The Busy Person's Guide To Romance

RoMints are delicious, bite size nuggets of romance anyone can pull off for tiny scraps of cash and commitment. It's not the rebuilding of the 200-year-old dream home from The Notebook… it's more the holding up of the cue cards from Love Actually. RoMints are wafer thin, and significantly less filling than the real deal. But they taste great, and they remind your significantly ignored other, in a small but achievable way, that you really are thinking about them, even if you don't always drag out your cracked and battered credit card to prove it.

Surgeon General's warning: RoMints have no nutritional value. They are not meant to substitute for a healthy recommended allowance of actual romance—they are just slightly better than nothing. How To Be Romantic

Ideally, RoMints should cost less than $20 and take less than 20 minutes to execute. You literally can't NOT have time for them. Here are a couple of RoMints ideas: mostly gender-neutral, all theoretically achievable. And feel free to share your personal experiences in the comments section… It's us vs. Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock, and we're all in this together.

The Post-It Parade (5 minutes, 0 dollars)
Write a series of three Post-It notes that start confusing and end up touching. Something like 1) "Do you know why I love you?" 2) "It's not because you're beautiful" 3) "It's because you make my whole world beautiful." Then hide the notes in three logically successive places, like 1) on the coffeemaker, 2) on his favorite mug, 3) in the dishwasher where he's going to put it when he's done (if you have the sort of man who puts his coffee mug in the dishwasher). Seeing the first note will confuse, the second will intrigue, the third will endear.