Monday, February 1, 2010

BQOTD: Valentine's Day

Since it is now officially February (holy COW!), I thought I would ask about Valentine's Day. What are your thoughts? Do you celebrate it, and if so how? If not why not?
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  1. MeredithFebruary 1, 2010 at 7:30 AM

    I figured that I should actually answer my own question- in the past we have usually done cards and gotten dressed up to go somewhere nice for dinner (or made dinner at home). This year I have no idea if we will do anything at all! I would still love a card, but honestly I am too tired to put anymore effort into thinking about it!

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  2. KaitFebruary 1, 2010 at 7:50 AM

    I have no plans really. I do have a gift that I'm working on for hubby and we usually just do a card. Last vday he was gone, and the vday before that we ended up getting stuck in traffic for over an hour due to an accident and missed our movie. I figure this year I'm not planning anything but a card and small gift. If we actually go out, cool!:) Ha!

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2010 at 8:01 AM

    Well you might already know this but we don't celebrate Valentine's day (just for the kids) because our Anniversary is only 6 days later so we just celebrate this instead which is more important. We just go out to dinner or something simple and small. It is hard to do stuff for long periods of time when you are tired and your kids are so small.

    Renee

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  4. gvFebruary 1, 2010 at 8:13 AM

    We do the same thing every year, cards and dinner at Shogun's!!! It's the Japanese place where they cook in front of you. This year another couple will be joining us so that's fun. A lady I work with makes heart shaped hamburgers for her family for dinner. Before hubs, I always volunteered to work on Valentine's since I was single and those of us working would always order the heart-shaped pizza from a local pizzeria.

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  5. KaylaFebruary 1, 2010 at 8:35 AM

    We usually do the same thing every year. We always do cards (which is, by far, my most favorite part!) and a small gift. This year, we're planning on seeing Dear John and then making dinner at home together, just the two of us. It's not any different than most other weekends, but it's our special way of celebrating :-)

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  6. BalooFebruary 1, 2010 at 8:40 AM

    Corporate holiday of dubious worth that chiefly serves to make single people turn to liquor and drugs out of depression. Though my parents used to send me a heart full of candies back when I was single... perhaps they will again?

    Although I do love those chalk-tasting candy hearts with the little messages on them. Especially the white ones. And the green ones. Damn. I want some now.

    V-Day was Claire-Marie and my anniversary, so we did anniversary stuff.

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2010 at 8:44 AM

    Yes, we celebrate it. Not always by buying gifts but we at least try to go out to dinner. We are making a special effort this V-day since we are expecting our second baby. We're really trying to have more date nights in preparation of the craziness that will ensue after boy #2 arrives! We're going to a fancy, romantic dinner and a movie AND buying gifts. That's big for us.

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  8. Julie S.February 1, 2010 at 8:48 AM

    I generally get B a card and make a nice dinner, nothing fancy. This year, who knows! Probably just another day!

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  9. EmilyFebruary 1, 2010 at 9:25 AM

    I believe in celebrating the day, but not going overboard. I told B years ago I'd rather he not spend loads of money on roses, so we do cards and usually cook dinner at home. I give him boxers, he usually gets an inexpensive bouquet of flowers that I like - daisies or tulips. Our dating anniversary is this month, so we always used to put a little more into that than V-day and that's stuck with us since marriage.

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  10. AngieFebruary 1, 2010 at 9:25 AM

    My Birthday is 2 days before V-day which I always thought kinda sucked, because if I wanted to go out for my Birthday, usually none of our friends would wanna come with because they would be celebrating V-Day that weekend with their boyfriends! Since we don't like spending the money to do both, we'll usually pick one or the other! ha This year my Birthday wins out because its the big 2-5 so I think I deserve the celebration. ;) We do plan to go to the movie Valentine's Day sometime that weekend though. We haven't gotten each other gifts for V-day in quite some time. After so long of being together, and our Birthdays (his is on Dec. 4th) and Christmas all being within 2 months, it tends to get passed up and honestly we are running out of gift ideas! If we do get something it would be very small like some chocolates or something, and we've never been into cards. We used to always go out to eat but we're both kind of getting sick of all the craziness and having to wait an hr to get into places when its a Holiday, just doesn't seem worth it.

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  11. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2010 at 9:26 AM

    We celebrate it with cards and a smallish gift. We usually don't go out to eat because it's too crowded. Last year, my sister and niece were visiting and we went to a Chinese buffet and it was actually not too crowded and we had fun :)

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  12. FaithFebruary 1, 2010 at 9:56 AM

    We're pretty low key. We may get eachother a little something - usually a card, I may or may not get flowers (they're SO EXPENSIVE around V-Day) sometimes we may go to dinner or just make a special dinner. I don't get the whole spending hundreds of dollars on a night out.

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  13. AmyFebruary 1, 2010 at 10:52 AM

    Usually we do dinner out or a really nice one in and exchange a card and a little gift - nothing big - but the thought counts. As for this year, I am leaving it up to DH since he has been slacking in the romance dept. lately.

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  14. LisaFebruary 1, 2010 at 12:20 PM

    Last year I bought Lars a cactus. Who knows what this year will bring? :)

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  15. KrystieFebruary 1, 2010 at 2:57 PM

    We usually just do dinner. Sometimes I cook us up something romantic and we watch "love" movies. We once did a dinner cruise that was fun. This year we're thinking about one night in a B & B on the coast.

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  16. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2010 at 3:23 PM

    We're super low-key about Valentines. Last year, we ordered out from Outback and ate at home. No fighting crowds, no waiting, just a quiet evening together. This year, I think we might take a couples cooking class close to Valentines to celebrate instead of doing something on the actual day.

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  17. SarahFebruary 2, 2010 at 3:34 AM

    I'm not sure what we are going to do. This will be our 3rd Valentine's Day together. I'm not really a big fan of it :/

    His parents will be here visiting. We haven't decided if we are going to all go out to dinner or if we are going out a lone or sending his parents out to London for the day.

    Whichever we decided to do I'll be fine with.

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  18. KassieFebruary 4, 2010 at 6:28 PM

    I'm not necessarily against Valentines like some people, but I've never really been a big fan of it. Not for the commercial aspect, but because I think it unnecessarily calls attention to peoples' personal lives in an unfair way. (Look at the single person! She/he doesn't have anyone! Let's set her/him up! She/he must be so lonely! Only bitter single people dislike the month of love!) lol!! Even when I was dating my ex of 5 years, I only did low key things, like make dinner or something. And my parents have alwasy given me flowers and cards! :) haha. I love the pink and purple girly aspect of it, but not how some people treat it. This comment probably doesn't make sense lol! :)

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