- Hi I'm Parris, and my two daughters
are out of elementary school now
but I remember getting them through those Valentine Days
in elementary school when they had to write out the cards
for everyone in class, decide what kind of candy to give
and then try to interpret the meaning
of what they got, especially from the boys.
Now it was a trip down memory lane to my own
elementary school Valentine Days,
especially sixth grade, 1975 in Hawaii,
the day of the greatest excitement and the most heartbreak.
I'm gonna tell you the story about that
and talk about the differences
in Valentine's Days then and now.
I also have the world's premiere, first ever,
Thinking Putty with scent from Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty,
as well as their other Valentine edition Thinking Putty.
I have a couple to try out here, see what they're like
but I ordered a couple extra sets that might help out
one of our younger viewers or a viewer's child or grandchild
that wants to catch the eye and give a really unique
Valentine's gift, I have two extra sets
to send out to two lucky viewers.
Stay tuned to see how that giveaway's going to work.
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I couldn't find my sixth grade report card
but this is from fifth grade so I was probably
similar in sixth grade, apparently I was an active
participant and I was developing good leadership abilities.
Whatever happened to that?
So have I changed much since fifth grade?
Apparently not.
And maybe not in romance either.
Let me tell you the story of what happened way back in 1975.
I was 11 years old and I never smiled in pictures
as you will see here shortly and I had the strongest crush
on this girl in our class whose name was Kristi.
So, my father was in the Navy and was stationed in Hawaii.
We lived in military housing on the base
and so all the kids in that base and the other bases
went to elementary schools that were provided
for all the military families.
So in the school kids would come in
in the middle of the year, leave before the end of the year,
as their parents were assigned somewhere else
and they had to come and go.
So at the start of sixth grades there were some new
kids in the class, including Kristi.
Now the class had lots of nice kids in it,
including a girl who really liked me,
in fact when we would have circle time,
and the whole class had to move the chairs and desks out
and stand and hold hands with the other kids,
she would always arrange to stand right next to me
so that she could hold my hand.
But did I like her?
No.
Did I like one of the other girls in the class?
No.
The girl I chose to like was the pretty blond
fashionable girl that I could never
catch the eye of in a million years.
Or so I thought, until Valentine's Day.
So you know how on Valentine's Day all the kids in class
have to make Valentines for every other kid in class
and you make a special box and put it on your desk
and then you go around and everybody puts the valentines
in everybody else's valentine box
so everybody gets the same number of valentines
and nobody has hurt feelings.
But within those parameters, you can still see,
did somebody get an especially nice valentine,
or was something written on it, well anyway kids pay
attention to this, my kids did and I know that I did, so,
when I was going through my 25, 30 valentines
I wanted to see what Kristi had sent me.
And, I have that valentine still.
This is the back of it, it's an honest to goodness Hallmark
valentine and you can see where she signed her name.
She didn't write anything else,
but what said it all, I thought,
was the valentine that she gave me.
Which is a typewriter with a piece of paper in it
and when you pull it up it says...
You're just my type.
I'm just her type!
That's all I ever wanted to hear.
So I decided she must be in love with me at that point.
I was deliriously happy that whole day and that whole night,
I still have the card, right?
Next day at school, okay, she must be in love with me,
so we have the circle time thing but this time
we're in our chairs, we make the big circle
with the chairs, we're all sitting there, looking in that,
and she's sitting like five seats over, right over there,
and I don't know what expression I had on my face
but I was staring at her,
and lost in all these wistful, wonderful thoughts,
when suddenly something caught my eye
and I kind of focused in again, and she's sticking
her tongue out at me and glaring at me,
and the romance ended as fast as it had begun.
I don't think this was from sixth grade picture day,
fourth or fifth grade I would guess,
but this is what I was working with.
I never smiled in the class photos,
I never smiled in photos at home
and my mother asked me, why won't
you ever smile in the pictures?
And I said, nothing to smile about.
And karma being what it is, when Roxanna got to
Eight or nine years old, she stopped smiling in her pictures
and we said, come on we wanna buy the pictures
from the school, just smile in the picture.
For years, no, so she'll finally smile again in pictures.
A couple differences in Valentine's Day then and now.
This was pretty typical Valentine card then.
Now they've got such cool Valentine cards can give.
Three dimensional things and candy!
We could never have candy in school.
Now you can bring cards with candy that's attached.
But my recommendation is something more like this.
We reviewed these two, three years back on RainyDayDreamers.
These are Wack-A-Pack valentines.
So if you'd like to make an impression in your class
and if your school hasn't banned these,
this is what I suggest you give out.
There are four of these in the pack
for one dollar at the dollar store, pretty good deal,
you write who it's to and from,
on the back there are romantic instructions
on how you use this, which is pretty simple.
You open it up inside.
Cute valentine, put it down on your desk.
(bang)
And it inflates.
There's a capsule in it with vinegar
and it has baking powder so when you break the capsule
they mix, it produces a gas, and that's what inflates it.
This is a pretty cool valentine.
And then there are the little candy valentine hearts
with little sayings on them, I'm sure you remember these.
They would say things like hug me, I love you,
be mine, all of those cute sayings.
Take a look at what they say now.
Here's what's in the modern package of conversation hearts.
BFF.
ILU.
Whuz Up?
Bling.
LOL.
Call Me, Text Me,
and I thought I'm me?
No it's IM Me.
TTYL.
Talk to you later.
CU Soon.
LYMY, which I had to ask Roxanna about
and she had to go online and check.
It's love you, miss you.
And the last one is H&K,
gotta be hugs and kisses.
On to the Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty,
now if you're not familiar with this,
this is a popular toy with kids, adults, also,
especially people who could use
a little extra help focusing, so some schools,
they allow kids to have putty like this
that they can play with in their hands
while they're reading or doing something
because they find people whose minds tend to wander
are focused by playing with this,
it's an interesting phenomena.
But it's also a really cool toy
and they have lots of different varieties,
these are for Valentine's Day.
This is Love Is In The Air,
rose scented Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty.
It's sold out at the store now, so your only chance
before Valentine's Day possibly is to get one of these
two that I have here that we're gonna be sending out.
The other one is just called Valentine
and it's just a pretty red color tin.
These are their tiny tins, two inches, I think they have
like a half an ounce of the putty and let me open 'em up.
I especially want to see what this one smells like.
Here's the pink rose scented putty.
That, I guess if you work at it a bit,
you can dig it out of there.
Let's see what this smells like.
It's very perfume-y.
It's not overpoweringly strong.
But they did manage to get scent into a thinking putty.
It's kinda nice.
And here's the regular Valentine putty.
This is putty, similar to Silly Putty
if you remember that from long ago,
I think they still have that too.
It's a little bit hard to work with at first
but as it warms up with your, with your body temperature
it gets more and more malleable and the different putties,
some of them are glow in the dark, some change color
in the sun, some change color with the heat.
This one stays a nice pretty red.
If you're interested in these on the Crazy Aaron's website
they go for three dollars each, as I mentioned,
right at the moment the scented one is sold out,
I'll put a link to both of these down below this video.
And when I ordered these I ordered a couple extra sets
to give away to our viewers, so, I have those here
for two viewers who comment down below this video.
Tell me something about valentines, or love,
or Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty, and on next week
on February 1st, 2017, I'll randomly scroll through
the comments, pick two of them, get in touch with you
and send you your very own set of these putties.
And maybe the story of your sixth grade crush
will have a happier ending than mine did.
If you're a kid and you'd like to enter the giveaway,
make sure you have your parents' permission first.
And we've had some dissenting opinions on the new music
at the end of the video so I thought I'd like to try
something new at least once a week.
We're gonna start it off today, if you watch to the very end
you will see one of our viewers from Argentina.
She's in a band called Bosnia Musica
and she is doing a rendition of the Epic Review Guys song.
There's a link at the very end of the video.
You can go to her YouTube channel
and listen to more of her band's music.
Now if you have a band, if you do any kind of art
and would like to be featured for 15 seconds
at the end of our videos once a week,
get in touch with me and let me know.
The easiest way is probably by email
which is parris with two Rs, @epicreviewguys.com.
Just two more weeks till Valentine's day,
I'll have to step up my advice giving
over the next couple weeks.
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