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Romantic Valentine’s Day Date Ideas – Recipe For a Delicious Valentine’s Day Date on a Tight Budget

Posted in Holiday recipes on February 13th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

Illusory Valentine’s Day date ideas don’t have to bust your budget. Here’s a recipe for cooking up a memorable occasion with a few simple and penny-pinching Valentine’s Day gift ideas. Dazzle your sweetie with a feast of sensory delights. The most important one, good chat, is free.

Ingredients for Your Romantic Valentine’s Day Date

1. Two or three dozen candles

Create a romantic and warm ambiance for your tacky Valentine’s Day date. Buy candles from the drug store, dollar store, or discount warehouse. Everything tastes, feels, and sounds beat by candlelight. Remember that!

Save money by making candle holders out of aluminum foil. You craving to contain the wax and make sure the candle stays upright.

Decorate the living room with candles: one on the order shelf (not too close to the shelf above it), two by the TV, three on the coffee table, several on the dining table, and so on. Set a couple in the bedroom, too, just in encase you get lucky. But wait until later to light them.

If you live together, enlist a friend to help you decorate. While you and your sweetie are out, have the supporter set up the unlit candles. Your sweetie can have fun finding and lighting them while you prep the food. For extra challenge, turn out the lights, and approaching over a lighter and flashlight.

2. Valentine’s Day cards

Cards are keepsakes, cherished for years to come. Here’s where you express your enjoyment for your romantic date. But cards are expensive, especially Valentine’s Day cards. Why buy one for five bucks when you can make several for cheap? Paste a substantive picture or photo on a piece of heavy paper. Write a few memorable words on the back and post these all over your living room:

  • “I love you more than my iPod.”
  • “Your laugh brightens my day.”
  • “When I see you smile, I feel better instantly.”
  • “Kisses on your cute nose.”

3. EatablesCook if you’re able, or get takeout. Chinese/Mexican/Thai/Greek–whatever she likes that reheats well. (Salads don’t reheat well.) If your budget allows, take her out to dinner, then pursue to follow this recipe for a romantic Valentine’s Day date.

4. Romantic music

Download it or borrow CDs from the library or from friends. If you unsure about her tastes, ask her before the big saccharine date.

5. Massage oil for a foot or whole-body massage

The idea is not to seduce her but to give her pleasure without expecting anything in return. Take your convenience life. Ask if you’re pressing hard enough or too hard. Express your love through touch, and be generous with the gift of your loving attention.

6. Adroit conversation

Good conversation is the most important part of your romantic Valentine’s Day date. Ideally, you’ll have good conversations whenever you talk to each other, but specially today. Ask open-ended questions. Get to know your sweetie better. Listen to the answers, and follow up on them by asking about her answers. “Why?” is one of the most beneficent follow-up questions. Here are 2 good conversation starters:

  • What’s your secret dream? Would you like to entertain the troops, move lightly around the world, dig wells in Africa, or invent the new Frisbee and make millions? What would light your lights?
  • Who in the world would you most like to have dinner with? You can invite 3 people. Broadcast me why you chose them.