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Been married only 4 months and looking 8 months ahead as any consummate planner does I am not sure what to offer my new bride for our wedding anniversary; can not go the standard roses routine since I already did that for our wedding day.

What should I get my wife for our anniversary? A free calendar from work contained a list of anniversary gifts, listed by the length of the marriage. According to the calendar's list, the traditional gift was paper, while the more recent gift indicated was clocks. Since I am something of a traditionalist, does that mean I should get a paper clock for my wife?

Do you know what the traditional gift for your next anniversary will be? China? Cotton? Leather? Florists will assure you at length that a fantastic anniversary present would be a sizeable bouquet of long-stemmed roses. The fact that they are making a big profit on a dozen measly (but expensive) flowers, however, will probably not come up.

Lists of traditional anniversary gifts usually skip from the fifteenth anniversary to the twentieth. But what do you do in between? I fear that most people, after having been together for seventeen or eighteen years, have let their sizzle fizzle and resort to giving each other appliances and other "practical" household items as gifts.

You know a "practical gift" when you see one. Or give one. It's the kind of present that you are a little embarrassed that you bothered to wrap. And also you are probably a little embarrassed to have your wife expectantly unwrap cleaning supplies or a new shower caddy. They're not diamond rings, but they let your wife know that you're paying attention. You do know what she needs, and you saved her a trip to the store to buy it herself.

A much more economical choice for an anniversary gift is making a batch of "love coupons." Grab some kind of paper and create coupons good for a massage or household chore to be done by you without grumbling, redeemable any time. While still practical, this homemade gift proves that you put enough though and time in to show that you really care.

I hope this has given you a couple of ideas of what to do for your sweetheart. I guess the sky's the limit for me, but in the end I think I know what sort of anniversary gifts my wife will be getting. Roses.