How to survive Valentine’s Day as a singleton in Notts

When I asked my friends how to survive Valentine’s Day as a singleton, they simply replied: “I try not to think about it.”

But truthfully, it’s almost impossible to avoid the promotional emails, the restaurant deals, and the Valentine’s themed merchandise littering every shop  you enter.

It’s harder still when your housemate walks in with a bouquet and a stuffed teddy bear and you are faced with the reality of another Valentine’s alone.

So yes, while we may not be receiving personalised Moonpig cards, or making heart-shaped pizzas after coming back from drinks at Bunk to celebrate the occasion, having a fool-proof plan to survive Valentine’s Day makes you realise that being single isn’t that bad.

 Celebrate with your friends

This is key.

Round up a group or text that other single friend and make an occasion of it.

It makes you feel a lot less lonely when you’re dancing in the kitchen to Chappell Roan or Sabrina Carpenter with a bottle of wine waiting for your scran to cook.

 Make it cute

 I am talking about getting those old bottles of wine or vodka, and turning them into candles.

Or, make a cute board game, scatter your table with card factory décor, and make love-heart pizzas yourself!

Make it an occasion to celebrate the friends you love

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While you may be following couples walking up Derby Road to their Valentine’s reservation, linked arms and all giggling, you can confidently know that you (as a proud singleton) are walking to bigger and better things.

The friends that will take the most horrendous pictures of you on a night out to show how much they love you and your chaos will be the ones there for you thick and thin, not that boy from Hinge xx

Pick a film

Stick on a romcom like Bridget Jones Dairy or How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and escape the reality of being single on Valentine’s Day by reaffirming the fact that you are actually waiting for your Hollywood crush to just notice you and realise ‘you’re not like other girls’.

 Go all out

Seeing as Valentine’s Day is a Friday, maybe it’s just best to dance the pain away… Ocean anyone?

Regardless, single or taken, the bottom line is that Valentine’s Day is not just for those in couples and is a time to spend time celebrating your friends, doing wholesome things, and reaffirm that while you may not have a partner,  you all have each other x