Anyone else really dislike being bought Flowers?

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I sound like an absolute brat but I just know DH will gift Me a huge Bunch of something for Valentine's Day, but they just stress me out so much! Getting them out of the ton of Paper / plastic, trimming them, finding a suitable vase, arranging them, finding somewhere to put them.. argh!

Me! I hate being bought flowers. I’ve been very vocal about this over the years, so everyone knows not to buy them. My DH will buy me a dozen doughnuts tomorrow instead 😂

We grow flowers on our allotment specifically for cutting. Really loving the daffs at the moment, lively scent - they're our first crop of the year!

Later in the year, we will have stocks, straw flowers, sunflowers, cornflowers, asters, sweet peas etc.

As a result I have a lot of vases!

I love flowers, not keen on roses personally but I love a bright bunch of flowers.

I only like being bought flowers if DH then sorts out the wrapping, trims the stems etc and puts them in a vase. ExH used to buy flowers to apologise for being crap again and it's taken a long time to get to the point of almost enjoying them again.

I hate getting flowers. All that money to just watch them die.

I hate being gifted anything that isn't food. Edit: or drink!

I love a bouquet of flowers, especially orchids.
Send them to me.

I dislike them too. I think its such a waste (and not cheap either).

Agreed. Why buy me flowers when you can buy wine or chocolate??

DH bought me a huge bunch of red roses on our first valentines day. I love flowers. But I really hate the mark-up for things like valentine's day. Ever since he gives me £20 and I buy a beautiful bunch of flowers reduced on 15th Feb 😀

You should think yourself lucky that he bothers

Oh gosh yes!! Being very dim. Overpowered by the smell of flowers.

I’d rather have a box of maltesers 😀

I do not like romantic gestures at all makes me feel so uncomfortable

after heavily hinting to a new boyfriend I didn’t not want roses I revived huge chocolate teddy delivered to me at work holding a chocolate heart

there was no way I was carrying it on the train home I couldn’t break it up so I had to jump on it so it broke into small pieces I could put in a gym bag that I borrowed

I hate them. DH got me 2 small tubs of the mini daffs...currently looking lovely... then we will plant in the garden..I have a lot of daffs in the garden!

I don’t want them in my unit. I have no space and don’t own any vases, and I’d much rather see them growing outdoors than dying indoors. Plus I have cats, and so many plants are toxic for them.

I like flowers- daffs or tulips, but not big bouquets.

Yes me. I bloody hate them. I've got a friend who buys me flowers fairly regularly and I wish she wouldn't. First sign of any sort of droop and they're gone. The only thing I really like is a pot of daffs or tulips which are available now. Otherwise, please don't waste your money 😬

I asked my then fiance (now dh, of 21+years), to please never buy me flowers as I hate watching them die.

What a miserable thread

Never liked flower shop bouquets either! Had to tell my husband to stop buying them for birthday or mother's day. I'd rather he spent the money on a meal out or some other treat. They never last that long and like PP its work to find a vase, mind them, throw them out etc.

Always happy to have simple flowers brought for me, sunflowers, tuilips etc :)

It's not miserable its an opinion!

There's a great company called 'Don't Buy Her Flowers' that was set up for the very reasons you describe not liking them! I love flowers but hated receiving them when grieving - I understood the sentiment but didn't want to go through the faff of unwrapping them, putting them in water etc and then continuing to look at them knowing they were only there because I was going through the worst thing that has ever happened to me 😞

You could just tell him.

I love having flowers in the house. I'm disabled and don't get out much and it's lovely to bring a little bit of outside inside!

But dh buys them, brings them in, sorts them unto a vase (actually a large terracotta jug we bought in Spain!) and he keeps an eye out for droopiness etc. I like mainly yellow flowers so we go from daffodils, tulips, roses, sunflowers .... then in autumn there aren't many yellow things so he goes for something else I love, the ornamental cabbages that look like roses! In the winter I have them less often but I have a Christmas cactus and other houseplants that flower so we've usually got a splash of natural colour!

This absolutely this!