Anyone else not bought their other half a valentines card/present?

[Disenchanted3]

Things like that don't bother him, I might do something come the day but I'm not going out of my way to go to the shops and spend money on something for him.

Have I a cold and withered heart?

Nope. We don't do Christmas cards and presents for each other either.

Definitely doing pancakes though!

Nope, No valentines here either, we have a wedding anniversary (which we often both manage to forget) and London Marathon Day (day we first met), don't need Valentines - cashmaking-for-card-company-crap (though the M&S £20 meal did look very tempting, wouldn't stretch to 6 of us though). I like a bit of spontaneity to his outpourings ([sceptical]) of love, not having it dictated by a date in the calendar.

sorry- meant , not [sceptical], of course.

Bah and pish to Valentine's Day.

Poor DH will be selling the M&S £20 Dine In Deal all bleedin' day so will have absolutely had enough of hearts and flowers by the time he gets home.

I hate getting flowers anyway. I don't see how giving something that was once alive and beautiful but is now dieing symbolises love. I like getting plants that I can nurture

Perhaps once your married or settled you swap valentines day for pancake Tuesday???

I have told Dh not to get me a card or pressie, but we are doing the M&S £20 deal. I still think it is important to show you care and make an effort no matter how long you have been together.
Doesn't need to be 14th Feb though. And pancake day is an absolute divine right in our house, the kids would go mental if I didn't do it.

We're not bothering this year...

I bought the OH something he wanted/needed but didn't buy himself last week. That counts doesn't it..?

We agreed no cards or presents this year. Waste of time & money IMO. However, I am informed that I will get a lie in while DH gets up with DD & we have planned a nice meal & dvd in the evening! Sort of romance on the cheap!!

Oh and pancake day is way more important here too!

I am not particularly pro or anti valentine's day, but we often use it just as an excuse for presents! I think we're big kids really... Nothing this year though, but we have got in some steak and a bottle of prosecco. Going to send DH out for strawberries later (got choccy to dip them in, yum).

Pancake day is also sacred, we will probably be inviting ourselves round to a friend's house as per tradition

DP used to live in New Orleans, so he is far more bothered by Mardi Gras. VD (huh huh huh) isn't that important unless you are 14 IMO.

Nope. We don't bother either.

I've said it before and I'll say it again (and again and again and again )

being 'romantic' because the calender says it is time, is the most unromantic and unsexy thing in the world.

imo, it's meaningless, if you are doing it because it's valentine's day and it's expected. It says nothing about love and everything about peer pressure and about effective marketing

Think it might be going to boycott me - DH finally awake to fact that am an idle slattern... After 6 yrs, a, crashing down off the pedastel. Phew! So I've bought a rose and made a card and plan major seduction as am not ready to be a single parent just yet. Maybe in the summer when it's warmer....

I have gone totally over the top and bought dh and the dss a box of cadbury's cream eggs this year!!! (Hopefully dh will reciprocate.) Who needs flowers, cards, romantic candle lit dinners??! - But don't want to throw away an excuse to eat chocolate . . . .

i have got something this year, don't usually, but at this rate he won't be getting it as he's being a complete and utter knobhead at the moment.

Almost exactly What Marion Said.

Not bothered by Valentine's Day at all. We used to make each other cards when we were young and had time on our hands. But am not expecting him to waste money on gifts and cards, and I'm not going to either.

Never do, we don't need a day to say how we feel about each other we tell each other eeryday and have done for the past 8 years and know we will for however many years we're lucky enough to have together in the future.

Is bollocks commercial ploy to make people rich/feel guilty/lonely etc etc

dh and i always seem to get it wrong. So he forgets, I say ''no problem but i got you a card and a gift''. next year, i don't bother and he goes OTT. The next year I go OTT and he forgets...
He is cooking a nice supper tonight and I expect we will have a bonk. But only because it's about time...[romantic]

I gave birth on 14 Feb some years ago, so I'm always happy to accept tokens of love and appreciation on that particular day. However I do not give a monkeys about mother's or father's day...

I haven't but only because hes 4000 odd miles away and I haven't got a postal address.

We got engaged on St Valentines day so we do now celebrate it. We went out for a meal last night and he took me to a jeweller today to buy me a white gold chain for a pendant I have. I got him a ski suit a couple of weeks ago. We also have bought each other cards. I had no choice, he bought his yesterday.

DP and I have never done Valentine's day. Today, however, I was given flowers from DP and DS as a not-Valentines day present- just for being 'a good mum' apparently

I panic bought a card this morning because I realised that the mysterious object bagged up in the back of the fridge was in fact a bottle of pink fizz (cava, not champagne I think, but worth a card in exchange at any rate).

We aren't really doing it. Seems a bit glib and insincere. I am not knocking it for others though - if people want to celebrate it then fair play