It’s that time of year again, where we embrace the commercialized holiday of St. Valentine. While February 14th is no longer recognized as the day to remember Saint Valentine, the martyred saint; his name is kept alive year after year. We fall in love with the idea of love. We hope that on this day, the love we give away is returned. We look forward to the gifts, the dinner, the cards and the sudden decrease of money in our wallets. We do this all with smiles on our faces! This year let’s give this ‘Valentine’s Day Industry’ a message and not buy the flowers, chocolate, jewelry and fancy dinners. Let’s make cards out of construction paper, and bake cookies instead! Let’s celebrate in March and tell this money-making industry ‘WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET THIS RIDICULOUS PRICE GOUGING FIASCO CONTINUE!’
Who am I kidding? I sent my boyfriend an email with my wishlist of potential gifts on Friday; to which he laughed. I think that gifts should come from the heart. However, this month I have been trying to stick to not spending any cash towards items that are not absolute needs (#NoUnnecessarySpendingFebruary). Of course, the best sales are going on, now that the winter months are almost over, so I see so many cute things and I’m like adding things to shopping carts and then abandoning them last minute. It really is hard. Anyways, my whole point was to give an idea on this Soulful Sunday. Normally I would post sales going on and places to find awesome deals despite the price hikes that Valentine’s Day brings. However I thought back to Christmas time, and the things I got or gave and I have to say that giving the gift of making memories was at the top of my list of favorites. Last month, my boyfriend and I used one of the Christmas gift’s I got him, A Two-Hour Photography Workshop at Grand Central (NYC) with Judith from Sundays in New York. 
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| Simply Vera Platform Heels, Vera Wang for Kohls |