With the usual gifts of chocolate, roses, stuffed toys, greeting cards and other similar items fast becoming nothing but a big cliche, people are looking harder for unusual Valentine gifts. One possible reason behind this is that people are slowly attaching the above gifts to the holiday, in the process forgetting that the essence of the holiday is expressing one’s love for your, well, loved one. In order to find gifts for the woman who has everything, then, it is important to be able to dissect the holiday, in order to find its essential elements, then to use those in order to get a suitable set of gifts.

The first option would be to use gifts that revolve around the heart shape, as the heart is an almost universal symbol for love. The trick here, though, is to be creative, in order to come up with unusual Valentine’s Day gifts for your loved one. Never mind the hearty shaped greeting cards, the heart shaped donuts, the heart shaped chocolates and the heart shaped cakes, there are better ones out there. For example, there are heart shaped cooking pots, heart shaped bathroom sinks, even a heart shaped car and a heart shaped Jacuzzi for your loved one. Basically, placing a heart onto anything is a creative way to show your love during Valentine’s Day, plus if you are creative enough, it need not be expensive (heart-shaped ham slices, anyone?).

The second would be to give a personalized gift, to show that just how unique your relationship with your loved one is. The important part here is to be creative, to show your love in ways only the two of you can understand. Unusual Valentine’s gifts may include: serving her favorite meal (add heart shaped food to sweeten things up), going to her favorite date spot, or even things as simple (and as inexpensive) as writing her a personal poem or making an online scrapbook of the memories you have shared together can and will make sure that you have the perfect gifts for the woman who has everything.

In essence, after all, Valentine’s Day is all about being able to show your love in a romantic, sincere and most of all, unique way. Generic gifts will always be welcome, but it is the unusual Valentine gifts that will show her just how unique your relationship with her is.