What is the best gift you have received for Valentine's Day?

Gillybob, that's a lovely story.
We don't do Valentine's, but, before we were married, he used to send lovely cards for birthdays, anniversaries etc. I still have them in the loft.
I guess life overtook us, but we do have a special meal.

My best Valentine gift would be for DH to cook me a meal. However as far as I know he has no clue when it is.

Oops pressed too soon. He still wouldn’t cook though.

well, I've been married 51 years, have never received a gift/taken out etc. but I have had a couple of random cards.

Two years ago I we lived separately 5 days a week since I rented an appratment closer to my workplace so my husband gor me a biggest wall calendar I've ever seen with the photos of the two of us together. Turned out he madeit by himself with the help of special site (photo-calendar-software.com), he said this easy calendar maker helped him to tell me that he was there for me all the time. I got different presents from him later but this one is was the sweetest

Oops, several typos. Sorry, it really got me emotional

The best valentines present ever!
A surprise trip to New York on Concord to see Phantom of the Opera on Broadway- staying at the Waldorf Astoria!

A love letter I received from a boyfriend I’d only been seeing a few months . He’d started each paragraph with a large capital black letter I ..... L.....O....V ....E & so on . I didn’t notice it until a friend pointed it out to me later when I showed it to her as I was just so pleased to get a letter from him .
He later became my husband and we had a little boy together who’s now 21 . We are divorced now and I no longer see him but I still remember how that letter made me feel .. over the moon . As I had all ready fallen for him . Memories are so precious when things never stay the same x

It said I LOVE YOU

I don't usually get Valentines gifts - just cards, which I do like receiving. This year I've sent a Valentines card to some strangers - its part of a lovelly idea from the Mental Health Collective: mentalhealthcollective.org.uk/greatbritish-valentine
They are creating ideas to help connect people in ways which make everyone feel a bit better and cared about. I may receive a card from a stranger too! Many years ago I received half a birthday card on my half birthday , from my then boy friend!

We always celebrate Valentine’s Day but have done in different ways over the 45 years we’ve been wed. My most memorable gift was given when were newly weds, very poor and both doing extra jobs to pay for the mortgage. My sister had just rung me to tell me that her American boyfriend had just sent her dozens of red roses, so I was feeling a little low. Up roared my DH on his motorbike back from an extra job, carrying a large brown paper bag. My heart leapt, a gift...and it was, bless him. He’d carried home carefully 2 small golden chicks from a local farm. They lived in our garden for several years and gave us lovely brown eggs!

Ssshhhh don't tell my fiancee, but the best gift was from the ex! Oi, I said sssshhhhh!!!

I had forgotten that, that day was V day. I'm say at my desk in work, and it out second V day.

Reception came up with some flowers and a box, and you should have seen the faces of my co-workers. Flash bang wallop, what a picture!

I opened the box and a balloon popped out, and inside was a lil ted, and choice.

Who knew six years later, we'd not only split, but despise each other lol

I had a few weeks of boasting on that one!

My husband always bought lovely gifts and cards before we were married. Hasn't bought one since. He says he shows me he loves me doesn't need to buy cards to prove it.
He takes me out to dinner at least once a week but it would still be nice as a surprise. Oh well can't complain he's a lovely man.

In all the years of my marriage my husband and I always gave each other a Valentine card. Unfortunately this habit stopped when my poor husband got Alzheimers then had a stroke and finally. died. How I miss him. He was lovely.

We don't celebrate Valentine's day.

My first boyfriend who was 17 when I was 15 did sent me a beautiful card, which I kept until we broke up.

I've never seen him since and I wasn't his first girlfriend, I doubt he remembers me.

I cant remember the last time Mr Riggie bought me a valentines card. He used to be quite romantic with at least a card on Vakentines (and spontaneously on other days too)

Its daft because its just a commercial day and I know he wont bother now but theres always a little wish thst he still would.

DH not into Valentine's , 6months after we moved in together he got me my first ever dishwasher. Family joke was that when I got a dishwasher they new I was settled. When pointed out to him that it was delivered on Valentine's day just shrugged.

I’ve just had my early Valentine’s Day present- two dozen red roses, bless his heart!

A school friend of mine once received a card from her then boyfriend which read," To the girl with the ribbon in her and the bow in her legs". This wasn't remotely funny because she really did have bandy legs. Fortunately she also had a fantastic sense of humour. I never received a single card until 14th Feb 1978- the day I moved away from home, when I received several. What was that all about?

We married on Valentine's Day so the best gift has been loving each other (apart from an occasional glitch!), since then. He does also buy me flowers, chocolates, wine and other gifts as well.
This year's gift is a pair of solid silver lacemaking bobbins, which I shall very much enjoy using .

We don’t celebrate it, but my husband had a vasectomy on 14/2/90 and that’s his ongoing valentines gift to me! I have a heart shaped cake tin and have made a cake or two over the years to show my appreciation!

I’ve had some flowers this morning although we don’t really go for Valentines Day and DH never sends cards on any occasion. But on the first Valentines after we met in 1967 he penned a romantic little verse and wrote it on a beermat! I kept it for years until it fell to bits.

Mr L, aka Timmy Tightcheeks, has never once managed to send me a Valentine card, far less a gift.
But a long long time ago a teenage boyfriend had a record played for me on a Valentine's radio show.
The song was Baby's Got Blue Eyes. So romantic!

I had given my house key to my new boyfriend as he was going to fix my ill fitting door. On arriving home tired from work, my jaw dropped when I walked into my kitchen and saw that every work surface was covered with goodies, ie boxes of chocolates, wine, and flowers, as well as really useful food, like fruit, veg and tinned food, etc. At that time I was struggling to pay my mortgage and had to really cut down the spending on my groceries. When I saw what he had bought me, I broke down and cried.

Annaram1 your post made me want to cry. Alzheimers is the worst disease in the world isn't it? But then I thought what a lucky lady you were to have such a loving husband and that made me smile ?. We all have to cherish the memories

My DH has never missed Valentines day and we got engaged on that day 37yrs ago Long may it continue