When my ex-husband and I were dating -- and throughout our marriage -- we routinely bought each other bookmarks. They come with all kinds of sayings/patterns, we could spend as little as $1 back then, and we could write stuff on the back of the less expensive (cardboard) ones. For a special occasion, a pricier (metal) one could be picked up. He won my heart in part by writing really, really bad poetry to me when we were teens. I didn't care that he couldn't write poetry. I cared that it came from the heart. Heck, it was probably endearing in part because he kept trying, in spite of how really bad it so consistently was.
He also used to buy me books and often did the tacky/funny thing of reading them before them giving them to me. He bought me an entire set of a book series that my jerk older brother had borrowed and never returned a couple of years earlier. That was one of his finest moments.
(Of course, due to my allergies and life-threatening respiratory problems, I no longer own any books. So this will not be repeated in my future.)
When my ex-husband and I were dating -- and throughout our marriage -- we routinely bought each other bookmarks. They come with all kinds of sayings/patterns, we could spend as little as $1 back then, and we could write stuff on the back of the less expensive (cardboard) ones. For a special occasion, a pricier (metal) one could be picked up. He won my heart in part by writing really, really bad poetry to me when we were teens. I didn't care that he couldn't write poetry. I cared that it came from the heart. Heck, it was probably endearing in part because he kept trying, in spite of how really bad it so consistently was.
He also used to buy me books and often did the tacky/funny thing of reading them before them giving them to me. He bought me an entire set of a book series that my jerk older brother had borrowed and never returned a couple of years earlier. That was one of his finest moments.
(Of course, due to my allergies and life-threatening respiratory problems, I no longer own any books. So this will not be repeated in my future.)