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A Single Gal’s Guide to Valentine’s Day

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Exeter chapter.

Not all of us are fortunate to be dating Ryan Gosling or the Exeter equivalent (or you know just anyone) so here is our guide of how to spend Valentine’s Day with your BFF instead, which lets face it is actually the better option:

Option one: You can revel in the glory of the Lemmy with all the single freshers of Lafrowda or Rowe House (and that’s cool whatever floats your boat). 

Option two: you could go out for a meal with your bezzie with all the other couples where they will be doing all their coupley stuff and just being generally disgusting (again that’s cool sure).

But to us neither option sounds too appealing.

So we are proposing option three: getting as drunk as possible (on champagne of course – Tesco has it on half price especially for us), in the comfort of your own house with a banquet bucket of KFC/all the dominoes you can possibly order/a salad – delete as appropriate (if the option is salad then we are silently judging you) – 

And with one of the following movies depending on your state of mind:

Option one: The classic girl film

Mean Girls

Pitch Perfect

John Tucker Must Die

Option two: A film that has absolutely nothing to do with romance –

Magic Mike

Finding Nemo

Anything narrated by David Attenborough

Option three: Binge watch an entire series –

Gossip Girl (obviously)

Option four: venture out of the house to see Fifty Shades of Grey (seeing Jamie Dornan naked will be worth the embarrassment of having to buy your ticket and receive some judgmental looks)

After finishing one of these films and consuming at least a bottle of champagne you are probably drunk enough to start burning mementoes from ex-boyfriends or hiring wedding dresses to spend the evening in (friends style) and if you’re not drunk enough then start on tequila/vodka/Sambuca and who knows you might end up in the Lemmy with all those lovely freshers by the end of the evening.

Beware of:

·       Drunk texting exs (maybe now is the time to delete said ex altogether)

·       Inappropriate snapchatting

·       Consuming your entire body weight in Ben and Jerrys 

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