10 Reasons Valentine's Day is Better When You're Single

Valentine's Day doesn't have to suck when you're single in Louisville...in fact, it might even be better. (For those that aren't single, this list still has some quality .gifs in it for you.) Here's why:

#1 - 98% of the time, Valentine's Day Dinners are expensive and fancy.  Valentine's Day always seems to be the time to go out and spend $85 a person on small plate dinners wearing clothes that don't fit quite right and ain't nobody got time for that. Don't even act like you don't really just want pizza in sweat pants anyway.

#2 - No one expects a cheesy gift from you. Being single means you don't have worry about picking something out, wrapping it, and all that jazz. OR It means you can go somewhere like Work The Metal and/or The Sweet Spot Candy Shop and #TreatYoSelf.

#3 - With no expensive meal or presents to buy, there's a lot of money to be saved! Just think of all of the hard-earned cash you can keep in your wallet when you don't have to take someone to Jack Frys after buying some fancy art at Revelry and some cookie/flowers/mixed-tape package.  

#4 - There's no need to worry about getting drunk and embarrassing yourself. Valentine's Day should be about taking a long bubble bath with some champagne and not worrying about who's around to judge you. And if it takes being single to make that happen, so be it.

#5 - Plus, you don't have to worry about those early-stages-of-dating awkward conversations where you pretend to know that one band or to have seen that one movie or to know of that thing that's happening. Not that that has ever happened to us every conversation ever. 

#6 - Or worry about having to put the moves on someone before the night's over. Not that your moves aren't smooth as a buttery baby's behind, it's just way easier to just not.

#7 - You have a great excuse to hang out with your friends. Whether you're all going out dancing or just hanging and watching horror films, Valentine's Day can be the perfect BFF Bonding Day. And - other than yourself, there's no better person or people to hang and be yourself with on V-Day.

#8 - Or you can embrace your inner couch potato. Sit on the couch and watch Netflix while ordering food all day. Why the hell not?

#9 - AND You can go to sleep whenever you want. Go to bed at 8pm? NO ONE CARES! Go to bed at 2am? NO ONE CARES! Freedom.

#10 - You don't have to pretend to care. It's not that, when you're in a relationship, you're constantly pretending to be grateful of the other person and to be in love. It's more that, when you're dating someone, on Valentine's Day you have to MORE than show how grateful and in love you are and sometimes that's just plain exhausting.