Valentine’s Day on a budget?
You know when Valentine’s Day is REALLY tough? When you really, really like the person you are dating but you don’t have money to buy a gift that would “show” them. Thankfully, the right person won’t care that you are on a budget. They will care if you do or say nothing. It’s the zero effort and irrational anger towards the “made up commercial holiday” that won’t go over well.
The good news is that your serious love jones, coupled with a little attention to details can help you become a little creative. No money? NO problem! Here are a few of my favorite date ideas that are low-budget with a high romantic ROI:
Light the table and room with candles (tea lights are cheap!). Make a home cooked meal. Bonus points if it is their favorite food. Make a playlist of your favorite love songs (no booty music mixtapes!). Spend the evening feeding each other dessert while (insert your favorite non-sexual activity) watching sports, playing video games, reading a book, watching movie). End your night slow dancing cheek to cheek. *swoon*
Set up an indoor picnic. Lots of pillows. Lots of candles. Pick the sexiest, yummiest foods to munch on. Swap stories of childhood. Get to know one another better. Turn off your phones.
You know we live in one of the coolest cities, right? Atlanta has so many things to do that don’t cost much. A lot of great places are Marta accessible! Look up any specials or deals that are around the city. AJC’s fabulous Bargain Hunter has tips to save on those Valentine’s Day traditions too.
Whatever you decide to do, make it thoughtful and meaningful for the both of you. Oh, and if thought of doing something nice for the person you are dating bothers you in anyway, please let them go. Immediately. It’s the most loving gesture you could ever do for them.
Do you guys have any ideas on how to pull off Valentine’s Day on a budget?
What is the least amount of money you have ever spent on a date? What did you do?
Happy Wednesday!
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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Into the Light
February 13th, 2013
4:16 pm
*****yawn***** sleepy afternoon…..
Celisea
February 13th, 2013
4:16 pm
folders not folks….
If you do (know how), let me know tomorrow…
Toddles…again
Celisea
February 13th, 2013
4:18 pm
Soooo glad 2013 is a new, bright, bigger and better year. Take the high road folks! There’s a much brighter view from up high
I’m out
Into the Light
February 13th, 2013
4:19 pm
3
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:19 pm
ITL – You just made me yawn! LOL! I’m ready to get home and play my new bass! Gotta practice cause some friends invited me to sit in with them on the 22nd!
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:20 pm
Wow….
Into the Light
February 13th, 2013
4:20 pm
Yawns are contagious. Plus, this weather….
I saw Blondie’s pic – NICE!!!!
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:21 pm
Thanks!!! I was going to wait until I got my tax refund, but not getting as much as I expected, so I financed it at 0% for 6 months.
MsAtl
February 13th, 2013
4:22 pm
Celisea- I’ve always tried to take the high road. But I have to admit, I did have an adult tantrum once because just once I wanted to play in the mud like the other folks.
Bluz- It doesn’t help when you read the comments beneath the article and they are funny.
Into the Light
February 13th, 2013
4:22 pm
Sweet! She’s a beauty.
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:24 pm
MsAtl – I couldn’t read the comments…I think I would really go to hell for that! LOL! Maybe I’ll go back and read them. Were they on the article on CNN? That’s the one I was looking at…
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:27 pm
ITL – If you’re free on the 22nd, I’ll tell you where in Tucker I’m playing…
disco
February 13th, 2013
4:27 pm
ms atl – and I’m a low road kind of girl by nature. even if I can’t actually take it I’m visualizing it in my mind. I gotta get out of my own head. lol. low road – I think that’s the name of Donald goines’ biography.
Leggs
February 13th, 2013
4:27 pm
Nite.
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:29 pm
Nite Leggs!
Into the Light
February 13th, 2013
4:31 pm
Yay, Bluz! Text it to me.
Into the Light
February 13th, 2013
4:36 pm
How come I am craving a steak???? Wonder if it means my iron is low….
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:39 pm
Could be. I always crave red meat during Aunt Flow’s visits because of an iron deficiency…
MsAtl
February 13th, 2013
4:40 pm
Bluz- It wasn’t the CNN article, it was another site. I can’t remember which one. I just know the comments had me dying. Yes, it was a bit mean, but they were still funny.
MsAtl
February 13th, 2013
4:42 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/heart-attack-grill-spokesman-dies-apparent-heart-attack-162858075.html
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:43 pm
Thanks MsAtl!
I guess everyone else dipped out without saying goodbye three times…
disco
February 13th, 2013
4:43 pm
i’m still here. just quiet.
MsAtl
February 13th, 2013
4:46 pm
“He lived a very full life,” Jon Basso, owner of the Heart Attack Grill, told the newspaper.
Really?????
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:47 pm
I don’t like the quiet disco!
Come on…gotta kill 15 more minutes!
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:48 pm
MsAtl – I just saw that…Um…he was only 52!!!
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:49 pm
He was thin also…very strange that he could eat like that and not be extremely obese.
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:50 pm
Haha – one of the comments: “If you get a heart attack at Heart Attack Grill, what do you get when you go to Joe’s Crab Shack?”
disco
February 13th, 2013
4:50 pm
girl, I guess I’m just plain out of things to say.
disco
February 13th, 2013
4:51 pm
bluz – that comment is funny but it made me wonder if there is some kind of heart attack prize. lol. have a heart attack and win such and such. have a heart attack and die – well the prize is non-transferable.
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:53 pm
I really shouldn’t be laughing so much at the death of a human. BUT…just can’t help it…
disco
February 13th, 2013
4:53 pm
you aren’t laughing at the death. you are laughing at the circumstances of the death.
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:55 pm
Yes…it really is sad that he died. I mean…he had to know that he was heart attack bound if he was eating there every day!
Bluzgirl
February 13th, 2013
4:56 pm
I guess I’m gonna pack it up and get out of here.
Toodles!!!
See ya!!!
I’m Out!!!
Good Night!!!
MsAtl
February 13th, 2013
4:59 pm
Good night.
Into the Light
February 13th, 2013
4:59 pm
Sorry I had to step out…..
Night, Bluz!!!!