All women like flowers. I think most men do as well, in our own way. They smell good, they provide color to a room. We have given them something that reminds them of dozens of touch points in their life. I don't pretend to understand the emotional, mental, physical connection women have with flowers but its obvious and unavoidable.
Guys however, we were so traumatized in our youth buying flowers that we are now purchase averse. From our formative years of jr. high school through our wedding day, we've been kicked in the balls and our wallets fleeced over the cost of corsages and bouquets sold by florist shops. Our simple minds can not compute $40 for twelve roses that will wilt in a week. $15 for a single flower fitting over a wrist or have a safety pin attached. When we screw up and have to make an immediate save, $60 for bouquet, vase and delivery. I call rip off. Rip. Off.
Thus Friday Flowers, showing Mistress that every week I value and appreciate her efforts and she is special to me without any undue pressure. I have, with few exceptions, done Friday Flowers for over almost fifteen years. Now I'm giving you the secret to keeping your woman happy and never being screwed by high prices.
It's not hard for a guy to convince himself to get to a store on the way home on a Friday. Pick up a six pack, grab some eggs for breakfast, maybe the significant other needs something. Head to the grocery store and as soon as you walk in most likely you will pass a tier of seasonal flowers. Keep it simple each week, $3 to $8, for a bouquet of poms, daisy's, tulips (in season now) or other lowest priced bunch. Stay away from the dyed and holiday type over sized displays. Honestly, though your mileage may vary, stay away from carnations. Unless she has a big thing for carnations, they are not that great a gift. And don't buy potted flowers. Women instinctively equate pots to plants and most women stress over keeping plants alive. They take is so personally. A bouquet already comes with the implicit understanding that they will die soon.
That is not to say that you have to always bring home daisy's, which I think are the best year round Friday Flowers. Mistress loves tulips. As these come in a variety of colors, each week they are in season she gets a different color. If the previous weeks Friday Flowers are still going strong, then get a 'garnish' bouquet (my term) that can also go in the same vase. Small bouquets like baby's breath, spindly stocks with tiny white bulbs, or some seasonal greens that she can place around last weeks flowers. And garnish's are really inexpensive for a weeks purchase. In the fall, switch things up with pines and holly which last for weeks and make the house smell like Christmas.
The secret is woman want effort from us, not over the top Herculean effort, but simple appreciative stuff. We want effort out of them as well but, guys, our needs and wants are vastly different. Men and women in a relationship would do well to heed the motto, "I treat (insert name) the same way I want her/him to treat me." Its an affirmation to take the first step to repairing, connecting, expanding your relationship and I'm telling you right now flowers for women are a great way to start doing just that. Simple, inexpensive, yet most importantly consistent purchases of Friday Flowers, adding zero time to your grocery store stop, and your significant other will learn to appreciate your sincerity and start finding ways to show how she appreciates you.
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