We don’t celebrate Valentines day at our house.  We celebrate February 16th because it is the day that I asked my wife out when we were in high school.  Its kinda goofy but on February 14th I told her I liked her, but I didn’t have the guts to ask her to be my girlfriend.  Without this escape you’ve probably still got to tell your special someone they’re special, and here’s a quick list of things you can do that says, “You’re special.”  Without shelling out $100.00 or more in love stuff.

1.  Write a letter experessing your feelings.  Don’t get a card from the store, but write a hand written letter.  If your  hand writing is as poor as mine, this means a lot of time spent doing it carefully, time means something in many cases - especially if your loved one knows you are normally hard to read.  Take time to think through it and consider writing multiple drafts if you have time.
2. Plan a time to massage feet, hands, head, face or some part of their body that is not intended as a lead in to other things.  Just help your sweeheart to relax.  Make sure that they know you love them with a great time of relaxing and you giving of yourself.
3. Use a dry erase marker on the mirror to write a love note.  I haven’t done this in some time, but it works great because the marker will wipe off of the mirror (check in a hidden part of the glass just to make sure).  That way when they look in the mirror they’ll be surprised by the great reminder of your love.
4. Make a mix tape, iMix or special track listing on an MP3 player or home made CD.  This sure is fun and if its with music you have already, it says you took time, but it doesn’t have to cost you more than the price of electricity or the CD.  Dance with your Valentine to the music.
5. Run a hot bath with candles around the room and read poems or the love letter you wrote to your Valentine.  If you’ve not got a great bath to do this in, consider at least setting up a space in your home where you can set the mood for romance.  Read the letter because it will mean even more then.  I recommend practicing just a little bit so that you don’t start crying (I do, but I’m a sap) and so you can add the right inflection and look up at the right times to make sincere eye contact.

These are just a few ways you can spend almost zero dollars and have a million dollar Valentines day.

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