A made up Holiday, where you don't get a day off of work and flower shops extort you for a product that gets thrown away after a week.

America bitches!


Yet I always participate.

If my wife would let herself go I probably would get off a lot cheaper.

Discuss.

Agree wholeheartedly, and thankfully my wife thinks the same way.

My girl and I are nicer to each other on regular days than most couples are to each other on Valentine's Day...just another commercial ripoff day that we participate in by saying "Happy Valentine's Day", and that's it.

Christmas is by far the biggest con job known to man...ever...but at least Christmas still puts up the facade that it's about something other than rampant commercialism, even if that facade gets thinner and thinner every year.

Fish on...

Todd

I used to buy flowers. I got nothin' against flowers. I like flowers. But our cat eats and otherwise destroys any flowers we bring into the house. So I get a bye on V-day flowers. We used to go out to dinner on V-day, but found the restaurants so darn crowded we decided to celebrate on our own terms and go out to dinner any night other than V-day. Works for us.

+1

Just going to get my kids a cupcake or something........ This "holiday" is for middle school dumbasses begging money from their parents to try to impress some girl with braces. Hint: just lay off the axe body spray....

$5 bunch of tulips, and a hug and a kiss. One year I made her a valentine out of construction paper and glued on about 100 candy hearts saying I love you. I think I was out about $8 on that one, got full on tears and a little action. Made dinner, as is usual.

She already knows I love her, and I show it regularly, but we don't fall into line with the manufactured holiday.

If you have to go all out to show her you love her, something is wrong.

If she doesn't appreciate a simple caring gesture, something is wrong.

If she will only be satisfied by a big production she can brag to her friends about, something is wrong.

Want to know what works? March 12th, get a sitter for the kids, show up at her work, pick her up for a surprise dinner and a movie.

Perhaps the most annoying Hallmark holiday. Every gift is consumed or thrown away within a week, and the women in our lives have already forgotten how much we love them again as soon as the last chocolate is swallowed. That said, I, too, participate, and with a house full of women, I had better.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think we'd all have a lot more money to spend on things of real value if it weren't for all the birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, and other bull$hit, and all of us would have a lot less $hit lying around that we don't need or even want. Of course, most retailers wouldn't survive without holidays, so I guess they do serve an important purpose....

The only cool thing is it's about 99.99% chance your gonna get some..................Good enough for me......Oh and I get away with just a home made card...............If I remember.LOL.Good luck,

SZ

Some of you get Monday off (at least two posters above me for sure), and the rivers are probably going to be dropping so the money you spend for V-day probably goes directly to your river access. For you it is a good value.

A dozen roses at Safeway are $20 right now. Even though I don't like being forced to buy this stuff (I like to save it for when I am in the dog-house) that is a price I can live with. Job done.

At my office one of our Office Administrator's duties is to buy a bulk of Valentines and Mothers Day cards and remind us to pick one and fill it out. She also reminds us our spouse's b-days and our anniversaries and has cards as well.

The real question is: What would The Merg Do?

The quote of the day still has to be from Hankster on the "Bedroom Action" thread:



If that doesn't say "Happy Valentine's Day", than nothing does.

Yup, Monday is a day off for me. I'll go out and shoot, maybe try and get the coyote that just killed one of my chickens this morning.

Luckily for me, she hates roses and like tulips. Might have to pick up a few boxes of those heart shaped candies and make another card.

That is March 14th (which is why I said to butter her up on March 12th).

My girl gets flowers at random times, which are far more appreciated than V-Day or Birthday flowers.

I'll make dinner tomorrow, but since I love to cook and make dinner most the time anyway that won't be anything special.

She hasn't had a drink in seven years so a nice bottle of wine isn't going to happen.

I have a professional massage table and she gets massages all the time, so offering that would be appreciated, but nothing special, either.

That being said...she'll get a card, probably one flower, I'll make a nice dinner, and she'll likely get a massage, too, and she'll appreciate all of those things mightily, and will tell me so...and then show me

Fish on...

Todd

Sounds like a pretty perfect plan, right there.

Fish on...

Todd

So far everyone is pretty much of the same opinion. Valentines Day sucks, is a ripoff, and STILL everyone is going to do something a little special for their S/O.

It comes back to why V-Day is so brutal, we are all just trying to get laid; and the flower, jewelry, and candy people know it (so they give it to us with no lube).

Here is a Valentines text

http://profootballmock.com/iphone-text/i...ines-day-plans/

We haven't played that game in ten years.

$6.99 for flowers, $1 card. Done.

My wife gave me a Seahawks cribbage board this morning. Very thoughtful.

Basically it is the gift of getting my ass kicked at cribbage. I am terrible, have bad luck, and haven't beat her 1x in about 3 weeks. We decided we would play after dinner when we had time, instead of having dessert. It was fun at first, but now she just kills me every time. I think she got the Seahawk board for me because she decided I wasn't having that much fun getting my ass whooped 4x a week.

if your getting your ass whooped maybe she should have got you the Broncos cribbage board and that would relinquish the joy

My wife and I act the same on valentines as we do any other day....

It's worked well for us for the last 20 years....

Do they object to you making them wear a 49ers helmet and a kaepernick jersey ?

The Kaepernick jersey is Hanks viagra.

I usually go and get some chocolate covered strawberries from a mom and pop candy shop. This year it's just a card, a sacrificial Facebook posting, and we went to the gym together this morning. We are going to some dinner/ music thing tonight with friends. I'm in about $30 which includes small gifts for my 3 daughters.

I get to fish... a lot, so it's all good to me.

Padded headboards negate the need for helmets...

We are going to a dive bar that we are fond of and has amazing and unjustifiably inexpensive food.



I am delivering flowers to her office and tonight we will have quiet dinner for two.


She is putty in my hands.


Book it.

I took the Stam approach, minus the oysters. I don't know if chicks dig me or not, but at least a couple do at the moment. A bit worn out after the last two evenings, but will end the week having a steak dinner and beers with my buddies tonight. Most of my buddies are married and they did the "VD" thing last night - as if only to make sure March 14th is celebrated in style. That reminds me, I need to lien something up for the 14th....

I did end up buying flowers, but the pay off was through the roof so no complaints there. Also gave my X some of my beef this morning for VD Day - no really, 5 pounds of ground beef. I traded her for some other cuts of meat that she didn't want to eat.

I bought my girl a box of my favorite see candies so I could eat them and she gave me a blowjob ,so all in all ,it went well.

We horrified the boys this morning. They're leaving for Blaine today, leaving us alone. The wife said "Great, that means we can have sex anywhere we want!"

I still don't think Hunter has recovered from us telling him he was conceived in the bed he sleeps in now.

Cheers Andy! it's fun Watching our 13 y.o. Daughter Squirm about any type of Sex Commentary... One of the joys of being a parent.

Unless She reads this

lol

Agree.

I bought no card.

I bought no gift.

I said "Happy Valentine's Day", and made a nice steak dinner.



But I can get away with that because I'm a sexual Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Today we're showing the boys where Hunter was conceived.

Well...he doesn't have time to bleed.

That's just plain mean.

Mrs. Twitch made me dinner

I got my wife a diamond earring. She got me a cool titanium ring and an autographed SB football that should be here next week. We went out for happy hour on the deck at the Loft above the marina. Nice sunset. Cheap drinks but splurged and got their VD special salad, prime rib, and dessert. I failed to make reservations but everything worked out perfectly. Live music by James, Kevin, and Steve. Met our friends at the movies and saw the late showing of A Winter's Tale. A very nice evening and some great after hours action.

Going to see Heart by Heart tonight at the Point. Later.

Uh... Twitch...


Is that considered a single serving??

I only ate half the bread, but I finished the rest!

It looks fantastic BTW but I am not sure I could tackle half even.



Ask Mrs Twich if she caters. We are available next VD

I did the same thing, but at my age I won't brag that I get away with it for exactly the same reason.

Hey Twitch! Mrs. Twitch feeds you way too good! Apart from more sex, the thing I miss most about youth is being able to put away a ginormous meal like that. I'd be happy if I could eat half of that. Congrats on having such a keeper!

Sg

Now we know why the t-rex went extinct.

Clams are made of meat, and T. Rex ran the earth for millions of years.







Like I didn't already think of all your clowning attempts that would be coming my way.

lol

I got a box of Busch Light pounders for VDay from my spousal unit, she certainly knows the way to my heart