# Would anyone like to do a Valentine's Day Exchange? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599 "2015-01-22T17:44:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2015, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/41 "2015-02-03T17:34:05Z")
Hey, guys, sorry about the latecomers! I was out of town over the weekend and didn’t have a chance to respond. If the latecomers want to PM me their address, I got a couple of extra cards, too, and can send them out. Most of my Valentine’s Cards went out. I ran out of stamps, though, so I have to go to the post office box - which I won’t be able to get to until tomorrow. But the rest will go out then! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/42 "2015-02-05T15:46:53Z")
I sent out my special Valentine’s mail today. 🙂 No idea how long it’ll take for my items to get to their recipients, but probably sometime this month. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/43 "2015-02-05T19:40:16Z")
Valentine’s!!! A beautiful, creative Star Wars one from JKellyMap, and a lovely bookmark and bird card from Grrlbrarian. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/44 "2015-02-05T22:26:42Z")
**Pai325** , I got yours yesterday. Thank you! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/45 "2015-02-05T23:22:53Z")
the cards are arriving! cards, and stickers, and bookmarks! oh my! (i have a new book by a favourite writer to read tomorrow, and now a new bookmark for it!) i’m gonna have to start my crafting earlier next year. i felt a bit rushed this time. i could send valentine greetings to those that missed the deadline as well. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/46 "2015-02-06T00:48:28Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > Valentine’s!!! > > A beautiful, creative Star Wars one from JKellyMap, and a lovely bookmark and bird card from Grrlbrarian. > > Thank you! There is not supposed to be an apostrophe in Valentines. It is plural, not possessive. In all of the years I have had an iPad I still haven’t trained myself to double check if it wrote what I thought it was supposed to write. I can send to anyone else, too. It is still a week away! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/47 "2015-02-06T11:54:35Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > There is not supposed to be an apostrophe in Valentines. It is plural, not possessive. > > In all of the years I have had an iPad I still haven’t trained myself to double check if it wrote what I thought it was supposed to write. Eh, you were okay with the possessive as well. Remember, the day used to “belong” to a saint (still does for some folks, I assume). I’ll pass your too-kind compliments on to Lil’ Map! ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/48 "2015-02-06T12:19:46Z")
huh, i always went with the st. valentine’s day, the st. may have been dropped but it is still his day. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/49 "2015-02-06T14:20:18Z")
All of mine are out! The International ones might take a little longer, but most should be there pretty quickly. And I already got **Pai325’s**! Thank you - so cute! ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/50 "2015-02-06T14:43:31Z")
Thanks for the cool Malaysian dude,\*\* JKellyMap\*\*! 😃 I’m really enjoying all the happy V-Day mail. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/51 "2015-02-06T15:06:44Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Eh, you were okay with the possessive as well. Remember, the day used to “belong” to a saint (still does for some folks, I assume). > > I’ll pass your too-kind compliments on to Lil’ Map! I still call it St. Valentine’s, with the apostrophe. The first word in my post “Valentines!!!” was because I had received two that day, and I call the card a valentine without the saint. I am just adequate in grammar, so the errors I actually see and recognize bother me. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/52 "2015-02-07T00:52:14Z")
Got a lovely card and stickers from **Pai325**. Many thanks! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/53 "2015-02-07T21:13:44Z")
Yay! Two more Valentines arrived today! **Rocking chair** , I got the lovely bookmark with stickers: thank you! **Anaamika** , loved your card & envelope, but I’m afraid the enclosure was a casualty of the post office. Just a thumb-sized hole in the envelope where something clearly was. I appreciate the gesture all the same, though! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/54 "2015-02-07T23:57:28Z")
A heartfelt (ba dum bump) thanks to Pai325, Aanamika, rocking chair, and Grrlbrarian\* for their creative cards – all much more “valentinesy” than what I sent out. I won’t see the rest until after I get back from a trip, two weeks from now. \*I love the bookmark – I’ll start using it tomorrow! ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/55 "2015-02-08T00:44:37Z")
> [@Grrlbrarian](#): > > Yay! Two more Valentines arrived today! > > **Rocking chair** , I got the lovely bookmark with stickers: thank you! **Anaamika** , loved your card & envelope, but I’m afraid the enclosure was a casualty of the post office. Just a thumb-sized hole in the envelope where something clearly was. I appreciate the gesture all the same, though! 😃 same here, but the hole was way bigger. like a shark took a bite out of it. i’m planning on interrogating the post man. i’m glad y’all like the bookmarks. grrlbarian, i used your’s on my book yest. it was fabulous. ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/56 "2015-02-09T16:05:18Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > same here, but the hole was way bigger. like a shark took a bite out of it. i’m planning on interrogating the post man. > > i’m glad y’all like the bookmarks. > > grrlbarian, i used your’s on my book yest. it was fabulous. So glad you liked it, **rocking chair** and **JKellyMap**! My mama is the Queen of All Card-making (or so it appears) and she generously donated many of her supplies so the bookmarks could come together. I hadn’t been crafty in ages, so this was fun for me too! ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/57 "2015-02-09T17:24:21Z")
> [@Grrlbrarian](#): > > **Anaamika** , loved your card & envelope, but I’m afraid the enclosure was a casualty of the post office. Just a thumb-sized hole in the envelope where something clearly was. I appreciate the gesture all the same, though! 😃 Same here: bottom of envelope torn open and only the card inside. Lovely card, though, **Anaamika**! Mine went out a bit late so hopeful everyone will start receiving them this week, except the international contingent. You just have to enjoy getting valentines cards a little later. Thank you, also, **jkellymap** , **grrlbrarian** (love the bookmark!), **pai325** , and **purplehorseshoe**. Every one of them made me smile! ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/58 "2015-02-10T02:42:36Z")
I loved opening the mailbox to find real mail!! Addressed to me!!! rocking chair, I loved the bookmark. I am already using the one from Grllibrarian in a book, and now I can take the scrap of paper out of my other book and use the one I received today. Thank you. And Emily G!!! What a beautiful box, and chocolate, too! A double valentine, and those are two of my favorite colors together. Thank you! I wish I had a fraction of the creativity all of you do. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/59 "2015-02-10T14:24:48Z")
Good heavens! I hope at least someone got my enclosures. I didn’t think they would be so prone to escaping. Sorry about that! Got a lovely bunch of cards over the weekend, including a bookmark with my very own Doper name on it! Some adorable cards that I put on my corkboard, and a lovely box from EmilyG. I’m glad you put it in plastic, it has snowed a LOT these past few days and there was even snow in the mailbox. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/60 "2015-02-10T15:10:35Z")
I got a bookmark, too! 🙂 My int’l went out yesterday morning, and the others yesterday evening, so hopefully they’ll all make it in time. I found pretty stamps for everyone, too. ETA: one of mine included a sheet of V-Day stickers - thank you! - so I turned around and payed the love forward, decorating my outgoing cards with them. Fun! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599.md?page=4)