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Thanks to Walmart, Nestle, Russell Stover, and M&M candies, the Eleven Moms and I have a wonderful opportunity to giveaway our very own Apple iPod touch 8 GB (2nd Generation) + a $10 iTunes gift card away to one of our wonderful readers! I am so excited that I get to offer you such a lovely prize.
In case you are unfamilar with the iPod Touch here are some facts about it:
- New contoured design
- Revolutionary Multi-Touch touchscreen interface
- Brilliant 3.5″ widescreen display
- Ambient light sensor and accelerometer
- Built-in volume controls and speaker
- Built-in Wi-Fi and Nike + iPod support
- Buy music on the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
- Rent movies from iTunes to watch on iPod touch
- Download games and applications from the App Store via Wi-Fi
- For Mac and Windows
All of the Elevenmoms are giving away one of these babies so go visit each one of them to maximize your chances of winning! Each of thier contests are a little different so you'll need to read their posts to find out how to win. While you’re looking around Walmart’s Eleven Moms page, be sure to check out the Valentine’s page, where you can create your own top 10 Love Song Playlist, make a Valentine’s e-Card, or blow a kiss with your iPhone!
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Turn off the tv, light some candles, play some music, and cook a special meal together. Thanks!
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I am going to make a collage of pictures with my husband showing great times we had together and then frame it for his gift. I am also going to rent a movie that we both like. I saved enough money from surveys to buy his favorite cheap take-out. We will cuddle and spend Valentine's together at home. This is a very cheap, but lovely night.
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I love it! We always eat home on Valentine's Day. I make something special. Always Chocolate! When my daughters (now 18 and 22) were little I would color their milk pink. If my daughters want to eat at home these days, GREAT, if not it is me and HUBBY, But it is SPECIAL! HOMEMADE and YUMMY!
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Stay at home and eat a romantic meal together. Restraunts are so busy and expensive.
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A group of friends and I are sending our hubbies on a scavenger hunt at the mall. They have to take pics of themselves doing funny things and collect a few items (a certain flavored gumball, etc.). Then we are giving them each $2 to get us a gift. Then we will come back for dinner and vote on the best gift. :)
My group is staying in and having a waffle night. We'll buy a few toppings and play video games all night!
make your own valentines! for your family and for kids' school friends!
I bought a heart shaped cookie cutter at Target for $2.99. So, for our inexpensive Valentines day I'm making heart shaped pancakes for breakfast, heart shaped PBJs for lunch and heart shaped burgers for dinner. My 2 year old and I will be making valentines for everyone and delivering them to our friends ini the neighborhoo. Then in the evening, I'm sending my stepson and his dad out for a round of indoor mini golf so they can have some quality time together!
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What a great gift! My family makes breakfast together. We make heart shaped pancakes and drink pink strawberry flavored milk. We have fun making our own Valentines boxes.
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We watch a fun movie with the kids! Includes popcorn and soda (a treat for us)!!
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The kids and I cook their favorite meal and then they help me cook my husbands favorite meal. After the kids go to bed we rent a movie, dim the lights, don a fire in the fireplace and have a nice glass of wine. Simple yet romantic.
Back in the good old days, we played a lot of board games. I think a quiet evening at home, a home-cooked dinner, and an evening of playing board games sounds like a perfect Valentine's Day. No wading through the crowds that will surely be at the restaurants and movie theaters this Valentine's Day.
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We will celebrate on Friday evening, since my son will be at a birthday party. A nice dinner out will be relaxing!
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Making my husbands favorite meal,a glass of wine, some good old Cuban music playing softly, and something chocolate. Sounds like a nice evening for us.
Also this is a great giveaway.
My hubby and I and some friends are all getting together to go roller skating and have pizza. It is going to cost us $20 for both of us. It is going to be cheap and fun!
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I always put little love notes to my husband in his lunch. I also love to make a heart shaped cake and set it in the middle of the table when he gets home.
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Time really is the most important "thing" you can give to your family - and it is free! Spend the evening making your special dinner together. Pasta is always and easy one and inexpensive. For dessert make a cake and let the kids decorate it any way they want. Then finish the evening playing games together.
For V-day, I'm gonna bake my husband's fave brownies :)
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I love homemade valentines that my kids can give away at school. This year I am going to print their pictures on them.
Thanks for this blog!
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In Finland, where I'm from, Valentines day is also Friends Day and in school we used to send anonymous handmade cards and it was fun trying to figure out who had sent which card. Now with my own family and our busy lives we make an extra effort to do something together, show how much we care about each other with words and actions.
Just spend time together. Our daughter leaves us exhausted and one or both of us usually ends up going to be early. It'll be nice just to spend some time together and maybe have a nice meal together (at home).
We're planning on celebrating Valentine's Morning by making some heart-shaped pancakes. Simple, but my daughter is really excited about it!
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My frugal idea is entering to win my hubby cool stuff like this!
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Baking cookies with my kids to give to Daddy and other family members.
we bake treats for people
Well, I have no sig other, no children. But in a very hypothetical situation, I'd just love a movie. Le Sigh.
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We will go to an early movie and lunch, instead of a late movie and dinner!!
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Have the whole family pitch-in to make a lovely dinner for the family. It is cheaper than eating out and everyone has fun making (and eating!) the meal. :)
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How about having a "picnic" in the living room. Move aside the coffee table and lay out a blanket. Maybe even order in pizza and eat that while watching a movie. The kids would find this fun too!
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One year, we took the family to one of those "Paint your own ceramics" places....we all worked together to paint a big, ceramic bowl w/ our last name inside and polka dots all over. It really turned out cute!! And it really didn't cost that much either.
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My father used to write my sister and I sweet poems- which we collected over the years. I plan to have my husband begin writing sweet poems or prayers for my 2 daughters to collect this year.
I will probably just make a nice meal at home--so much cheaper! I usually get a few fun inexpensive gifts for everyone. Love the giveaway!!
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I love being frugal! HEB had buy melting choc and get free pretzels and marshmellows! My kids have been asking to make choc pretzels! And they make great gifts!
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I used Mypoints.com to get a gift card for dinner. So I wont have to pay too much for when we go out to eat! Plus we are going to Starbucks afterwards... and I have a gift card for there too!!!!
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I love renting a movie (from Redbox, of course) and snuggling up with my husband on Valentine's Day. t
We celebrate Valentine's Day by staying at home and making a romantic dinner together and renting a movie.
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My husband and I celebrate Valentine's day the friday after, so we can get stuff 50% off. We usually make dinner and watch a movie.
My DH and I have always celebrated V-day by writing a letter/card and having a nice dinner at home - this will be our 10th year of celebrating this way! It's fun to cook together and also to keep those letters and cards year after year.
I'm going to dress up a bit (well, not too much - I just won't be in my lounge pants that's for sure!) and cook my hubby Steak Au Poivre with Matchstick Potatoes and a secret dessert from the Daring Baker's!
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We are going to our church's Sweetheart Banquet, where we will have a catered meal (furnished by the church) and then we will play the oldywed-newlywed game with our friends who attend that!
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Stay home and make a nice meal for the family. Incorporate as much red and pink as possible to make it festive.
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I like to get the free doughnut coupons from Krispy Kreme for my kids.
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My husband and I can celebrate by going back through the early photo album of when we first met. This trip down memory aisle does not cost anything!
I love a card that just tells me the reasons he loves me---cause it is what I know I love---I do the same for him!
take a walk ... my favorite date!!
On Valentine's evening we like to snuggle once all the little ones are finally put to bed...it's not often we get a chance to do that!
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We like to go out to our favorite restaurant and share a meal. We don't usually go out to eat but since Valentine's day is also our anniversary we like to splurge. We keep costs down by sharing a meal which also helps us to keep the calories down as well.
Something fun and frugal I've started doing with my family is that we always make chocolate covered strawberries together on Valentines Day and enjoy them. It's a food we can all agree on. This is the only time of the year we make them and it's special to all of us.
we make our own cards and sweets.
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some frugal ideas for valentine's day that i like are to go on a picnic or do an entire movie day in with popcorn & movie treats!
this year we've got limited choices for valentines b/c my dh is in iraq. so instead of a romantic dinner out, we'll spend some time online chatting together that evening. i'll be making cookies for our girls just as i always do in celebration of the holiday.
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I ordered the free prints from Scrapbooksetc. They are really nice and fancy and of course free.
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My favorite Frugal Valentine's Day thing to do is so easy and the people you give it to cherish it forever. My spouse and I give each other hand-written notes every year about what we like and appreciate about each other.
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I think we are just going to focus on spending time together and remembering how nice it is to have quiet alone time. charlenegale at yahoo dot com
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We are going to have a frugal Valentine's by making cookies that were on sale and I had coupons for. I got them for nothing! And just enjoying each other as a family.
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We will probably make a fire in the fireplace and just spend time together. We don't do enough of that!
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have a fun day at the park with the family! feed the ducks!
This year for Valentines Day, I filled felt gift bags with goodies for my girls. Everything was bought at the dollar section at target or with ECB's from CVS.
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Reading a book our loud together...my husband and I just finished Pride and Prejudice and we're reading Jane Eyre now. Dostoevsky might be next...
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I've been a subscribed for months. Thanks for all of your helpful hints!
well, i wasnt trying to be frugal.. but i guess it kinda was... last year for vday I bought a day planner/calendar type thing at walmart and wrote a message to my bf about funny things we've done and reasons why i love him, ya know... i did it every day until the calendar ended. it took a while but this was def one of those thoughtful things. he loved it. He never wanted to read ahead, he read it everyday. =0)
With your sweetheart, make a book of special memories of things you did together throughout the past year. (We use the packages of scrapbooking paper-about $4-that have a color 'theme' and use a different set of colors each year.)
My husband and I do this every year. It's so much fun to reminisce about the good times we've spent together.
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Instead of going out for an expensive meal, I am going to make a normal meal and then finish it off with homemade fondue for the fam (if I can find an easy and good recipe).
I love making a home made card for my husband.
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I buy a pack of chocolate chip cookie mix and bake it in a large heart-shaped pan for my hubby--his favorite.
We're trading babysitting with some friends for Friday and Saturday and will eat dinner with gift cards from Christmas - free and fun!
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We make a fancy meal and eat at home to celebrate. Thanks! snakan0(at)hotmail(dot)com
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I'm not sure my fingers should grace such a fine instrument. I'd love to be proved wrong, though!
I'm baking homemade sugar cookies with personalized frosting for my boyfriend!
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We always celebrate Valentine's Day with an "elegant event"....our 3 girls, my husband and I all get dressed up for a fancy, candle-lit dinner with the best china. We usually make a fancy dessert of some sort and end the dinner with my husband dancing with each of his girls!
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We like to have breakfast together as a family - my husband makes heart shaped pancakes for us.
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We have a card that we use in our area called the Dixie Direct and it gives us B1G1F dinner (for lots of different food places and other shopping), so we will use that for Valentine's Day, save money, but still get to go out to eat!
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Thanks for doing this giveaway!
More often than not I make my husband his valentine's day gift. you can craft cards, scrapbooks, collages, photobooks, anything. And they usually mean more than chocolate.
I plan on making a steak dinner for my hubby and kids (not something we have all that often) and cuddling up for a movie after the kiddos go to bed. Spending time together is the best way to celebrate!
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Last year, my girlfriends and I all got together and cooked a nice, big dinner for our husbands who later came over to enjoy it with us.
A nice romantic gift for your hubby is to get a loyal and trustworthy friend to take some tasteful, romantic looking pictures and make an album or frame a picture for him.
I already follow you and I did tweet about this. Thanks so much.
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We have a fondue maker. We pull it out on Valentine's Day and have chocolate fondue - complete with marshmellows, cake, and strawberries. The kids love it too!
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We are making Valentine's day cupcakes!
We like to make dinner at home, watch a movie from Redbox, then take a walk.
My hubby and I will probably cook dinner together. We've done it every Valetine's Day since we were dating, when he made chicken parmesan and I was sioux chef (sp?).
Instead of going out to an expensive dinner every year my husband and I make homemade manicotti together. Its very special because that is the only time we make it all year long.
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As far as a inexpensive way to have a fun romantic Valentine's day... Our anniversary is February 9th. We live in Orlando, FL. I am a Disney fanatic (I become a 10yr old girl again when I am in the magic kingdom it seems :) So... we drive on over to one of the resort hotels that the Disney Monorail rides on, my fave is The Contemporary Resort, and ride the monorail around the park trails. If you time it right, you can see the Magic Kingdom fireworls display. When we have had enough of the monorail, we usually go into either the resort we started out and see if there are any special events going on. The last time there was a Latin ballroom dancing competition. I would have never known about it or thought of attending if we hadn't stumbled across it. We often have the opportunity, weather permitting to go out on a common balcony/lounge area and can bring our own wine and cheese etc. as we sit out on the lounge, again, looking at the fireworks if we so choose. I know this isn't an everyday occurence for most of the world, but Disney has fireworks every night, so we aren't challenged by a one time only event to enjoy them. Love your blog and enjoy your wit and insight
Restaurants are overcrowded and often overpriced for Valentine's Day. We are making a meal at home with brownie "hearts". My kiddos LOVE to cook!
Pizza and a movie (Madagascar 2 - thank you CVS).
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I'm due with baby #4 any day now... the doctor might send me to the hospital from my appointment tomorrow! So this Valentine's Day, we'll either be celebrating a new arrival or looking forward to one with great anticipation. I can't think of a much more perfect way to celebrate our love!
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We have a special meal followed by chocolate covered strawberries. After dinner we will rent a wii game to play together.
On Saturday we are planning to use Chick-fil-a coupons for free chicken biscuits and then go hiking at a park -- we love to hike as a couple.
My husband and I save any gift cards we might get as gifts and then use them to go out for valentine's day.
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One very frugal thing we do on Vday is watch our wedding DVD and re-say our vows to each other.
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frugal V-day is making heart shaped cookies with my girls and we share with our neighbors.
Me and my husband will be attending a dinner at our church where the proceeds help my cousin's daughter who is suffering from leukemia. So we get a nice meal and help out someone.
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A picnic. It's kind of a tradition to just eat at home and have a little picnic in front of the fireplace. Now its with the kids and slightly less romantic, but family fun no less!
On Valentine's Day, i just enjoy spending the time not only with my husband but also with my two little boys. We are hoping to go out to eat for a nice sit-down meal with children willing of course. I think it is romantic just being together as a family ;)
for v-day my hubby and i usually cook dinner! This year because he is such a sweet tooth - i'm going to be making him a few batches of cookies and i hope to make them look like they came from his fav. bakery (that is usually super expensive!!!
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We work together to make a Valentine dinner in our dining room. This year it will be fondue and the two kids join us. MKW
Have Valentine's Day dinner in Church for $10. It's comes with childcare service
Hi! To save on Valentine's, me and hubby are going to our church. They will be having free catered banquet plus free movie "Fireproof" that they will be showing! Check your church if they are doing a special free activity like this.
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This valentine's day, bake & decorate heart-shaped cookies together as a family!
My best frugal tip is to plan a romantic meal for two at home. Make a simple dinner after the kids are asleep and put a fancy tablecloth on the table. Use your best dishes and turn off the tv, telephone, etc. Just have some quiet time to relax.
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Make Valentine's Day cards on the computer and always cook at home.
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In years past, we make home made pizza in the form of a heart! and everyone loved it!
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We bake and decorate cupcakes together! We also make homemade valentines for grandparents and a few friends and special family members!
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We are making heart shaped meals (using a cookie cutter) and watching a movie! I got my kids Valentines Day shirts that I got on clearence last year.
Since we have a new baby girl, I am planning to make a special valentines card complete with hand prints (and probably some drool) for daddy's first valentines day. Daddy and I are going on a date night at our church Thursday so we will be spending the actual date with our newest valentine. We will have dinner at the house followed by Mario Kart on the Wii (my husbands favorite!).
We usually eat out, but this year we decided to stay hom and try to make a new recipe together.
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A cheap way to celebrate valentines day is to stay in, turn off your phones and spend the entore night together talking about memories of how you met and what you love about each other. It is free and romantic!
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Thanks for another great give-away opportunity!
This year I made the Rock Candy from Familyfun.com but instead of the candy they mentioned I bought boxed theater candy ($0.99) wrapped them up in colored paper I already had and used colored bracelet string that I already had also. So...I only paid around $1.25 per niece and nephew. :)
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When we were dating, and pretty broke, I made my husband homemade fortune cookies with special messages that I made for him with special memories and thoughts. He loved it and it only cost a few dollars to make.
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One frugal way to celebrate is to pack lunches and go have a picnic. Don't forget to bring frisbees,etc.
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Go to a classy hotel and walk around.
Then go out to dinner at a place where you have a coupon.
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My Valentine will be out of town, so anything we do will end up being cheaper because it will not be on V-day...
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I'm going to make a dinner of all things red .... spaghetti,meatballs, pink milk! Plus a special chocolate dessert. Then we'll all snuggle on the couch and watch a family movie.
We'll send e-cards to each other!
My kids all want to see the movie "Space Buddies". So, I'm going to buy that movie this week. Then I'm making "love pizzas" (mini pizzas shaped like hearts) and chocolate covered strawberries. Then we can curl up on the couch and watch the movie!
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I plan on making a really nice steak dinner at home (way cheaper than an out-to-eat steak dinner). After the baby is asleep, we'll have chocolate covered strawberries in front of the fire.
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