Valentine’s Day Date and Gift Ideas for a Lot Less

Valentine’s Day is just a week away.  Many of you may be scrambling to figure out how to make it a special and romantic day for your spouse without breaking the bank.  We feel as if we have been experts on both how NOT to celebrate Valentine’s Day and HOW TO celebrate and not go in debt or outside of the budget to allow for a nice celebration.

First, we had written these previous articles that we suggest taking a few minutes to look over and read to help you get ides for each stage of your budget.  We are then going to share some sites to help you get everything for 50% or less!

So with Valentine’s Day being right around the corner, we wanted to share some ideas we had for celebrating Valentine’s Day for different financial situations:

• No or low budget
• Small Budget
• Get the Most For Your Budget no matter how little or how much it is!

We ourselves have literally been in each of the above financial situations throughout our marriage when it comes to Valentine’s day! Currently, our budget allows for us to enjoy a night out for dinner and an activity plus a $20 allotment for gifts for each of us.  We celebrate as a couple “out” before or after Valentine’s Day (read the articles to find out why ).  We also have a family Valentine’s celebration, usually at home with pizza, homemade decorated cookies and games.  The kids “love” Valentine’s day too as we encourage each of them to truly understand and teach a lesson on “loving your neighbor as yourself.”  It sets a perfect stage for the family party!

This is the most we have had our budget for Valentine’s day since starting our out of debt journey.  And although this will be the third Valentine’s Day being debt-free, we still want to keep things low and at a very reasonable rate as we try to be a wise steward about our finances and not even let the day of romance make a month (or more!) of financial hardship.

So now for the nitty gritty on gifts since we have set the stage for your celebration with one ideas from the three articles above and have told you a little about our own personal celebration!

Flower/Chocolate/Gift Basket Delivery:

FTD.com is offering flower arrangements as low as $19.99 HERE

Blooms Today is offering a 50% off deal, in addition, you can also get a $29.99 bouquet for only $4.99 as their featured rock bottom deal!

ProFlowers is offering a $19.99 option with a FREE vase.

Discount Gift Cards:

We suggest browsing the following sites and compare prices as their inventory and discounts change frequently. With this idea, you can buy a gift card and then either print confirmation or take the gift card itself and wrap it up in a fun creative way!

You can grab popular merchants gift cards for up to 25% off as a nice gift from GiftCards.com!

PlasticJungle is offering popular merchant gift cards for up to 35% off!

Grab gift certificates to your favorite local restaurants either as a gift or as the actual date for DEEP discounts from Restaurant.com.  Right now you can get a $25 certificates for $4 with coupon code: DATENIGHT.

Amazon is always a great way to go for gift cards as your recipient can get anything and get anything for a great price!

Jewelry and other gift ideas:

Amazon has a whole part of the site dedicated to helping you find a good deal on Gift Ideas and Deals for your Valentine on Amazon HERE.

Walmart.com is offering quite a few Valentine’s Day deals and ideas for less HERE.  Most of the deals are FREE or .97 shipping and guaranteed delivery by Valentine’s Day.

Don’t forget to check out the popular daily deal and group buying sites for deep discounts on massages, dinners, shopping, flowers, gift items, jewelry and tons more!

Here’s a list and link to the popular ones:

• Groupon
• Living Social
• Eversave
• Eversave Gifts
• Plum District
• Mama Source

Finally, don’t forget to visit our Store Deals with Coupon Matchups page HERE to find local deals in-store with coupons to get great deals on candy and more!