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It's Valentine's! What did you get / what did you do?
Joe Grundy
Australia
Sydney
NSW
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Title says it all.
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Joe Grundy
Australia
Sydney
NSW
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My wife combined one of "her" hobbies and one of "mine", and bought me Mall World at 50% discount. (At the mall, even!) Also a box of Lindt chocolate. (MmmmmmMMMmmmmmmm... Lindt!)
(btw her hobby isn't shopping, it's finding discounts.)
(MmmmmmmmMMmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMmmmmm... Lindt!)
Then we discovered it's 3-5 players only. So it's champagne, and time for Kahuna.
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Louise Holden
United Kingdom
Solihull
West Midlands
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I was working in London yesterday and exchanging emails with Spouse (who is 40 today- happy birthday to him!). Anyway he got his present at the weekend (a super posh buoyancy aid with pockets and hydration pack, which he duly christened by falling into the snowy Wye river and surviving) and we have family up for next weekend so nothing much was arranged for today.
He commented that he hadn't managed to sort out a Valentines present so did I want to drop into Playin' Games and get myself one. I pointed out that I hadn't got him one either so we now jointly own Leonardo, which we will open and play with Son tonight :-) It looks pretty, I like PoF and we need another 5 player game for our gaming evenings.
He did manage to buy me a small animal-monster sponge for my kayak, a very discounted copy of Elmo in Grouchland and a bright orange eraser. And a tub of rasperries :-) Supermarkets are wonderful places.
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Tom Hancock
United States
Charleston
West Virginia
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We bought a box of chocolates to share between the two of us. We had both spent way too much money on christmas so we wanted to do something cheap for valentines. My christmas haul included san juan, twilight struggle, fire in the sky, and several other games. She did equally well with kitchen appliances. Tonight I'm going to cook her dinner and we'll probably just have a normal evening.
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Board Game: Caylus
[Average Rating:7.97 Overall Rank:10]
Melissa
Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
Best wishes to you all for 2011. xxx
Mostly offline, but trying.
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Fraser gave me this (and I got a lovely geekmail from William as well)...
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Board Game: Tikal
[Average Rating:7.40 Overall Rank:110]
Melissa
Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
Best wishes to you all for 2011. xxx
Mostly offline, but trying.
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... and this ...
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Melissa
Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
Best wishes to you all for 2011. xxx
Mostly offline, but trying.
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... and this, which I haven't played yet.
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Hilary Hartman
United States
Wilmore
Kentucky
My avatar was cross-stitched by my wife, Robin! She's cool like that, not to mention being one helluva ASL opponent.
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My wife got me this and this:
I'll let her add what I got her.
For today, well, she has to work and then she has night class. So, most of the day is already taken up with normal stuff. She'll get home around 9 PM, so maybe we'll find something to do then...
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Tim Rourke
United Kingdom
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
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My wife and I bought the big box between us (And tonight the kids are at cubs) so It's me cooking dinner and a few variants of Carcassonne
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Sue Hemberger
Washington
Dist of Columbia
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DC is virtually immobilized by by an ice storm this morning. Will the nine chocolate penguins I ordered make it through? They were on the Fedex truck this morning scheduled for delivery by 3. Stay tuned....
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Board Game: Roma
[Average Rating:6.95 Overall Rank:389]
Robin
United States
Wilmore
Kentucky
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I got these games!
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Ken B.
United States
Fayetteville
Tennessee
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I got a combo tax refund/Valentine's day care package:
Marvel Heroes
Torres
A Game of Thrones: Clash of Kings
Card Football
Under the Shadow of the Dragon
Woo-hoo!
For my wife, I got her a purse and wallet by some fancy-shmancy company (Vera Bradley, I think?) Sorry, she's not a gamer...
Guys with gamer wives can get away with the "double-dip"--hey, you bought me a new game! Well guess what--I got you one too!
TEE-HEE~!
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Jon Cormier
Canada
Ottawa
Ontario
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I got my wife a pink Nintendo DS with New Super Mario Bros, but gave it to her on Monday after she had a hard day at work.
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She got me this, I got her a 2-year subscription to a scrapbooking magazine. Past Valentine's day gifts include a remote car starter (joint gift to each other) and a TV A/V switch box. We're into practical gifts.
We go out for dinner the night before V-Day because our favourite restaurant gives you a coupon for a free entree the next time you come in. Hey, it's win-win!
We played Runebound last night with the Doom Track. I won!
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Mike Kollross
Canada
Carvel
Alberta
Pew pew pew!!!
I'm a member of the Game Artisans of Canada
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What I didn't buy her was flowers. I went to the flower shop to order a couple dozen roses. They wanted $96 a dozen. I called my wife and she was like "$96!!, hell no!". She told me to buy her a nice card and some chocolate.
I love her.
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Charles Hasegawa
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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My loving wife told me that I could go ahead and order a custom Hilinski board (combo Valentine's and B-Day, which is in two weeks).
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Marshall Miller
United States
Medford
Massachusetts
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Since we're doing the long distance thing during grad/premed schooling, we're both going to go see the same movie tomarrow and then come home and curl up with the same DVD. Long distance is hard, but phone dates make it bearable....
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Board Game: Zilch
[Average Rating:5.79 Overall Rank:5849]
On Monday mornings, I'm dedicated to the proposition that All Men are created jerks.
United States
Stratford
Connecticut
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I got nothing because I don't WANT anything on V-day.
I hate HATE HATE the push by big business to turn a simple day to express love into another major gift-giving holiday.
I like the sending of cards and simple chocolate arrangements. MAYBE some flowers (but not the horribly marked up roses). My wife and kids get small boxes of chocolate and a sincere "I love you."
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Ben .
United Kingdom
Unspecified
Surrey
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I bought my better half a new bag and matching belt for valentines day......
....she tells me the hoover has never worked so well! 
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Matt
United States
Avon
Indiana
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My wife agreed to forego the easier setup and shorter game of San Juan to play a 2-player game of PR. Hooray!
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chris carleton
Canada
bon accord
Alberta
Hey!
What're you looking at!
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My wife got me the third in the series. I love my wife.
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Jack Guritza
United States
South Euclid
Ohio
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The wife and I played about three games of Battle Line and then switched to a few games of backgammon.
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Yes, Valentine's day is over-commercialized, but I'll take any excuse to acquire more board games! My bf got me Blue Moon and Tigris & Euphrates to add to our growing collection. I can't wait to try 'em! We're on a quest to discover favorite Knizia games, and what better place to start!
Had I known that V-day was a board-gaming event, I would have picked up Die Macher for my bf (he got that for himeself anyway), Antike, or San Marco.
I made my bf a roast beef dinner extravaganza and vanilla cuppie-cakes with chocolate icing. After the wine we drank, we weren't in the mood to decipher games rules, so we succombed to our other addiction, World of Warcraft online. A perfect day!
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Randy Cox
United States
Clemson
South Carolina
1024x768 works just fine - Don't Wide the Site!
The Back Alley gets no respect.
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Well, we don't celebrate things around here unless it's something for the kids. So, I made waffles with strawberries on top (and I whipped up some cream) for breakfast. The kids didn't go for it so much, but my wife liked it.
I was running behind, so she made a bagged breakfast for me to eat on the way to work. And she snuck in a bar of dark chocolate with mint, so she sort of broke the "we don't do gifts for special occasions" rule. Not that I'm complaining.
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Zürich
Liverpool
That's a good point. I can see it now when I see her later...
"Hi Jay, here's a little gift for Valentines day"
"But babe, we decided that it was just a coprporate who.... oooh Full Metal Planete... you know I can't accept this today."
"Sorry, I just saw it and thought of you"
"It's OK, give it to me tomorrow instead"
James
Nagoya
Aichi
The wife is working today until 10pm (the perils of being a youth worker) and so I'm making sure the house is tidy and making sure dinner is on the table.
I stumbled across the presents for me by mistake and they appear to be a DVD-case and by the looks of it a pack of haribo. I've got her some kind of uber-trendy scarf. We're not very romantic with gifts.
It's also that time of the month so dinner, cup of tea and early to bed...TO SLEEP
We're doing Valentines properly on Friday though when she's not working late. Off to the cinema to watch Hot Fuzz and then to our favourite Chinese cafe for dinner.
Sydney
NSW
Nagoya
Aichi
Personally I was not offended in any way.
For the record I got "The Machinist" which is a great movie and it will be good to see it again.