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.