Nashville. A local florist would sell a dozen roses for $3.99 brand new. The only catch is you had to get a minimum of two dozen. 🙂

So my wife got alot of roses while we dated, made her roommates insanely jealous!
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As opposed to used?
 
Originally posted by: KingNothing
Originally posted by: Ime
heh, reminds me of the time when I was dating my wife in Nashville. A local florist would sell a dozen roses for $3.99 brand new. The only catch is you had to get a minimum of two dozen. 🙂

So my wife got alot of roses while we dated, made her roommates insanely jealous!
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As opposed to used?
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LOL.. 😛
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Wife work 7pm to 7am shifts now... I take her dinner fairly often..

Tonight, I ran out to the store to get some sub rolls (we were making steak subs with venison)... grabbed some chips and grapes to go with them while I was there. Noticed a dozen roses on the reduced produce rack. 99 cents. So, I figured it's the thought that counts 😉

Bought them, snipped the ends of the stems, picked the outermost petals off (making them once again look like unopened buds - trick that many unscrupulous florists have used for years) removed the dead leaves from the stems. Went outside, grabbed some fern leaves for extra greenery, stuffed it all into a vase, carefully rearranging the fern, baby's breath, and roses to make them look their best...

Presto!

Took dinner to wife with the vase of roses and made all her coworkers jealous 🙂
Made the wife very happy too!
All for 99 cents and a couple of minutes of work... I'm such a cheap bast**d 😀
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Crafty crafty aren't we. 😀
 
Originally posted by: KingNothing
Originally posted by: Ime
heh, reminds me of the time when I was dating my wife in Nashville. A local florist would sell a dozen roses for $3.99 brand new. The only catch is you had to get a minimum of two dozen. 🙂

So my wife got alot of roses while we dated, made her roommates insanely jealous!
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As opposed to used?
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Slightly used.
 
you know i never understood the reason on buying flowers.

to me it was like buying a dead animial and putting it in water for her to look at. it just never made any sense to me.

but i learned that if you want pussy you need to do it.
 
the uselessness of flowers is exactly the point. It makes it look like you think they're worth buying useless stuff for. If you're willing... all the better to them. 😉

And you put a considerable amount of work and thought to it (comparitively speaking)... so :thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: waggy
you know i never understood the reason on buying flowers.

to me it was like buying a dead animial and putting it in water for her to look at. it just never made any sense to me.

but i learned that if you want pussy you need to do it.
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hahahaha "look honey, i bought you a dozen dead kittens!"
 
Hooray for you. I'm sure your wife would be pleased that you went thru all that trouble to trick her into believing you actually cared enough to buy her some nice flowers.

Oh yeah; she'd also be tickled ROSY pink to learn you spent $.99 doing it. :roll:

You da man, dog. :roll:

While I agree that spending more than $25 on flowers is a damn stupid thing to do, any local "Bigass Grocery Store Chain" sells flowers. You could've gotten a generic "Spring Boquet" for $10 or so. Cheapass.

Remember how cheap you are when it comes time to hire a divorce attorney; I'm sure she'll let you get off easy b/c you bought her nice flowers. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
Originally posted by: waggy
you know i never understood the reason on buying flowers.

to me it was like buying a dead animial and putting it in water for her to look at. it just never made any sense to me.

but i learned that if you want pussy you need to do it.
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hahahaha "look honey, i bought you a dozen dead kittens!"
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yeap. thats how i think.

But i got lucky. my wife knows how i feel and does not get upset about it. the few times she got flowers (wedding and birth of my daughter) she scolded me. heh.

Though i am going to buy her a rose bush when we move into the house next month.
 
Originally posted by: jagec
I remember when I lived in Ecuador (which exports roses to the US) and a dozen roses was 50 cents...
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While it's true to an extent that "It is the thought that counts" there was no positive vibe/karma in this at all. He bought dying flowers, plucked the insect-infested brown leaves off them and presented them as an "I was thinking of you" gift.


There's just so much wrongness intertwined w/this action....Karma sucks when it comes back to bite you in the @ss.

Don't fool yourselves for a second believing that any woman wouldn't notice these "used and abused flowers." Women see EVERYTHING. They ACT stupid when it suits them to either avoid conflict at that time or to save it for later and make you PAY.

Sure, he may get some tonight; but it'll be "married sex."

Then, next week. Next MONTH, she'll bring up "The Dead Flowers" at a family get together; in front of his Mom...or his BOSS. Believe me; she knows she got some cheapass flowers.
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: jagec
I remember when I lived in Ecuador (which exports roses to the US) and a dozen roses was 50 cents...
Click to expand...

While it's true to an extent that "It is the thought that counts" there was no positive vibe/karma in this at all. He bought dying flowers, plucked the insect-infested brown leaves off them and presented them as an "I was thinking of you" gift.


There's just so much wrongness intertwined w/this action....Karma sucks when it comes back to bite you in the @ss.

Don't fool yourselves for a second believing that any woman wouldn't notice these "used and abused flowers." Women see EVERYTHING. They ACT stupid when it suits them to either avoid conflict at that time or to save it for later and make you PAY.

Sure, he may get some tonight; but it'll be "married sex."

Then, next week. Next MONTH, she'll bring up "The Dead Flowers" at a family get together; in front of his Mom...or his BOSS. Believe me; she knows she got some cheapass flowers.
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Believe it or not.. the roses I presented to her were of the same quality that you'll get from many florists.. Rather than throw roses out, they pick the petals off that are opening and make them look more like buds again.... Ever buy roses and they never ended up opening very far? Guess why.

My wife knows that I think buying flowers is pretty stupid.. she'd much rather receive live plants so she can let them suffer a little longer before they die. When our son was born, rather than getting her cut flowers, I got her some plants to plant outside the house. When we move in a month or so, those plants are getting dug up and moved with us... She has all sorts of plants growing that she received for special occasions, and every year, they still offer the same memories.

But, I'll NEVER buy roses, or anything else for that matter, for valentine's day. I find it to be pretty foolish to "have to" buy something because of mass marketing by card companies, etc.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Wife work 7pm to 7am shifts now... I take her dinner fairly often..

Tonight, I ran out to the store to get some sub rolls (we were making steak subs with venison)... grabbed some chips and grapes to go with them while I was there. Noticed a dozen roses on the reduced produce rack. 99 cents. So, I figured it's the thought that counts 😉

Bought them, snipped the ends of the stems, picked the outermost petals off (making them once again look like unopened buds - trick that many unscrupulous florists have used for years) removed the dead leaves from the stems. Went outside, grabbed some fern leaves for extra greenery, stuffed it all into a vase, carefully rearranging the fern, baby's breath, and roses to make them look their best...

Presto!

Took dinner to wife with the vase of roses and made all her coworkers jealous 🙂
Made the wife very happy too!
All for 99 cents and a couple of minutes of work... I'm such a cheap bast**d 😀
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Nice work. It's the thought that counts man.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: jagec
I remember when I lived in Ecuador (which exports roses to the US) and a dozen roses was 50 cents...
Click to expand...

While it's true to an extent that "It is the thought that counts" there was no positive vibe/karma in this at all. He bought dying flowers, plucked the insect-infested brown leaves off them and presented them as an "I was thinking of you" gift.


There's just so much wrongness intertwined w/this action....Karma sucks when it comes back to bite you in the @ss.

Don't fool yourselves for a second believing that any woman wouldn't notice these "used and abused flowers." Women see EVERYTHING. They ACT stupid when it suits them to either avoid conflict at that time or to save it for later and make you PAY.

Sure, he may get some tonight; but it'll be "married sex."

Then, next week. Next MONTH, she'll bring up "The Dead Flowers" at a family get together; in front of his Mom...or his BOSS. Believe me; she knows she got some cheapass flowers.
Click to expand...

Believe it or not.. the roses I presented to her were of the same quality that you'll get from many florists.. Rather than throw roses out, they pick the petals off that are opening and make them look more like buds again.... Ever buy roses and they never ended up opening very far? Guess why.

My wife knows that I think buying flowers is pretty stupid.. she'd much rather receive live plants so she can let them suffer a little longer before they die. When our son was born, rather than getting her cut flowers, I got her some plants to plant outside the house. When we move in a month or so, those plants are getting dug up and moved with us... She has all sorts of plants growing that she received for special occasions, and every year, they still offer the same memories.

But, I'll NEVER buy roses, or anything else for that matter, for valentine's day. I find it to be pretty foolish to "have to" buy something because of mass marketing by card companies, etc.
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OK. That's cool. I didn't know that she has been "Let in on the secret" about flowers. You'd be surprised how many 30-something women (older than your wife, I'll bet) have no clue. They see flowers and they go apeshit. It could be a PICTURE of flowers...they don't know the diff. :roll:

That's GREAT she like plants. I like plants. They do something; like ACTUALLY LIVE, most of the time. 🙂
 
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