Men, Romance & Gifts

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Romantic ideas came up in my recent discussions on marriage. I think women are easy to please when men make the effort to be romantic... IF they make the effort to be romantic. Men can be harder to please, or some may not even care. My husband is not a romantic and hardly ever makes an effort. Something intimate is boring to him. He was totally romantic on our Hawaiian cruise vacation, but who wouldn't be? However, I'm the one that made all those arrangements, he just responded positively to them. Romantic gestures for women can be chocolates, jewelry, flowers, intimate dinners, a picnic for two, or anything for two really. Some women find men helping out at home romantic. And these can be romantic for men too, especially doing adventurous things together. I'm sure my husband would love it if I played golf with him, but he would still need his guys only golf time. In the past I have come up with some creative ideas for gifts for men. They can be very hard to buy for. My husband, for example, doesn't read, doesn't really watch sports except golf (and he has enough tees, golf balls and golf shirts to last him a lifetime), doesn't wear jewelry, isn't a techy (only uses the computer to book golf tee times and check for golfing coupons, or flights). Jigsaw puzzles seem to be the only answer and it took me twenty years to realize that. He did like the remote control helicopters. In fact one year he was begging me for one and when it looked like he wasn't going to get one he bought one himself and put it under the tree from Santa. So he ended up with two that year and found they were a waste because they bump into something one time and it's broken. Moving along... a couple of romantic gifts I have given my husband might help some others. There are two that come to mind. One takes a whole year to make so if you want it for an anniversary, start the day after to make it for the following year. That is a journal. I wrote in a journal, on the right hand side of the page, what the day was like for the two of us, what we did together, how we enjoyed each other's company, what we talked about, how I felt. On the left hand side of the page I wrote love quotes from songs, poems, the Bible. I may have included little pictures of cartoons or something relevant. I didn't do this every single day of the year but a good portion of it. The other idea takes some time as well. I wanted to do this for my girls but it's harder. I used to have a stash of magazines. I went through them and cut out words that pertained to my husband whether they be his hobbies, his looks, or the way I felt about him. I took an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper (make sure you cut it down to 8x10 if you want to put it in a picture frame) and in the middle I pasted a photo of him. All around the picture I pasted the words I had cut out of magazines. Directly over the picture is his name (I cut it out of a newspaper ad). I won't go into huge description as I'm posting the photo. I will say that the photo (several years old) still sits on our headboard. Does anyone else have any unique gift ideas for men?