Help! What to do for Valentine's

[Gebrian]

I am not this is the right place to post this but I'm slightly lost.

I started dating this lovely girl 8/9 months ago. This will be our first Valentine's together and I want to do something nice as she places great weight on it. I live in London.

However, I lost my job 7 months ago. And despite the fact that I have 3 degrees and have been to over a dozen interviews I have not managed to rectify the situation. After all this time I am really facing serious financial difficulties.

So I want to do something nice and creative but something I can afford. She complained the other day that all we do lately is sit at home, cook and watch series. So my plan to buy a bottle of champagne, strawberries and dessert will not work. Then I found that the Science Museum has showings of the Notebook, but when asked she told me she had seen the movie a few times and wasn't a huge fan anyway.

In different times I would probably go all out with some grand romantic gesture....but this year I am all shot for ideas.

Any ideas would really help.

M&S Love Sausage with eggs and coffee?

The Notebook?! Seriously?

Just cook her favourite or one of her favourite meals, make sure the kids are out of the house. If she has to work the following day then make sure all your overtures happen by 8pm.

I am also highly amused by the M&S sausage!

The most romantic thing DH ever sent me was a valentines with a photo of a necklace that I loved, saying when he had money, he would buy it for me. I kept the card. It's the gesture, not the money spent.

What about making a picnic (inc bread which is super cheap to make)

My partner bought a scrapbook from a pound shop and made a story of us. How we met et . Unbeknown to me he had kept old cinema tickets etc and printed photos. It was incredibly thoughtful and unexpected and cost a couple of quid altogether

The most romantic valentines day I had was when DP cooked dinner. We ate with only candle light and no clothes on (he had put a throw over the chairs as they were wood!). After dinner he went off to the bedroom and then came back to bring me too, he had rose petals on the bed, candles lighting around the room, he had strawberries dipped in chocolate and a fire on the TV through the chrome cast.

Maybe I am just easily pleased but I loved it, and he loved the thanking he got