Cheap Valentine Ideas for Husband

[peainapod]

I want to do a little something for DH, but we are getting ready for a vacation and don't want to spend a lot right before we go Any ideas?

 

[MSSANDRA]

Make a cheap meal special. Do some sort of pasta dish but use your best dishes and table cloth and candles and play music in the background. One of our favorite dates ever was a rare night we were home alone. I got Chinese take out from our favorite but cheap take out place and picked up one piece of really good cheese cake to share and opened a bottle of wine we had at home. We sit in bed, ate out of the carton and watched TV! Love that night. If you want to give him something, maybe something you will need for the trip. Matching t-shirts???

 

[wiigirl]

Make a cheap meal special. Do some sort of pasta dish but use your best dishes and table cloth and candles and play music in the background. One of our favorite dates ever was a rare night we were home alone. I got Chinese take out from our favorite but cheap take out place and picked up one piece of really good cheese cake to share and opened a bottle of wine we had at home. We sit in bed, ate out of the carton and watched TV! Love that night. If you want to give him something, maybe something you will need for the trip. Matching t-shirts???

Thats pretty romantic.

 

[ShelliRenee]

Make sure not to tell my husband, but I am giving him some spending money in a special way, I am doing the oragami dollar flowers. Here is a video link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6wyCOF8_0A#t=34

 

[Bete]

Giving personalized coupons work very well.

You can do a chore that he normally does. You can run an errand for him. You can give him a massage coupon redeemable whenever. You get the idea.

 

[monorailmom]

My DH and I made a deal back in 2008 when we bought DVC that this was our Valentine's/Mother's Day/Father's Day/birthday/anniversary/Christmas gifts to each other for the foreseeable future!

Now of course we still do small tokens for each other. What I do for Valentine's day is give him "Disney World". I buy a bottle of wine that we sampled from the previous year's Food and Wine Festival (they are rarely over $12 a bottle) and a bag of Ghirardelli chocolates (Target this week, $3.50). He knows I thought of something that makes him smile, and it didn't cost a lot.

 

[Aliceacc]

My Christmas gift to all the inlaws was an IOU for the Dessert Party when we all meet at WDW this summer.

Any chance you could book something special at Disney, or do an "IOU" for something he would enjoy?

 

[HookdonWDW]

a strategic bow

 

[figment3258]

You could make a special meal something you normally wouldn't eat durning the week. Or make a IOU for your vacation .

 

[GenieCat]

Little Debbie heart shaped cakes are less than half the price of a box of candy. The big boys like having a box all to themselves.

 

[seven dwarfs]

My hubby took a white sheet and hung it at the door of our family room. He set up a card table with slow music and lots of candles. Almost like it was our own private restaurant. He made a wonderful 5 course meal with wine and had the kids serve it. (dressed as waiters/waitresses) They even filled the water glasses etc. They loved it. Then we went to our room and watched a movie. It was wonderful and certainly could be reversed.

I planned a night for him. He was in class until 9 and was totally clueless. I made his favorite dessert and had soft music playing etc. I made a card that listed 100reasons I loved him. It was so fun and romantic thinking back over the years and coming up with the reasons. He loved it and even shed a tear or too!

It really is the small things. So easy to do without spending much money.

 

[Mrs. Bradbury]

I semi-live under a rock so maybe everyone else already has seen something like this, but I think it's an awesome idea: http://www.ourbestbites.com/2013/01/how-to-make-a-bacon-bouquet/

ETA: I realize that bacon isn't necessarily "cheap", but maybe it could be found on sale.

 

[wvjules]

a strategic bow

Along with some 'coupons'.

 

[pjlla]

Think back to your dating years. Was there something special that you used to do together that you haven't done in a long time?

Our favorite "special" night when were were dating and then newlyeds was a carpet picnic..... a nice bottle of wine or even champagne, a block of sharp cheddar, a box of nice crackers or a baguette, a few apples and a big bunch of grapes. Sitting in bed or on the floor with a good movie (and by candlelight, of course). We could snack and talk and "whatever" and then snack a bit more. I think that is what I am "gifting" to DH again this year. Our kids are 18.5 and 16 and we RARELY have had a "date night" in the past 18 years but it is probably time to get re-acquainted!

Happy Valentine's Day!.................P

 

[happymommy]

Make a cheap meal special. Do some sort of pasta dish but use your best dishes and table cloth and candles and play music in the background. One of our favorite dates ever was a rare night we were home alone. I got Chinese take out from our favorite but cheap take out place and picked up one piece of really good cheese cake to share and opened a bottle of wine we had at home. We sit in bed, ate out of the carton and watched TV! Love that night. If you want to give him something, maybe something you will need for the trip. Matching t-shirts???

After I read the original post, this was EXACTLY what I was going to say! A romantic pasta dinner, put music on, wine (we don't go for expensive wine anyway). Or if you like seafood, look for a good recipe for shrimp scampi?

I think a home cooked meal, served on your nicest plates, is a gift from the heart!

 

[ldo]

DD made a cute basket for her boyfriend. With items like gummy worms (hooked on you), nuts (you crack me up), sticky notes (stuck on you) with cute sayings that she printed out. I think she go the idea from "pin interest." Otherwise, DH just gave me a "hint" of a V cake from cold stone creamery.

 

[kimmyann]

Last year I made my DH a notebook of 100 things I love about you. It sounded so easy at first, but it definitely took some imagination toward the end. I also suggest going out together doing something you both like.

 

[Sandy61]

My DH cut out pink and red hearts and wrote little notes on them and put them around the house where I would find them....taped to bathroom mirror, visor in car, in my nightly reading book, etc. You could also tape a piece of candy to each one.

 

[Deb & Bill]

If you have a Papa Murphy's Pizza near by, get one of the heart shaped pepperoni pizzas. It's only $7.

 

[Egdisney]

My hubby took a white sheet and hung it at the door of our family room. He set up a card table with slow music and lots of candles. Almost like it was our own private restaurant. He made a wonderful 5 course meal with wine and had the kids serve it. (dressed as waiters/waitresses) They even filled the water glasses etc. They loved it. Then we went to our room and watched a movie. It was wonderful and certainly could be reversed. I planned a night for him. He was in class until 9 and was totally clueless. I made his favorite dessert and had soft music playing etc. I made a card that listed 100reasons I loved him. It was so fun and romantic thinking back over the years and coming up with the reasons. He loved it and even shed a tear or too! It really is the small things. So easy to do without spending much money.

That is so incredibly sweet.
I always make something on Valentine's Day, it is with my husband in mind, but also for the kids. We have 4 kids, I can't afford a babysitter and dinner on Valentine's Day! This year we will definitely be having chocolate fondue for dessert, my husband received a fondue set for his dirty Santa thing at work, we used it once and everyone loved it. This time I will go all out on the dippers. I am trying to decide on lasagna or cheese fondue for dinner. You can cut heart out of the lasagna noodles to make it cute(thanks, Pinterest). I am afraid that is too heavy of a dinner to have with a big dessert, but we have never had cheese fondue, what is we don't like it? I actually don't even know if my husband will be home on Valentine's Day, so I don't really know what to do.
As far as gift ideas, I usually make a card, this year I bought a gift, nothing too exciting, but a sweatshirt I bought for Christmas didn't fit, so I just kept it for myself. I owed him a sweatshirt anyway. I also bought him a pin that says Beat Stanford. His Christmas Gift was a trip to the Notre Dame/Stanford game. Coupon books are nice. If he is a candy lover I really like the cards that put different candy bars on them as part of the wording.
Most years my gift is baking something that he loves but takes too long to do regularly, cheesecake or maple bars, etc.