What Valentine’s Day Gifts Can You Suggest For Someone Who Is On A Budget And Why?
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and in spite the not-so-favorable economic situation we’re all facing right now, people are looking for an inexpensive and yet still extraordinary way to celebrate V-Day. It is still possible to give a meaningful and memorable Valentine’s Day gift, one just needs to be creative and true. Share your ideas on the best Valentine’s Day gifts on a budget and bear in mind that any gift if given with love will always be priceless! :)
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suspenders, to keep the pants up lol
like you said:its the thought that count
1. Plan and make your partner’s favorite meal at home. Instead of waiting for a table at an overcrowded, less-than-intimate restaurant, set the table with your good china, and plan out a menu complete with an appetizer, first course, main dish and dessert. Don’t forget to light some candles and put on some romantic music in the background.
2. Go for a scenic drive. If you have “special spots” where important moments have happened in your relationship, go to each place and talk about the memories.
3. Write a love letter. How long has it been since you wrote a love letter to your special someone? Take the time to tell him or her the reasons you care in a handwritten letter that is sure to be treasured for all time.
4. Create a coupon book. Sure, it might seem a little cheesy to sit with construction paper and markers to make up a coupon book, but it’s so much fun for the recipient to “cash-in” on the coupons! You can make them for whatever you think he or she will enjoy, from routine daily chores to intimate moments – just have fun with it!
5. If you and your partner live together (or you have access to their home!) consider taking a day off from work and sneaking in to clean up and decorate for the evening’s festivities! Once everything is in it’s place, give the furniture a quick dust, vacuum and wash floors, put some potpourri into boiling water to spread the scent, and set up for a picnic (on the bed or living room floor). When your partner comes home, surprise them with a basket full of snacks or dinner, and enjoy relaxed, quiet time together.
6. Make chocolate covered fruit.
7. Make a music CD of all your partner’s favorite songs, or songs that have meant something to you as a couple. Remember making mixed-tapes as teenagers? Use your computer to put together a compilation CD.
8. Put together a video slide show of photographs and/or short video clips of you and your partner’s relationship together. You can use Windows Movie Maker (free on most PCs) and add captions and fun effects to liven it up and add personality. Burn it to DVD and watch it together.
9. Forget the store bought cards! (Sorry Hallmark!) Get out some construction paper, scissors, stickers and crayons and markers and go to town making a pretty handmade card. It will mean far more than the store bought variety, and you might surprise yourself and enjoy doing it.
10. Take a moonlit walk. Much of the country is still quite cold in February, so be sure to bundle up and dress appropriately for the weather. There’s something about strolling together under the stars in the moonlight that is extremely romantic and relaxing. Take a step back from the fast-paced world and reconnect through conversation.
11. Keep an eye on the newspaper, local events channel on your television, and/or the bulletin boards around town. If there are free events at museums or other establishments – take advantage of them and enjoy one another’s company doing something new.
12. If you and your partner typically stay home all the time, you can go out on the town for a change of scenery and not spend a ton of money. Go to a local coffee shop and enjoy a hot beverage of your choice and share a dessert. Don’t rush through it like you would on a normal day – linger at the table with your beverage and snack and talk about the past, the present and the future of your relationship.
13. Try your hand at writing a poem. Even if you don’t consider yourself a writer, you can put some thoughts down on paper (rhyming or not) in poem form, and give to your partner who is sure to love it.
14. Take a photograph of yourself (mild or wild, the choice is yours!!) and put it in a frame for your partner to place on their bedside table.
15. Do you have a rewards credit card? Find out if you have any rewards to redeem! You can use the points for dinner out or for a hotel room, depending on the rewards program. Many people have rewards credit cards and forget all about the rewards they’ve earned.
16. Draw your partner a bath (or perhaps make a bath for two?) Add great smelling bubbles, and put on some soft music. Even if you aren’t sharing the tub together, stick around and chat, wash your partner’s back, give a massage.
17. Sprinkle the floor from the front door to the bedroom with rose petals. Add some rose petals to the bed itself! If this is a little too bold for the stage your relationship is currently in, you can use rose petals to decorate the table cloth or float them in a dish with a floating candle.
18. Create a handmade scrapbook of your relationship. Add photographs, love notes from the past (or current, if you still write them!), add a love poem or new letter.
19. Surprise your electronic-gadget loving partner with a new folder of songs on their iPod or MP3 player. Make it songs they love or recognize from different events in your relationship.
20. Give a lengthy massage with no expectations for something in return.
21. If you can, re-create your first date.
22. If you and your partner have children, ask your parents or trade babysitting time with another couple with children so each couple gets a kid-free evening to enjoy time without any interruption or child responsibilities.
23. Play board games by candle light for a twist. Anything you do can be romantic if you turn down the lights and light some candles! Try strip poker for some spice!
24. Make heart shaped cookies or cake together from scratch (it takes longer that way!) You can color vanilla frosting with red food coloring. Then enjoy them with some milk.
25. Enlist a friend into giving your partner a singing telegram (for free, as a favor!) They can deliver your handmade card or some balloons and sing a love song to him or her for you.
26. When you take a shower and steam up the mirror, write them a little message in the steam. The next time your partner goes in for a shower and steams up the bathroom, they’ll be able to read the message. You could also sneak in while your partner is showering to leave a steamy message in the mirror for them to read when they step out.
27. Create a crossword puzzle for your partner, where the clues are all about events and memories involving your relationship together.
28. Go to wherever your partner is during the day (working, the gym, etc) and put a surprise for them in their car. Balloons, love notes, a cd in the player ready to go.
29. Leave a lipstick message in the mirror or shower wall.
30. Take a “sick” or personal day from work and enjoy an entire bonus day and night together.
31. Videotape a special Valentine message for your partner. If you have children, get them involved. It will make a great keepsake!
32. Get out your plastic Easter eggs, or just regular envelopes, and hide little love messages and/or heart candy for your partner to scavenger hunt. This can be a fun family Valentine activity if you have children.
33. Buy an inexpensive bag of tea light candles (or find the bag you already have!) and line every surface in the kitchen or bedroom with lit tea lights for setting the mood.
34. If it’s cold and there is snow on the ground, make a solution of water and red food coloring to paint love notes in the snow for your partner. Don’t forget to preserve it with a camera, it won’t last long.
35. Make your partner breakfast in bed, complete with heart shaped pancakes. If there is no time for breakfast in bed, deliver dinner (and perhaps more) in bed.
36. Get out the romantic comedies from your movie collection and/or borrow from friends for an evening snuggled up on the couch watching movies together.
37. Create a MySpace or Facebook page dedicated to your partner, and share it with them. Keep it focused on everything you love about your partner, add a special song and photographs of the two of you together.
38. Plant a tree in a pot indoors, and transplant it outside during the spring months. Call the tree your “love tree”!
39. Take turns telling your partner what you love about him or her. Do this combined with some of the other items on this list (candle light, dinner at home, a moonlit walk).
40. Make a list of everything you want to do and experience together with your partner. It can be physical activities, events, places to visit, romantic ideas, etc. Anything you want to share with your partner can go on the list. Half the fun is in daydreaming and coming up with the list.
41. Make your own “Love Game”. You can make it ahead of time and then play with your partner as a surprise, or enlist help from your partner in creating the game (half the fun!) and then play it together.
42. Go to the bookstore or library for an inexpensive but fun date night. You can browse the books, play scavenger hunt activities (who can find the answer to a question first?), read from joke books to one another and see who can make the other person laugh outloud, etc. Get creative! Some bookstores have live performers and a coffee shop, too.
43. Decorate your living room with streamers, turn down the lights and pull the shades. Put on some music, and get dressed up in your fancy “going-out” clothes, and enjoy an evening at home. Dance to the music like you’re at a school dance together!
In this valentine, there are so many gifts that we can give to our significant someone, but I believe that our special someone want it to be very special and unique, In my part, I have composed a song for her, acutally it is not just a song, it’s a piano rendition, an instrumental, with a very sweet and melodious tone, I think this is a very unique gift, it’s up to me on the place. to sum up, I prefer music, specially made for her, match it with a very romantic place.so that’s it simple as that, she will really apprciate it, If you put real effort on your gift, the cost/prize doesn’t matter what matter’s most is the love that you put in the gift.
Hmm….it really depends.
If you’re like the romantic kind, why not take a stroll along the beach and gaze at stars together, if possible, go to the beach on 13th Feb and stay there until 14th Feb to watch the sunrise…it’s quite romantic. You can also set up a table for 2 on the roof or stay in your house and cook a romantic candlelight dinner for both of you.
If you’re like the one who is adventurous, why not bring your love one for a kind of sports like bowling…spending time together is really fun. You can also get a necklace with a basketball or something which your love one like and hide it, pretending that you didn’t buy the gift and then persuade her to go somewhere with you before you take out the gift from your hiding place to give it to your love one.
Maybe you would like to watch ‘We Got Married’, a Korean variety show for more ideas:D
For me creative thing you can give to your valentine date is something that he or she would treasure and where the meaning of that gift is sincere. Ok, here it is. Get the most memorable shot of picture on both of you. Then put it in a flip top picture frame. On the other side of picture frame put some message that you would want to tell her or him. Then read it together with your love ones. That’s it.
Like I told someone else, try making little origami stars and writing notes in them. It’s very cheap and likely to wow those who appreciate creativity and thoughtfulness. It is, however, a bit time-consuming if you make a lot of them.
Personally, I recommend baking gifts. Not everybody wants or needs jewelry. Baking ingredients tend to be cheaper appreciated immediately. Allrecipes.com has some really good cookie recipes, but here’s an idea as well for those of you who are on a budget:
Pick up a bag of cheap puffed rice cereal (it’s cheaper than the box or the name brand) and try making marshmallow treats. Also buy an open-topped, heart-shaped cookie-cutter, and, if you don’t have it, a little red food coloring. You can make heart-shaped, pink-to-red rice crispy treats. There are plenty of recipes available for making the basic treats online– just remember to add some red dye to the marshmallows and to use your fingers (with gloves if you’re worried about the dye) to shape and press the cooled treats into a lovely heart shape.
The great thing about making treats like that is that you can buy the product in bulk cheaply if you want to make a lot of them; but you can also simply save the rest for later treats or breakfast. Red food coloring may already be in your cabinet and can be reused at Christmas or any other holiday.
Get creative! Handmade items perhaps….for example– take a used drinking bottle made of glass (Has to be nicely shaped and bottle label can be easily tear off of course) and then tear out the label and decorate it with words / pictures or whatever , with markers, glitter pens etc. And perhaps roll up a piece of “love letter” and put it inside the bottle! *Voila! And you have got a sweet , sincere , original and yet environmentally friendly gift for your loved one*
here’s what i thought…instead of spending valentine’s day together, as most couples do..why not spending it apart from each other? They can spend the day reminiscing about the time spent with each other, revisiting all their favourite local hangouts like that little cafe that is open 24-hours, taking out and re-living all the photos and gifts that they have been giving each others in the previous years. Or, you know, just spend some quite time at home, thinking about how lucky you are to be in a relationship with this special someone.
On the next day, you guys can finally get together can share and compare what have you been doing, what are your thoughts and what are your best cherished moments. Maybe you will appreciate your significant other more after this. Nothing like spending valentine’s day alone to make you really remember how important your partner is to you. The usual candle-lit dinner, dancing by the beach and going to romantic movies have all been done to death, don’t you agree?..
well, it’s something different…and it’s not for everyone…
Hand picked flowers. They show that you took the time, thought and had the patience to give the intended a meaningful gift.
Wildflowers are the most beautiful. That is jusy my opinion, but they are prettier than any store bought stuff.
A simple vase or even a basket, woven if you know how to, if you don’t. is something to learn.
A hand woven basket full of fruit and or berries and fresh wild flowers is the bestest.
That way you also help the enviroment out because you dud not support the trucking and shipping of waxy flowers from California to New York.
(or visa versa)
The fruit is so that you can both sit in a park or garden and enjoy the wonder that is the moment.
Hi Jonas,
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Take Care
I think an uniquely hand-made Swarovski Crystal doll make perfect gift as a V day gift! Well, you do not need to make yourself. Visit this website http://crystalsclozet.blogspot.com/ for a wide variety of cute and pretty Swarovski Crystal dolls, at an affordable price!
I bought some as Christmas presents for my friends last year and they love them! The items looked very expensive (’cos made with Swarovski crystals) but they are actually at affordable price. Some more, as these are hand-made, they are very rarely found and hence, made them very unique.
Hope the above can provide you with some options while thinking what to buy for your loved ones this coming Valentine’s Day.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
You can do many things. The best idea I have is to make her something. Take her favorite song and memorize it. Then, dim the lights, and, if you are legal, buy an inexpensive wine. Then watch a romantic movie (not an horror or an action). DO NOT KISS HER! Then pour two glasses, give her one. Then, wile siting on the couch, sing the song. Then, if she makes a move, then kiss.
Get a copy of your favorite romantic-comedy movie (try Notting Hill, 50 First Dates, movies that are neither too funny nor too romantic, just some of both).
Cook something differently special (if it’ll not be good, at least there’s popcorn for movie, and have a good laugh about it).
Priceless. The gift of your time and effort.
If you are thinking about jewelry but afraid of stepping in to Tiffany’s, remember there are lots of places to get handmade jewelry and its often a great deal. You can start on etsy.com. Artisan jewelers are hurting from the economic down turn and are cutting their prices too.
Valentine gift for your self . . . stay at home or at work, its a non-working day for some . . . connect and chat with your mother or BF via net . . this will avoid compounding the crowded places, the rush . . .the flower shops, the traffic . . . the hmmm places . . . then relax . . . have time for yourself . . . have your breakfast and lunch with gusto, have a light vegie dinner before 6pm . . wash-up . . . then go to bed at 10PM. . . am sure you’ll have a pleasant morning the following day . . . am not kidding . . everyday is a valentine day . . .
make her a home-cooked dinner or draw a bath for two and light some red candles. there’s a great bath bomb from lush, it’s called “sex bomb” and i think it’s perfect for valentine’s day because it turns the water pink and has rose petals floating all over. pop a bottle of champagne while in the bath, and then give her a massage afterwards. :)
If you’re married, tell your partner, you love to marry him all over again.
If you’re on a relationship, tell your partner you are on your happiest when you’re together.
And kiss him tenderly as you can, with matching hug that says, i would never let you go…
Who would need anything else if somebody tells you that…
I would prefer something that is personally made by the SO.. DIYs-both cost saving and creative will touch my heart when he spend effort, tots, time, on it eg.. photocards/scappbooking, DIY ornaments (Think of recycling maybe using items tat have special meaning in our relationship eg 1st necklace/bracket beads-maybe even spoilt already but still kept till date, tkt stub, things given to each other)
personally i hope we both have a photobook/coffeebook of our pics with personalised captions made..if cant have a actual physical book.. at least can have a digital one for remiscising…good one to recap our past and present and for our future kids to see..
I remember a day I gave my now husband, back them was BF a big teddy bear and I dressed the bear with a t-shirt that he was going to be able to wear after time as well. It was kinda original because guys don’t get teddy bears and it was actually 2 presents in one, until now he still keeps that big teddy bear. And he did wear that t shirt for a long time
you can check this for a t-shirt http://www.cafepress.com/fire_life
Buy a cute Sweetheart Jewelry Set and present her with fresh flowers, do give her a big greeting card and write up something that you have never told her about you
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hope this helps!
A heart-shaped cuddle cushion that lets you record a message and play it back with a push of a button. I surprised her by hiding it behind the pillows. She played back my love message and was so moved that she hugged and cried. I didn’t give it to her on V-Day, but I think it will work the same.
Sadly for me, I am not spending my V-day with my other half since our exams are coming up the week after. But there is one thing that I’ve been wanting from my boyfriend and perhaps I can share it with some of you who actually confessed your love NOT in person (e.g. through sms or online chat).
Take your partner out to a her favorite place, (don’t forget to bring some flowers), and surprise her by re-confessing to her! Ask her to be your girlfriend, and this time face-to-face. She’ll love that :] (or at least I would, haha…) Well, I hope this helps!
Well, here’s what I’m planning, at least.
1. We’ll prepare a DIY 3-course dinner together at home. I mean, he can cook but I’m likely to burn the kitchen down *cough* so I’ll just help out here and there.
2. DIY Facial Massage and Spa!
3. End with either a stroll at the beach/park or rent a movie and cuddle.
It beats paying 60-120 bucks per person at some expensive restaurant..
You can find something that deeply you want to buy for your love one. You the one who knows what your love one really want. We really can’t tell you what to do. If your love one really loves you, he/she would love what ever you do for her/him. Try your best!
I think this might help you
“Best ideas for Valentine gifts”http://www.gupshupblog.com/2009/02/best-…
visit the church first early valentines day and there renew your love for each other.afterwards go to a resto with a scenic view.that doesnt end there.if youre a couple,give a gift that resembles ur relationship??w/c culminates in your home as the climax..you know what that is,dint ya??!
I’m giving my GF a sushi party and some lovin’! I know it sounds weird but its more about the fun of it. I love to cook and we’ve both never tried to make our own sushi. I will enjoy trying and eating it thats for sure!
I’ve got my shopping list ready but I’m going to wait so I can get fresh food!
valentines will not be complete without a flower, any flower will do really. the most important thing is that you are with the person you care and love and that is the most important thing. just be “with” the person you love.
Instead of going to the movies or going out for dinner why don’t you make a nice dinner at your house and then rent a movie from red box
[$1.00]! Also you can get her some roses from a garden.
WELL,I JUST RECEIVED AN 18K GOLD NECKLACE WITH A HEART PENDANT WITH DIAMONDS ON IT…. FROM MY SPECIAL SOMEONE.
BUT FOR THOSE ON A BUDGET…TRY TO BUY GLOW IN THE DARK STUFF AND ARRANGE IT ON THE CEILING OF YOUR ROOM OR WHEREVER YOU LIKE MAKING THE WORDS ” I LOVE YOU ” SO WHEN YOU INVITE HIM/HER TO YOUR PLACE….SHE WILL BE SURPRISE…
it’s not necessary to be very expensive
try to find something herehttp://www.best-buy-deal.com/cheap-valen…