Are you ready? Are you ready? Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. For some reason, we stress out on what to get our loved one for Valentines Day but its even worse when money is tight.
Well don’t stress any long because there is no need to break the bank to have a memorable date night.
10 Cheap Valentine’s Day Ideas
- In-home Spa: Light candles, run some warm bath water and add Powder milk and place some flower petals (purchase discounted flowers from grocery store) in the water. Have some relaxing music playing. Once your spouse is out of the tub, give them a massage using heated olive oil.
- Late night snack: Make some chocolate covered strawberries & enjoy with your spouse with a glass of your favorite beverage, use wine glasses (If you don’t have wine glasses purchase a pack from Dollar Store).
- Progressive Dinner: Enlist 3 of your married friends to participate in a progressive dinner. Each couple serve a meal: appetizer, main course, and dessert. You guys visit each other house & enjoy the meal, the atmosphere & the conversation. At the end of the night, you all would have been to 3 different restaurants (friends house).
- Movie Night: Rent your favorite movie from Redbox for $1 or using a FREE discount code and purchase your spouse favorite dessert & enjoy a nice movie night.
- Lunch instead of Dinner: Enjoy a lunch date (its much cheaper) than a dinner date.
- $10 Gift Value: Each of you go to the Thrifty Store & purchase a gift for the other. The gift can not be over $10.
- Coffee Anyone: Purchase a coffee mug from Dollar Store & put all your spouse favorites coffee additions in there.
- I Love You: Make a coupon booklet with 12 I Love You coupons for your spouse to use throughout the year. You can make the coupon booklet out of construction paper & bind together with yarn.
- Its All About you Honey: Participate in their favorite activity today. If they are a gamer, play their favorite game with them. If you spouse love girly movies, watch her favorite movie with her.
- Family Time: Tonight enjoy Valentines Day as a kid with your kids. Make cards, make cookies, & enjoy your kids favorite meal.
think outside the chocolate box this Valentine’s Day
Enjoying this holiday should be enjoyable the day of and weeks later. Don’t stress about money and getting a gift, do what you know you can do & your spouse will be appreciative.
What is your favorite low cost/cheap Valentines Day gift or date idea?
Kate, aka guavalicious says
Great ideas, thanks! We almost always stay home on Valentine’s Day so these ideas are perfect!
Crista Hebel says
I think your chocolate covered strawberry idea may have just saved my booty for tomorrow! Thanks!
Kathy Widenhouse says
Great ideas! And don’t forget going out to breakfast … it’s even cheaper than lunch!
dana says
Hi Pamela- I’ve done number 8 as a Christmas gift:-) These are fun ideas. I’m giving out warm hugs tomorrow and enjoying the quality time I’ll have with my family over the long weekend.
Amy says
Great ideas! The important thing, I think, is that you want to be together on Valentine’s Day and not that a lot of money is spent. Encouraging blog!
Sharon says
Great suggestions! I love doing lunches instead of supper out! But this year we’ll be having rotiserie chicken with the family!
Julia Potvin says
Love your ideas, mostly for Hubby and I it will be a day spent together like normal, only made a little special, wink, wink ! Happy Valentines Day to you & your’s!
Jennifer Williams says
Those are the kind of gifts I love to get. I am going to send this to my husband, we are doing Valentines day late this year being that he gave me the flu, lol.
Dawn says
I like to progressive dinner idea. That sounds fun!
Dawn
Still Dating My Spouse says
I think we will try it as well after the holidays for our 1st quarter couples event.
Pamela
Still Dating My Spouse says
Jennifer,
We are doing something the weekend….. I hope you get to feeling better.
Pamela
Still Dating My Spouse says
Well special is always good…. *wink wink*
Happy Valentines day to you & yours!
Still Dating My Spouse says
Amy,
Absolutely! Its all about the two people not the gifts……
Still Dating My Spouse says
Dana,
Warm hugs always work!
Still Dating My Spouse says
Kathy,
You are so right…thanks for that one!
Pamela
Still Dating My Spouse says
Crista,
Please let me know how they turn out….enjoy!
Pamela
Kristin Wheeler (Mama Luvs Books) says
I love this! Tweeting it out today! Happy V=Day!!!
Jesica H says
Great ideas! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Arelis Cintron (@DjRelat7) says
I plan on doing that tonight …we’re staying in and watching the first season of Scandal on netflix 🙂 … Great list of ideas may have to try out #3
Still Dating My Spouse says
Arelis,
Oh you are a Scandal newbie! Just wait you will want to finish all the seasons to see what happens next! LOL
Amber T. says
I made my husband a coupon book one time. He thought it was hilarious at first until he really read it and then his whole outlook changed! I had to hide it after a while because somehow new pages were getting added! LOL