Feb 14, 2018 CannaBe Your Valentine? Discussion in 'Current Events' started by VakarianZ, Feb 14, 2018. VakarianZ Active Member. Happy Valentines / Galentines / Palentines or anti-holiday of your choosing! For fun, I thought I'd collect some of my favorite cannabis related Valentines cards, etc, and share them here. Please feel free to jump in with your own. Valentine’s Day, for some of us, it’s a chance to express their love for someone special, for others, it’s a normal day. So, I will encourage all you stoners and #Cannacurious out there to take advantage of some specific Valentine’s traditions.
There are several different ways to ask:
1. The 'Grade School Method' - Will you be my Valentine? Check YES NO or MAYBE
2. The 'Charlie Brown Method' - Creating a hand crafted and laced heart shaped Valentine's Day card to the one you love
3. The 'Tiffany Method' - Utilizing a popular public website and a classic wordsmith game to give your heart away. *see example*
L =1
Y = 4
S =1
I =1
A =1
N =1
The 'Y' lands on a double letter score.
The 'N' lands on a triple word score.
(Check the board... All the way on the right side, halfway up. It's legit.)
Plus I used all 7 of my letters. That's 50 bonus points.
Sooo....
ELYSIAN:
A seven letter, 92 point word to describe you.
You are worth every point... and then some.
You know I say everything in a very round about way. Part of my charm? Haha, so I did all of this, just to ask...
Ai Elo, you feel like being my Valentine?
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“Experiential gifts, in contrast, make recipients feel closer to the person who gave them the gift, regardless of whether the experience is consumed together with the gift giver. Experiential gifts have this consuming effect because of the emotion they evoke when consumed, particularly when the emotion is shared,” they stress.
Gifting bonds between the gifter and the giftee together
The purpose of presenting a gift is to bind the person receiving the gift more deeply to the person giving the gift. Heightening the emotions of the recipient is the key.
Yes, showing up on the doorstep with a bouquet of flowers in hand is an emotional experience, but the researchers find that after that initial thrill is gone, little emotion remains. “Even though there was no difference in the intensity of emotion felt from receiving experiential and material gifts, recipients felt more emotional when consuming experiential (vs. material) gifts, and they became more connected to their gift giver as a result.”
So in selecting a gift for your Valentine this Wednesday, choose an experiential gift, rather than a material one. The NRF study found that 42% of consumers want to receive a gift of experience, such as tickets to a concert, but far fewer people (24%) have an experiential gift planned. This is a mistake.
The choice of an experiential gift will result in greater feelings of emotional connectedness between you two. And not only will you make your Valentine happier, you’ll also reap the emotional benefits as well.
“Our findings that giving experiential gifts is more effective at fostering closer relationships, therefore, implies that gift givers should feel happier as a result of giving an experiential gift compared to a material gift,” Chan and Homes write. “This research offers simple guidance: Give an experience.”
Feel the love, give an experience
If you want your Valentine to feel loved, adored and cherished, then give him or her a gift of experience, not a material thing. The experiential gift you choose doesn’t necessarily have to be expensive or extravagant, just emotionally meaningful and appreciated.
Do something personal for or with your Valentine. It’s truly the thought that counts. For example, a good gift might be a gift card for a spa treatment, better a couple’s massage, and best to light the candles, pop the champagne, draw a bath and treat him or her to a personal massage. More so than money, the researchers found, “giving one’s own time can lead to greater feelings of interpersonal connection and self-efficacy.”
Or instead of going out to dinner with your Valentine, cook up something special at home or order a gourmet meal kit from Blue Apron or HelloFresh and do-it-yourself or together with the meal kit’s expert guidance. And advice to men especially, wash the dishes afterwards.
Since we are talking about Valentine’s Day, after all, I can’t close without reference to another academic study led by Matt Johnson, a family ecology professor at the University of Alberta. His research found that couples have more sex and greater sexual satisfaction overall when men do the dishes and help out with other household chores.
In other words, it’s the little things, the helpful, supportive, caring shared experiences and time spent together that foster deeper emotional connections, not extravagant things or gestures. So rather than struggling to find the right gift for Valentine’s Day, do something for and with your Valentine instead.