Valentine's Day on the Cheap

 Do you have a gift for your

lover?

How much did you spend on it....

The average person that expects to recieve gifts this

Valentine's Day estimates that the worth of

the gifts will be about $210.

And people in relationships think they will

receive gifts worth $240.

When in reality

Men plan to spend around $98,

and women plan to spend about $71

25% of people in relationships dont think their 

significant other plans

to spend anything on gifts....

Valentine's day is about Love...

show that love however you wish,

I would rather receive NOTHING,

than know Shaun put an

expensive gift on the credit card.

Here are a few ideas if you wanna

celebrate Valentines day,

but dont wanna take out a second mortgage

to do so.

This is what we will be doing:

Every Valentines day, Qdoba has a BOGO deal

for those willing to kiss someone in the line....

well that's easy, just go with someone you dont mind (or love) locking lips

with and you got yourself a $3-$4 meal.

(we do this every year!)

Dessert will be strawberries and bananas dipped

in Hershey's chocolate spread.

(You can find this in the peanut butter aisle)

$3 Chocolate spread

$1.66/1lb Strawberry's (sale this week at Sprouts)

$.55/lb bananas

Movie from our collection $0

get out the Christmas lights,

that you put away last month...

and string them around whatever room

you plan to enjoy the evening in.

(when Shaun and I first got married, we

were both in college and had about 1 dime 

to our name...

we couldn't afford a lamp for our bedroom,

so we bought a string of 

Christmas lights and put them around

the ceiling!)

Shaun will be getting a SMASH book

from me with all sorts of memeories

from the past year!

I bought that at TJ Maxx for $5.99...

The pics below are a smashbook I

made for him in 2009.  I made that one from scratch

cuz I worked at a scrap book store and got all the 

goods for 50% off...I also had more time back then

to assemble something like that!

And I told him I want a new spatula for Valentine's Day....I wasn't kidding.

Valentines Day doesn't have to be expensive to be fun!

(PS- In case you missed the semi annual sale in stores, Victoria's Secret 

 now has their clearance up to 80% off online...WINK)

Smashbook layout based on the book: "Jolly Mr Postman"

Our first pic together in 2006

He met my fam in January '07

He proposed on April 28th 2007

Married in the Jordan River Temple Aug 10th

envelopes with letters to Shaun

This was the day he proposed at some natural hot springs in the mountains of Idaho

The week I met Shaun I got the stomach flu, he still came to visit wearing a mask. He brought me soup and Coke!

We can live like Jack and Sally if we want!