Valentine’s Day on a budget
Recession romance is all the fashion!
Use Valentine’s Day as an excuse to have a bit of fun, to focus on each other again instead of letting the kids’ lives rule your whole week, and to renew the habit of making romance part of your daily life.
Recession romance ideas
Revisit your first date.
It’s unlikely that your first date was your most expensive – so why not take a trip down memory lane and do the same things you did on your first ever date together?
Cook your favourite meal.
Jazz up a popular dish with a more expensive cut of meat – still cheaper than eating out – or unearth a recipe for a dish from a favourite holiday abroad.
Hand-make a card for every year you’ve been together. They don’t have to be complicated efforts, just folded coloured cards each recalling a highlight from a particular year. e.g. a photo of him in a sexy pair of trousers he used to wear or a little piece of ribbon from your wedding day.
Dress up for the sofa.
Even if you’re going to stay in with a good DVD, why not put your glad rags on?
Massage.
Pick an aromatic massage oil and have a giggle with a little back rub or a foot massage.
Put fairy lights in the bedroom.
Twinkling lights aren’t just for Christmas. Add a magical feel with this playful change from candles.
Savvy tip
Have you got a ‘just the two of us’ photo album? Dig through dusty old boxes for photographs that only feature the two of you to make a special collection, or put a favourite, forgotten picture in a frame and hang it on the wall as a surprise.
Pass it on – great gifts
Check out some novel romantic pressies in our Valentine’s Gifts article.