- Hi, I'm Parris, and in the interest of doing
something to help my fellow man, and in this case,
I do mean man, I've decided each week between now
and Valentine's Day, I'm going to do a helpful video
for people in different situations, for men
in different situations, to help them navigate
this complicated maze that is Valentine's Day.
Now in this first week's video, I'm going to be helping
out guys who are on a budget.
So, today's items were all specially selected
from our local dollar store.
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I think most people have a dollar store
somewhere in their town.
Ours is the Dollar Tree, and I went over there today.
They're loaded up for Valentine's Day already.
They have aisles of Valentine's stuff, and so I
carefully analyzed every object there,
and picked out the best ones, the ones that give the most
air of having spent more than a dollar on each item.
So here's what you need to get.
Your basic Valentine's package should
always include these items.
First one is a card.
Now, this is a nice looking card.
It's got some champagne glasses,
little hearts, to my Valentine.
It's even in plastic.
Now, that's fancy.
Inside, it's got some print on both sides,
and it says, "You make me feel all bubbly inside.
"Happy Valentine's Day," and you write a little
message underneath of that.
Now, this is nice as cards go, but the thing
that we're most concerned with here is that
it does not say $1 on the back.
Now, some people have been known, when given cards,
to actually look on the back and see how much money
you spent on the card, because in case you didn't know,
the price is on the back of most cards.
It's like, three dot nine nine US.
That means it's $3.99.
No hidden code of the price of this, so coming all fancily
packaged like this, I think this card could easily be
a $5 card that you got for $1.
Next item that you must include in the Valentine's gift
set is something that smells, or the way
women would say, something scented.
Now, candles are a good way to go.
They didn't have any romantic candles over for a dollar
at our dollar store, but that's a good way to go.
It's gotta be a scented candle.
$1 plumber's candle that will burn
for 12 hours is not romantic.
Now, this is Sure Scent's lavender, and I assume
when you open the lid, it's actually going to put
some scent out into the room.
Now, these are, I believe, Orbeez.
They're a little, kids use them as a toy,
but they're a little pellet, that when you add water,
they absorb the water and they fluff up.
So they look like little marbles.
Some are clear.
Some are purple.
There's some liquid in here as well, so with this
you have a nice lavender scent fill the room
when you open it up, which is kind of romantic.
Now they did also have, what was the other one?
Clean linens.
Now that may put you in mind of something else
related to Valentine's Day, but I thought,
better not get a gift that might hint at doing laundry.
Much better to go with flowers.
Also, men, if you see something like a women's
dusting powder, or something like that
that's scented, that's good, too.
Just make sure if you buy some kind of hygiene-type
product, that it's an optional thing
that a woman can put on.
A bar of soap, a $1 bottle of shampoo,
even scented, that's not romantic.
You need to buy the stuff that people don't put
on every day, that they can put on for a special occasion,
like powders and stuff like that.
Have you figured out yet why my romantic life
has not been a straight series of successes?
Okay, the next thing you'll want to include,
very traditional Valentine's Day-type gift,
is an edible item.
Oftentimes, you go with chocolate.
Now, this is very cute.
This is a relatively small chocolate bar.
It's a Whitman's chocolate, which is a good
name brand, tasty chocolate.
Has a cute little kitten on it.
People like cats.
Now, they had big bags of chocolates for $1,
but chocolate is something where volume is not a good thing.
If you give someone a large quantity of chocolates,
it's generally thought to not be as high of quality,
so it's better to go with a small amount of good chocolate,
than a large amount of, is this chocolate, or is this
just chocolate flavored kind of stuff.
Also, at this point, I should probably mention,
'cause you've seen those big, $10, $12 box of chocolates
at the drug store.
That is not gonna get you out of taking
the woman out for a meal.
You can not sit down and say, "Let's share this four
pound box of chocolates, and then we don't
have to go out and eat."
You are still going to have to go out and eat,
but I'll discuss that in another video.
Next up, on the Valentine's must haves, is something fuzzy.
Now, you can go two routes on this, from what I found
over at the dollar store.
There is the traditional little, cute,
stuffed animal fuzzy kind of thing.
This is very cute.
It's a plush, I guess it doesn't say anything
exactly romantic, but it's got the long, dangling arms,
looks like it's ready to give someone a hug.
It's so cute, so this sort of thing, you can leave
it on the pillow and so forth.
This is one good option, $1.
The other option is, and now this is very thoughtful,
and useful and practical, which always
appeals to men in gift giving.
Cute, romantic socks.
Fits shoe sizes four to 10, so you're covered
for most size feet.
Unlike most clothing items you would buy,
where you have to worry about getting the right size,
you're pretty good to go with socks.
And for the last items, the last concern with your
Valentine gift, is presentation, presentation, presentation.
You can't just hand the thing over.
It's, you don't have to wrap 'em.
That seems to have gone out of fashion.
What you do these days is you go for a gift bag.
And luckily for you, the dollar store has a variety
of cute, romantic gift bags for $1.
If you've ever gone into another store and bought
gift bags, they're like four or five
dollars just for the bag.
You're trying to spend $5 for the whole set,
not just for the bag it goes in.
This is beary sweet, and it's got glittery stuff,
oh, glitter is gold.
The way you know it only costs a dollar is they
didn't really decorate both sides.
So the glitter and the nice 3D dimensional stuff
is only on the one side, but that' okay.
You can hand it with the nice side facing the person,
and you're good to go.
So we load up our adorable gift bag with our scented item,
our edible item, our fuzzy item.
If you really want to splurge, give 'em both.
And, then the card, which you probably would hand
separately, and get, ahhh, first.
And then, you hand over the bag of gifts,
and there you go.
Your $5 investment looks like, if not a million dollars,
at least like $25, and so if you're on the budget,
this can get you through Valentine's Day.
More Valentine videos with possibly questionable
advice coming your way in future weeks.
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