To not get the meaning of Valentine's Cards?

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I don't mind the chocolates because you can eat them.

But why cards? I don't mean people in flirting stage, i mean married couples living in the same house. You can say 'i love you', you can sing 'i love you', you can do 100s different things. Why do you have to go to the shop after work and buy a card??

And if you tell your dh to buy you a card and then he does in order to avoid your sulking then whats the meaning, how does this make you happy?

Valentines day is for drippy teenagers. They are supposed to send the card but not sign it so the person receiving it doesn't know who it is from.

cards are supposed to be from secret admirers ... not platteedwith Hubby loves you or other such twaddle

Thats ok. at least its funny.

platteed????

Splattered (and I'm going to effing splatter this KB in a fit of DV very shortly, that'll tell it!)

'To my lovely wife.

Happy Val Day

Sign'

WTF?

i don't get cards in general. what is the point? it sits on your mantlepiece for a few days then it goes in the recycling, what a waste of trees.

not to mention the cost. mil is a huge card fan and spends ££ on special cards for us, some cards are £6ish, for a folded bit of card FFS.
mil is on benefits so money is tight and we have told her repeatedly to please not waste her money on cards that go in the recycling almost as soon as they are opened as we have limited shelf space.

down with hallmark!

I'm with bamboobutton.

The only cards I 'get' are sympathy cards, when you want them to know you are thinking of them without being intrusive.

other than that? Waste of money and resources.

It's so I can smugly show off to our cats who have no testicles and will never experience sexual love. It serves them right for turning their noses up at their biscuits and wanting a fresh pouch every other hour.

I don't get the point of cards, but DH loves them. He'll spend ages picking just the right card for me, but I appealed to his thriftiness/tightness this year, and avoided the whole palaver! It's money that could be spent on a better present!

Plus, I'm 8m pg and find it hard to waddle to the shops to get one. I made him a birthday card instead... Brownie points! Still don't see the point, though.

Valentien's Day in Proud household 'means' eat loads/drink loads.

Quite.

But in our house it's DH who gets upset if we don't

@ WaitingForMe

'Valentine's Day in Proud household means eat loads/drink loads'.

I don't have problem with this . Any excuse for food/drink.
But the stupid cards don't even have a bit of sugar. Nothing.

My Mum sent me and my dh a card through the post this morning

It says

To Agincourt and Agincourts husband
enjoy your valentines days
lots of love
Mom, Stepdad and dog's name

Mr OTheHuge and his extended clan all love huge, soppy, drippy cards with glitter and teddies and vomitous poems and take every opportunity to send them to one another.

I'm generally about such things but the first year we were together I didn't get him anything for Valentine's Day and he was So having learned that in his world soppy drippy cards are a good thing even if they make me cringe I now get him a soppy drippy card.

It makes him happy. This is important to me. I guess that's about it, really

Last year DH and I decided not to bother spending lots of money on two bits of paper with hearts on, instead we bought ourselves a box of posh chocs to share. It was such a success we have done the same this year. (I have been very patient and not opened them yet)

Aaahhh, you miserable lot.

My hubby sent me a lovely card with a real heartfelt message as to why he loves me. I'll keep the card (with the others) forever. And I got a present.

And tonight he came home from work with a bottle of wine and bunch of flowers.

Maybe its soppy, but I love it and it is the one time a year he actually remembers to be romantic!