7 Affordable Ways to Say I LOVE YOU

With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, lovers everywhere are searching through couch cushions and busting open piggy banks to scrounge together some change for the perfect gift for their paramour. Fret not, friends! Here are seven affordable ways to say I love you this Valentine’s Day:

Bake your message into cupcakes

Who doesn’t love a good cupcake? Who wouldn’t appreciate a batch of cupcakes that tell you-you’re loved by your sweetheart? This option is fairly simple: bake the cupcakes, write ‘I love you’ across the cupcakes, and watch the heart of your significant other melt.

Write romantic poetry

Poetry is one of the best ways to express the way you really feel without a filter. With poetry, it is encouraged to be as honest and unguarded with your emotions as possible. Lay everything out on the line for your loved one: what you love about, how you felt about your greatest moments together, where you hope your relationships grow. Write to them what you never had the courage to say.

Profess your love in a different language

The key to love is showing your partner that you care to make an effort in your relationship. So, to exhibit how much you love your partner, why not try your hand at learning some other languages? I suggest French and Spanish, as they both sound quite seductive. But, this isn’t about sweeping them off their feet but rather showing how far you will go to profess your undying love.

Knit matching sweaters

If the cliché that it’s the thought that counts is true, then this arduous task should show your loved ones how much you care about them. The potential risk of poking yourself with a needle should be well-worth the smile on your loved one’s face once they realize how much effort you put into this gift.

Tell your partner you love them with hand signs

Whether with sign language or an expressive, emotional hand display, the use of the physical form to communicate love is a powerful one. A huge element of love is physical attraction and interaction so by using one’s body to communicate affection, it can be a physical metaphor for love itself. Also, it’s just a cute thing to do for your loved one, where you strip away the fancy talking and soliloquizing and reduce your message to the base human interaction that everybody can relate to.

Sneak a printed doormat into your partner’s dorm room

If you and your partner are still in that college grind, why not sneak your message into their dorm room? A couple of variables to consider: is their roommate a jerk that will remove the doormat? Do they already have a doormat? Will they run right over the doormat, not seeing the message? If you feel confident that the message will be secure and your partner will see it, this simple but effective gesture can deliver the loving message you desire and get your partner’s hectic day off to a lovely start.

Decorate your partner’s car with love letters

Love is an illogical and inconvenient force that binds human beings together. What’s more inconvenient than decorating someone’s car? You have to rely on the fact that your partner is a romantic that won’t flip out if you do this, but if you feel you are with someone that fits that criteria, this would be a great way to hammer home your love for them.