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50 Things to do on Valentine’s Day other than Watch ’50 Shades of Grey’

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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at SCU chapter.
Yes, we know 50 Shades of Grey comes out this weekend and yes, we know most of you will be hitting up the local movie theater to see it. But if that isn’t your thing, we’ve rounded up 50 other things you can do to make this the best weekend yet:
  1. Take a romantic bath for one
  2. Go to Cold Stone and order a “Gotta Have It” size
  3. Buy yourself some flowers
  4. Go bowling
  5. Hit the bars with your friends
  6. Listen to sad playlists on Pandora alone in the dark
  7. Take yourself out to dinner
  8. Watch all of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet”
  9. Get drunk
  10. Delete people on Facebook
  11. Prank call your crush
  12. Have a Netflix-athon
  13. Clip your toenails
  14. Go to Taco Bell
  15. Take a trip to San Francisco
  16. Spend the night on Chat Roulette
  17. Take up knitting
  18. Have a singles and a fifth party
  19. Learn the choreography of “Ja’mie: Private School Girl”
  20. Catch up with your grandparents
  21. Get a mani/pedi. Treat yoself!
  22. Post an Instagram of you and all your single ladies #blessed
  23. Watch all 10 seasons of Friends
  24. Form your own a capella group
  25. Adopt a cat
  26. Go on a road trip with some friends (it’s a long weekend!)
  27. Plan your life on Pinterest
  28. Throw a Galentine’s Day celebration for your best girlfriends
  29. Kiss a frog and see if it turns into a Prince
  30. Swipe your way through every Tinder profile within 50 miles
  31. Third wheel your taken friends’ dates
  32. Eat some chicken nuggets
  33. Fly (or drive) home to see your family
  34. Two words: online shopping
  35. Bake a cake and eat it all
  36. Take up extreme couponing
  37. Redecorate your room
  38. Take a walk on the beach and ponder the meaning of life
  39. Make skittle vodka
  40. Get a 6 course meal at Costco Signature Café
  41. Drunk text your ex
  42. Take a hot yoga class
  43. Memorize the names of all the U.S. Presidents…backwards
  44. Learn the “Cup Song” from Pitch Perfect
  45. Host a séance
  46. Get a massage
  47. Go for a run
  48. Visit friends at another school
  49. Go on the 17-mile drive in Big Sur
  50. If you’re single, embrace it! Hang out with your best girlfriends and show them why you’re thankful to have them in your life.
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