To some February is a cooling off month money-wise, the Christmas bills are all but a distant memory and apart from the half term school holiday nothing much happens until Easter.
Alas this month I have the costly matters of the *loml's birthday and Valentine's day. Some non-romantics write off Valentines as commercial rubbish saying "I can show my love any day of the month" but that's the skin-flints way out I say. I'm a romantic, old-fashioned girl and I love celebrating special occasions like birthdays, anniversary's and Valentines because they have always been a special time of celebration in my family. And especially since our relationship is only just over a year old (we had our one year anniversary in December) I think it's important to celebrate these little moments together otherwise its just another night in front of Corrie eating corn beef hash (or some other tasty tea).
As it happens we had arranged to go to a rather nice Indian restaurant in Llandudno for his birthday on Wednesday night and I had decided I was going to make his birthday cake instead of buying one. But luckily for me there was an England friendly match on the TV which he decided he would rather watch instead of going out. So in the end my only expense, apart from his present, was to buy a Tesco Indian take-away meal which saved me quite a bit of money, and he loved his home-made coffee and walnut cake too- result!
As for Valentines Day, I have been instructed by the *loml to wear something nice as we're going out for a posh meal- his treat. This Penny Pinching malarky isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.

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