Unless you have been stuck in a cave for the last four years or so, you know that the economy is pretty bad right now. For some people, its just downright horrible. The problem with a bad economy, is the it puts some major stress on marriages. Not only is there less money for regular bills, but disposable income has been reduced to almost nothing. So how do you buy flowers for your wife when you can’t even afford to put food on the table? By sending an electronic flower bouquet.
Electronic flower bouquet, you ask?
If you are anything like me, my wife loves getting flowers, but right now, that just isn’t a good use of the limited resources in our house. She is a grown up and understands how things are, but that doesn’t change what she likes. It doesn’t change that she wants to be loved and if I were aware of her needs, I would pay more attention to meeting them.
Here is what you do. Go to google.com and do an image search for her favorite flowers. My wife loves roses and gerbera daisies. Find a picture of a really cool arrangement. In this case price is no object, so find the picture of the most expensive arrangement you can find. Click on the image so that it shows up on a separate page. Now right click on the image, and pick “Copy” or “Copy Image” depending on your web browser.
Next go to your email program and create a new message. Address the message to your wife’s cell phone as a picture message. My provider is Verizon, so the address is xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com. The x’s is her phone number without any dashes. If your provider is AT&T, then the address is xxxxxxxxxx@mms.att.net. Sprint’s is xxxxxxxxxx@pm.sprint.com, T-Mobile’s is xxxxxxxxxx@tmomail.net.
In the subject line, type “Just thinking about you, I love you”, or something that she will recognize as you. In the body of the message, just paste in the picture that you copied. Then click send.
That’s all there is to it. Now, you do have to have a cell phone plan that will accept picture messages, but most plans will let you do it in a messaging plan. Even if you don’t have a messaging plan, it will probably only cost you a quarter.
Now I know that you are thinking what a stupid thing this is to do. It isn’t like you sent real flowers. She can’t smell them, and she can’t show her friends what a great husband you are. So what good is it?
My friend, I hope you don’t think that. You see, the big secret of getting love from your wife back in return is if she thinks that you thought of her. She didn’t remind you about anything. You just sent her a little message out of the blue. It doesn’t matter what stage your relationship is in right now, whether your marriage is on the rocks, or if everything is going great. Your wife needs you to think about her for no reason at all. She needs to be loved.
I can’t afford to send flowers to my wife that often, but there is something magical about sending electronic flowers every so often for no reason at all. It only takes a minute, and the investment will be of infinate value when you get home. Trust me on this one.
Do it right now. Don’t wait. If, like me, you need to be reminded of things like this, set an alarm in your phone to remind you periodically.
