Buy your mate a gift certificate to their favorite store.
Learn a sport your mate enjoys to play without their knowledge, surprise them sometime by playing it with them!
Buy her/him a card when you're away with a picture of human heart, reading, "My heart is gone without you."
Explore all of the tourist activities your own city provides.
Buy her a Precious Moments (the ceramic figures) of a boy asking a girl to marry him. Place the ring in the boy's hand. Get down on one knee when you give it to her, don't say a word, just look deep into her eyes when she takes it, so she knows that this is really a 'precious moment'.
Send your man/woman and bag of candy hearts, with a note saying this is how many times you stole my heart.
Blow up seven balloons and put an activity she would enjoy in each balloon. Let her pop one balloon per day & perform that activity.
A night of board games, dancing and sweet kisses in front of a crackling fire!!!
Play footsies.
Read poetry to her. Write poetry about her.
Write your initials in cement or write "I love NAME".
Prior to the date and alone, pick out a nice place i.e. beach, water, sunset and place a single stem rose somewhere on a rock or anywhere you can find and with the rose have a letter on it written from you straight from your heart. After you have gone out to a movie or dinner take that special person to that special place where the rose with a letter to them will just happen to be laying.
When you are driving somewhere, pull over unexpectedly on the side of the road when a good song comes on, and dance your socks off.
Make a complex collage for him/her, full of words like "sexy," "i love you," and anything else you feel is important.
Go to Hallmark. Take an hour reading cards. Spend $25. Stock up on love, I miss you, and birthday cards.
Write your sweetie a note saying 'I love you' in every language you can think of.
Camp out in your living room or backyard. Share a sleeping bag.
Give your partner a promise ring to let them know that you are devoted to them.
Thumb wrestle while watching TV.
Change your cell phone ringer for your mate to something romantic.
Lay in grass in each other's arms and look at the stars together.
This Valentine's Day my wife is going to get a deluxe facial. Then we'll go to the health club- but not just to work out. She's going to get a one hour full body massage! After that a romantic dinner for two and we'll end up at a nice hotel for their Valentine Special- including champagne and chocolate.
Volunteer together for Community Center, such as bringing kids to field trips, organizing sports day, or playing with them.
Tell her that she is the best thing that has ever happened to you in your entire life!
Renew your wedding vows.
Put 2 tickets to his/her favorite concert. Put the card where they will find it. Inside the card you can write "We can make our own music after the show."
Write him a love letter covered with lipstick kisses and sealed with your perfume.
Purchase or photocopy 2 copies of "Romeo and Juliet", - the balcony scene. Place one copy on an elevated platform (stairs, window, etc.)with Juliet's lines highlighted and play the part of Romeo, leave notes directing her to the window and sneak outside/under the stairs to suddenly start when she appears. Bonus: memorize the lines, added bonus - dress the part.
Buy a 3 ft. or 4 ft. swimming pool, put it in your backyard. That way whenever you and your partner want to go swimming you can do it in your backyard.
Blindfold your date and surprise them with a candlelit dinner.
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