50 sweet nothings for Valentine's Day!
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Some are cool, some are kooky and they're all extremely romantic! Arwindh PanneerSelvam suggests 50 things to do on Valentine's Day.
If you're at a loss as to how you can make this February 14 different, here are more than four dozen suggestions for you, courtesy forwarded e-mails and love posts. Enjoy!
1. Write a love poem about each other and read them out.
2. Call a radio station and dedicate a love song. Make sure he or she is listening!
3. Write in lipstick on the mirror and below leave a love note or coupon.
4. Write 'I Love You' on a piece of paper and hide it in their lunch box or purse.
5. Make heart-shaped bread toast for breakfast, with hot chocolate dip.
6. Plan a very surprise candle light dinner at home after 9 pm.
7. Cook a delicious three course meal for lunch.
8. Give a warm oil massage or foot massage or back rub on a Sunday morning.
9. Play your romantic dance song or salsa and try to dance together.
10. Send a surprise romantic text message or e-mail.
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Image: Find an interesting way of leaving an 'I love you' message
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Use red ribbon to wrap your bed like a gift!
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11. Read the Kama Sutra or My Secret Garden or Men in Love together.
12. Make a list of 10 things you love about each other.
13. Make a photo album of your favourite memories together.
14. Go camping on a rainy weekend with only one sleeping bag and one blanket.
15. Shower together (a warm bubble bath is best!).
16. Turn off the lights and sing a love song together.
17. Go for a moonlight dinner to an open air beach restaurant near the sea.
18. Use red ribbon to wrap your bed like a gift.
19. Give a bouquet of red roses or wild flowers.
20. Take a walk together in the morning at your local park.
Image: You can never go wrong with a bunch of roses
Photographs: Jebulon/Wikimedia Commons
Spend an evening stargazing
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21. Make a donation in your spouse's name to a special cause or charity.
22. Watch an old black and white romantic movie and share a bowl of popcorn.
23. Re-enact your very first meeting at the very first special place.
24. Surprise your spouse with tickets to a movie or special event.
25. Give an unexpected French kiss in the lift and demand it is returned to you.
26. Send five different e-greetings just to say 'I love you'.
27. Post a snail mail 'I am thinking of you' card to your home address.
28. Plan a small flower garden together.
29. Spend an evening looking at the stars and make a wish together.
30. Place a small wedding photograph in each other's wallet or purse.
Image: Spend an evening stargazing
Photographs: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Use a letter or card to express your feelings
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31. Write a classic, romantic, passionate, handwritten, heartfelt one-page love letter.
32. Develop secret signals and use them to communicate.
33. Do the home cleaning and laundry together.
34. Prepare a mini handwritten 'love' invitation to do something special.
35. Go to watch a movie in a drive-in movie theatre.
36. Share a large chocolate ice-cream cone or sugar sponge.
37. Give your partner a 'World's Best Wife or Husband' certificate.
38. Eat a chocolate bar together without using your hands, only your mouths.
39. Perform a 10 question quiz -- 'Kaun Jitega Das Rupiya?'
40. Go shopping together to buy groceries or clothes.
Image: Use a letter or card to express your feelings
Photographs: Jayanta Shaw/Reuters
Serve a Sunday morning breakfast in bed
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41. Stand together in front of the mirror for two minutes in the day.
42. Go to the Taj Mahal together at least once in your lifetime.
43. Surprise with a 'very very special' outfit.
44. Buy a set of matching silk pajamas and take turns modelling them for each other.
45. Buy a new perfume or cologne.
46. Do puja together at home or at your local temple.
47. Buy a new piece of gold or diamond jewellery.
48. When attending a wedding, whisper: 'If I had to do it over, I'd marry you again'.
49. Give a surprise by serving a Sunday morning breakfast in bed.
50. Ask your partner to pick a number between 1 and 50, then reward him/her with that number of kisses.
Image: Serve a Sunday morning breakfast in bed
Photographs: Gordana Adamovic-Mladenovic on Flickr/Wikimedia Commons
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