Utterly overhyped and way too commercial. When did you have to spend $$$ just to tell someone you loved them? The only good thing about Valentine's Day is this year it falls on the weekend, so you have lots of time to spend together.
Is it too commercial? Yes, but as an old school frugalista, I used vday to our advantage. My then fiancee and I had four children, one mortgage and a school loan to pay so when we were planning on getting married we chose February 15. That day happened to fall on a Sunday and with most of our friends attending our church, we were able to have a ceremony and cake / coffee / punch reception immediately following service. Additionally, the night before, my mother and BFF and I ran down to the grocery store where all of the vday flowers etc were already 50% off. With a little creativity we created my bouquet, my matron of honor's bouquet and one for each or our daughters. The groom, his best man and my two sons got buttoneers and we had enough to make coursages for my mom and my former mother-in-law (we put the fun in dysfunciton). The church was decorated with half priced vday items and we even got the Valentine's day special at a local hotel for half price!
Despite Valentine's day going commercial, it can serve as a reminder to make sure those you love know it. It also serves as a reminder for DH that our anniversary is coming up!!
I think that, for most people, Valentine's day is highly commercial. However my husband and I go 100% homemade (handwritten haiku, favourite foods for dinner) and we love it. It's all in your approach.
February 14th is a wonderful day to overpay for meals, flowers and other "obligatory" gifts. Yet being a card-carrying bargain hunter who also loves her husband, we choose to zig while the rest of the world zags. No marked-up flowers - we save them for a random Tuesday in winter. If we're going to celebrate our happy marriage, we'll go out to dinner on February 13th or 15th when the restaurants aren't crowded and the prices have gone back to normal. If you love your husband or wife, don't celebrate with ephemeral items -- give each other homemade gifts (baked goods, massages) or stash away the $100 you might have spent on corny V's Day gifts in your savings account or retirement account and watch it grow...just like your relationship will hopefully grow in depth over the years.
I'd much rather forget Valentine's Day than to expect my husband and I to aimlessly search for the "perfect" gift for each other. Our special day is our wedding anniversary, and I'd much rather celebrate our love on that day only....a day WE chose, not a day that someone else chose for us. Thank you.
But that doesn't mean you have to follow the norm and buy expensive gifts that you don't need. You can celebrate simply. I love the fact that there is a day set aside to remind us of what is important--love for one another. You don't have to spend anything to remind the one you love you care. What I don't appreciate is the way that the Valentine's "crap" comes out the day after New Year's, if retailers wait that long. There is so much junk out there, none of which is necessary to celebrate love. I buy my sweet hubby a card, although some years we make them, and then we have heart-shaped homemade pizza for dinner. A lovely celebration together!
YES. I've never been a fan of valentine's day - it has always seemed like just another excuse for spending money, and it makes some folks who don't have a significant other feel pretty crappy and alone.
Yes, it is, but it can still be fun, especially for kids. My husband and I don't do anything for it. But our kids love making their own cards for family and handing out cards they buy at class parties. The big boxes of little cards are very inexpensive - we even found some this year that have seeds inbedded in them so they can be planted! And I don't mind finding fun, inexpensive things for the class parties. It's gotten too commercial, but you don't have to buy into that to still enjoy it.
When I was younger I worked as a florist for 7 years and have interesting (?) memories of having to be at work for 4:30 in the morning on Valentine's to get the orders out and selling roses to VERY stressed out men for 12 hours. When my husband and I were dating I told him never to buy me roses on Valentine's Day. Yes Valentine's Day is very commercial but that doesn't mean you have to buy anything. I enjoy the decorations in stores, I look at the jewelry you can buy and we celebrate at home by making a special meal. The kids use to make Valentine cards for all their classmates on the computer (label sized and they would tape a foil chocolate to them) and we would decorate the house by taping hearts on the windows. If you are into crafting Valentine's day is a hoot.
I think it's too commercial, but then you don't have to participate if you don't want to. I also think everything is slanted to what to give the female. I guess I have no imagination, because even if I wanted to, I can never come up with something to give my husband. What, boxer shorts with hearts on them? Give me a break.
Valentine's Day is way to commercial... my girlfriend and I deliberately avoid it. Besides being commercial, V-Day has a certain obligatoryness to it--e.g. the guy HAS to buy flowers, and he HAS to buy a card, and he HAS to take her out for a nice dinner, and he HAS to get chocolates, etc... I do all those things and more on a regular basis for my sweetheart, but not because I have to. I do them because I want to. Obligatoryness is not romantic; doing things when you don't have to but still want to anyway is. That's why we skip V-Day.
It is absolutely too commercial - just as Christmas has gotten to be too commercial. Everyone needs a little reminder to do something nice for people. but the best gifts are thought out and need not cost anything at all. A homemade valentine telling someone how much they mean to you is so special! Cleaning and vacuuming the car for your sweetie is great. Little things, thoughtful things, are more special any day.
I think it is waaaaay to commercialized. My husband and I decided we are not allowed to buy each other anything for Valentine's day. Instead, we make something for each other that does not cost anything additional to what we already have. I am making him a bag of decorated sugar cookies and he will probably make me a card. It requires us to spend some time and thought on each other. Besides, I try to eat chocolate 365 days a year already!!!!!!
Well, of course. Who would want VD? Now Valentine's Day, on the other hand...
Who cares about commercial programming? I don't give it a thought. Valentine's Day is a fun and sweet way just to break out of the every day routine. No, I don't need a holiday to tell my family I love them, but I LIKE making homemade cookies in heart shapes and such things. My sister once painted a box full of miniature masterpieces in food coloring on white frosting for me. I wish I had saved one of those very special Valentines!
The Valentines Day party was a highight of my elementary school life, and my children's too. There is a little social pressure in elementary school, as everyone knows a Valentine goes better with a little candy stuck to it. We live, and lived, in the kind of places where all the kids got a Valentine from everyone else, so we don't associate the holiday with loneliness or tears, or pressure to perform. I'm sorry if that's how the day has worked out for you.
As a kid, I loved making the Valentine cards with doilies and glitter and all manner of things stuck to them. I think I'd still like making them, but I never get that done anymore!
I happen to love the tacky stuffed animals which play a silly song when you press their hand. It is a fun occasion to give a silly love gift to my nearly grown-up boys, my even more grown up daughter, and my serious engineer husband.
I do have an arrangement with my husband not to ever buy me expensive jewelry (any jewelry at all, really), or expensive flowers. I would rather save up for something good in the future. I just lose the jewelry anyway!
So lighten up, all you Debbie Downers and Bobby Buzz Kills. Have a little fun with the special people in your life.
Next holiday, St. Patty's Day. I already have the sugar cubes for making Blarney Castles, and I found the little footprint punch for leprechaun footprints in the morning. I know it's dumb, but so what? Life is fun and sweet, and not a waste of money.
Guys, if you're insecure, buy the heritage certificate, and then go WITH her! You'll get to see her represent a few contrastive styles, and the outlook is truly fun.
I hold saved authorship your own poetry works pretty healthful too, if you are on a budget.
It's really most the champagne. (speck pinch)
Act one. In a skyscraper, a man in a business suit delivers the state of financial affairs for his company. Someone in the room coughs. His presentation is not very well-received, and he is promptly carted off by security at the nod of a cigar-smoking business leader, who closes the blinds and addresses his eight underlings.
Manager: Okay, people. We need to cook up a new holiday for the summer. Something with, eh, gifts, cards, assorted gougeables.
Not just Valentine's Day but everything in this society has become too commercial. I'm tired of advertising popping up anywhere and everywhere. Lucky for me though, I get year-round romance and don't feel the need for anything special on Valentine's day.
I love how they come out with new editions of books in subjects where they make absolutely no changes in the material. Take math for example, you can't tell me there is any ground breaking discoveries in college algebra for them to need to change books every year or so. Renting is definitley the way to go!
I think most holidays ARE comercial... Period.
Utterly overhyped and way too commercial. When did you have to spend $$$ just to tell someone you loved them? The only good thing about Valentine's Day is this year it falls on the weekend, so you have lots of time to spend together.
Is it too commercial? Yes, but as an old school frugalista, I used vday to our advantage. My then fiancee and I had four children, one mortgage and a school loan to pay so when we were planning on getting married we chose February 15. That day happened to fall on a Sunday and with most of our friends attending our church, we were able to have a ceremony and cake / coffee / punch reception immediately following service. Additionally, the night before, my mother and BFF and I ran down to the grocery store where all of the vday flowers etc were already 50% off. With a little creativity we created my bouquet, my matron of honor's bouquet and one for each or our daughters. The groom, his best man and my two sons got buttoneers and we had enough to make coursages for my mom and my former mother-in-law (we put the fun in dysfunciton). The church was decorated with half priced vday items and we even got the Valentine's day special at a local hotel for half price!
Despite Valentine's day going commercial, it can serve as a reminder to make sure those you love know it. It also serves as a reminder for DH that our anniversary is coming up!!
I think that, for most people, Valentine's day is highly commercial. However my husband and I go 100% homemade (handwritten haiku, favourite foods for dinner) and we love it. It's all in your approach.
February 14th is a wonderful day to overpay for meals, flowers and other "obligatory" gifts. Yet being a card-carrying bargain hunter who also loves her husband, we choose to zig while the rest of the world zags. No marked-up flowers - we save them for a random Tuesday in winter. If we're going to celebrate our happy marriage, we'll go out to dinner on February 13th or 15th when the restaurants aren't crowded and the prices have gone back to normal. If you love your husband or wife, don't celebrate with ephemeral items -- give each other homemade gifts (baked goods, massages) or stash away the $100 you might have spent on corny V's Day gifts in your savings account or retirement account and watch it grow...just like your relationship will hopefully grow in depth over the years.
I'd much rather forget Valentine's Day than to expect my husband and I to aimlessly search for the "perfect" gift for each other. Our special day is our wedding anniversary, and I'd much rather celebrate our love on that day only....a day WE chose, not a day that someone else chose for us. Thank you.
But that doesn't mean you have to follow the norm and buy expensive gifts that you don't need. You can celebrate simply. I love the fact that there is a day set aside to remind us of what is important--love for one another. You don't have to spend anything to remind the one you love you care. What I don't appreciate is the way that the Valentine's "crap" comes out the day after New Year's, if retailers wait that long. There is so much junk out there, none of which is necessary to celebrate love. I buy my sweet hubby a card, although some years we make them, and then we have heart-shaped homemade pizza for dinner. A lovely celebration together!
Yes, it is waaayyyy too commercial.
Get her a home made, heartfelt gift and it will go much further than the hundreds of dollars you might be tempted to drop on her
YES. I've never been a fan of valentine's day - it has always seemed like just another excuse for spending money, and it makes some folks who don't have a significant other feel pretty crappy and alone.
Yes, it is, but it can still be fun, especially for kids. My husband and I don't do anything for it. But our kids love making their own cards for family and handing out cards they buy at class parties. The big boxes of little cards are very inexpensive - we even found some this year that have seeds inbedded in them so they can be planted! And I don't mind finding fun, inexpensive things for the class parties. It's gotten too commercial, but you don't have to buy into that to still enjoy it.
When I was younger I worked as a florist for 7 years and have interesting (?) memories of having to be at work for 4:30 in the morning on Valentine's to get the orders out and selling roses to VERY stressed out men for 12 hours. When my husband and I were dating I told him never to buy me roses on Valentine's Day. Yes Valentine's Day is very commercial but that doesn't mean you have to buy anything. I enjoy the decorations in stores, I look at the jewelry you can buy and we celebrate at home by making a special meal. The kids use to make Valentine cards for all their classmates on the computer (label sized and they would tape a foil chocolate to them) and we would decorate the house by taping hearts on the windows. If you are into crafting Valentine's day is a hoot.
I think it's too commercial, but then you don't have to participate if you don't want to. I also think everything is slanted to what to give the female. I guess I have no imagination, because even if I wanted to, I can never come up with something to give my husband. What, boxer shorts with hearts on them? Give me a break.
We don't have the money for extras here, and it's made for some very interesting gifts for little holidays. Homemade rocks!
Valentine's Day is way to commercial... my girlfriend and I deliberately avoid it. Besides being commercial, V-Day has a certain obligatoryness to it--e.g. the guy HAS to buy flowers, and he HAS to buy a card, and he HAS to take her out for a nice dinner, and he HAS to get chocolates, etc... I do all those things and more on a regular basis for my sweetheart, but not because I have to. I do them because I want to. Obligatoryness is not romantic; doing things when you don't have to but still want to anyway is. That's why we skip V-Day.
Overall, I think that it has become a bit too commercial. I went over some of my thoughts and ideas here: http://thestudentslife.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/valentines-day-the-good-....
It is absolutely too commercial - just as Christmas has gotten to be too commercial. Everyone needs a little reminder to do something nice for people. but the best gifts are thought out and need not cost anything at all. A homemade valentine telling someone how much they mean to you is so special! Cleaning and vacuuming the car for your sweetie is great. Little things, thoughtful things, are more special any day.
But it is what you make of it - we'll still do something special here.
But I like to make presents to my darling wife, so it is just another reason to do it!
I think it is waaaaay to commercialized. My husband and I decided we are not allowed to buy each other anything for Valentine's day. Instead, we make something for each other that does not cost anything additional to what we already have. I am making him a bag of decorated sugar cookies and he will probably make me a card. It requires us to spend some time and thought on each other. Besides, I try to eat chocolate 365 days a year already!!!!!!
Well, of course. Who would want VD? Now Valentine's Day, on the other hand...
Who cares about commercial programming? I don't give it a thought. Valentine's Day is a fun and sweet way just to break out of the every day routine. No, I don't need a holiday to tell my family I love them, but I LIKE making homemade cookies in heart shapes and such things. My sister once painted a box full of miniature masterpieces in food coloring on white frosting for me. I wish I had saved one of those very special Valentines!
The Valentines Day party was a highight of my elementary school life, and my children's too. There is a little social pressure in elementary school, as everyone knows a Valentine goes better with a little candy stuck to it. We live, and lived, in the kind of places where all the kids got a Valentine from everyone else, so we don't associate the holiday with loneliness or tears, or pressure to perform. I'm sorry if that's how the day has worked out for you.
As a kid, I loved making the Valentine cards with doilies and glitter and all manner of things stuck to them. I think I'd still like making them, but I never get that done anymore!
I happen to love the tacky stuffed animals which play a silly song when you press their hand. It is a fun occasion to give a silly love gift to my nearly grown-up boys, my even more grown up daughter, and my serious engineer husband.
I do have an arrangement with my husband not to ever buy me expensive jewelry (any jewelry at all, really), or expensive flowers. I would rather save up for something good in the future. I just lose the jewelry anyway!
So lighten up, all you Debbie Downers and Bobby Buzz Kills. Have a little fun with the special people in your life.
Next holiday, St. Patty's Day. I already have the sugar cubes for making Blarney Castles, and I found the little footprint punch for leprechaun footprints in the morning. I know it's dumb, but so what? Life is fun and sweet, and not a waste of money.
Guys, if you're insecure, buy the heritage certificate, and then go WITH her! You'll get to see her represent a few contrastive styles, and the outlook is truly fun.
I hold saved authorship your own poetry works pretty healthful too, if you are on a budget.
It's really most the champagne. (speck pinch)
Nice job, Syrup.
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Nowadays Valentine's Day is mostly about selling stuff.
The Simpsons captured this perfectly in 200th episode, when greeting card companies invented a fictional Love Day to help sell cards.
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F09
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Act one. In a skyscraper, a man in a business suit delivers the state of financial affairs for his company. Someone in the room coughs. His presentation is not very well-received, and he is promptly carted off by security at the nod of a cigar-smoking business leader, who closes the blinds and addresses his eight underlings.
Manager: Okay, people. We need to cook up a new holiday for the summer. Something with, eh, gifts, cards, assorted gougeables.
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End Quote.
Not just Valentine's Day but everything in this society has become too commercial. I'm tired of advertising popping up anywhere and everywhere. Lucky for me though, I get year-round romance and don't feel the need for anything special on Valentine's day.
I love how they come out with new editions of books in subjects where they make absolutely no changes in the material. Take math for example, you can't tell me there is any ground breaking discoveries in college algebra for them to need to change books every year or so. Renting is definitley the way to go!
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