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    Every Day Should be Valentine's Day: 50 Inspiring Ideas and Heartwarming Stories to Make Your Love Feel Special All the Time
    Every Day Should be Valentine's Day: 50 Inspiring Ideas and Heartwarming Stories to Make Your Love Feel Special All the Time
    Every Day Should be Valentine's Day: 50 Inspiring Ideas and Heartwarming Stories to Make Your Love Feel Special All the Time
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    Every Day Should be Valentine's Day: 50 Inspiring Ideas and Heartwarming Stories to Make Your Love Feel Special All the Time

    By Jennifer Basye Sander

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    Amp up the love, romance, and beauty in your life!

    Rest assured this is not a book about how to buy your way to a more romantic life. Money stress is anti-romance. Instead, we are here to help you create a more romantic life and make the most of what you already have.

    The ideas and suggestions collected here are not always about dewy-eyed romance, but also about compromise, and having positive experiences that bond you as a couple. A few examples include:
    • Your Turn to Choose—do something your partner loves, even if you aren’t as enthusiastic about it. Maybe you can attend a musical one night, and visit a brewery the next. Mix it up!
    • Pick-a-Date—using small scraps of paper, each of you should write out twenty ideas on how to spend a day, an evening, or even an hour. Ideas could include “pack a picnic and go to the park,” or “go to that restaurant we’ve been wanting to try,” or even “have a movie marathon at home.” Fill a jar with the pieces of paper, shake it up, and pull out an idea when it’s time for a date!
    • Get a Smaller Bed—lounging on a huge, king-size bed might seem like an ultimate couples’ goal, but in any kind of small space you need to work things out and come to an agreement faster than if there was room to spread out and get away from each other.
    Though Valentine’s Day has been around for centuries, it’s become so commercialized it can be easy to feel wiped out after the onslaught of advertisements. So hey, take back your power—celebrate every day instead! This book will offer fresh ideas and inspire you to see the romance in everyday life.
     
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateFeb 4, 2020
    ISBN9781510752320
    Every Day Should be Valentine's Day: 50 Inspiring Ideas and Heartwarming Stories to Make Your Love Feel Special All the Time
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    Jennifer Basye Sander

    Jennifer Basye Sander has been an author and book packager for nearly 20 years. Her career has spanned all aspects of the business, from retail sales and book acquisition to editorial and publicity. She and her husband founded the Big City Books Group, which develops book projects and has over 40 successful books in print.

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      Every Day Should be Valentine's Day - Jennifer Basye Sander

      Copyright © 2020 by Jennifer Basye Sander

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018.

      Skyhorse Publishing books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund-raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or info@skyhorsepublishing.com.

      Skyhorse® and Skyhorse Publishing® are registered trademarks of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.®, a Delaware corporation.

      Visit our website at www.skyhorsepublishing.com.

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.

      Cover design by Laura Klynstra

      Cover image by gettyimages

      Print ISBN: 978-1-5107-5231-3

      Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5107-5232-0

      Printed in China

      Contents

      Introduction

      Save the Planet Together

      Travel in Your Mind

      Foot Massage Time

      A Day of One’s Own

      Mix it Up

      Tub Time

      Wild Romance

      Creative Cards

      Get Lost

      Take a Local Tour

      Experiment Together

      Roses Are Forever

      True Mastery

      Devices Be Gone!

      Keep Bubbly at the Ready

      Champagne Is for the Ladies

      Manners Matter

      Back to School

      Romance Yourself First

      Keep Talking

      Your Turn to Choose

      Sleep Station

      Jammie Time

      The Look of Love

      Water World

      Get a Smaller Bed

      Practice Wabi-Sabi and Kintsugi

      Be Brave and Write a Poem

      MY LOVE

      Money Matters

      Beauty Squared

      Move Outdoors

      Create a Very Small Book Club

      Very Vintage

      Time Out

      Story Time

      Couch Surfing

      Enshrined in History

      Clean the Garage (Again?!)

      Step One …

      Get Real

      Fund Together, Right Now …

      Be Fresh

      Be Entertaining

      Antiestablishment

      Be a Maker

      Practice Your Moods

      In Chambers

      The Doctor Will See You (Both) Now

      Healthy Together

      Get a Clue

      Side by Side

      Simply Delicious

      Literary Adventurers

      Game Night

      Romantic Splurges

      Contributors

      Introduction

      Welcome to the Every Day Is Special series! We’re so glad you are here and ready to amp up the love, romance, and beauty in your life!

      Valentine’s Day has literally been around for centuries, ever since (as the legend goes) a monk named Valentine helped sweethearts send clandestine messages to each other. And then, as so often happens with a good idea, the business world got hold of it and boom—love and romance once a year becomes commercialized. From advertisements for jewelry to restaurant promotions promising an evening to remember, it can be easy to feel wiped out after the Valentine’s Day commercial onslaught. Leaves a bit of a bad taste in the aftermath, doesn’t it? So hey, take back your power! Celebrate every day instead!

      Rest assured this is not a book about how to buy your way to a more romantic life. In compiling and collecting and creating these various ideas and suggestions, I have taken great care to consider any costs involved. What good is a book that suggests that you fly first class, enjoy fancy meals, and give diamonds as gifts? If you can afford any of these things, congratulations! However, if you are like most of us, those things would be a rare occurrence. Money stress is antiromance. Instead, we are here to help you create a more romantic life, and that requires creativity.

      Where do fresh ideas for romance come from? From everything around you. Look at magazine pictures, or yes, Pinterest and Instagram. Don’t look at these carefully staged images and think to yourself, My life doesn’t look like this and probably never will … I can’t afford this, I can’t go to that place, I can’t visit that restaurant … Instead, look creatively at what appeals to you and think to yourself, How can I make my life look like this with what I already have?

      You and your partner will have different ideas about what is romantic, and that is okay. So much about being in a long-term relationship is about compromise, isn’t it? And so we hope that both you and your partner get to indulge in the experiences and the moments that you each find romantic. Because if it always goes the way one of you wants it to, resentment might well bubble up.

      The ideas and suggestions that we’ve collected here are not always about dewy-eyed romance, but often about having parallel experiences that bond you as a couple. Sprinkled throughout are also a handful of stories from people just like you about how even the most ordinary things can be viewed through a romantic lens. We’ve also included a handful of Romantic Splurges for those times when you have the cash on hand to do something wild. So read on, and see what new ideas appeal to you …

      We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

      —John Lennon

      Save the Planet Together

      Love and commitment require planning ahead, and what more romantic way to plan ahead than to do something for the benefit of future

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