Reply #22: Here's some ideas that are relatively inexpensive [View All]

1. a sound machine. A boyfriend of mine got me one when I was in college. It was a great gift that I still use today. It helped filter out background noise (white noise setting) from the neighbors when I was studying and I still use the ocean waves to lull myself to sleep.

2. One old broke beau of mine gave me a book he had put together. It was a walk down memory lane type book with photos with pretty funny and heartwarming text. He used old newspaper stories to mark periods of our relationship (since I'm a basketball fan it was mostly BB clippings he had around anyway) or song lyrics to remind me of particular things I had said to him or we experienced together. It came complete with an accompanying HD disk (does that "date" me) that had most of the stuff on it in case I lost the book. (I still have it and we are still friends.)

3. you're in college, is there a place that's special to the two of you? Our special place is on the campus where we fell in love. We still go there once in while because it is where our relationship really started. We met doing a research project together and we would often take breaks outside the library. It seemed like sitting on that bench was the only time during those long days that we ever saw sunlight. Like I said, we still go there. Somedays we'll grab something simple like tacos and cokes and go hang out on our bench. It actually means more to me than anything he could ever buy. And I swear, everytime he takes me there I fall in love with him all over again.