Anyone Celebrating Valentines Day?

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DH & I exchange cards & he always buys a dozen red roses plus sometimes chocolates (I’ve requested white Lindt truffles this year as they’re on offer at Asda). I don’t usually get him anything except maybe some chocolate. He also buys flowers for DD16. We’ll have steak for tea & I have a bottle of alcohol free Freixenet cava to try. Hopefully it’s nicer than the fizz I had on NYE which tasted like manure!

We normally just buy each other cards and as this year it's on a Friday so we're both off, we'll cook a nice meal at home, but we'll definitely avoid going out.

No, not something we have ever "celebrated" really. Don't know why.

Birthdays, anniversaries and Xmas, yes.

Pancake day... hell yes...

Valentines day passes us by.
I guess if everyone is on the same page (either way) it is fine.

I get my 2 boys a card & little bag of haribos each, I usually get a book each too. Nothing fancy but I'd like to show them it's nice to do for someone you love as they grow up (they are 7 & 4 now).

God no!

Sent a few and got a few anonymous cards when younger, that was fun, and what I was told Valentine's was.

But just no as old married.

Expect the teens will be expected to join in that will be truly hilarious!

When I met my partner four years ago I explicitly told him I was not a Valentine's Day person and under no circumstances did I want to celebrate it 😂 bless him he still got me a card which I thanked him for but said I really didn't want to exchange cards or anything else in future. This year however for the first time I've actually done something for him and bought a big diy hamper basket and filled it with loads of goodies and his favourite things. I can't wait to give it to him he's going to be so shocked!

Absolutely not, it's just commercial tat that's not needed. I don't need a special day to treat my husband, I spoil him every day.

My birthday is very close to Valentine's Day, so we always do something nice for that and we've never felt the need/inclination to make a big deal of Valentine's Day as well, so we just exchange cards.

We go out for meals a lot all year round just because it's one of our favourite things to do together, and on Valentine's Day most restaurants are just ridiculously busy and often have overpriced set menus, so I kind of feel that if we went out for dinner for Valentine's Day we'd just enjoy it slightly less than we would on any other day!

Yes. We exchange cards and a token gift. We’re going out for dinner this year at an authentic tapas place in town.

Looking forward to it ❤️

No, we don’t bother. It’s my husband’s birthday so we celebrate that instead. And we usually go out for a meal the day or two after as it’s always more expensive on the actual day.

My first one since I divorced my husband so I'll probably get a text off someone and I might open some new chocolates. Just a day now and that's fine with me.

I find VD a forced affair. You should love your OH all year round. Not just one day of the year.

It’s a marketing gimmick. Meals in restaurants are set, reduced choice and about £10 plus a head extra. My previous work sells a dozen red roses (they came in bunches of other colours) all year round- £6. Stick a bit of red tissue around a bunch - £10.

Then shops like B&M are selling crap. Like fluffy dice with positions on them.

It’s more romantic to do something with your OH any other time, plus cheaper!

I've met a new man after being single for 22 years. We've been dating since December. He's the loveliest man but it's all very new so I don't know. He did ask if I'd like to go for a meal on Friday night but I said I'd prefer lunch on Saturday (I have a prior engagement Saturday night) cos it'll be mental on Friday.

As for presents, I've ordered a funny mug & funny socks related to an in joke we have on Amazon and am thinking I might make his fave cake cos he has a real sweet tooth. I just feel like it's a bit soon for a surprise weekend in Paris 😂😂

I've no idea if he's going to get me anything & I don't mind if he doesn't but I think my present is small enough that if he doesn't he won't be embarrassed but thoughtful enough with the cake that if he does I won't be embarrassed.

I hope anyways 😂

Nope! My DH and I appreciate each other all year round, don't need a set day for flowers and chocolates. Plus my DH is a chef so he'll get his arse handed to him at work by all the couples squeezing into his restaurant for a 'romantic' dinner. It's the worst weekend in the restaurant industry

Valentine’s Day has been around for a lot longer than the commercial tat. Don’t be so bloody miserable 😂

You don’t need the “commercial tat” to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

We’ve been together 19 years and always do something. We’ll possibly go out this year, or cook something nice at home. One year DH made a huge afternoon tea. It was amazing.

No “tat” exchanged whatsoever.

No. We might get cards but no way am I paying £££ for a crap set menu in a restaurant that has been overinflated, same as mothers and fathers day. The latter two are for the kids to celebrate with anyway.

Mine too... typical as I've never been interested in Valentines Day 😆I find all the gushing SM posts about how "spoilt" people are vomit inducing especially when it's from the usual suspects 🙄

We'll probably head out for his Birthday pints but definetly not dinner or anything like that because everywhere will be jammers, we're boringly low key 😊

Nope I absolutely dont celebrate it. It gives me the ick even thinking about it. Dh has occasionally over the years, against my wishes, sent me stuff when he was working away. A card, flowers and champagne was the most recent when he was abroad working for 7 weeks and I didn't mind it as was a nice gesture. Our anniversary is close TO valentines and we still celebrate it.

Hope you have a lovely time celebrating.

DH played an absolute blinder by being born on Valentine's Day so he has to do nothing for me for it but gets presents and a fuss himself! To get my revenge we got married on my birthday so that I get to have every wedding anniversary be entirely about ME.

I always receive a card and good chocolate which DH then eats!, long time married, we are going out for a meal tonight with our friend instead of next Friday when I may make a bit more effort with dinner.

Same here!😂 We did the first couple of years, I think, with cards and gifts but then I always say I could never think what to write in a birthday card AND a valentine card so he was only getting one after that.

My mum had kept the card she got years ago from my dad and the one she gave to him and she just puts them back out on display each year! Same with their anniversary. They do usually go out for a meal for their anniversary though.

Yes, card exchange and we will buy each other chocolates. At least I hope we will buy each other chocolates, as I have bought some for him, and saw my favorite chocolates on the stairs the other day so assume they are for me and not another woman.

Mostly because we like to eat nice chocolates and this is an excuse to top up the stocks!

I do fancy a steak so might treat us to that as well on Friday.

We've always done cards. DH will also usually buy me some flowers. He does buy flowers at other random times during the year too.

We also usually do an M&S valentines meal deal. It's been a long time since we went out for a meal on Valentines day. It's too rushed and overpriced for our liking.

I like marking occasions like Valentines day. We don't need to but we quite like to.

@MaltipooMama I’d be really pissed off if my partner made a big fuss and insisted we did nothing for a special day and then did something secretly for me. It’s unfair.

It's my birthday. So I will be celebrating.

We don’t celebrate it. Not to be a Debbie Downer but we had something bad happen on Valentines Day a few years ago so now it’s the anniversary of something we would rather forget. When we did celebrate it, it was always a bit of a let down anyway. Normally good restaurants would put on a set menu and the service would be slow. It’s no loss to not celebrate it now.