How to celebrate valentine's day inexpensively

What valentine’s day really means? Isn’t it because of the real essence of the day or just because it is made to be so commercialized that it affects a lot of people?

I have a long lost friend who once said that she never experienced how it feels to celebrate valentine’s day. To make the storytelling short, I made her feel the happy feelings celebrating valentine’s day…(we’ve gone separate ways though.)

But the point that I want to emphasize is, is it really needed to celebrate valentine’s day like it’s so special? Firstly, it’s not a regular holiday or special day for that matter that if it falls on a working day it will be either non-working or working holiday, which entails additional pay for those who are employed. Secondly, neither Christian faithful nor other religion celebrates the day grandiosely. And lastly, no doctrine or document is being laid down for the said day to be special.

Commercialization did it. As some quarters would say, the “Capitalist society” made valentine’s day as something people to be worry of. Look around during “valentine’s day”, lovers troop down to a lot of commercial districts to kind of celebrate “kuno” the day. But the question that crops up is, couldn’t they do it on any other day? Or isn’t it that they’ve been doing it all year long? Unless of course your financial health dictates otherwise, but giving flowers, chocolates, dinner dates, and giving of gifts is just a normal thing that can be done anytime of the year?

But, because it’s the buzz and a lot of people are so worried for the day especially those who have “dates” and more so for those who don’t have, more and more people would try to grab the opportunity to do the same thing also…

For those lovers who are so in love and would like to make valentine’s day celebrate like it’s a very special day, they tend to forget that it’s nothing special actually. What made it extra ordinary is a lot of people are going crazy in finding for space, either in restaurant, bars and hotel rooms…ahemm…

It’s not that I am against showing your affection through things like that, especially if we do it with someone special to us. What makes it wrong to my taste is the way people treat the day commercially and expensively. We can celebrate valentine’s day in a conservative and yet meaningful way, within which the message of expressing our feelings, affection and love can get through.

Top 3 on my list:

3.Take a walk at the park, or beach and just talk anything under the heat of the sun.

2.Cook for her/him some finger-foods and eat together while watching love-themed movies on DVD.

1.Have dinner outside your house, in the garden or in the backyard under the moonlight.