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Choosing meaningful gifts for Valentines Day

By Eric Carroll
Advertising Manager, The VOICE

In a short time it will be Valentines' Day again and again people will forgo paying their bills to buy someone special a symbol of the most positive emotion that people can express.

Many people will look to the internet to find the perfect gift others will take in ideas from their surroundings and the ones the gift is for and others will do their own thing.

There are gifts of love and there are gifts to outdo friends, family, and associates these gifts are the wrong ones to give. Yes, everyone enjoys getting something for free and if that something is better than what your rival has been given that makes it even sweeter. Valentines' Day is not for outdoing the Jones it is about the exchange of love between couples. If you're single show the world that you love you and you're not in need of a handout.

Getting the right gift on this holiday is easier than finding gold at the end of a rainbow (I have wasted gas going from one side of a rainbow to the other).

Have you been listening to everything your partner has been saying, have you been watching them like J. Edger Hoover if so you have no need to stress. If you have slacked off and brain dumped most of your conversations then you may be getting dumped this Valentines' Day.

So give a gift you can afford and you know the attended will love, because this holiday is all about love. Don't have someone to buy for I'm in HT2 room The Voice there is a sign on the window. I'd give a list of what I like, but it would be too long.

If you're not going to buy for me buy for yourself and show the world that this holiday is truly for lovers of all kinds.