Okay, maybe you fell in love yesterday, or maybe you're the ultimate procrastinator. Either way, you'd better put something together quick! Here are 25 great ideas to rescue you from the Valentine's Dog House.
- Head to your nearest Mrs. Fields store and get a decorated Big Cookie Cake. Call ahead and have your own personalized message (up to 20 characters) inscribed in frosting!
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Write a love poem. Think you can't do it? Think again!
- Fill your valentine's car with balloons.
- Enroll them in a sock-of-the-month subscription.
- Prepare a relaxing bubble bath with all the right ingredients: candles, music, fancy soap, warm towels and uninterrupted time.
- Track down your valentine's favorite old movie and have a romantic movie night in with buttery popcorn.
- Send a special, meaningful text one word at a time, every hour on the hour throughout the day so your valentine is anticipating each one and putting the puzzle together.
- Find a karaoke track of your favorite love song and give a private concert.
- Remember the first meal you shared together? Buy the ingredients and prepare it yourself.
- Make a special playlist of meaningful songs. Print out the lyrics and make notes in the margins about how it relates to your love story.
- Is there a task that you valentine has been putting off? A squeaky door, a broken drawer, a watch that won't work? Surprise them by fixing it (or having it fixed).
- Make a giant homemade greeting card out of a big cardboard box. Pull out the construction paper, markers, glitter and glue to make it oversized and over-the-top sweet.
- Call a local radio station and dedicate a song. (Make sure you valentine is listening!)
- Buy a book or find some video tutorials and give your valentine a thorough, relaxing massage.
- Write love notes on the bathroom mirror in lipstick, soap or dry erase marker.
- Prepare a virtual vacation with photos from around the world that you would love to take your valentine. Make imaginary plans and explore them together.
- Make a silly online card with Jib Jab.
- A heart-shaped cookie cutter can turn any food into a valentine.
- Create a photo slide show of the two of you together set to a favorite song.
- Record a video of yourself listing all the things you love about your valentine and email it to him/her.
- Surprise your valentine at work with a special picnic lunch.
- Go old school and make a clever candy bar poster.
- What's your valentine's favorite cocktail? Buy the ingredients and play bartender.
- Plan a last-minute romantic road trip.
- Build an adult fort and fill it with pillows, blankets, chocolates and a book of love poems.
