Title:    Your valentine's day dinner
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Cook a gourmet dinner at home together - make it an activity. One can prepare the main and the other, the dessert.

Title:    Personalise
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A gift does not have to be expensive, but becomes special when you personalise it with your partner's name. If you have time, make the gift. Write notes saying what you love about your partner and place them where your partner will find them during the day. Leave a romantic message on the answering machine so when your partner comes home, they will find it. If you are computer savvy, make a slide show of photographs set to music of you and your mate. Your personal efforts will be worth more than dollars you saved.

Title:    Gift vouchers
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Make up a book of vouchers to give your Valentine. Services may include a massage provided by you, doing cleaning for a week if your partner usually does it or washing your partner's car. As with any gift it is the thought that counts - and the biggest reward a genuine smile of appreciation from the receiver of the gift.

Title:    Flowers
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Buy a small pot plant and wrap a ribbon around the plant. This will be less expensive and will last much longer than flowers purchased from the florist. Everytime it flowers, your mate will think of you.

Title:    Gift ideas
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Buy an inexpensive frame and add a photo of the two of you. You could include a loving message on the photo or the back of the frame. If you are creative, you could make the frame yourself.

Title:    Gift ideas - romantic dinners
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Consider a beachside or hilltop picnic to celebrate your Valentine's Day. Make your own picnic basket complete with wine and food. Or have a candlelit picnic in the backyard ( or the living room). You might complete the evening with a hot bath and a romantic movie.

Title:    Gifts - chocolates
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If your partner likes chocolate, rather than buy fancy expensive chocolates, share a chocolate fondue and cut up bananas and strawberries to dip.