I travel quite a lot for work and am typically home for weekends and maybe a couple of days during the week. For Valentine's I took the day off but did not tell my wife till the morning that I was taking the day off. My wife had mentioned a couple of times that she wanted to buy a pearl necklace so in the afternoon we went and bought a pearl necklace for her. The two of us are principally against buying diamonds considering all the suffering that is typically attached to diamond trade and there is no real way for anyone to know how much someone suffered to get the diamonds to the retail shop. While at the shop my wife really liked a diamond bracelet but we decided not to buy it for the aforementioned reasons. Instead we bought a matching pearl necklace and earrings for our 7 yr old daughter. Went out in the evening to a mini golf place and played 18 rounds of golf together and finished the day off with some great food at a local diner. It wasn't till we got home that my wife and daughter remembered that they did not get anything for me for Valentine.....my response to them.....spending the day together was more than anything they could have bought!!!!