It’s February, and that means you’re greeted with red hearts, pink flowers, and sweet nothings like “be mine” written in elegant script everywhere you look.
1. Make plans. Seriously, if you don’t make plans to do something—anything listed here!—you’ll end up home alone.
2. Host a singles-only dinner party. Invite all your favorite single people and toast to your independence.
3. Make chocolate-dipped shortbread hearts. Decorate with pink and purple sprinkles, place in clear cellophane bags tied with pretty velvet ribbon, and gift them to your single friends.
4. Plan a Valentine’s Day “crafternoon.” Set out paper, cardstock, stamps, ink, and heart-shaped stickers. Ask your most creative friends to join you and make Valentine’s Day cards.
5. Treat yourself to a haircut, blowout, beauty treatment, or massage.
6. Get out of town. Plan a Valentine’s Day weekend getaway with a friend or family member.
7. Cook a romantic dinner for your parents. Set the table, light candles, and open a good bottle of sparkling wine.
8. Take yourself out to eat at your favorite restaurant. Sit at the bar and splurge on dessert.
9. Bake a chocolate layer cake. Choose a recipe that’s a little more advanced and be proud of yourself when you nail it.
10. Drink Champagne. Order two glasses!
11. Do a chocolate taste test. Get a bunch of different flavors of chocolate and have some friends over to help you eat them. Make notes of how each one tastes.
12. Stay in and pamper yourself. Take a long bath, give yourself a face mask, or paint your nails.
13. Book a couples massage with your best friend or a family member.
14. Send a heartfelt text to all the people you love in your life. Especially the old friend who lives far away.
14. Go to your favorite bar, have your go-to cocktail, and head to the local karaoke dive. Belt out all the classic love songs with your best buddies.
15. Plan a date with your best friend. Get dressed up, go to a fancy restaurant, and order the special Valentine’s Day menu with wine pairings.
16. Do something nice for someone who is older than you. Send them a bouquet of roses and tell them how much you look up to them.
17. Explore a new neighborhood. Head to an area of town that you aren’t too familiar with. Walk up and down the streets, enjoy a cappuccino at the hip cafe, and browse the racks of a stylish boutique.
18. Watch your favorite sporting event with a group of friends.
19. Catch up on your sleep. Sleep in. Or take a nap in the middle of the day.
20. Have nieces or nephews? Offer to take care of them so their parents can go out. Be the cool aunt: Order pizza, watch Frozen, and make brownie sundaes.
21. Head to Trader Joe’s and buy several bunches of flowers. Bring them home and channel your inner florist. Make beautiful bouquets. Use them to decorate your house or deliver them to the people you love.
22. Go to a comedy show. Or stream one of the latest comedy specials on Netflix.
23. Hang out with your grandparents. They love you just the way you are.
24. Splurge on a nice piece of jewelry. You’re worth it.
25. Love yourself. Do whatever makes you happy! Cut yourself some slack. Remind yourself that you are lovable and worthy of love.
26. Invite a friend over.
Being alone together is almost always more fun than being alone by yourself.
27. Have a party for everyone you know who doesn’t have plans.
We find room in our hearts and at our tables for friends with no one to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas with; why not Valentine’s Day?
28.Avoid over-drinking.
For all the obvious reasons, chief among them: Alcohol is a depressant.
Funny Single Valentines Day Quotes
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Today is Valentine’s Day – or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Love is a game that two can play and both win.
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Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
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For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you’re sorry.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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I’m single because I was born that way.
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
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Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you’re pretty sexy and you’re taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.
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Vasectomy means never having to say you’re sorry.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
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Being single is pretty good. It’s a nice sense of irresponsibility.
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Today is February 14th – St. Valentine’s day. Women call it Love day, while men name it as Extortion day.
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Being an American means never having to say you’re sorry.
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If love means never having to say you’re sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
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Happy Valentine’s Day! And if this is news to you, my guess is you’re probably alone. Valentine’s Day is often times a, well, it’s a manufactured day that really doesn’t mean anything.
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Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the braille weren’t so damned much fun.
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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
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Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.
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No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along!
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Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
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Valentine’s Day money-saving tip: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th.
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Avant-garde means never having to say you’re sorry.
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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn’t want him to.
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Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
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Women are cursed, and men are the proof.
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At my age, an affair of the heart is a bypass!
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Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies. -
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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Valentine’s Day: the holiday that reminds you that if you don’t have a special someone, you’re alone.
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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.
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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
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Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it’s just another way to bleed.
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You’re not a coward just because you don’t want to hurt people.
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You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
10 Films to Watch on Valentine’s Day If You’re Single /films to watch this Valentine’s Day if you’re alone and single and not in a relationship and alone
SINGLES:Blue Valentine (2011)Oh this is a good one. Everytime I think of this movie, I can feel myself dying a little more inside (I’m not kidding). It’s SO GOOD and SO INTENSE because it’s SO REAL. Starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, it follows a couple that has been together for several years but are clearly headed for a downward spiral. It’s cold and eerie as you watch the two distinct time frames cut back and forth — scenes of first love and playful sexuality intercut with those of disenchantment and dispute.Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)This is one of my favorite movies, and I laugh the entire time. It follows Jason Segel’s character (Peter) after a breakup with Kristen Bell’s (the titular Sarah). He finds out she’s been sleeping with someone else for a year (makes you wonder why you’d ever get in a relationship, right?) and decides to take a vacation. Of course, Sarah is in the same vacation spot with her new boyfriend! You watch Peter continually get left behind in hilarious comedic scenes that also include Russell Brand, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, and Mila Kunis.Bridesmaids (2011)I feel bad for you if you’ve never seen this, but it’s okay, you still have time! Main character Annie (Kristen Wiig) is a lonely, poor, washed-up baker who is named her BFF’s (Maya Rudolph) maid of honor. While Annie struggles to find herself and true love, the other characters realize they’re missing something in their relationships too, but at the end of the day, it celebrates female friendships! Oh, and all the girls suffer from a major case of food poisoning after a lunch gone wrong. What else do you need to make you laugh on V Day?Girls Trip
You need solidarity to be single on Valentine’s Day, so gather your own posse and delight in this summer 2017 film about girlfriends putting each other and themselves before – well, everything. By now you’ve either seen or heard of Tiffany Haddish’s comedy tour de force, and believe us, it never gets old.
Where to watch: Rent or purchase (Amazon, iTunes, YouTube)
Legally Blonde
This 17-year-old movie about a party girl who goes to law school to win over a man and then go on to kick butt at law and eventually reject said man is basically flawless from start to finish. We’re still reeling from the ammonium thioglycolate revelation and basking in Elle (Reese Witherspoon) and Veronica’s (Selma Blair) friendship. Oh, and remember when she called out a creepy professor? More movies need to be this.
What, like it’s hard?
Where to watch: Rent or purchase (Amazon, iTunes, YouTube)
Queen
This powerful Bollywood movie from 2014 tells the story of Rani (Kangana Ranaut), jilted on her wedding day and then choosing to go on her European honeymoon alone. The inspirational women of movies tend to be warriors, spies, or leaders – yet in so much of the world they manifest as ordinary women making lemonade out of lemons and learning to stay strong through heartbreak and hardship. In that respect, Rani is a true queen.
Where to watch: Netflix (this trailer doesn’t have subtitles, but the movie does)
Magic Mike XXL
If you’re feeling ballsy (😏 ) you can do a double feature of what we have dubbed the Magic Mike Cinematic Universe (MMCU), but all you really need from the first one is Channing Tatum’s introductory performance of “Pony.” It does, in its best moments, set up the second one, which amplifies just how wild and enjoyable Magic Mike could be. XXL has Donald Glover singing Bruno Mars, Joe Manganiello pouring water on himself for no reason, and yes – more “Pony.” God bless this movie.
Where to watch: Rent or purchase (Amazon, iTunes, YouTube)
How To Be Single
As the self-help title implies, How to Be Single is an adventure in singledom tailored for people who are used to being in relationships. It spends a lot of time with Alice (Dakota Johnson), finding herself after a breakup, and maybe not enough time with perpetual GDI Robin (Rebel Welson) and her life slaying the game. Still, it’s a frank look at many kinds of dating and situationships that don’t necessarily work out but still become part of who we are and what we’ve lived through.
Where to watch: Rent or purchase (Amazon, iTunes, YouTube)
Whip It
Bliss (Ellen Page) rebels against the traditional femininity foisted upon her by her mother and finds herself on a roller derby team with the likes of Smashley Simpson (Drew Barrymore), Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig), Bloody Holly (Zoë Bell), and more (she takes on the name Babe Ruthless). Bliss bonds with these messy, magnificent women, discovers a natural talent for skating and even symbolically burns a fuckboy’s jacket.
Where to watch: Rent or purchase (Amazon, iTunes, YouTube)
Bring It On
Honestly who even has time to think about Valentine’s Day when you have to kick butt in a cheerleading competition?
. Twilight
3. Clueless
4. Working Girl
Is there anything better than strong women like Melanie Griffith, Wall Street office politics, and big ‘80s hair?
5. Finding Dory
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6. The Shining
There is nothing scarier than this movie. Not even being single.
7. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
If Stephen King horror isn’t your jam, try this vampire western about a girl who does more than walk home alone at night. It’s in black-and-white, so the blood actually isn’t that scary. (It’s beautiful).
6. Heathers
Three words: Young Christian Slater. Three more words: “What’s your damage?”
9. Queen of the Damned
I know — this is the third vampire film on the list, but Aaliyah as Akasha will give you LIFE.
10. Under the Tuscan Sun
To complete this movie experience, please book a one-way ticket to Italy as soon as the credits roll, then treat yourself to a gelato.
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15 Songs for All The Single Ladies on Valentine’s Day
February 14th can be all about YOU. However you’re observing Valentine’s Day this year, take a look at some of the best songs to celebrate yourself with.
Ariana Grande – “thank u, next”
2. Dua Lipa – “New Rules”
3. Beyoncé – “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
4. Jason Derulo – “Ridin’ Solo”
5. Hailee Steinfeld – “Love Myself”
6. Beyoncé – “Me, Myself & I”
7. Bebe Rexha featuring Nicki Minaj – “No Broken Hearts”
8. Robyn – “Dancing On My Own”
9. Cyndi Lauper – “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”
10. Kelly Clarkson – “Miss Independent”
11. Natasha Bedingfield – “Single”
12. Little Mix – “Shout Out To My Ex”
13. Justin Bieber – “Love Yourself”
14. Nicki Minaj featuring Beyoncé – “Feeling Myself”
15. Ariana Grande – “7 Rings”
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