Love, love me do…
02/14/2008
It’s that time of year again.
Time to go rushing out to show your significant other how much you love them by showering them with chocolates, flowers and sexy lingerie.
Because after all, nothing says I love you like saturated fats, dead vegetation and slutty underwear.
I’ve now come to the conclusion I just don’t do any of our modern “celebrations”.
They’re all too commercial, the sentiment is lost, and they’re just forced now.
Take today for example (take it, please!)
We’re told we have to do something special or our loved one will think we don’t love them.
Then shops the world over put up the prices of their flowers and chocolates. Not to mention the fact that greetings cards now cost an arm and a leg on their own.
Then you’re supposed to take your significant other out somewhere, so naturally every restaurant and food place is redesigned for couples (nobody else appears to be allowed out in public on February 14th). And again, they put their prices up just for the day, since everyone is so lovestruck they’ll never notice.
And I wonder why there’s more and more days of the year I just want to crawl into a hole and pretend I’m not associated with the human race!
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blulady said,
February 14, 2008 @ 10:35 pm
You can do something simple for your significant other and still have it mean a lot.
I just bought a card for my husband, nothing special.
Don’t give up on holidays like this.
moonshadow said,
February 14, 2008 @ 11:40 pm
I’ve never celebrated this day. My parents do so I make sure I buy overpriced flowers for mom. It makes her happy…I’m a good daughter.
My parents were in the store over the weekend and went to look at cards. Mom found one she liked and handed it to dad to read. He did the same thing, then they put them back. I thought that was great.
4raindrops said,
February 15, 2008 @ 6:02 pm
hehehe i do know what you mean but hehehe this valentines day i recieved my first box of chocolate ever that was cool but yoiu know to me every day can be valentines day it’s what you make of it and how you celebrate it who needs all the commercialism i know i don’t one time i made a whole made stew and cut up all the veggies in heart shapes hehehe
yeah
cia said,
February 17, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
V.Day is well overated! blah blah blah!!
Ren said,
February 21, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
I like the idea of swapping cards in the store rather than wasting money buying them. That seems more in line with the spirit of the day.
Adam said,
February 26, 2008 @ 2:25 pm
I actually didn’t conform to the ol to do list… we went out the following day instead and took advantage of free fat on sale!
Ren said,
March 5, 2008 @ 2:15 pm
Well you can’t beat a good sale on chocolate