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Valentines Day

RainbowGurl

RainbowGurl

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Its slowly appearing, so we must talk about it! :p

This shouls be a descussion of this years valentines, tell people what you got for valntines this year, who you expect a valentines from, if you gave someone a valentines, if you got an annoymous valentines, you should share you storys :D
 
you are a romantic.
well i am married so likely my hubby will get me a card and maybe take me to dinner. we have young kids so we grab our "romantic" moments while we can( hall closet, nap time, running errands) wink wink. lol.
my 4 year old has a school party so today we are baking the cupcakes and i have heaps of red sprinkles and pink frosting. he has a little sweetie in his class and so he made her a special valentines.
my best friend is born on valentines and he is a grumpy, mouthy ,hates all holidays and birthdays type. every year for my birthday he sends flowers and then bitches about how much they cost. hahahaha he's hilarious. so i am sending him a balloon o gram to his office.(evil laugh)
 
Haha, thats so funny, you have to tell us what happens and if he bitches about it ;)

I don't know what I'm going to get...probably nothing....unless SillyWabbit reads this..hint ;)
 
Again! Another freaking holiday that's warp speeding itself into grotesque commercialization. Why should flowers that die in a week get quadruple price increases for just this one day? And god forbid if you don't get you wife or girlfriend some kind of gift. Women have the longest memories. To me, it would be much more romantic to give a dozen roses when they are least expected, not when they are most expected.

Typically my wife and I go to dinner sometime within the weekend of that day and call it enough. Although...I did ask her to marry me on Valentines day...in 1989....

This year she bought herself one of those Dyson vacuum cleaners and declared me off the hook for V. day. :D

I'm sure I'll break down and do something small, just in case.... :eek:
it's that long memory thing....
 
oh moto, are you one of those people who complain about the holidays? i am a sucker for holidays, festivities etc. i agree that the stores go nuts,but it's just as easy to ignore. i love getting swept up in the traditions of holidays. we are the same in our house re gifts etc, i like a smooch and pat on the butt and i feel valentined. lol. more for me it is the kids excitement over everything. we had glitter and glue over every inch of my dining room last night and michael was just vibrating with excitement over giving his sweetie her little card. i live for that.
 
Motokid said:
Again! Another freaking holiday that's warp speeding itself into grotesque commercialization.
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It NEVER was a holiday to warp into commercialisation. It was invented by the Hallmark cooperation. I guess much the same way the moden Christmas was invented by coca cola ;)
 
Of all the “holidays” isn’t Valentines Day the most dangerous? Doesn’t it provide the catalyst for the highest probability for depression and rejection, hard feelings and bitter, chilly, lonely nights spent wondering if you are really loved or not?

I much prefer Halloween. Let the pagans and heathens rejoice in candy and costume…. :D
 
Motokid said:
This year she bought herself one of those Dyson vacuum cleaners and declared me off the hook for V. day. :D

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OMG Moto, didn't they have a heart-shaped mop? Maybe next year, huh?

A moment of silence for all those poor wankers who spend their days thinking up Hallmark Greeting Card Valentine's "expressions."

The joy that you bring to my happiness is like saccharine on a lo-carb donut!
 
May I inject a romantic note?

I'm a birder, so I know that the romantic associations of St. Valentine's Day originate in bird behavior. Mid February is when birds begin their mating rituals and pair off, at least in Europe and North America. I've already seen cardinal pairs, robins, mallards, and great blue heron pairs this week. Also, the red foxes are out, bounding through the fields in broad daylight, looking for true love. Because that behavior always coincides with St. V. Day, the date was traditionally viewed as one for beginning a love affair.
 
We didn't have valentines day in Denmark until a couple of years ago when the flower shops thought it would be a great idea to promote that day here. Not really falling for that trick though, and I don't even know which day it is.
And for some reason someone has found it to be a good idea to celebrate halloween, so now we have kids running around knocking on your door asking for candy or money. :mad:
 
hay82 said:
We didn't have valentines day in Denmark until a couple of years ago when the flower shops thought it would be a great idea to promote that day here. Not really falling for that trick though, and I don't even know which day it is.
And for some reason someone has found it to be a good idea to celebrate halloween, so now we have kids running around knocking on your door asking for candy or money. :mad:
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Poor you. Don't answer the door. Isn't there some Danish holiday tradition you can export as revenge?
 
It’s not romantic if you do it on the day that the calendar, the card companies, and the flower companies tell you to do it. It’s not romantic if it’s expected.

It’s romantic if it’s seemingly random and totally unexpected.
Do it when your heart tells you to do it, not the calendar.
 
We don't do Valentines Day in my house, and I used to abhor the whole idea vociferously.

Now I think it's preferable to show a little kindness to those who want those things. I'm not talking about Hallmark cards or spending money, just not begrudging those small kindnesses on some ill-founded principle.

I say this because I was raised to ignore all commercial holidays, as was my husband, and I'm absolutely satisfied to do that, but I watched my widowed father marry a woman who wanted those things and she was always sad on holidays. Finally, he saw the light and found kindness. Now I see no good rationale for that sort of "principle."

Gee, I am so self-righteous, ain't I?
 
Motokid said:
This year she bought herself one of those Dyson vacuum cleaners and declared me off the hook for V. day. :D
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I got a Dyson for Christmas and have become a vacuuming freak; it's the greatest thing (this from a girl who didn't even own a vacuum cleaner until then) :rolleyes:

My husband surprised me by announcing we have dinner reservations for V Day. He's more romantic than I am - I hate V Day and usually spend it with my best friend in an Anti-VDay celebration but this year she's away so he figured we could have our own Anti-VDay. But I made him promise not to buy flowers and I will NOT wear red!

Valentine's Day should be EVERY day.
 
Lay off the bonbons

In recent years, each American-on average-has eaten more than 20 lbs. of candy!!!!!!!!

I don't eat candy at all, so I guess bobbyburns or someone ate 40 lbs.
 
My wife literally danced around the house vacuuming for over an hour.
Many times stopping to say "You gotta come see this!" "This thing's incredible."

She's been declared obsessive/compulsive about cleaning by more people than me. If we could afford a maid, she would clean before they showed up just so the house would not look so messy....really.

I really don't think I could have made her any happier if I had bought her diamonds and pearls.
 
I have also been trying to end Christmas as we know it in my family.
I want to end Christmas and simply have a Thanksgiving Part 2.
No gifts. Just family getting together for another feast. I am not religious in the standard sense of the word. I find almost every brand of organized religion to be full of hypocrisies.
I keep adding that if the gift giving part is so important why not do it on Independence Day (July 4th), or Memorial Day, or the first day of Summer? At least then we could all avoid the Christmas shopping madness as much as humanly possible.

Think about it. Thanksgiving Part 2. Doesn’t that sound nice? It’s not a Bah-humbug thing. It’s about getting back to the original reason most holidays are important. Spending quality time with your family. Can’t you do that without hundreds of dollars of gifts????
 
Argh, I've never actually had to recognise the existence of the celebration before, but if I don't I'm going to be in the bad books of someone whose affections I would rather keep. Stupid festivals.
 
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