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Today is Valentine’s Day! Date with fiscal responsibility by using this tongue-in-cheek guide to the cheapest ways to get your tongue in cheek. 1. Furniture shopping Image via The fastest way to get your date into bed? IKEA. After dining on some authentic *ahem* Swedish cuisine, there is plenty of space to lounge around. Just go during a weekday, or you might have the bedside company of other faux shoppers. Unless you’re into that. Cost: about RMB50 2.

Chinese convenience store booze is a story of extremes: on the mellow end you have the watery slosh of shelf-stuffing lagers, filling out the middle ground is jingjiu, its medicinal undertones an acquired taste and, finally, comes the caustic zip of baijiu. Plenty swear off the Middle Kingdom’s alcohol after the first sip, but this article will change that.