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If you’re like most couples, you’re watching your pennies this
year and looking for ways to romance your sweetheart on Valentine’s
Day without breaking the bank. The following list will help:
1. Create an indoor picnic with available props, i.e., picnic
tablecloth, paper goods. Share finger foods and favorite treats
along with a glass of wine. Spice up “dessert.” Enjoy your picnic
on the living room floor or in bed. Play card games, board games,
or make up your own.
2. Decorate a unique-looking jar or box with craft items. Write
numerous love notes on small pieces of paper and fill the jar with
them. Present the jar to your sweetheart.
3. There are many local and national Valentine’s Day giveaway
contests with great prizes. Enter as many as you can and maybe
you’ll get lucky.
4. For young couples with kids, get them involved in an
all-family fun Valentine’s Day dinner at home. Mom can prepare a
dessert for two and light the candles while dad puts the kids to
bed.
5. Since Valentine’s Day is on a Saturday, celebrate with a day
full of low-cost activities you both enjoy doing (depending upon
your location and weather). Do something with your significant
other that he/she rarely has time to do, but loves.
6. Take a 2-hour, one-time salsa or tango dancing lesson
together. Or, identify some other interest you share and find a
place to give you one-time extended lesson on Valentine’s Day.
7. Gals…Make the entire day full of his favorites: the breakfast
of his dreams, the dinner of his dreams, TV that is his favorite,
his music, etc. Don’t say anything about it, surprise him all day
long.
8. Take the person you love to experience something spectacular
in nature: a sunset, a sunrise, the calm of the beach, share an
evening walk gazing at the moon.
9. Create a framed group of photos that put your relationship in
chronological order of events, by months or years (depending on how
long you’ve been together).
10. Create a CD with songs that make you think of your
sweetheart, and give it to him/her.
