Give Her the Best Anniversary Gift Ever

Over the years, I have blogged on a number of different sites. Some are better than others. More often than not, I end up blogging earnestly for a few weeks and then forgetting all about a site, but there is one site where I consider each of my fellow bloggers personal friends. We write about our families, our likes and dislikes, our health problems, and even manage to discuss our religious and political beliefs on occasion without stirring up even a shred of animosity.

Recently, one gentleman there confided that he had given his wife an unusual gift for their 42^nd wedding anniversary. I can guarantee that every woman on the blog site would have been thrilled to receive a similar gift from her husband. I certainly would.

Having already given her mega gifts in the past, including a cruise, and a trip to see a live play on Broadway, he was at a loss, he said, to find something special for this particular anniversary, when he came up with an idea for the perfect gift.

He used a greeting card program to create a nice card for her on his computer, and printed out 42 copies of it. Then, day by day, for 42 days, he wrote a note inside one of the cards expressing something that he especially loved about his wife. Daily, he mailed each card after he wrote it so that one arrived in the mail every day for 42 days.

He said she asked him after the first few cards had arrived, "How long is this going to go on?" "For 42 days," he replied. A few days later, she told him, with a smile, that she was really beginning to look forward to going to the mail box each day.

I don't know about you, but if my husband took the time to send me, not just a card, but a card with a handwritten personal note in it, every day for 42 days in a row, I would feel like the most cherished woman in the world. (Although, in our case, my husband would have to write a few more notes than that since we passed the 42-year-mark a while back, but even if we had only been married 5 years and he did it for 5 days in a row, I would fall in love with him all over again.

Why not think about giving your spouse or significant other a similar gift this year, no matter how many years you have been together? Besides paying for the stamps, the only real cost would be the time it took you to write the notes, but what other gift could possibly signify caring like the gift of your time?

Try it. I guarantee she (or he) will love it.