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Valentine's Day: Petrol Station flowers, Ferrero Rocher chocs, ...

249 replies

TheBeautifulVisit · 06/02/2014 17:52

... slutty uncomfy knickers or what?

What do you hope to receive?
What do you actually receive?
What will you give?
How will you celebrate?

OP posts:
Longdistance · 06/02/2014 23:20

We'll exchange cards. He'll get me some flowers (normally supermarket ones), and I buy him a bottle of Pinot noir.

I'll cook a nice dinner, as per always, and that's it really. Nothing too fancy. My birthday's end of January, his is end February. We've just had Xmas, so we don't do anything big. Our wedding anniversary is in May, we do go out then.

katese11 · 06/02/2014 23:21

This year I'm really hoping for a new house for Valentine's Day...Or a contract exchange at least. Think dh and I will actually crack open the cava if that happens!

IronOrchid · 06/02/2014 23:21

Valentine's is soppy loveliness in the first flush of hormonal infatuation, then you realise it's a commercial pile of shit! OP is wonderful, more wonderful to me now than 17 years ago when I showered him with heart-shaped tat. How you treat eachother in times good and bad is true love, and yes, genuine romance. TL;DR - no cards, no Clinton tat or flowers, but cuddles and conversation and time together. Lovely!

IronOrchid · 06/02/2014 23:26

Ha ha, meant DP there - sorry OP!

Heathcliff27 · 06/02/2014 23:30

Cards, nice bottle of bubbly and a takeaway

Grotbagstwin · 06/02/2014 23:30

We don't do anything more than a card here normally but last Mothers day present was so awful with his crap choice from ds I think he feels he needs to redeem himself and keeps asking what I want. i am insisting nothing but for fear of a crappy cookbook or an overpriced cupcake I may just say get me a takeaway.

ComposHat · 07/02/2014 00:09

To be chased round the bedroom Benny Hill style.

Tulip26 · 07/02/2014 00:19

Cards and going for a curry. No presents. I can't wait!

LittleBabyPigsus · 07/02/2014 00:43

Nothing as I am single. I am also at a (possibly ill-timed) conference that weekend, so I will look for post-Valentines bargains on Monday Grin

RonaldMcDonald · 07/02/2014 00:51

Give nowt
often get something overblown and unwanted

think it's the daftest day, except for little kids

Original poster
TheBeautifulVisit · 07/02/2014 10:09

IronOrchid Ha. I was getting all excited there for a bit, having an unknown admirer. Grin

Grotbagstwin - You might get a new accessory for your hoover. Grin

OP posts:
ValentineBirthdayGirl · 07/02/2014 10:22

I get a card and a present for Dh. We'll go for a meal at lunchtime. Best day of the year for me, as it's my birthday, so I get 2 lots of presents!

I'm not complaining. Wink

Megrim · 07/02/2014 10:27

I'll get a card and some nice chocolates.

DP is taking DS1 and his GF and DS2 to the ballet for the evening (he was going to go by himself but it sort of grew arms and legs. Didn't really plan it very we'll as DS2 who is 8 will have to sit with his big brother and his GF).

I'll get a quiet night in with a nice bottle of wine, a bubble bath and a good book.

Hazelbrowneyes · 07/02/2014 10:32

This year we're going out for dinner with 6 friends. We're only going because the set menu looks amazing, we know the food is good anyway (it's our local) and we can walk home. I've suggested we dress up a bit, only because I have a dress I've yet to wear and I've been looking for the perfect excuse to wear it Grin

Usually we just open a bottle of fizz like most nights

Never bother with cards anymore but I might this year just because I've been pretty horrible to live with lately and I want him to know I do love him Blush

I've told him I'd like a box of ferrero rocher and despicable me 1 & 2 on DVD if he did fancy buying me anything. Grin

scantilymad · 07/02/2014 11:40

Cards are exchanged. I've got him a first edition Sherlock Holmes book and a canvas of one of our wedding photos. Making up for last year when I didn't even get out of bed on Feb 14 due to morning sickness.
Probably nice meal in and bottle of fizz, but that's usually our Friday anyway.

MelanieCheeks · 07/02/2014 11:56

We do cards, and I'll cook something special. I don't like going out on Valentines Day as all the restaurants are busy and over-priced.

Sometimes he'll send flowers to my work, but I don't automatically expect it. I have a mammogram that morning this year......

My parents - in their 70s - still celebrate it. My Mum loves this time of year, the longer days, spring flowers appearing, and looks forward to a weekend away.

TheRealAmandaClarke · 09/02/2014 19:50

Despicable me and DM 2 are excellent gift choices Hazelbrowneyes
Grin

TapirsCaperWithReindeers · 09/02/2014 20:10

I'd be hoping for a card, but he's quite sketchy about Valentines Day.

BoyFromTheBigBadCity · 09/02/2014 23:47

I'm still young so this isn't quite as pathetic as it could be, but I've actually never had a Valentine's day card, or text, or anything. This year will be no different so far as I can tell. Being single on Valentine's day sucks, even if you think it's incredibly commercial. This year, I hope not to get too many conversations with friends about what they gave/received/did, and that work (in a restaurant) isn't too horrendous. At least being at work means I couldn't have gone on a lovely Valentines date anyway!

LittleBabyPigsus · 10/02/2014 00:07

Boy really? I'm single and couldn't give a shit that I'll be single on Valentine's day.

Bogeyface · 10/02/2014 00:17

then we'll spend the evening watching tv, with the DC who are too old to send to bed, and too young to send out.

I have a couple of those, talk about passion killers :o

What do I want? One of us to get a job (redundancy. nuff said) , we both have second interviews this week so fingers crossed.
What will I get? A job! I believe this, I have to believe this!

H does Valentine, but I dont. He was a serial boyfriend from the age of 16 to the age of 42, never married, never lived together so Valentines was a thing he always did. He was just getting his head around the idea that you dont have to do it when you are married, when I started doing it as I felt bad getting a card but not giving one. No idea what will happen this year :o

Xfirefly · 10/02/2014 00:22

got some new fancy pants as I (and dp I think) were getting a bit tired of the massive granny pants I've been donning since dd was born 5 months ago Blush

...oh and walking dead comics Smile

cory · 10/02/2014 10:26

dh and I will exchange boxes of chocolate which we will then share, two or three pieces a night, over a companionable cup of tea and some music over the next month or so

as we have been doing for the last 20 years

a reassuring and fulfilling ritual which carries no risk of failure

almost bound to be Thornton's

they do nice chocolates

BookABooSue · 10/02/2014 10:35

Dh usually gets me flowers. I make him a cake or biscuits. One year I wrote a poem for him and spookily he had written me a long, heartfelt letter! There must have been something creative in our house that year.

This year we'll be driving back from holiday so the best present would be if dh unpacks the cases and puts the washing in.

ElleMcFearsome · 10/02/2014 10:38

I'm just hoping that this year I will have persuaded my DH that when I say "let's not to Valentine's Day" I mean it. The last few years he gets this hunted look, like I'm setting him a trap to blunder into... We've had SO many conversations where I state, in a multitude of ways, that "I don't do Valentine's" does NOT equate to "buy me a dozen red roses and take me on a romantic mini-break or you'll be for the divorce courts" I have no idea who did a number on him in his past, but wow, she must have been cross Grin