Gift certificates are stocking stuffers and not a real gift like you say Frank, unless of coarse it is for the diamond of her choice :lol:

You sound like you are listening very closely :thumbsup:

As previously mentioned, you could always pamper her at a day spa. Here are a few from Baton Rouge.
http://www.lucianas.massagetherapy.com/
http://www.rigsbysalon.com/
http://lokkaspa.com/

But as mentioned... something that she wants, but would not buy for herself. The thought put into it counts for more than the actual gift itself.

One Valentines Day I made my wife a bath set from scratch. I did a search for the oatmeal bath and an aroma bath salt recipe online. Found every thing I needed around town and then put it in a couple nice glass containers. I hope I'm not sounding all metro but it payed off with great dividends!:woot:

Lot of good advice posted so far.

Yeah, it's the "thoughtful" gift I'm looking for. I've NEVER been good at buying gifts. Keep the thread going, I see some good ideas here.

That's the point, she gets something she likes, we get garage time with our cars. It's a win win. :unibrow:

Its almost imposible to buy a woman the right gift, unless they bought it themselves. So buy something for her, that you will like, a set of tools, new rims for the car, then tell her that these are for her so that the car looks good when you go out for dinner.

I was taught this lesson by my old man who liked to buy my mother fishing rods eventhough she did not fish, but she sure had the nicest fishing rod of all her girlfriends.

You ain't right!

Frank's already trying to take my money for a new set of Forgeline's.

It's funny, we were talking about Christmas and she walked by the computer while I was drooling over the new Forgeline wheels. So, I showed her the wheels I'm looking at buying trying to get her opinion. She asked, "Well, how much are they?"...meaning, "I could get you that for Christmas". There's certain things that spouses just don't need to know about when it comes to this car hobby we're addicted to!

My wife says the same thing.

Buy her a hot coco machine you cant go wrong for winter with that. It will be something off the wall that she will love and if you want drop some earings in it for an extra surprise.