Valentine's Day is on its way!

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What are you getting your DHs or boyfriends for the Vday this year?

Nothing 😊
I love him to bits, but we don’t do Valentines Day.
We also are celebrating 12 years of marriage a few days before and we still don’t do anything.
Every summer we head to Florida and make sure we do things there as a belated celebration.

We don’t do valentines presents. We’ll get each other a card and then head off for a nice weekend away together. We prefer going to places/experience’s to presents

A card.

Nowt. It's not a real day!

Ah, Hallmark Day.

Or, as I call it, Singles Awareness Day, the time when shops, tv and restaurants throw it in our face that normal people are all happily coupled up.

Still, saves us singletons money at least.

I thought about a nice wall calendar for his office with the photos he took (he is a photographer) and even found an interesting calendar maker but I'm not sure it is really romantic. There is still time to look for something else just in case, anyway

@ShatnersWig, why not? What is so bad about creating a little special day? Shops make money out of every holiday, Valentine's Day is nothing different

Because it's a totally commercial invention - or at least the way it is done these days.

Personally, even when I wasn't single, I never bought into it. If you love someone, bloody show it all year round. Cheap bit of flipping card means sod all, especially if you don't bother doing other romantic gestures all year round. If you're in a couple, mark your anniversary (whether that's a first date, or wedding) - that's a date that means something to YOU, not some random date Hallmark want you to splash out on.

We give each other a card and a small gift (I usually get him some fancy chocolates and he gets me flowers) and we’ll order a takeaway.

Probably just a card as we will be in New York for Valentines day and my birthday!

Actually these days there are lots of articles about how great is it to be single on Valentine's Day and that you need to love yourself first. I think this is great

I don't buy into the hallmark card thing. I do however keep an eye out for a small token (often red wrapped chocolate hearts turn up in M&S very soon after Boxing Day).

It has been known for a totally anonymous card to arrive for me. From a secret admirer.

If it works for you, it's all good. If not, just ignore and scroll past

We just do cards and he cooks something special.

Neither of us are that in to it, but it is nice to make the effort to make a bit of a fuss of each other especially the longer we have been together. We are affectionate all year round but it just shows we both still want to make an effort which I appreciate.

Valentine's Day is a completely pointless day and a stupid idea to us so we don't mark it in any way. If others want to celebrate it, they can crack on!

We do a card but that’s it. You should show each other that you love one another every day, not just make a big effort because you’re told to!

OP you’ve forgotten that on mumsnet, Valentines Day is Not Approved Of 😂

We give each other cards and usually have a romantic dinner. Dh buys me roses too most years. I like it. We do romantic things for each other the rest of the year too though.

It's going to be a card and a steak from me :) homemade brownies because he's got a real sweet tooth.
Just something little to show him I love him ❤️

@Waterandlemonjuice, oh, really? I didn't know that but now I see, haha
What is the reason anyway?

Nothing, it’s my birthday

I’ll get him a card and we are off on holiday, so lots of love and attention!

The general rule of MN is you aren't allowed to celebrate things like valentine's Day, birthdays etc!

We do cards and a small gift. A group of us are going out for a meal together this year which will be lovely.

@SueEllenMishke lol now I see that!

I really can't be bothered with V Day. We're getting married soon and our anniversary is next week so I've just got him a card and a gift voucher for a sports shop.

I might suggest we just do cards each year. No need to do anything fancy plus it would be our anniversary we're together, V day and our wedding anniversary all in the same month - it's too much!!

Nothing, never have. Don't need one day out of 365 days, every year to know that my husband cares about me. Same with wedding anniversary, never celebrated it. Married 20 years

A card.

Honestly I would prefer to do nothing. But dp likes to do something. March is an expensive month for me. Something else to spend money on between Christmas and march, isnt welcomed.

So we compromise on cards.

Yeah we don't buy things on Valentine's or Anniversarys ect. Even Birthdays are trailing off now. We have been married 10 years. We just acknowledge it really and give each eachother a kiss and say nice things and put extra effort into the sex on that particular day 😂 we are happier than ever. I think gift giving is way out of hand these days.