5 Cheap Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas

It’s the Valentine season and we can already feel love in the air.

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February 14, usually marked as St.Valentines day is just around the corner and usually, it’s a time to show your loved ones and romantic partners how much they mean to you.

While Valentine’s Day gifts may be a problem if you have a tight personal budget, many would agree that often times, it isn’t the gift that matters but the thought behind it.

Like the popular movie title “Love don’t cost a thing”,note that expressing your love doesn’t mean emptying your wallet.

Here is a compiled list of thoughtful yet affordable gestures for you to gift your partner this Valentines day;

The gift of Time

A couple enjoying Valentines day

One of the best ways to measure what is important to a person, what he/she treasures, is where and how they spend their time.

We often promise to spend time with loved ones then our busy life gets in the way. The person on the receiving end is disappointed and often feels too guilty to remind you of your promise.

This Valentine,plan an indoor date to enjoy your partner’s company.

You can play games, watch your favourite Tv shows, cook together, and make beautiful memories.

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Digital Photo frame

Couple Photo frame- VTpassBlog

They say its the little things that counts the most so why not get your pictures framed.

Do you have that special/awesome memory you both cherish and would love to frame? Get these photos framed by a professional or learn how to by watching DIY videos on Youtube.

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Prepare a delicious dinner

Prepare a delicious meal this Valentine with your partner

Nearly everyone has a favorite meal and your partner is no exception.

Its the perfect time to find out your partner’s best dish so you can surprise him/her on Valentine’s Day. However, if he/she doesn’t have any favorite meal, try to cook your favorite one.

Preparing a dish these days is easy as you can easily watch cooking shows or check for quick recipes on food-blogs, YouTube and lots more.

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A Box of cupcakes

A box of cupcakes for valentine- VTpassBlog

This would be a nice gesture to show your lady that you actually think of her.

Have a box of cake or cupcakes sent to her on Valentines day and you would make her happier than you can imagine.

Wallet/Bags

Handbags and Purses for Valentine -VTpass Blog

With so many online retails stores today, you can easily purchase affordable wallet,purse or bags for your loved ones within your budget.

This would be a great gift especially if he is one to use a wallet for a year.

Other gift ideas includes;

  • Perfumes
  • Customized mugs, shirts, throw pillows, etc
  • Wristwatches
  • Cuff-links, Ties, Belts
  • Dress for ladies, Shirts for guys
  • Headsets or speakers if your partner is a music lover
  • A book by their favorite writer or genre for book lovers


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An API stands for “Application Programming Interface.” An API is a set of commands, function, protocols and objects that programmers can use to create software or interact with an external system. It provides developers with standard commands for performing common operations so they do not have to write the code from scratch.

But not all of us are computer geeks or nerds. Ok, most of us are not. So here are simple, fun ways of understanding what an Application Programming Interface (API)  is:

You buy an extension, which you intend using to charge your phone, laptop and the likes. For the extension to work, you are not going to plug straight to the transformer next to your house, or the wire transmitting electric current to you, right? No, you need an interface. Something that can stand in the gap and collect the energy from the electric current down to you. You need a socket. This socket which is usually connected to a wire on the wall serves as an interface to which you plug your extension. This in response to the interface, enables you to charge your phone and any other thing.

The API is just like that socket, except it is something you can’t see and it has more to do with the internet world.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE

You want to buy rice and chicken from your favourite restaurant. Now, do you just go into the kitchen where it is being cooked or stored? And then demand a plate of rice and chicken? Of course, not, there is an attendant, a waiter. In this case, an interface that delivers your request for a hamburger to the kitchen staff. They in response to your request, hand over the food to the waiter, who will, in turn, place it before you. And then, lunch or dinner is served. Or breakfast, if you are the one that does late meals or does not fancy the routine bread, tea and egg.

The waiter has served as an API, relaying messages for you all in a bid to deliver a service. You must have guessed by now that in the real sense, the person making the request is not a person, but codes. Just like the waiter and kitchen staff responding to the requests are are all codes.

So, simply put, APIS are messengers that take requests from a user end, go to the right quarters to deliver the message.  And then relays back an answer to the user again. In a technical sense, you use an API when you employ the code written by someone else or their database for your own purpose, or to service your own website.

WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW API?

There are a lot of ways knowing how the API works can profit an average online business person. Say, you have a natural hair blog that sometimes needs to display videos. You might not have these videos at all. But by integrating Youtube’s API to your site, these videos can be displayed on your site.

It is through this the API that many videos on YouTube get featured on sites that clearly are not Youtube. Another easy way of using API is having a website where you need people to sign in or login. Because you know Google or Facebook already have the sign in feature which is way professional.  On proper request, you can simply use Google or Facebook’s sign in feature. So that, what you will have on your own website is “sign in with Google or Login with Facebook”. You might be nodding in understanding right now. That’s good, but there is something even better.

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