As a friend said to me last night, “Valentine’s Day is just another made up day for a guy to screw things up with his girlfriend.”
Personally, I don’t have much vitriol towards it this year. RogueGF made it clear that she expected me to remember. I played it off this morning by saying that I need to go to Walmart tonight (nothing says classy like Walmart) to get something I forgot. As long as UPS doesn’t fuck things up, there should be a nice gift waiting for her when she gets home. I might not have hit it out of the park, but I should at least be safely on second with a RBI.
Anyway, maybe your significant other forgot? Maybe you forgot? Maybe you just don’t feel like fueling FTD’s coffers? Maybe you’re unwillingly single? Whatever the issue, here’s your chance to give Valentine’s Day a big FU.
I’m not going to swear at it, but it is a silly holiday. I told my bf I didn’t need a thing - I got flowers. Just because. Which is fine, because they’re carnations and so not expensive and it’s nice to see flowers with the two feet of snow that’s coming down outside. But it’s a toally pointless holiday and I’m sorry to see how many girls fall for it.
According to this article American’s will spend up to 16.9 billion on Valentine’s Day this year.
RogueGF is actually pretty good about it. She wants me to think of her, but spending piles of cash isn’t required. One year she bought us two pairs of oversized boxing gloves for Valentine’s.
What makes it tolerable is GF and I never celebrate things when they happen, we celebrate on the following weekend. Which means I can get her a dozen roses without having to sell a kidney to pay for them. And GF doesn’t play the “If you really loved me you’d spend $5,736,485 on me while standing in the snow naked” bullshit headgames.
Both ElzaHub and I are home today due to the snow, so I just said “You didn’t send me flowers today, did you?”.
He said “No.”
I just looked at him and said “That’s one of those ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ questions, isn’t it?”
We don’t usually celebrate Valentine’s Day. I may cook a special meal or something, but that’s about the extent of it. Oh, yeah, last year, he gave me a teddy bear…holding a heart. (SNL did a fake commercial last year about them…it was a running joke between us, so he thought he’d get me one.). I don’t get the hype about it, I don’t get why people are upset over it, I don’t get why a woman’s life ends if she doesn’t get a dozen overpriced roses on V-Day.
I have a friend whose husband always sends her a dozen roses on V-Day. My husband has never sent my flowers on V-Day. But unlike them, we’ve never been on the verge of divorce, he doesn’t verbally abuse me, and I haven’t threatened to leave my husband over the past year. I’ll take that over flowers any day.
Meh, I considered pitting it but it hasn’t seemed to be a big thing here this year (although the adverts and store displays started way earlier than I remember).
In any case this comic pretty much sums up my feelings.
I asked my wife to be my Valentine two weeks ago.
She consented, and asked me to be hers.
I agreed.
That takes care of Valentines day for another year. What’s the big deal?
I loathe Valentine’s Day with a firey passion, regardless of my relationship status. This year, my singledom enabled me to do something I’ve wanted to for years: host a Love Sucks party. Way more fun than a traditional Valentin’s Day celebration!
I dislike Valentine’s Day partially out of spite, and partially because I spent a good bit of my childhood with people who’d ignore my birthday (exactly a week ago) in favor of griping or squeeing about Valentine’s day, then insist that I make a huge deal out of their birthday. Uh, yeah. What?
Besides, most of the crap associated with the holiday tastes worse because it’s Valentine’s Day themed. Candy hearts? Blech. Hallmark cards? Why waste the money? Flowers? Most of them smell nasty. ::shrugs::
This is the first year that being alone on the day doesn’t bother me. Dunno why it doesn’t, it just doesn’t. It’s a good thing.
But I can still hate the holiday for being worse than xmas in the respect that it’s a RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY (Uhm… SAINT Valentine’s day, please. A catholic saint’s day) that has been twisted and refigured (see how many people still add the ‘saint’ part to it) for commercial purposes. On the way home today, I heard the word ‘valentine’ mentioned 38 times on the radio (I counted). 31 of those were in advertisements.
If ya don’t spend money, you don’t love 'em.
Whatever.
Hrm… Although it does make me wonder, in a hijack-y way, what other minor religious holiday we could kidnap and turn into a commercial feeding frenzy…
Me, I’d like to pit all the self-centered psycho-bitches who piss and moan about the “lame” gifts they get for Valentine’s Day, and trash talk their spouse/bf/gf/so for not getting them expensive crap but when asked what they gave, have no answer.
Since my bday is the 7th, I have always gotten bday/Valentine’s day combo gifts. Never been a big deal to me. Hubby is out of town until Friday, so I sent him a card and some naughty pictures, he sent me a card – we don’t make a big deal out of it. Just my 2 cents’ worth.
How about the Feast of the Annunciation? There could be an Annunciation Angel named Gabriel Cottonwings and he could fly around giving Beanie Babies to everyone.
I must be a mutant. I’m a guy who actually enjoys Valentine’s Day. I don’t buy flowers, but it is a nice excuse to go out and have a nice dinner together. Granted, I could do that any day, but I don’t mind having an evening set aside on the calendar to spend time with my sweetie.
