# Enough with the "Hallmark" holidays already!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-hallmark-holidays-already/87697>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 16, 2001, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-hallmark-holidays-already/87697 "2001-10-16T12:23:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Fonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonz)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-hallmark-holidays-already/87697/41 "2001-10-22T03:03:09Z")

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I’m one of those who LOVES Hallmark holidays.  
When I have a non-suspicious excuse to bring home flowers for my gf, I’m sure to get laid.

(Romantic of me, right guys? Girls - shutup! You’d do it for sex too if flowers worked on men the same way.)

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**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-hallmark-holidays-already/87697/42 "2001-10-22T04:56:54Z")

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My GF professes to despise Hallmark Holidays. I bought roses anyway. CYA.

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**Author:** ![bagkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bagkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagkitty)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-hallmark-holidays-already/87697/43 "2001-10-22T09:53:05Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Miller \*  
> \*\*I’ve never even heard of Sweetest Day. Of course, I go out of my way to ignore these useless Hallmark-days. I refuse to celebrate mother’s day, for example. Although I always make a point to buy my mom flowers the day before or the day after, just to show that I’m not a jerk. But never on the day itself. \*\*

My mother raised me to think Mother’s Day was a complete crock… then again, her birthday always falls within four days of the Hallmark Holiday, so she gets lots of attention in early May anyway.

On principal, I don’t do anything at all on Mother’s or Father’s Day, but I give my mother flowers about once a month, and, with about the same frequency, make a concerted effort not to hang up the phone or storm out of the room when my father starts holding forth at great length on (practically) anything…

Insanity doesn’t run in my family, it moves at warp speed.

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**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2001, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-hallmark-holidays-already/87697/44 "2001-10-22T10:38:51Z")

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You’re not going to ruin another Sweetest Day!!

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