Is valentines day just another over rated day or really the most romatic of the year?

Personally I don't like the idea of having a day to show how much I love someone!  Just another way for shops to make money! 

So what do you all think?

Look at the companies promoting Valentines Day, Rox.........card companies, florists, "luxury goods", supermarkets etc etc etc etc.

do you think they are all altruistic?????

It's the same as Mother's Day :(

Margot (Bah Humbug :D)

I love it :)

What I loathe is the killjoys who mutter about it being commercialised rubbish ;) Same as Christmas really ...you can enjoy Valentines day without buying into the massive buy fest ..make your own card, send someone a book of love tokens that you have written etc etc

JMO ;)

But Mel, I can do that every day!  And do!  I'm quite a romantic but for everyday, not just one day of the year! 

Doesn't help I'm spending the 14th with my best mate and then at work!  BF, well 354 other days! :D

so can I ...and I do , doesn't make any difference to me :) LOVE IT!! :p I think people get the wrong idea ..Valentines day doesn't mean it has to be the ONLY day you are romantic ...who said that? ;)

I like valentines day too. I get a dozen red roses every year and I absolutely LOVE it - I don't care that they cost a million quid and droop the next day :D :D :D

Definitely bah humbug! Luckily my OH knows that if he buys me any of the overpriced tat that fill the shops right now I'll be livid - what a waste. A hug'll do just fine. :)

But who says that you have  to BUY anything in order to celebrate Valentines day JG? ;)

All the pressure from shops, TV adverts, newspaper and magazine articles make a sensitive person feel guilty if they don't.

Awwww ...sensitive people ;) :D Fluffy thoughts :p :p :p ....maybe we should ban Fathers day and Mothers day for those of us who don't have parents anymore?

LOL Only joking JG ...each to their own ....I find MORE pressure nowadays from the bah humbug brigade than from the shops and the rest of them...*I* am made to feel guilty for liking Valentines day and Christmas ;)

Father's Day is banned in our house - Ned refuses to have anything to do with it; it's 100% to do with commercialism. Mothering Sunday (note: not 'Mothers' Day ;)) is a church festival when you're supposed to worship at the 'mother' church of the area, not simply your local parish church. Nothing to do with your own mother! :p :D :D

But each to their own: Ned has his own special day when we celebrate, just as I do - our birthdays! :D

I am aware that it is Mothering Sunbday JG ...I am a Church goer ;) But you cannot say it hasn't been taken over in the same way that the other festivals have no matter WHAT the origins are. I used to work for Interflora , at their headquarters and I know that Mothers Day is second only ot Valentines day for flower deliveries , with Easter and Christmas coming 3rd and 4th ;)

Yes I know you're aware of the real significance of Mothering Sunday, Mel, but it's astonishing how many people aren't. ;)

I'll stick with having a gift on my birthday, and avoid the hype. :D

:p :p Birthdays are over hyped though .....dontcha think? :p :p :p

I haven't had enough of them to really know! ;) :p :p :D :D :D

OooOOooooh ouch ..saucer of milk :p :p :p

Hubby wouldn't dare buy me anything for Valentines Day - he knows my views on the subject :D We might exchange a cheap card. Last year on our wedding anniversary, I bought hubby a card and he forgot, so he signed mine and we shared :D 25 years married in a couple of months - I don't need anything to remind me that he loves me :D

Daisy

Hubby's booked a meal at our favourite place.... without being asked!! Bless him :D

I've got a committee meeting for L&P Collie on Valentine's day - I'm obviously the only committee member with an ounce of romance in their lives LOL. :rolleyes:

All joking apart, we do tend to go out but not actually on Valentine's Day - dreadful time to go out, restaurants running double settings, squashed in, set meals. No thanks!

M.

I like valentines day, but not because of the OH :rolleyes:

BUT for the last four years i have had a mystery card. I mean it, i have absoultely no idea who it is from. It even came when i moved house so it must be someone who knows me quite well to have my new address. My OH and various members of the family have all examined the card and envelope but to no avail. Luckily OH thinks it's funny!! ;-)

Wonder if one will come this year?? I'd be disapointed now if it didn't! How un-loved would i feel?!!

You sure its not your OH sending it? :D

Definate.

He's not that inventive and definately wouldn't be able to keep to himself/remember for this long! :D

HelenRR. Now that is what Valentines day is all about, I feel excited for you, the anticipation and the wonder. And you got all that from a card, no need for all the overpriced presents. It is an age thing I feel, what is exciting about getting a card from your hubby!!  I'd love a secret admirer like you have. I'm sooooooo jealous! :-P

When you are young and in love, it is worth every penny. Roses, cards, meals, jaunts to romantic places. And a prompt for the guy to get that ring from the shop window.

But as time goes on, it is definitely bah-humbug!:rolleyes: And not needed at all.

Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah....humbug to St. Valentine and his nice little earner!

And OK, I know I'm one of the last great Unromantics, but I still don't want some ludicrous demonstration of "lurve" on the 14th February when I'd rather have quiet contentment all year round!

I know what will happen now,
now i've said about the mystery card i won't get one!!

it certainley makes me look forward to valentines, though maybe i should be a little freaked out!

<<<<<When you are young and in love, it is worth every penny>>>>

I don't think so! :D Roses, cards, meals etc etc etc I expect that every day! :D ....Ring from the shop window.... too young! :D :P