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Fun letter ideas
Hi everyone,
My boyfriend left for bootcamp on april 5th, 4 days ago and i write him a letter every day but they all just look soo boring. We are a fun couple and we are always laughing and making jokes so seeing black or blue ink on a plain white piece of paper just seems so boring and so not like us! I want to send him fun things that he will laugh and get a big smile on his face when he sees but i cant think of anything! Any one have any ideas on how to spice up my letters?
Oh and one thing i thought of was to send his letters in bright colored envelopes... sound like a good idea?
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Permalink Reply by Emily-aaronsgirl11 on
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A LOT of people will tell you no don't send bright colored envelopes...
I did. He didn't get any crap for it.. The only crap he got was for the amount of letters he got because everyone was jealous.
I bought the colorful stuff from walmart (I cleared it with him before he left and told him I would switch anytime he needs me to).
You can send pictures (clean). And jokes. I handmade him a valentine. :)
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Permalink Reply by Cait a sailors girl! on
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Ihave been taking pictures of EVERYTHING and it hasent even been a week yet. Weather it be weird clouds or me and our friends goofing around i take a bunch! lol so i will definitely be sending him pictures. Im glad to hear that he didnt get any crap for it. B told me before he left that he didnt really want bright envelopes but like i said we have a strange fun relationship and he is my best friend so im going to do it anyway! thanks for the advice.
Insted of a home made valentine do you have any ideas for a birthday card? his birthday is in a few weeks :(
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Permalink Reply by Sunshinestar8181 on
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I used this website: http://robertsabuda.com/popmake/index.asp
my fiance isn't in boot camp (he's been in 3 years already), but I mailed the pop up cake one to him for his birthday since he's on deployment. I added like colorful scrapbook paper to it so it wasn't so plain, but you could just use markers.
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that looks perfect im so going to use that! Thanks a bunch
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Permalink Reply by SailorsPrincess on
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I send my boyfriend goofy cards from the store! But I think it really depends on what division your boyfriend is in if he will get crap for having like colorful envelopes. My SR is in SpecOps so I wouldn't dare send him a colorful one envelope! Lol
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what do you mean his division? he is a nuke... does that mean anything? lol
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Well if he is a nuke I do believe thats SpecOps..I could be wrong. Its any of the 800 divisions! Its like the "high security" jobs. You will find out his division and ship number in like a week!
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Nukes aren't generally SpecOps.
A lot of Nukes get put in 900 divisions. And a lot are just in the regular divisions. :)
Cait- I'm a Nuke girlfriend. If you ever have any questions, don't be afraid to ask me. :)
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Thanks for clearing it up!
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Np. I'm not saying that Nukes aren't ever put in SpecOps group... Anything can happen, right!?
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Haha very true! I thought I had read it somewhere but I might have read something else and combined the two!
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thanks guys! and emily i might have to take you up on that offer!
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