What unique gifts and surpirses have you done for a girl/guy

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Flowers, big teddy bears, chocolates, jewelry, showing up at their work, its all great, and most people appreciate it, but sometimes its not unique with the person you are trying to impress or become a love interest. Maybe you aren't the first person to do that specific thing.

So what have been some of your unique ideas for making someone (a love interest or a close friend) feel good?

I usually observe them closely before that point, but I've found a home spa evening works nicely for dates (especially if the other person is busy and stressed), and for people I'd like to get close to, I invite them to the movies, or out for a drink, or to go bowling (I'm AWFUL, so it's comedy as much as anything else.) Something that is suitably public, so they don't feel pressured, but allows for time to talk together/get to know each other.

I took one person out one time to Machete, and we both laughed ourselves stupid over the great one-liners in the film. It was during the week, so the theater was mostly empty, and it allowed both of us to put our feet up and crack jokes in each other's ears the whole time. Was more fun than it sounds. I don't usually like the movies, but being two of three people there was much more relaxing.

There a woman I used to favour. I was her secret admirer. One day I sent her a bouquet of flowers from a local florist. Cost me $45. Somewhere along the way I developed the nerve to tell her the flowers were from me. It didn't win her over, though. She simply wasn't interested. Dang. $45 down the drain. That could've bought me five servings of Chinese food from a takeout restaurant.

write a just because i love you card.

this seems to always bring out the warm fussy's in people

I've done a few things that may not be as common but are definitely not unique in my opinion.

When I was in High school, I had a little garage band I had formed with me and 4 other friends. I was the songwriter, vocalist and recorder/mixer for the group, so one of the first songs I wrote was called "Valentine".
I got my first and second guitarist together and we barged in on my then girlfriend's Math class, playing the song. I was holding some roses and belting as loud as I could.
Everybody applauded, including the teacher but we did get in trouble for the disruption from the detention lady..

Usually I will just surprise my girlfriend or romantic interest with a random gift. I prefer giving gifts when they are not to be expected. I remember there was this Star Wars game this girl I was quasi-dating (it's complicated) wanted and had been wanting for months. I showed up with it one day.
Sometimes I would just surprise her in between her long study sessions with a pretzel from all the way across campus (because they were her favorite) or even a hamburger.. She sorta had a deep love for certain foods.

I'll usually leave some sort of short and sweet hand written note with these items too. Handwritten letters is a common theme in all my relationships. I like to write real letters.

Also, I've written songs about and for the girlfriend I was with at the time, then record and perform them for her. I've done this twice.

Another time I showed up at her house with her favorite snack foods and three movies because she was going through a lot of stress and depression.

That's really about all I've done. Like I said, some of them aren't really unique to the point its never been done before, but some are uncommon. Also, the idea of what was done wasn't unique but the gift was, (obviously unique for the girl.. ex. Star Wars game, etc)

I don't think its unique, but I've drawn him artwork depicting his own character or I've made art for him depicting his favourite cartoon character. I also bought him is first DeviantArt subscription. ^.^;

I took my best friend out to dinner for her birthday and surprised her with a card and a framed photo of the two of us at PumpkinFest. Her reaction was priceless: she smiled as she saw the gift bag, and upon seeing the picture said rather excitedly "Now I have a picture of us together!"

It's moments like that that give me hope we might be together someday....

I write my SO a letter every week as we are in a long distance relationship and can only see each other on the weekend.
He got me a great nerdy book on the history of mathematics.
When we go outside he bends down and puts my shoes on my feet.

i am real good at surprises, but i have no boyfriend

My late sweetie once gave me a miniature, fully functional trebuchet that he built. Honestly, there could never be anything better than that.

I've never been a fan of the grandiose gestures - flowers, candy, jewelry, expensive meals. I'd much rather have something that reflects the other person really KNOWING me. I don't want flamboyant or expensive....just thoughtful.

OMG the coolest!! !


I don't do romantic gestures but people have done stuff for me. One Valentine I came home to find the bedroom decorated in hand drawn /coloured/cut out hearts and romantic notes. To be perfectly honest I didn't really care for it but had to pretend I was touched - I think I was born sans romantic gene.

The one thing I still remember fondly though is exchanging hand written letters with this guy I wasn't even dating back in high school and how he would roll up his and tie them with a red ribbon. I didn't fancy him though and then he got really cross with me when I turned him down like I was supposed to say yes after all the trouble he went to for me. So that probably killed romantic gestures for me for ever.

I gave girls in high school pictures signed by: American Idol winner Taylor Hicks, UFC fighter Mike Brown, and NFL quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.

My first husband threw temper tantrums in a big way, and then would send me flowers the next day as an apology (but without ever saying "I'm sorry"). That's one of the things that put me off romantic gestures. I've never been good at it, either.

What always thrilled me most was little things like my S.O. unexpectedly dropping in at my office to take me to lunch, or picking me up a book that he thought I would like, or wanting to watch one of my favorite movies with me. Or having dinner ready for me when I got home from work (even if he was a lousy cook). Really, anything at all that showed he was thinking about me and went out of his way to do something nice.

My romantic expressions are a lot like that, as well. Such as, on occasion, fixing a meal or a dessert that I know is his favorite even if it's not something I particularly like. Picking up a box/bag of his favorite snack food. Bringing him home a bottle of his favorite Scotch for no particular reason.

Every time my ex boyfriend's favorite author came out with a new book (which was pretty often,), I'd buy a copy in hardback for him. Also used to make him brownies every time I went over until I found out, long after, that he didn't like them and was too polite to say so...

A good friend of mine was having a rough time and I knew very well the stuff she liked. Food, film, flowers, characters (she's an anime fan) as well as some of her smaller frustrations at the time (her phone had cracked and rear lens cover scratched because she had lost her phone case a week earlier).

So... when the film (2nd hobbit movie) debuted I invited her to eat her fave food (sushi) then as we waited for the food I asked to see her phone...

...and once it was in my hands I took out the lens and glass cover I had ordered a week earlier and repaired it in front of her...

...then gave her a leather flip-cover case custom made with her name on the spine plus her two of her three fave anime characters on the cover (its a wonderful gift..im amazed I found this in amazon!)

to say she was all smiles at the time is an understatement. We ate and then walked out of the restaurant...

and just before we crossed the corner of the restaurant (the theater was just a block away) I fiddled my pockets and asked her to hold this for me while... two small pieces of printed cardboard...

took her a second to realize they were movie tix and went from shock to jumping all around me...

inside the theater I waited until the movie was just about to start and I gave her the One Ring in a silver necklace chain ... she was shaking and all teary.

(funny thing is, this all cost me less than 50 bucks aside from the tickets...smart online shopping!)

We watched the movie... she was really happy (of course)... got on my car, talked during the drive then dropped her off at her house.

Two hours later I'm home and she calls me all excited and crying again... she had opened her purse and seen the one flower (her fave) in there with my handwritten note...and the anime stuffed animal doll she had been wanting to buy for a long time that I had snuck in when she went to the bathroom before the movie started (my jacket has very nice, big pockets to hide all this stuff in!).

It made her day and lifted her mood greatly that month.

Sweet babby Jebus, Dantac! Now that is some quality planning and execution.