Moria Dailey
Published: February 8, 2006
It’s Valentine’s Day soon; some of you may want to do something nice for a significant other. Others of you may be required to. Either way, here are some tips for the poor and kind.
As I am not horribly romantically inclined, I asked a friend who happens to be a rather romantic schmuck for help. His recommendation? A scavenger hunt. Which, actually, is a brilliant idea. The best case scenario? You leave your darling clues, all leading to somewhere special. Say you met downtown in the park, but have had wonderful little dates around town. Leave him or her a first clue in his or her domicile directing him or her (him or her is getting old, yeah?) to random special places about Pensacola, culminating in him or her finding you in the park (or wherever you two first met), smiling and clutching a gift. Or a picnic basket. It’ll be perfect!
Also, there are many (less time consuming) cheap dates. Silver Screen! It’s a wonderful place, really. They did raise their prices, but students still see movies for $4. My advice? Cook dinner at home and then take darling to a film.
Or, if you’re abject to the taking to a film idea, why don’t you stick with the cooking of the dinner (which is a brilliant thing – people love to be cooked for!) and renting a movie. Romantic comedies are a good idea. I recommend “Say Anything” or “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”
As for gift giving, well, I know you’re poor. Or at least I know I’m poor, so here’s my advice. If you’re an artist, draw, paint, photograph, etc. something for darling. I’m sure it will be loved; probably more so than something you got in a store because it came from you!
Something that takes a bit more work, but would be a great idea for those of you photographically inclined, is a photo album. I’m sure you and darling have many lovely memories; here’s what you do: collect photos from said memories and/or go out and take photos that will trigger remembrance of said memories and put them in a photo album (which can be procured for little money). Then, decorate it with all kinds of gushy, lovey-dovey mess that couples are good at and give it to darling.