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Anniversaries

So our first anniversary is coming up, I actually just realized it's in two months! ha Does anyone try and do the "traditional" gifts? Any good ideas for 1st year...paper? I know I could easily make something, I'm just unsure of what I could do.

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Re: Anniversaries

  • We went on a trip to Hawaii for our anniversary because we had a mini-moon so the plane tickets were our 'paper' gift.

    Tickets of any kind are good.
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  • How about a card? That's paper.

    Oooh! Or you could give him just a ream of paper! :)

    A book? A magazine subscription?

     

    This reminds me of....

    "Paper, snow, a ghost!"

    In Christ alone my hope is found. He is my LIGHT, my STRENGTH, and my SONG!


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  • We didn't do gifts this year. But we gave each other cards. That's paper!
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  • We never do gifts, but I would frame something as a gift.  DH loves getting stuff to put up in his mancave.  Does he have a movie or book he loves that you could frame the cover of?

    Or tickets to a game sounds like a winner too.

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    DS born: February 21, 2012

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  • We bought each other tickets to the final four for our first anni.
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    Cinnabun and Junebug say, "Go Wildcats!"

  • I like the idea of tickets. But that would end up being more for me since baseball is back in March! ha. I'll have to see if there is a concert or something

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    Pregnancy Ticker
  • We went on a trip that we both were looking forward to. A Football game, concert, and just fun trip. Technically the tickets worked for the paper. Wasn't even thinking about it until later, so I was like, score. Tickets for March are still a gift. We did that for his Bday once, tickets for like 6 months later. Happy Almost 1 year!!!

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  • We went on a trip that we both were looking forward to. A Football game, concert, and just fun trip. Technically the tickets worked for the paper. Wasn't even thinking about it until later, so I was like, score. Tickets for March are still a gift. We did that for his Bday once, tickets for like 6 months later. Happy Almost 1 year!!!

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  • Aimothy said:

    Divorce papers?


    LOL!! I had a good laugh at this; thanks, Aim!

    We at least try to incorporate something of the traditional material as part of our anniversary gifts. I got DH tickets to a Flyers playoff game for our first anniversary (lucky for me they were in the playoffs!).
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    B/w 1/8: betas 17,345, progesterone 25.6
    Progesterone suppositories started 1/2. Please stick, baby!!
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  • We do gifts, but only DH follows the traditional/modern gift suggestions.  The modern gift idea for the 1st anniversary is clocks.

    Maybe a watch?  Although I think a lot of people do that as a wedding gift so you might have already bought him a nice watch.





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  • We try and do something traditional each year. For the first, I kept a journal of the first year that I started on our wedding day and made the last entry our first anniversary.
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    Clomid x4 = BFN
    Femara+Follistim IUIs x 6 = 3 BFN, 2 C/P, 1 early miscarriage
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    Beta #3 20dp5dt- 12,813
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  • We do traditional, but I told DH I wanted mortgage papers, so I'm not very helpful. Tickets sound like a perfect gift!
    TTC #1 since Feb. '12. dx: "unexplained" IF
    After 2 shitty IVF cycles and 1 loss at 6+2 (EDD 11/7/14), DH and I are pursuing DIA.
    11/17/2014 - ACTIVE AND WAITING!
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  • Thanks for the suggestions ladies. I think I'll do some sort of ticket, just need to decide what :)

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  • I got him a gift certificate for a couples massage and he got me art with the word "junto" (it means "together" in Spanish).
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  • I forget what I got h ha! But he got me an album with pictures from our first year. One we can add pictures to every year we are married.
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