Some of us here at the Ramen Report think Valentine’s Day is a phony-baloney holiday (and if you’re unhappily single, it can be downright depressing). The rest of us consider it a great opportunity to show people how much we love them. If you’re one of the millions of Americans who plan to treat their sweetie on February 14, give us some tips for celebrating on a student’s income.
We learned a lot from your Christmas ideas, so we’re expecting good advice on this holiday, too. We’ll start you off with our recommendation: skip the chocolates; give your loved one an entire month of romantic ramen-noodle dinners. It’ll cost you less than five bucks, and the memories will last a lifetime. (You can thank us later.)
My long-distance sweetie is flying in to visit me for Valentine's Day, which is gift enough. I couldn't really care less about the holiday (my housemates had to remind me that it was coming up so soon), but just getting to spend a week with someone I love is a nice treat in the dregs of February.
My fiance and I are desperately trying to save money so we can afford a decent honeymoon (and other wedding costs) AND be able to make our student loan payments. So we decided not to give each other anything for Valentines Day, and instead stay in and do a few wedding-related projects. It should still feel romantic enough, but not cost us anything.
I definilty like the idea of a singles potluck...being single myself it's definilty depressing when everyone you know is talking about their romantic plans with their significant other lol. But coming from a crafty elementary education point of view (it's the teacher in me) I would always make my cards rather than buy them and last year what I did for my boyfriend at the time was I went and bought a bag of hershey's kisses and wrote up on little strips of paper all the things I loved about him and our relationship and replaced the kisses tags on each hershey kiss with a strip of paper that I had written on. He said it was the most meaningful gift he had ever gotten and it made me feel good to know that it was something that I had made and not bought. :)
Make dinner for two at home. i usually don't have time to cook elaborate dinners but for Valentine's I can take that extra time. One year I invited all of my single friends over and we potlucked it. Heart shaped chocolatey dessers are always good too.
Last year, my husband and I celebrated with Pink Pancakes & generic lemon-lime soda--also with red food coloring in it! Very festive.