To hate Valentine's Day

[Flashbangandgone]

i hate the expectation that you should get all romantic simply because it's the 14th February.....not because you feel like, or not because you feel it's the time to express how you feel about someone, but no, because 'society' expects you to behave in that way on that date - surely this is the antithesis of true romance! I certainly don't 'celebrate' it with my DP.

[ForalltheSaints]

I went to an anti-Valentine's evening on Friday. The beer flowed very well.

[MuttonCadet]

Mother's Day is Mothering Sunday, isn't it?

[MadeMan]

I think Mother's Day has kind of hijacked the original Mothering Sunday.

[OhYouLuckyDuck]

I'm not a fan either, I've (apart from MN) decided to have a day away from FB to avoid all the sickening pictures and declarations of love. Pass the bucket!

[bolleauxnouveau]

Yes

[Writerwannabe83]

Yes

[MuttonCadet]

For those who hate Valentine's Day because it's commercial nonsense, do you feel the same about Mother's Day?

[Writerwannabe83]

When we woke up this morning my conversation with DH went like this:

DH: Happy Valentines Day!!

Me: It isn't Valentines Day today.

DH: Yes it is Dear.

Me: Is it? I thought it was tomorrow?

DH: No, it's today.

Me: Oh right, you haven't got me a card have you because I haven't got you one.

DH: No, I was going to get you one today.

Me: Oh, well let's just not bother.

DH: Ok. What shall we have for breakfast?

And that was how much Valentines meant to us this year

[MadeMan]

"Icing sugar is less uncomfortable than granulated"

Tate & Lyle cubes won't make anyone smile either I would imagine.

[AustinAmbassadorYReg]

Awwww huns you're all heartless!! Me & dh are totes celebrating in style - I'm giving him £5 for the carwash after he takes all my old shite to the tip.

Bahahaha!

[MadeMan]

Yeah, always reminds me of episode, NewLife.

It'll probably all be in the bin on Monday, but at least the local council waste and recycling tips will look pretty this week with all those flowers and cards.

[ouryve]

Icing sugar is less uncomfortable than granulated, MadeMan

I might pass on the lemon, though [winces]

[LadyHonoriaDedlock]

Awwww huns you're all heartless!! Me & dh are totes celebrating in style - I'm giving him £5 for the carwash after he takes all my old shite to the tip.

[NewLife4Me]

MadeMan

I know, it just shows how we are manipulated.
It's not even relevant anymore and people still give their money to the corporates.
it's preying on people's insecurities of needing gifts as an affirmation of love.

[cosytoaster]

YANBU it's the naffest celebration of the year by a long chalk.

[MadeMan]

"Have sex on pancake day"

But I can't put lemon and sugar on my sex!!! Or can I?

[MadeMan]

"but if you are single and you fancy somebody, it's really your time to get adventurous with the anonymous card."

Nice idea, but surely nobody really does this these days though? I know it's originally what Valentine's was all about, but I think today it would just seem a bit weird for people to send anonymous love cards unless perhaps still at school.

[SalemSaberhagen]

This thread has just reminded me that when I was in Year 6 - so 10 - I convinced myself that someone had put a card in my drawer. I have no idea why, as I was not one of the girls who attracted attention from the boys at all.

I didn't tell anyone of my certainty, but spent the day thinking up pithy one liners for when I pulled the envelope out.

Home time neared, I pulled open the drawer....nada. I was crestfallen but to this day I don't know why. What made me think I would get one?! I may even have gone home and cried

[Katarzyna79]

bolleauex I forgot too, my 4 yr old came home saying mum are you cooking pancakes today? I had just finished cooking I looked at her like she was mad, I said " we just had pancakes last weekend remember?". She looked at me like I was loony then said "oh ok mum we'll have some in the weekend?" lol

We have them so often I don't need a pancake day.

[Katarzyna79]

I doint get little gifts regular forget flowers what are they ? I get daisies in my garden that's the closest to a bouquet ive ever received. Oh silly me I receive them when I expressly ask for them and not before.

I don't celebrate it, religiously not meant to either but I don't think its such a bad thing especially for folks like my husband who don't make a habit of giving tiny gifts, this is a good reason for them to give one, otherwise it might never occur.

Well ive not told him as much but that's how I feel lool

last valentines day I was thinking of treating myself to those red roses or black ones that look and feel like velvet. I'm not mad on roses or especially red but I fell in love with those velvety ones. This year I may be a saddo and get myself a bunch, no one else will

[bolleauxnouveau]

arf at Sheldon

Have sex on pancake day and pancakes on mother's day, that'll smash the system.

I'm so out of touch with the meaning of all these days that when my children asked if pancake day was on a Saturday I had to think about it. doh!

[SheldonsSpotOnTheCouch]

We didn't eat pancakes on pancake day. I highly doubt we'll have sex on valentine's day. Proper non-conformists, we are

[ouryve]

DH and I are agreed that we're too old and ornery to be bothered with it.

I have found all the loved up students highly entertaining, this afternoon, though. All the anxious young men with bouquets of roses. And, especially, the couple stood at the M&S checkout with a pile of what looked like a dozen chocolate love hearts :o

[Cookingongas]

Mrs gently- santes dwynwen has more meaning!?!? The story is miserable, fascinating, but not exactly a poster print for love.

Anyway- valentines, Father's Day, Mother's Day, etc are all cheesy, marketing crap. Embrace the cheese and enjoy it, or sit bitter and resentful IMO. I don't buy any superfluous shit for the occasion, but why not a bottle of rose and a meal for dh and I?

[thugmansion]

Kait and AITBC. I feel the same. My partner's dead so it just passes me by really.