100 Ways to Make Your Marriage Rock

1. Write him letters
2. Go on regular date nights
3. Write his name on lipstick on the bathroom mirror
4. Revitalize the romance with intimate dates
5. Pray together
6. Hide notes in secret places
7. Go to bed at the same time
8. Listen to music together-share earbuds
9. Send him on a scavenger hunt in the house
10. Buy him gifts he will love
11. Hide a treat in his glovebox or desk at work
12. Read the Bible together
13. Wear shirts that tell the world you love your spouse
14. Praise your spouse to other people
15. Let them overhear you
16. Read a marriage devotional
17. Porn-proof your home
18. Be best friends
19. Sleep in his t-shirts
20. Look to him to make the big decisions (see comment section for my opinion on #20, #21)
21. Let her make the small ones
22. Don’t nag him
23. Put down the seat, pick up your socks for her
24. Renew your vows privately with whispers and memories
25. Renew them publicly with cake and bubbly
26. Fight naked
27. Tell him you like him
28. Receive his compliments
29. Pick your battles
30. Show her you love her and tell him you respect him
31. Go away together at least once a year
32. Frame your wedding vows
33. Her: Read For Women Only
34. Hang pictures of the two of you around your house
35. Kiss in front of your kids
36. Make his favorite dessert
37. Have pictures of just the two of you made
38. Make sex a priority
39. Spend time apart occasionally
40. Learn to enjoy something he loves
41. Surprise each other
42. Meet him at the door
43. Dreamstorm
44. Text each other from across the room
45. Be accountable to each other
46. Set reminders on your phone to remember him/her throughout the week
47. Call him right now and tell him you appreciate him
48. Be affectionate
49. Him: Read For Men Only
50. Leave work and come home early
51. Wash, vacuum her car. Keep it full of gas.
52. Give each other romantic coupons
53. Engage every day in meaningful conversation
54. Compliment each other
55. Touch your spouse several times throughout the day
56. Take one day a month to make your spouse your total focus
57. Let each other sleep in
58. Be spontaneous!
59. Argue fair: avoid these words “you always” and “you never”
60. Kiss every day
61. Find tangible ways to serve your mate without complaining
62. Forgive quickly
63. Be honest.
64. But not hurtful
65. Get on the same page: plan your budget together
66. Look your best as often as you can
67. Guard your marriage
68. Get out of debt (and stay out)
69. Laugh together
70. Have a date night in
71. When your together-BE TOGETHER (take a break from phones, technology, etc)
72. Talk about your favorite memories together
73. Tell him he’s sexy just because
74. Tell her she’s pretty, especially when she’s not feeling it
75. Make him breakfast in bed
76. Do her chores for her
77. Get a couple’s massage or host your own privately
78. Read a book out loud together
79. Dance together-soft music (alone) or rocking music with the kids
80. Bring her/him a favorite drink during the middle of the day
81. Exercise together-hikes, bike riding, etc
82. Choose not to be annoyed by an irritating behavior/disappointment
83. Tell him a secret he doesn’t know about you
84. Thank your spouse just because, often
85. Sit on the same side of a booth at a restaurant
86. Lay in bed together and stare into each other eyes, without talking
87. Learn something new together-take an art class, cooking lessons, etc
88. Leave a sweet comment on the Facebook wall
89. Teach your kids about marriage
90. Stop what you’re doing, look them in the eye and listen to their answer
91. Create art together
92. Support each other’s goals
93. Know when to talk and when to hush
94. Consider counseling (even if there’s not conflict)
95. Doodle his name
96. Bring her flowers (even when she says they are too expensive)
97. Wear something he loves
98. Share furniture-sit in his lap
99. Fight for your marriage
100. Remember your spouse rocks-even when they don’t

Marriage Survival Kit

Marriage Survival Tool Kit

I had a lot of fun putting this Marriage Survival Tool Kit together. This was for a wedding gift but the idea could be used for an anniversary, or Valentines gift. I would modify some of the sayings if it was to that special someone rather than to that special couple.
Here is what I put in the Marriage Survival Tool Kit - along with the sayings.....

Tape Measure - Love beyond Measure

Tape - Stick Together

Nails - Build your relationship every day

( I was going to put a hammer with this but the tool box I bought didn't let it fit)

Assorted Household Hardware Accessories

(little things like picture hangers and tacks)-

Remember the big things are the little things

Mini Screwdrivers - If a screw is loose, tighten it

Level - Find balance in your marriage. Love on the level

Glue - Establish a divine bond

And of course a tool kit....

I found some marriage advice to go with all the sayings as well. I printed out tags

(find a copy below) and cut out a tag with the marital advice the same size of the other tags and placed them on the opposite side.

Here is the marriage advice that went with the tape measure:

“Are you willing to search within yourself for the character required to make Your marriage work? All our relationships follow the contours of life; they have ups and downs. This is why our families provide a critical measure of our character—and the opportunity, again and again to nurture it.”

Stephen R. Covey

Marriage Survival Tool Kit Tags

Marriage Survival Tool Kit Sign

Anniversary Gifts

First Anniversary

Traditional – Paper

Modern – Plastic

Alternate – Clocks

Flower – Pansy

Alternate Stone – Gold

• Create a CD Of love songs, but create the CD case out of PAPER and photos of the two of you together.
• One “ONE”derful year makes one “ONE”der, what I ever did without you! Create a memoir made of letters on paper of your first year together.
• Give your man a new watch! This can totally be based on your budget. A fun dollar store watch, like the ones you try to get the balls in the holes (toy section) or the candy ones OR if your budget allows a nicer, new one!
• Going with the traditional gift of paper, create a calendar for him with all the big special date highlighted and significant moments together recorded on that day of the calendar.
• Combine paper and plastic by packing a picnic to celebrate your 1st year together! Use plastic utensils and paper plates to enjoy your meal at the park!
• Create a romantic Message in a Bottle of the reasons you’ve loved being married one year. Use this Message in a Bottle Paper to give it an amazing look!
• Budget tight? Create a giant card for your spouse out of paper telling them all the reasons you’ve loved being together the past year!
• For you crafty people, grab some paper and create a scrapbook of your wedding. Remember Tara’s Magazine for My Man? You could easily adapt the idea for an Our Wedding Magazine that would be treasured for years to come. If that is too overwhelming, create a paper message in a bottle telling him the reasons you love him. Leave it in the sink or bathtub for him to find.
• Since you’ve been together ONE year, put together a bouquet of ONE Dollar bills to use for a special date night.
• Put together a paper envelope decorated with mementos from your first year together (example – ticket stubs, receipts, letters, pictures, etc.) and put it somewhere to hold new mementos from your next year together.
• Get a new piece of gold jewelry and attach a note that says, “Our first year has been GOLDEN and I wouldn’t change a thing. Let’s keep moving forward to see what more years will bring!”

Second Anniversary

Traditional – Cotton

Modern – Cotton & Calico

Alternate – China

Flowers – Cosmos

• Create a special date night on the “TWO” of Hearts playing card theme. Wear Casino Royale shirts to go out that night. Attach an invite to the actual two of hearts card with the saying, “TWO hearts knit ‘TWO’gether for TWO years!”
• You’ve seen those fabulous pillows that say “YOU” and the other pillow says “+ME”? That would be adorable to celebrate the traditional gift of cotton! Have those pillowcases already on your pillows to surprise your sweetheart when you slip into bed.
• Go shopping together and pick out a cotton blanket to adore throughout the years – something that will last and become a family heirloom.
• Get personalized T-shirts that say each other’s names. Example – “I’m Joseph’s” and “I’m Cami’s”. Or create a cotton T-Shirt that says, “The Touch, the Feel of Cotton…The Fabric of our Love!”
• Grab each of you a new cotton robe and have a home Spa Night together!
• If money isn’t an issue, redo your bedroom and turn it into a love nest!
• Feeling crazy…go pick out new cotton Pajamas for each other and wear them out on a date!
• Purchase new towels for your bedroom…after two years, they could definitely use it!
• The alternate suggestion is China, so why not have a Chinese themed dinner. If you got China dishes for your wedding, serve the meal on them. Create special fortune cookies to the next year of marriage!

Third Anniversary

Traditional – Leather

Modern – Leather

Alternate – China

Flower – Fuchsia

Alternate Stones – Pearls

• Buy your man a new leather wallet! Don’t forget to put in some new pictures of you, the kids and 3 lucky dollar bills.
• Set-up a candlelit dinner using china dishes and HIS and HER goblets. Use Lisa M.’s tutorial here. Or engrave your names and anniversary in champagne glasses that you drink from every year on your anniversary.
• For the adventurous type, rent 3-wheelers and spend a day out together. Play up the whole number THREE and base your whole date off of the number.
• Purchase leather bound journals for each other and keep them to write down special moments between the two of you.
• A fun date night would be to watch the movie “Leatherheads” and then go play a game of “touch” football!
• Remember the leather bands you use to make at camp? Find a kit at the craft store and make personalized ones at home for each of you to wear.
• The number three makes you think of a triangle. The Marriage Triangle: Husband/Wife/God. Focus on strengthening a spiritual side of marriage and get new leather scriptures with your name embossed on them.
• Make both husband and wife happy – pearl earrings for her, new leather wallet for him!
• A crazy idea is a leather passport holder or a travel document holder which include tickets for a second honeymoon! OR if money is tight … create a passport to a FABULOUS date to celebrate your 3 years together.

Fourth Anniversary

Traditional – Fruit & Flowers

Modern – Linen, Silk, Nylon

Alternate – Appliances

Flower – Geranium

• If you are in the need for a new appliance, grab a blender and a bunch of fruit! Whip up some fruit smoothies and enjoy them in romantic wine glasses.
• Go for a fruit bouquet! Depending on your budget you could purchase or make one!
• Grab a watermelon and carve the number ’4′ in it (like a pumpkin.) Use the watermelon as a vase to hold a bunch of geraniums as your centerpiece for your ‘four’ course breakfast! Make your entire breakfast out of fruit – possibly even discovering 4 new fruits together that you’ve NEVER tried!
• For a romantic night, buy a set of silk sheets or new silk pajamas!
• Give your man a box of Chocolates with a tag, “You’re Sweeter Than Chocolate“.
• If you are looking for a themed night, how about a “FOURmal date within a FOURtress.” Set-up a romantic medieval thing and have your knight in shining armor serve a platter of fruit to his damsel in distress!
• Create a romantic evening by dressing your bed in new linens! Stage the bed with rose petals and a trail to the bedroom. And nothing sets the mood better than chocolate covered strawberries!
• Send your sweetheart on a little scavenger hunt and along the way they could find a certain flower with a note that tells them WHAT the flower represents (ex: friendship, romance, etc.) and then elaborate. Let them know WHY you feel they have that quality or why you feel that way towards him/her. (Find flower meanings here.)
• Check out more 4th anniversary date ideas here and here.

Fifth Anniversary

Traditional – Wood

Modern – Wood

Alternate – Silverware

Flower – Daisy

• Create or buy a wooden sign with your family establishment – your name and the year you were married!
• Wood Scrapbooked Picture Frame – Grab a wooden frame. Paint and stain the edges, and then scrapbook the middle of it with some modge podge. Insert a picture of you and your man for the perfect ‘wood’ gift!  Here is an example Tara made for her sis-in-law and here is another one.
• Pick out and purchase a new piece of furniture that you both love and will treasure forever! A dining table would be ideal adorned with a vase of daisies and brand new silverware! You could even include a cheesy note saying, “It’s been a handful of years since we said ‘I Do’, I’m so happy to be living this wonderful life with you!”
• Buy a wooden decorative clock to go in your home with your family name painted/engraved on it.
• Buy a new set of nice silverware to use together on special occasions.
• Get him some awesome cuff links that are made from actual baseball stadium seats (any die hard baseball fan would love that!) and a tree carved heart necklace for her.
• Carve your initials into a tree together, one where you can go back every so often to visit. Maybe buy small pocket knives and make a date out of carving something out of wood.

Sixth Anniversary

Traditional – Candy

Modern – Iron

Alternate – Wood

Flower – Calla Lily

• Get a beautiful bouquet of six calla lilies to give to your other half.
• Make your own candy labels to put on different candy bars with a cute message.
• Grab a poster board and make a giant candy gram message. Let him/her enjoy a message of your love with all their favorite candy treat!
• Celebrate the traditional gift of candy with a chocolate tasting date! Get lots of different chocolates and set it up on display. Enjoy picking your favorites!
• Set your date night around candy by watching the movie “Chocolat” and enjoying some chocolate fondue.
• Take a tour of a candy shoppe/factory and enjoy some sweets with your sweetie!
• Give your significant other some personalized M&M’s with your initials, wedding date, or faces.
• Make a candy bouquet with SIX of your spouses favorite candy bars attached to sticks and put together in a vase.
• Have a different candy delivered to your honey at work/church/school/somewhere not at home by various people for your whole anniversary week!
• A Cacophony of Candy! Get as many different types of your sweetie’s favorite candy as you can get your hands on. Package them beautifully and separately – a jar of gummy bears, a box of jelly beans, a basket full of Hershey kisses…then arrange for these little surprise packages to pop up everywhere throughout the day. Under the pillow, at their desk at work, a special delivery, at the cafe’ where they eat their lunch, tucked in a pocket of their jacket…what a sweet, sweet day!

Seventh Anniversary

Traditional – Copper & Wool

Modern – Brass

Alternate – Desk Sets

Flower – Jack-in-the-Pulpit

• Buy some comfy wool socks and take turns giving each others feet a good massage.
• Buy each other new wool scarves, hats, or gloves. Take it a step further by arranging to have a photo shoot of the two of you out in the snow (if the season permits) with your new scarves, hats or gloves. Has it been since your wedding since you’ve had pictures of the two of you done together? About time for some new ones!
• If you have the ability to knit or crochet, grab some wool yarn and make you and your hubby a woolen blanket that could become your ‘snuggle blanket’ when watching movies.
• Create a “Lucky #7″ Date. Go on a date that has a Vegas theme…even go to Las Vegas if possible! Whoever said there is such a thing as a ‘seven year itch’? The seventh year is ALL about you both getting lucky tonight!
• Make copper bracelets together to wear for the next year.
• Bring back some silly romance … Play 7 minutes in Heaven! Ya know, when you go in a closet and make out for 7 minutes…
• Create a card to give your spouse with a penny on the front with the message, “You are CENT-sational”

Eighth Anniversary

Traditional – Bronze

Modern – Pottery

Alternate – Linen

Flower – Clematis

• If you want to stick with the traditional gift of bronze, you could have a mold made of you and your spouse holding hands and then have it dipped in bronze to create a statue.
• With linens being the alternate gift, why not get some new bed sheets. Why not include an invitation to use them?!
• Play off the number ’8′ by creating a “D8 Night Coupon Book.” See here for ideas.
• Go stay at a hotel (you’ll be sleeping in different linens!) Even if you are in a hotel in your same town it will give you a change of scenery and make for a romantic night!
• Base your date night off of a Magic 8 Ball (these can be found in the toy section of most stores.) Have activities planned based around questions that you have to ask the magic eight ball.
• For a fun date night, go to a local pottery place and make/paint your own pottery! You could each do your own thing or pick a piece to work on together.
• For your anniversary date go to the store “Pottery Barn.” Buy something or just window shop for the fun of it.

Ninth Anniversary

Traditional – Pottery

Modern – Willow

Alternate – Leather

Flower – Poppy

• Line up 9 candles and have your spouse blow them out one at a time. Each time he blows one out have him say a great memory or reason he loves you. I’m sure by the 9th candle you’ll both be feeling the love!
• If you are in the home of your dreams, plant a willow tree in your yard. You can then watch it grow, right along with your life and love! Or if you are in a more temporary place, plant some poppies to watch bloom.
• Recreate the scene from the movie, Ghost, where they’re at the pottery wheel together and their hands are all muddy. Create something that you would want to giveaway (maybe to your in-laws) then laugh each time you see it at their house!
• Find a local pottery place to create or paint your own pottery. Each of you could do your own thing or pick a piece to work on together. It would also be fun to find a local pottery class where you could learn to throw your own pot.
• Visit a local art gallery.
• Buy each other something fun out of leather – jacket, wallet, belt, scriptures, purse, photo albums, or a leatherman.
• Make clouds out of paper or cotton and decorate a room with them. Then make a giant sign that says, “I’ve been on Cloud Nine ever since I married you!”

Tenth Anniversary

Traditional – Tin

Modern – Aluminum

Alternate – Diamond

Flower – Daffodil

• Fix up those rings (diamond) by having your husband’s engraved and yours cleaned and re-dipped if needed.
• Grab a 12 pack of your sweetie’s favorite soda (aluminum) and attach a note that says, “I CAN think of 12 reasons why I CAN love you forever!”
• Make a Top 10 List of your favorite things from that year together. Take it a step further by actually repeating the top 10 things on the list to relive the memories.
• Using a tin can as a lantern, create sweet messages to shine through with a hammer and nail.
• For you adventurous types, take a 10 mile hike (5 miles each way) to a gorgeous mountain spot and have a picnic with 10 of your favorite hor d’oeuvres or foods.
• Get ANY gift you’d like…just wrap it in aluminum foil!
• Create a book of the Top 10 Reasons you love your spouse.
• Use a tin can and create a Time Capsule to bury for the next 10 years.
• If you ask me, Ten is a BIG ONE! Diamonds should come all around! If it is in the budget get him a diamond watch and her diamond ANYTHING. If it isn’t in the budget, head to a baseball diamond for a fun night together cheering on your favorite team!
• Get a TIN can, decorate it to look cute, and turn it into a Memory Game. Use clip art for the pictures and make two sets of each (just like the traditional game of Memory.) For example, if on your honeymoon you got a flat tire in the middle of nowhere…find clip-art of a flat tire and shrink it down to the size you want. Print a bunch of silly things like that! Years later, you can pull it out to play and remember all of your “First 10 Years” of memories.

Twentieth Anniversary

Traditional – China

Modern – China

Alternate – Platinum

Flower – Day Lily

• Go on your dream vacation! Like Hawaii. You deserve to make a new fabulous memory to last the next 20 years.
• If it is possible, take a 20-day Vacation (stay-cation) and make a list of things you had hoped to do in the twenty years you were married. Try to accomplish those  20 things one day at a time…It could be little things like kissing in the rain or going to a restaurant you’ve always wanted to try but never have.
• Take a martial arts class together (something you would have learned as a child growing up in China.) Or take a trip to China if you’ve got the cash.
• Get a bouquet of 20 Day Lilies with a note attached of reasons you love your spouse or memories you have over the past 20 years.
• A funny little play on platinum is to get your hubby’s car a Platinum Car Wash! Spruce it up for a fabulous date out on the town that night.
• Gather a bunch of photos from different times in your lives/marriage. (Maybe focus on 20 since that is the year you are celebrating!) Put those pictures or little groups of pictures in different areas of the room you’ll be eating in. THEN – type up one word that explains how you feel about that memory and display it next to the photo it goes with. Take time that evening to go around the room, enjoy the pictures, talk about those fun times, and relive those memories! This is a BIG anniversary! Enjoy it.

Twenty-fifth Anniversary

Traditional – Silver

Modern – Silver

Alternate – Silver

Flower – Iris

• Create “Your Life on the Silver Screen!” Put together a DVD with photos throughout your life and marriage with background music that has meaning to you as a couple.
• 25 Reasons You are My Silver Lining! You could write down 25 reasons, put each one inside a SILVER balloon, and either put helium in them and have them loose in your bedroom …OR have them laying all over the floor with regular air.
• Create a book with the 25 reasons you’ve loved being married to them for the past 25 years.
• Pretend you are 25 years old again and take a trip or go to a place where you would have when you were that young!
• For her: a new silver necklace, and for him: an engraved silver pen or cuff links.
• Purchase a beautiful silver picture frame and put your favorite wedding photo in it.
• Give each other a quarter (25 cents) from the year that you were married or born. Include with it 25 reasons why the rest of eternity is going to be incredible!
• Renew your vows, decorate with the color silver and get new wedding rings.

Fiftieth Anniversary

Traditional – Gold

Modern – Gold

Alternate – Gold

Flower – Violet

• For a gift, give a gold Jewelry box with a new piece of golden jewelry hidden inside.
• Buy 50 gold coins, place them in a jar, and attach a note that says, “Another Day, Another Dollar. And it was all worth it having you by my side!”
• Purchase a gold locket with each of your pictures displayed inside or a gold watch for him.
• Have a party with Gold Decorations! 50 years of marriage deserves a party!
• Take a cruise and add in a relaxing spa package for two!
• Create a balloon bouquet of 50 gold and violet balloons – each having a separate gift inside.
• Take a trip down memory lane by writing a memoir about how golden life is because of your spouse.
• Throw a big bash with all of your friends and family! See if you can get 50 of them to write down a fond memory they have of the couple and compile them into a book for the lovebirds!
• Spray paint a gold box or chest, and put different memories in this box to open together. For instance…a photo, a trinket from a vacation, a love letter, things that have wonderful memories.

Dates

2011 - A Year of Dates

The Date Basket - a Christmas gift to Scott
January - IMAX movie and dinner
February - Spa Date at home
March - rock climbing and lunch
April - temple and thai food
May - our date envelope included a special at-home date . . . so, instead here I share our date to see Riverdance
June - dinner at a local restaurant and card games at a park
July - a sleepover for two!
August - 9 holes of golf
September - Picnic lunch and hike
October -  Wii game night at home
November -  movie and blizzards
December -  mall shopping date

Sharing More Ideas -- a Link-up Party

On the first of the month I share one of our recent dates and invite readers to link their own creative, ordinary, on the town, or at-home dates.
February 2012 - Anniversary Date in Las Vegas -- sushi, Bellagio fountains, and frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity's
March 2012 - Dinner out and pizookies & a movie at home
April 2012 - It's British night!  Fish & Chips and Downton Abbey for an easy & enjoyable at-home date.
May 2012 - Saturday morning walk and a breakfast date

More Dates

13th Anniversary - Las Vegas date - sushi and frozen hot chocolate
11th Anniversary - bowling and cupcakes
10th Anniversary - at home date (dinner, music from the year we were married, traditional 10th anniversary gifts) and the going out date (frozen waterfalls and dinner at an Inn atop the Columbia River Gorge)
Laser Tag - with the youth from church
Dinner and a Show - a fancy dinner, including calamari, and tickets to Phantom of the Opera
7th Anniversary - Benihana with a 3 month old

Getaways

Sun Valley, Idaho - July 2011.  the theme for this getaway was "quiet"
Maui - September 2009.  This trip happened to coincide with my 30th birthday.
Seattle, Washington - March 2009.  To celebrate our 10th anniversary
Maui - October 2006.  We always plan a getaway after our babies turn 1 to celebrate their being weaned from breastfeeding and our new-found freedom!
Las Vegas - February 2004.  Our first "the baby is weaned and we're going away!" vacation.  This was before I started blogging.

Stocking Stuffers for Men

Stocking Stuffers for Men:

1. Cologne – samples work best because they are smaller and cheaper
2. Soap – handmade beer or manly soap is nice
3. Undies
4. Socks
5. chocolate or other candy
6. chocolate covered bacon, pretzels, or other food items
7. Bottle opener, bottle opener ring
8. Beanie/knit hat
9. Gloves
10. Holiday ornament
11. Key Chain
12. Phone case
13. Money clip
14. Wallet
15. A cheesy movie from the clearance bin (hello Chuck Norris)
16. Mini lego kits (like race cars, lego men, key chains, etc.)
17. Silly putty or other slimy substance
18. Deck of cards or other card games (like Uno)
19. Silly toys – parachute men, poppers, wind up animals, sticky hands, mini etch-a-sketch, etc.
20. Shot glass
21. Key covers (I bought tiki men key covers for my brother one year)
22. Ear buds
23. Mini bottles of booze
24. Ties
25. Cufflinks – if your guy wears them, there are some awesome ones on Etsy
26. Manly bath products or bath favorites- my brother really loves a certain brand of mint tea tree shampoo
27. Pocket knife
28. Mini tools or weapons – what male doesn’t love a Nerf gun?
29. Batteries
30. A book, graphic novel, or magazine
31. $5 giftcards – one of my favorites, fast food or coffee works great
32. Gum or mints
33. Chapstick – my husband always steals mine or complains about chapped lips
34. Hand or boot warmers – found some at Target, 2 for $1
35. Hand or cuticle cream
36. Computer decals
37. Car air fresheners
38. For the love of your life: Massage oil
39. For the love of your life: sexy undies for you
40. For the love of your life: Other bedroom goodies
41. Special cigar
42. Matches or lighter
43. Coffee samples
44. Patches, stickers, or pins of a sports team, band, or company, etc.
45. Coffee cup or mug
46. Nail clippers and tweezers
47. Razors and other shaving accessories
48. Boot or hat cleaning or weathering spray
49. Pens or pencils
50. Bandanas
51. Mini specialty food items – mustard, hot sauce, nutella, etc.
52. Belt buckles

Have a guy in your life with a hobby or interest? Is he a student?  There are other trinkets your can fill his stocking with as well:

• Memory cards
• USB Stick/flash drive – some awesome ones on Etsy as well
• Ear guages/plugs
• Film
• Camera filters or accessories
• Craft/hobby supplies
• Kitchen utensils/trinkets – a special knife, measuring spoons, something the cook might enjoy
• Quarters for laundry