Four Inexpensive Tips for Putting a Smile on Her Face for Valentines Day

As we clear the silver and gold of the holiday season, there is little time to rest for the romantically challenged. Sure, you wracked your brains against the wall for her perfect Christmas gift but that's over. Now? Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and the drugstore candy may not cut it anymore.

Fear not. Here are four simple, inexpensive yet highly successful tips for that knock-out gift:

Tip #1: Multiple bouquets of flowers - one a day

Okay, take the shock look off your face and your hand off your wallet. This isn't ordering a two-hundred dollar week of flowers from some ultra-expensive florist. No, journey down to your nearest grocery store (specifically a Jewel) and look at their floral bouquets. You can easily get several rose selections for approximately $7-$10 a piece. Five days of flowers for $50 bucks beats one florist bouquet for almost a hundred.

Tip #2: One bouquet - sent to her job

What? But you just read don't do the florist shop! Not if you're just going to hand them to her at home. However, if you send flowers to her job, that's good stuff. There's a fact, if a woman works with other women, they talk. If you send her flowers, the other females will stop by her desk, see them and renew the initial positive reaction she had upon receiving your gift. Her co-workers will be your mouthpieces all day, talking you up.

Tip #3: Give her a scrapbook - that you made yourself

Easy, easy...you may not have a creative bone in your body but that's fine. Go to a craft store (JoAnn Fabrics or Michaels) and purchase a scrapbook kit. Piece together any memorabilia you have that will recreate moments, both big and small, that you two have had together. Take any movie tickets, meaningful clip art, photos, etc, throw in with some rubber cement and you're good to go. The kit will cost you under $20 but to her, it will be priceless. She'll even love any mistakes in the scrapbook.

Tip #4: A date - with her kids

Not necessarily her kids but any children that she's close to. It could be little brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, whatever little ankle-biters that she is fond of. Plan a date with you, her and them in addition to taking her out in couple hood. The kid-friendly date could have a cute theme (get them those little sweet hearts from kindergarten) and could be inexpensive (e.g. an ice cream outing, matinee movie outing). By showing her your kid-comfortable side, you'll warm her heart and woo her mind. Take pictures and send them to her (if you send them to her at work, there go those mouthpieces again, trust me).

So there you have it. Four tips towards Valentine's Day bliss.

It may be a greeting card holiday but there are more hearts out there quietly hoping for a lover's gift than not.

You can think outside the box and surprise her yet still be thinking inside the wallet.