To not enjoying recieving flowers?

[Vwswimmer1]

Obviously light-hearted... Just find them annoying to assemble, don't have much surface space to put them on and then you have to sort them when they die!

Not to mention you normally receive them when you least feel like doing all the above - when poorly, after surgery, grieving etc...

Give me chocolates anyday 😁

They’re so much work to get them looking presentable in a vase

Only if you’re doing a huge arrangement for Westminster Abbey! Otherwise it’s ten minutes of titting about. It doesn’t even qualify as work.

@Pinkbendyman

They die so quickly and the environmental footprint feels completely unnecessary. A heap of fertiliser to grow them, then having them flown/ or driven halfway around the world/Europe just to sit on my table for 5 days dropping pollen before they die. I mean what is the point really.

I would much rather be given a plant - indoor or outdoor

Yes. A plant is much nicer. Better environmentally, easier to care for, longer lasting, better value.

@Vwswimmer1 - my comment was meant to be lighthearted.

However, in MN world, where people wash their towels after a nano second of use, their clothes after being worn for 10 minutes, vacuum their house twice a day, insist on having their houses looking like show homes, and spend half the day taking showers or baths so they don't smell, they can't find the time to plonk a bunch of flowers in a vase! They don't need an hour of arranging, they usually come arranged and you just put them in the vase minus the packaging.

As for them not lasting - and chocolate does???

I also love fresh flowers and don't find them a chore in the slightest. I hadn't even considered it would be until I discovered MN. You live and learn.

Same here. Told dh a long time ago to just stop. It's just wasted on me. It's a chore for me, not my idea of a gift.

I love flowers but please give me a seasonal bunch of 99p daffodils any day over some imported and overly fussy flowers wrapped in plastic. I’m just not keen on them.

When we got married, our flowers came from the loveliest lady who grew the majority of them on her allotment with the occasional bloom from a local network of growers. They made me so happy. I am expanding my own allotment to grow flowers next year so that I can have a few home grown arrangements over the year.

I quite like having flowers in my house, I hate being given them though. I had an ex who would insist on bringing me a massive bunch of flowers on every date we went on. We’d be at a restaurant and I’d have to work out what to do with a massive bouquet while we’re trying to eat and then lug it around a bar afterwards with everyone thinking how romantic he was. It pissed me off.

I absolutely love flowers and while a lazy article in regard to most other aspects of housekeeping, this never feels like a chore to me.

Please feel free to send all your unwanted flowers to me

I'd rather flowers or plants than soding prosecco. I dont drink anything fizzy, so it just goes to the next school raffle. Completly wasted on me.

Completely agree with you. Giving me a bunch of flowers is giving me another job to do. The only ones I like are the ones that come in their own water.