To ask do you celebrate Valentine's Day?

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Do you? I've always thought 'Oh no, so silly. I won't be celebrating that rubbish'.

But I thought just now, why not? A nice little excuse for a nice meal with DH and a little gift each perhaps.

Would I be highly unreasonable and lacking in classayness to consider?

No. We met on Feb 22nd so celebrate that instead.

Annelovesgilbert, from your list we only do birthdays and Christmas - token gifts only for adults for both. I do hate how Christmas is in your face from late September and have scaled back now the children are no longer tiny. I like Christmas as it is a time for family to get together, which we try to keep as a focus rather than rampant commercialism. Birthdays I see as an opportunity to celebrate of having that person in your life.
They have long traditions and I see them as very different to days created solely to sell more stuff. DH and I exchange cards for our wedding anniversary but no more.

Those with birthdays around 14th you have my sympathy, I'd never considered it before but I can see it could be rubbish.

Zip. For some reason my dh always manages to end up on away trip for work. Not intentionally (I think ).

This year he's off to Italy and the 14th is a day off so him and his mate are pissing off fo Venice for the day.

Not really. We do a card and some posh chocs (Leonidas) but that's it.

No.

Valentine’s Day is a load of commercialised nonsense.

We just do cards really. I hate going out on Valentine's Day, I think restaurants cram too many in and often do rubbish menus. We tend to go out the week after when it's quieter, although my husband goes into hospital the week after, so god knows if we'll do anything for this year.

Valentine's Day is our wedding anniversary so we always celebrate the day, meal, presents, maybe cinema or a night away, depends what we feel nearer the time

We do cards, DH might sometimes buy me flowers (but he thinks everything goes up in price flower wise that week so I'll often buy them for myself instead because I bloody love flowers).

The last time we actively went out for Valentines Day was 2016, it was a week before my due date and we figured it may be our last night out for a while.

Nope. I don't want to celebrate love because shops and restaurants tell me to. Sucks all the specialness out of it and makes it ordinary. I like the pps' ideas of the cheesiest cards etc, but tbh they just end up in the bin.

I bought DH a pot noodle on the way home from work yesterday, I work late and got in at 9.30. He was dying for a snack and it just hit the spot! That's love, thinking about it. I'd rather a pot noodle than flowers and an 'intimate' dinner with 40 other strangers.

Yeah we always celebrate it, usually a meal at home and he buys me flowers. This year, we'll be married for it so I'm taking him out for a special lunch on the 16th

I cook a nice meal and we usually make each other cards with dd1s help. Husband is a farmer and if he happens to leave the farm for some reason on 13/14 he might get me some flowers or chocolates but usually he's here and has no reason to go into down. There's no pressure either.

I love love though and like the idea of valentines day, people showing they care. Loads of people say "I don't need one day to show my oh how much I love them I can do it every day" but do they? The only year we went out was when I was pregnant with dd1 and it was mainly because we wanted to fit in a few more meals out before she was born and it was actually really nice being out on that evening

We tend to celebrate our anniversary which is on the 12th instead. Going out for a meal on Valentines Day has often seemed like cram as many tables for two in as possible then a generic blah menu because everyone's loved up and won't complain.

Much rather cook something special at home.

No, we got together not long before Valentine's day so did that instead. Then when we got married we switched to our wedding anniversary and no longer celebrate in Feb.

It is possible to celebrate Valentines Day AND show love other days of the year too.

We have celebrated Valentines for 39 years. Some years we have had a nice meal in, some years gone out to eat (usually indian and they don't tend to put their prices up) and some years gone away for a night or a couple of nights.

We usually buy each other a small gift such as a cd, dvd, book etc.

We also quite often buy each other a small gift throughout the year and DH quite often buys me flowers.

Not everyone celebrates Valentines but I do hate it when posters sneer "we show our love every day" or "we don't need to be told when to show our love"

No.

I hate the enforced sloppiness.

Soppiness. Not sloppiness.

Exchange cards and have a nice meal or takeaway but don't do presents. Don't bother with our wedding anniversary either. It's pure laziness rather than some sort of deliberate boycott.

Never have. We don't do cards at Xmas or birthdays and why sweat to book a table at an overpriced, crowded restaurant when you can hang on a few weeks and dine in comfort.

BeachtheButler, not all restaurants put their prices up. Most indian restaurants don't and they are just about the only restaurants we ever go to

We did until it was changed forever in 2011 when dd made an appearance 2 weeks early! I had said all through the pregnancy that I would love her to be born on Valentine's Day and she was!

We still do cards and gifts but it's all about her now

No, I don't buy into the commercialism of it and I'm very unromantic.

Nothing wrong with those who do though. I'm just not into and feel it's more for dating couples, we have an anniversary, although I don't celebrate that either 🙈

Not really, I am not at all romantic, although my DH is, we exchange cards & maybe have a nice meal with wine - but we tend to have a nice meal & wine nearly every night anyway .

We don't do anything other then order a take away so neither has to cook. No cards or gifts etc.

If people want to celebrate good for them if you don't you don't. Each to their own.

My MIL and SIL are horrified we don't even exchange cards and expect to be made a fuss of. This is where Valentine's day bothers me though as while FIL is happy to spoil MIL, BIL is not so inclined to spoil SIL which leads to arguments and moaning. It only works if both parties agree.

Our anniversary is in March so we usually treat ourselves to a takeaway for Valentines and then go out for our anniversary. Usually do cards but no presents as we’re broke!