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If you’re like most couples, you’re watching your pocket this year and looking for ways to romance your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day without breaking the bank. This list will help:

1. Create an indoor picnic with available props, i.e., picnic tablecloth, paper goods.

    Share finger foods and favourite treats along with a glass of wine. Spice up “dessert.” Enjoy your picnic on the living room floor or in bed. Play card games, board games, or make up your own.

2. Decorate a unique-looking jar or box with craft items. Write numerous love notes on small pieces of paper and fill the jar with them. Present the jar to your sweetheart.

3. Make a framed group of photos that put your relationship in chronological order of events, by months or years (depending on how long you’ve been together).

4. There are many local and national Valentine’s Day giveaway contests with great prizes. Enter as many as you can and maybe you’ll get lucky.

5. Burn a CD with songs that make you think of your sweetheart, and give it to him/her.

6. For couples with children, get them involved in an all-family fun Valentine’s Day dinner at home. Mom can prepare a dessert for two and light the candles while dad puts the kids to bed.

7. Create a favourite drink together. Try all kinds of ingredients. Enjoy taste-testing. Be sure to record the ingredients, so you can make the “your” drink again on Valentine’s Day year after year.

8. Create an at-home spa day for your mate. Deliver the gift in a basket filled with inexpensive candles, bubble bath, rose petals, facial mask and scrub. Then give your mate time to enjoy it. When he/she is done, heat up towels in the dryer for drying off.

9. Take a two-hour, one-time dancing lesson together. Or, identify some other interest you share and find a place to give you one-time extended lesson on Valentine’s Day. Do something with your significant other that he/she rarely has time to do, but loves.

10. Gals…Make the entire day full of his favourites: the breakfast of his dreams, the dinner of his dreams, TV that is his favourite, his music, etc. Don’t say anything about it, surprise him all day long.

11. Take the person you love to experience something spectacular in nature: a sunset, a sunrise, the calm of the beach, share an evening walk gazing at the moon.

12. Watch an old movie at home together, with popcorn and soft drinks and candy – movie-theatre style.

13. Pick a few household chores your Valentine usually does and surprise them by doing it before they get a chance, i.e., making the bed. It doesn’t sound romantic, but the thought will most certainly count.

14. On Valentine’s Day, place three pair of sexy undies on your bed and let your mate pick out which one you should wear. It’s your secret!