27 Apr 2007
Emergency Romance Kit
We just saved everyone’s ass! Hooray for emergency kits, especially this romantic one, made of the (floral-of-your-choice) romance container (read: hat box), and a lot of suggestions and ideas ready for input on your part. This is one of those projects that isn’t very challenging, but requires (or at least benefits from) creativity. It’s life-saving for when your other half goes “Hey jerk, you’re never romantic anymore!” or “Honey, do you love me?”. Just bust out the emergency romance kit and they’ll love you forevs. We promise*.
*Unless you get dumped because you used it more than once and they figured out it wasn’t exactly a unique, spontaneous sentiment. Not our fault, we warned you. Or if they frequent DIY:happy. When we said “Spread the word” and “Mention us” we didn’t mean to your spouse or honey. Well, we did, but in a faultless kind of way.
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[...] What could this include? How about some mushy CD’s..a couple of candles….photos of the two of you…a book of poetry..bubble bath…you’ve got to be creative here, because this little backup plan could very well save your bacon. — Wendy Boswell Emergency Romance Kit [via DIY Happy ] [...]
[...] What could this include? How about some mushy CD’s..a couple of candles….photos of the two of you…a book of poetry..bubble bath…you’ve got to be creative here, because this little backup plan could very well save your bacon. — Wendy Boswell Emergency Romance Kit [via DIY Happy ] [...]
What exactly is a romantic emergency? How about doing something creative instead of giving the same thoughtless chocolate/champagne/flowers routine? How about cooking for someone you love regularly, or cooking with each other; explore new places together; teach each other things; spontaneously DO something instead of buying sub-par boxed chocolates. Flowers every once in awhile are nice…maybe grow your own and deliver them in person at his or her job. This emergency kit is boring and lame and thoughtless. I hope nobody takes this seriously.
Well…
Being a person who engages in all those things with my significant other (spontaneous, creative, explorative, learning experiences), I don’t really find a direct need for this project myself, BUT I know a lot of gentleman who are very traditional, and their language of love is buying presents, not doing fun spontaneous things together, exploring, or stopping to smell the roses. They’d rather drop a few bucks for flowers or chocolate, hey they could be busy people! Not everyone’s an artist, or a creative type.
While this project isn’t necessarily for someone like me (or you perhaps), who would rather dance around in a kitchen, do some yoga, learn some offbeat vegan/vegetarian marshmallow recipe, teach our baby something new, and spontaneously travel across the country, dumpster diving and catching out on freights with my significant other, it works for SOMEONE who would take it seriously and think about keeping a stock for when they REALLY mess up and piss their girlfriend off beyond normal repair, as a reminder to be less of an ass next time. Plus, it’s a temporary band-aid (read: adhesive gauze strip).
Thanks for the input though, I’d say be more open-minded and tolerant with those who aren’t exactly like you or myself. We cater to everyone here at DIY:happy.
thankes