Valentines Day

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Well GD, it's that time of year

I am not one to do much for valentines day. You don't need a special time of year to do stuff for the missus but i wont snub the day out of principle because 'money grabbing corporations :mad::mad:'. On valentines day we normally order loads of Chinese food and watch a film till we pass out after a hard days work.

Presents? Usually something small and funny and/or sexy. Flowers? If i do its normally a small bunch that suit the decor of one of the rooms. The extravagant bouquets go to silly prices in the shops this time of year and i would rather spend the money on something that she can keep or an experience than a very cliche token gesture which essentially equates to 'i remembered what the date was'.



So GD, what do you have planned?

Lets skip the standard Oxo tower/pasty smashing/take her to rhyl/Kleenex comments.

Remember guys, if your gunning for a custom Nutella name jar, your cutting it close :p
 
Well if my gf didn't care or didn't appreciate it, i wouldn't treat it any differently but i enjoy it as an excuse to gorge myself on takeaway (im usually the cook) and have a night in.

We get little, funny, inexpensive gifts for each other pretty often, so it makes sense just to hold off giving the next one till valentines day.
 
I`m working offshore and not back until the whole valentines thing is well and truly over. I have left my wife a card and I have one to open on Tuesday but we have a spa thing booked for when I`m home. Just an excuse I suppose for a good drink :D.
 
We just get cards for each other and are ordering a takeaway this year. We did M&S dine for two on Saturday night which was nice.

It's an opportunity to write something thoughtful and reflective to your other half. Just like Christmas it gets the naysayers, "why do you need a special day to gift or see your loved ones". Well the reason is that setting a date focusses the mind and peer pressures you into it!

For all the cynicism and begrudged card and flower buying, the other side is that more people will do genuinely romantic things tomorrow than any other day of the year. That can only be a cool thing...
 
Well in the past we have been out or stayed in with a nice takeaway and films etc however we have a 3 month old so we weren't planning on going out and now because it's half term the in laws are up for the week so I think it will be cards for each other and that's about it.
 
I actually bought roses this year :D after finding they weren't extortionately expensive - who pays £50 for a bouquet of roses! Along with a few other bits and bobs.

We did have a reservation on Saturday evening, but after a long day out, we decided to just order pizza in and watch a load of stranger things.
 
Got to say, staying in is most definitely the way!

I found that restaurants on valentines day take on certain traits:

-Menu price increase
-Limited menu
-Usually an awful atmosphere of awkward/silent new couples or arguing old ones
-Restaurants are busy and require booking
-Wait for food is usually longer
 
What I don't understand is if you love your partner why you'd wait until 1 specific day to 'spoil' them.

We don't do anything special for Valentine's as she's as cynical as me about it (see we're well matched ;)) but we also treat each other to things during the year like if I'm out and see something she'd like I will get it her.
 
Well normally i try and cook a meal and then having a relaxing evening that may or may not end in me getting lucky, but this year after me arranging to have the kids at my mums and getting in some of the wife's favourite food and drink to then be told by her that one of her biggest clients are in London for that day only and her boss has told that they have to take them out and wine and dine them to keep in the good books.

So i'll be dinnning in for one it seems.
 
Maundie;30497918 said:
What I don't understand is if you love your partner why you'd wait until 1 specific day to 'spoil' them.
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Nothing wrong with spoiling her that day as well as other days though.

I have no issue with valentines day, as I enjoy the way i celebrate it
 
I bought what I felt to be a memorable gift for our first Valentines Day, an iPod with a selection of her favourite songs. We still have the iPod some 8 years later, locked up in a drawer somewhere.

But since then, maybe some sporadic chocolates here and there, flowers and cards - but nothing on a regular basis. In fact I don't think we've done cards or gifts for the last three or four years. On the contrary, however, we do tend to buy each other random little gestures and share experiences all year round instead.

You really can't buy affection with material possessions, I believe.
 
The likes of Instagram have conjured up very unrealistic and highly extragavant notions of what's romantic and what couples should do during valentines etc.

Being 25 I've just managed escaped this nonsense by a few years but the younger lot do appear to have tonne load expectations. It's quite funny.
 
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