Birthday cleaning
We all love to receive thoughtful birthday gifts that show the giver has spent time and effort thinking about who we are and what we like. Generic boxes of chocolates and bunches of flowers are really not suitable all the time. We want something personal.
We don’t want to have our partners clean the house and then tell us it’s our birthday present. It’s lovely to have someone do a chore that you were expecting to have to do yourself, but it’s not a gift, it’s something that partners do for each other to help out. He might have been better off with the chocolates.