5 bad gifts for your partner

By CINDY GONZALES

Valentine gift shopping can be tricky. There are plenty of gifts that can show your sweetheart how much you care and how special they are. But there are also the gifts that might make them wish Cupid’s arrow had missed you.

Here are five of the worst gifts that would make anyone’s cutie cringe on Valentine’s Day:

•Stuffed animals that move or play music
Two words: puppet master.
Just imagine waking up in the middle of the night hearing a squeaky voice repeat over and over, “I love you, I love you,” and not knowing where it’s coming from or who is saying it. Creepy.

•T-shirts or mugs with your picture
Are you in a Got Milk? ad? There’s no reason to plaster your face on someone’s gift. It’s not cute or funny.

•Valentine cards that take longer than 2 minutes to read
If you didn’t write it, they probably don’t want to read it. What person wants to flip through a four-page Valentine card they had probably seen at the card store and never thought twice about buying because it read “May require extra postage to mail”?

•Silk underwear with hearts or lips printed on them.
Is that really what you want to see him or her wearing? If it is, please keep this little fantasy to yourself.

•Chocolates in red heart boxes from a drug store
Save them from gagging and buy them a candy bar instead. Don’t put someone through the ordeal of biting into half a box of chocolates that have a cottage cheese filling.