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February holds both Valentine’s Day and In Debt’s birthday. I am not a fan of Valentine’s day or birthdays, but In Debt is, so that makes it worthy of thought (and- in this case- money). While I can’t post about Valentine’s day details, In Debt prefers to be in on planning for his birthday, so here are my thoughts. Do let me know if you have suggestions!

Since I will be getting my wisdom teeth taken out on In Debt’s birthday, we’ll celebrate the weekend before. I chose a Sunday so that the first activity could be Church. No, really. In Debt is not only religious, he is interested in architecture and loves beautiful old buildings. I know just the church to take him to visit.

For lunch, we will go for Chinese food. Pretty cheap, but a luxury for us at this point, and one of In Debt’s favorites. Not only does he love Chinese food, he has also missed eating in restaurants since we cracked down on finances.

After lunch we will go to some art museums. This is another one of In Debt’s favorite activities. I conveniently chose one where my student ID will get me free admission, so it will cost half as much.

As I was thinking about plans, I realized that all of this is in the area of one of In Debt’s favorite bookstores. He has not been there in over a year, but used to spend hours at a time there when he came to visit me. I don’t think that just walking around without being able to buy anything would be so much fun for him so I decided to scrap my plan for his gift and just give him $20 to pick out a book himself. Of course this will probably mean that he has to take twice as long to choose, so we’ll spend six hours in the store instead of three. But that’s okay, it will help to fill up the day without spending any more money.