Expert Dating Tips for a Super Frugal Valentine’s Day Celebration

Have you been effected by the downturn in the economy? Is your Valentine’s Day Budget kinda low this year?  Um, frankly, is your Valentine’s Day celebration budget zero this year?  Have you been recently been laid off?  Are you unemployed?  Have you been unemployed for more than a year now?  Are you not only feeling discouraged financially, but feeling despondent romantically with your partner?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, today’s blog post is for you.  Not only is every single romantic celebration idea I will present to you today totally 100% Free, they are also guaranteed to be fun, life-affirming, and invigorating.

As you read the free romantic celebration ideas I’m giving you today (see, your first free Valentine’s Day gift already this year!) if the precise idea does jive with what you find fun, adventurous, and exciting, then use it as a spring board catalyst to stimulate your own creativity and ideas for an activity which you find engaging and fun.

If music be the food of love, play on

Fill your Valentine’s Day day with beautiful flowing romantic music.  Fill your home’s airwaves with romantic ballads.  Fill your home’s ambiance with lyrical classical violin music.

Yes, this can be 100% free.

Radio Station Dancing

First, there is your local classical music station.  Many of them will be playing marvelously romantic lyrical melodies all day long.  Turn on your radio and tune your dial to your classical music station. Perhaps your romantic music preference has more of a Latin beat.  Then tune your dial to your local Salsa beat station and turn up the volume until you are swaying in the kitchen.

As the music is playing, take your love in your arms, and dance together.  Who cares if you two haven’t taken any ballroom dance classes together?  You can still manage some dancing.

By the way, I say, your love, because all of these free romantic celebration tips are perfectly good for opposite sex couples as well as same sex LGBT couples.  The focus is LOVE and ROMANCE, not gender or preferences.  One of you will be the Leader and the other the Follower in your dancing.  That’s all.

Audio CDs from Your Public Library

Your tax dollars already paid for them, now go and enjoy them!  Go visit your public library.  In case you do not have a library card, check with your local library and verify what proof of identity and proof of residence you will need to bring with you to acquire a card.  Get or bring your library card with you, and then go have fun browsing through the audio cd section of your library.

Perhaps your romantic heart swells to the strains of the arias of love and betrayal in “Madame Butterfly?”  Or maybe your love’s passionate heart smolders to the latin beat strains of “Forever Tango?”  Perhaps your romantic tenderness triggers to the opening strains of anything by Chopin?  At your public library, you will likely find these or related works… all for free.  Check the CDs out and play them at your home in a special way on Valentine’s Day.

Awaken to Chopin

Awaken your love in the morning to Chopin, a gentle music for shifting from somnolent dream state to fully awake consciousness.

Words of Love…

If you have a poetic bent to your talents, then by all means, write your love a poem expressing your love and tender thoughts.

However, if you feel tongue tied with iambic pentameter, then borrow from the greats.  While you are at your great free adventure trip to the Public Library, go over to the poetry section and check out a few volumes of books.

Whose Poetry Should You Use?

Certainly you can’t go wrong with Shakespeare and his wonderful love Sonnets.  However, perhaps your heart feels better expressed by the whimsical lyricism of Walt Whitman or the voice of Emily Dickinson, Sappho, the Song of Songs, or William Blake?  Embrace that and check out the book.

Free Ideas with Poetry

1.  You can read the poems to your love

2.  You can transcribe the poems in your own hand as a gift to your love.

Use Thine Own Dear Hand

Get a nice piece of paper or even simply lined notebook paper, whatever you already have around the house.  Truly the idea here is that all of your romantic gestures have no monetary cost.  Use a nice pen, one with rolling flowing ink.  Transcribe with your own dear hand the precious word of love and sentiment.

Make It Into a Beautiful Gift

Roll the paper into a scroll and tie it with a ribbon.  Do you have a string of yarn?  Perhaps some Christmas ribbon?  Anything beautiful like that which you already have.  Use that to make your poetry scroll into a wonderfully romantic gift for your love.

This idea of free frugal romantic ideas for celebrating Valentine’s Day is so important, I will continue it for the next few days.

Happy Dating and Relationships,

April Braswell

Las Vegas Baby Boomer Dating Expert

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Expert Dating Tips – Preparing for Valentine’s Day

As couples of all kind prepare for the great day of romantic celebration, Valentine’s Day, whether you are singles in a couple relationship, a recently married couple celebrating your first Valentine’s Day together as newlyweds, or you are a long-standing married couple, there are thoughtful ways to demonstrate your love for each other in meaningful ways without breaking the bank.

Celebrate the Sentiment – Avoid the Premium Prices

Indeed, when I field dating advise for Baby Boomer Singles, singles in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, some are quite practical.  Yes, they have a tender and romantic heart and desire to do something special to celebrate Valentine’s Day.  And yet, they are quite sage of the fact that many of the traditional Valentine’s Day gifts have been significantly marked up for the occasion.  Some married couples even had their marriage nuptials on Valentine’s Day, making remembering their wedding anniversary quite easy.  However, they are all wanting to avoid the crowds of couples and the premium prices.  Some choose to celebrate Valentine’s Day, the sentiment of it, on a different day.

Make It Special – At Home

Yes, I love when men are gentlemen and pay for those first phase of a relationship dates, open the door for us (I inculcate for sweet, feminine utterances of “thank you!”).  However, dating is for courtship, not for (shudder, ghastly behavior) treating men like a meal ticket.  So, when the two of you are a couple with some exclusivity and commitment, or you two are married, celebrating Valentine’s Day as a special romantic occasion need not be about eating your meal out at a restaurant.

Instead, whoever is the better cook, prepare a special romantic dinner for you two.  Go to CostCo and purchase a nice bottle of wine for you two to share together.  You can even make the preparing and cooking of the meal a romantic interlude.  Wear aprons (yes, there are masculine ones….), and chop and mince together while dancing around your kitchen listening to some romantic ballads sung by Johnny Mathis or Frank Sinatra.  Share using the wooden spoon as the microphone, and warble along with the crooners.

Serve the meal by candlelight, and open up the bottle of wine like La Crema as you set a special table.  It is a very good wine with a marvelous moderate price.  Use special linens if you have them.  However, not to force you to race out and spend scads of money just to fill your linen or hope chest, if you do not, you can purchase hearts metal confetti at some party stores and strew them across your table to catch the candlelight and make for a frugal romantic setting.

Happy Dating and Relationships,

April Braswell

Las Vegas Baby Boomer Dating Expert

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