How To Celebrate Valentine’s Day On A Budget

Ready to show your special someone how much they mean to you? Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. If a fancy dinner date is out of the question, there are other creative, budget-friendly ideas you can choose from this year. Show how much you care about your significant other!

Out & About

If you have time to celebrate, there are many places you can go to have a different kind of Valentine’s date.

Attend A Trivia Night

Is your significant other’s brain full of weird and interesting facts? Consider a trivia night at your local bar or café. Trivia nights usually have a “snackish” feel and are spent laughing and answering buzzer-beater questions.

Volunteer Together

What’s better than working together? Working together for a great cause! If there is an organization that touches both of your hearts, consider volunteering together as your Valentine’s date. It opens your hearts to the community you live in while making a deep, meaningful connection.

Hike To The Perfect Picnic Place

Combine the outdoors with food. Pack a picnic with your favorite sandwiches and snacks and hike to the perfect picnic place. The walk itself can be full of beautiful sights, or have a grand destination dressed up with candlelight or flowers.

Stuck At Work?

Sometimes you and your significant other are separated from each other due to work. That doesn’t mean romance goes out the window! You can make the most of the day and show you are thinking of them.

Write Love Letters

Let’s face it. No one wants to work on a holiday like Valentine’s Day. It usually means the day is super busy. Give your partner a pick me up by sending them to work with a love letter, a fun memory, or a poem. When their day gets rough, they can take a couple of minutes to read your special words. Or, you can send texts to keep their spirits high throughout the day!

Send Edible Bouquet

Deliver edible goodness to their workplace. You can either create your own bouquet of fruits, veggies, chocolate, etc. or order one through a local company. Whatever your significant other fancies! It’s a sweet treat they can nibble on throughout the day. Or, you take the traditional route and send a classic bouquet to their work.

Romantic Night At Home

Stay in and create a romantic night at home to avoid the holiday traffic and dinner rush. Put the kids to bed and celebrate each other’s love in a new and creative way.

Movie Night

Make this movie night different from the others. Go all out! Pop the popcorn, grab your favorite movie theater snacks, and get cozy. Rent the movie you both have wanted to see forever. Take advantage of the fact that you are home by jumping into your comfiest pajamas and grabbing all the fluffiest blankets in the house. Create the most comfortable spot on the couch and buckle up for a movie with your love.

DIY Wine Tasting

Got some bottles of wine set aside for a “special” occasion? Here’s your chance to break them out. Create a winery-style tasting in your own home. Grab a couple of wine glasses, light a few candles, and start pouring wine from the stash you both have gathered over the duration of your relationship.

Food From The Heart

Is the way to your partner’s heart through their stomach? We don’t blame them! Yet, there’s no need to fight Valentine’s Day traffic, secure reservations, and pay for a costly meal. There are other ways to feed each other on a budget.

Make Your Own Custom Pizza

You can’t go wrong with pizza. Especially if you work together to create a custom pizza that has all the toppings, sauce, and cheese you desire. Plus, you can go all out by creating a heart-shaped crust when rolling out the dough. This night in the kitchen can be full of laughs as you wait for your pizza. This can even be a fun family activity if you want to include your little loves.

Almost all of these date ideas require little funds and mostly include things you can find around your house. One of these can be your budget-friendly way to impress your Valentine!