It's been a few days after the day and I recount the experience leading up to the hype that is Valentine's Day. I'm glad it's over because it was a little expensive for me. I understand why some people say we should celebrate V-day everyday but it gets stressful and depletes your finances if not careful. It's very easy to get carried away in the emotion of it all and personally, I'm glad it's a once-a-year event. Here is my simplistic approach/formula for making it a successful day, i.e. Wife + Happy = Happy Life. I list 4 items I did to make this happen: 1) The present - A Gift card Talk it over with her a few weeks before and see if she would like to be surprised or if she would rather go out and buy it herself. Gift cards are easy as long as you get the correct store name for the gift card from her. This is important because you cannot refund gift cards. I didn't know about that, did you? I got one from the perfume store Sephora http://www.sephora.co