With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are enthusiastic about telling loved ones just how much they mean to them. While it’s great to celebrate on Valentine’s Day, love should really be celebrated the whole month, or even the whole year! Here are some clever ways to spread the love this February.

1. Write someone a heartfelt note.

2. Offer to buy someone’s lunch.

3. Take a walk in the park with someone.

4. Pay for the person behind you in the drive thru line.

5. Leave a large tip at a restaurant.

6. Hold the door for someone, and let them walk through first.

7. Tell a professor/teacher how great they are at teaching.

8. Tell a janitor how much you appreciate him/her.

9. Thank a veteran.

10. Complement a stranger.

11. Have a conversation with someone you sit next to in class.

12. Call your mom and tell her how much you love her.

13.Send an encouraging text to a friend.

14. Smile at people who make eye contact with you on the way to class.

15. Buy someone a chocolate bar.

16. Tell your friend that she’s beautiful.

17. Go out of your way to help a stranger.

18. Don’t be on your phone during meals; talk to those around you instead.

19. Help someone study/do homework.

20. Call your grandparents.

21. Buy someone’s popcorn at the movies.

22. Sit next to someone who’s sitting alone at lunch.

23. Take someone out for ice cream.

24. Make a big deal out of a small achievement.

25. Buy flowers and deliver them to someone.

26. Hold an umbrella for someone when it rains.

27. Laugh at someone’s cheesy jokes when no one else does.

28. Say “I Love You!”

Sometimes the best way to say it is to just say it!