Posted on 03/07/2012 9:49:32 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
It depends upon the woman. I think flowers are a waste of money (and yes I’m a woman). I would rather MrR spend the money on something more tangible, like a nice dinner (or food for me to make a nice dinner) or bottle of wine, crystal cake plate - something we can enjoy together.
Totally off topic, but I have it on good authority that buying a woman “grocery store” flowers, a category in which I’m certain Wal-Mart would fall in to, is a considered to be the basest insult you can give a woman.
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I enjoy the occasional bouquet delivered but I also love when the mister brings home a few bundles of flowers from the grocer.
I really like making my own arrangements and placing them around the house.
Roses are vonerful and beautiful but I just LOVE getting daisies and star-gazers.
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“but I have it on good authority that buying a woman “grocery store” flowers, a category in which I’m certain Wal-Mart would fall in to, is a considered to be the basest insult you can give a woman”
I have it on good authority from a multi-millionaire that uses flowers from Wal-Mart & Sams all the time for her dinner parties who likes to arrange her own flower that is - NO SUCH THING.
They have beautiful fresh flowers.
Strange, but my experience has been exactly the opposite. I can go in to my local Wal-Mart and browse through their offerings in roses and other flowers, pick out the exact combination of bouquets I want to purchase, and go home with an armload of beautiful flowers for the same price that it would cost me for a half-dozen roses from a florist. And my wife just loves it.
When we were courting, from our first date until the day we got married, whenever I would drive up to Fort Worth, I would greet her with a dozen roses. Since that time, for six years now, she's received a bouquet of a dozen roses or mixed assorted flowers weekly, with larger bouquets for Mothers' Day, Valentine's Day, her birthday, the anniversary of our first date, the anniversary of the day that I proposed, and our wedding anniversary. She's worth it and Wal-Mart makes it possible.
Jared Schutz Polis (born May 12, 1975) is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 2nd congressional district, serving since 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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He, with his parents, also co-founded (Blue Mountain Cards) bluemountainarts.com, an online greeting card website, which he sold to Excite@Home three years later in a deal worth $780 million. In 1998, he launched the online florist company ProFlowers that expanded to become Provide Commerce, Inc., acquired in 2006 by Liberty Media Corporation.
Polis is the first openly gay man elected to the House as a freshman and the first gay parent in Congress.
Polis and his partner, Marlon Reis, are the parents of a son, Caspian Julius, born on September 30, 2011, making Polis the only openly gay member of Congress who is a parent. Polis enjoys computer games such as League of Legends. He is a member of the Jewish faith and resides in Boulder, Colorado.
Polis is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and co-chair of the Mexico Caucus and the Nepal Caucus. He was also appointed by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the Board of Visitors of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs on which he chairs the Academic Subcommittee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Polis
Your take may be true for a woman you don’t know.
If FrogDad brings me flowers, I don’t care where he bought them, it’s the thought that counts.
The diamond analogy is bogus, there is no comparison between jewelry and flowers.
I would let ProFlowers back into the rotation. The day after Mothers Day.
I love when my hubby picks up flowers on the way home that did not cost an arm and a leg!!!
It’s the thought, not the pricetag, imho.
My daughter sends me pro flowers. The last bouquet was really nice. Roses and Peruvian orchids (they last forever).
When I’ve called to complain, they’ve sent replacement bouquets without question.
That being said, I wouldn’t use them again.
I always search the internet for a local florist.”
Grandson is now attending a very small college in Oklahoma and wanted to send him a balloon bouquet for his 21st birthday so got on the internet and found a wonderful lady who operates a florist out of her home. They not only did an awesome bouquet but her two older very pretty teen daughters delivered it in person and sang to my grandson. All for $29.00 - and he was absolutely delighted.
Wow! That is impressive. Please send me a link. Maybe they know of other home florists in other areas too!
If my husband were to buy some cheapie flowers for me, I’d be okay with that, but I’d rather he not buy flowers at all. Flowers are pretty, but they don’t last so why waste the money. I’d like something that’s going to last, is useful, or tangible. A ring. A plant. A dinner. Some chocolates.
‘Good authority’ either is or has a woman who is very “high maintenance”. \
As opposed to a quick phone call or a couple of clicks on a computer with flowers left on the porch by FedEx .... for a man to stop somewhere, get out of the car, go into a store and actually PICK something out himself, wait in line at the cash register, pay for it, manage to get it home without crushing or wilting it, and personally present it .... now that’s what is meaningful to me. If he picks up a bottle of wine with the money he saved ..... so much the better. :-)
Lol, you could be right. My wife isn’t particularly materialistic, but she did make it known to me early in our relationship, in no uncertain terms that if flowers are to be considered romantic, they have to come in a four foot box with a red ribbon and they’re hand delivered by a man in a tie who knows her name. Any deviation from the above turns them into regular old flowers, and not a romantic gift.
Also, even though she never told me this, I quickly learned that they’re double super romantic if delivered at work in front of everyone else. From my male perspective, the pay-off is easily equal to a Broadway show.
My nephew (freshman in college) had flowers delivered to his girl friend (senior in high school). He enlisted the aid of a teacher who had been his tennis coach over the last couple of years & arranged to have the flowers delivered to the school & picked up by this teacher, who kept them in his room ..... until it was time for the girl’s tennis team to practice. He then delivered the flowers for my nephew .... in front of the whole tennis team. My nephew has brownie points with his girl friend for at least the next couple of months! :-)
You think a woman doesn’t like “grocery store’ flowers?
I guess it depends on the woman!
I’ve been married to my wonderful lovely wife for 35 years..and when I bring her flowers..for no special occasion, as long as they look nice..she doesn’t care where I bought them!
What kind of answer did you expect?
What kind of answer did you expect?
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