Holidays
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Creative Gift Ideas
Nesties,
It's hard to believe, but the holiday season is just around the corner and already on our minds! We want to know: Have you given your SO any super creative gifts? What was it? Why was it so special? We want the details!
Share your story in the comments below for the chance to be featured in the next digital issue of The Nest!
Re: Creative Gift Ideas
I gave my SO "365 Reasons Why I Love You" last anniversary. I typed up #1-#365 in a word document and went at it. It was surprisingly easy, and made me fall in love with him over and over again during the week-long process. I printed out the pages, cut each reason up, folded them, and put them in a decorated mason jar. The idea behind "365 Reasons" was that he could read one each day. However, the night that I gifted it to him, we ended up reading each one aloud over a couple bottles of champagne. It is a memory I will never forget and will always cherish. At the end of the evening, we put them back inside the mason jar, so he can pull them out again if he needs reminding ; )
This year, for our upcoming anniversary, I did a boudoir/pinup shoot. I dressed in a black lace neglige with red heels for half of the shoot, and used his Chicago Cubs' baseball jersey and hat, baseball bat, glove, and ball for the rest of the shoot. I cannot wait to see the look on his face when he receives the photos!
Later that spring, I told him I was coming to visit him on May 22nd for the summer. I left on May 12th instead in the middle of the night (without him knowing), and I stayed at his grandmother's house. The next day, I asked him to see a movie with me again, and he was so surprised when I showed up at HIS theatre that he cried. ?
Hey..Nice idea!
One Valentine's Day I made DH a temporary man cave in our teeny apartment. I pulled out his comfy office car and put in front of the tv. On one side of chair I put a cooler with his favorite beer and soda; on the other side I put snacks and his favorite magazine. I put his favorite game in the XBOX. I led him blindfolded over to his station and then when he saw it, I gave him a big kiss and told him to be decadent (I went off for the afternoon to get a mani/pedi before our dinner reservation that night).
When we were dating long distance, I gave him a nice leather toiletries bag and filled it with all the stuff he took back and forth every visit (toothbrush, his brand of deodorant, etc) so he could just grab that bag and not have to pack/unpack each time.
Our first married Christmas I gave him a scrapbook filled with all of our memories to-date. Now every year I give him new pages to add to it filled with the previous year's memories.