Anonymous wrote:We’re cooking dinner together.

So technically not receiving anything, but who cares? We’re spending time together making our favorite meal.

This is what we’ll do. I’m not expecting gifts or flowers, just some wine and quality time. I recently bought an ooni (pizza oven) and booked us a weekend in April at a spa hotel, so I said those are his gifts lol. But they weren’t really for vday specifically.

I bought myself a tiny box of assorted chocolates at CVS, as well as a larger box for DD. DH “doesn’t believe in Valentine’s Day.”

Married almost 40 years. My DH is THE BEST, but we don't celebrate Valentine's Day.
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Me, thankfully. I dislike gifts. Giving and getting. we just make sure to check in about it every year and confirm it’s still the plan.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it everyone gets super defensive about how Valentines is made up but still gets gifts of Christmas (“made up” gifting) birthdays (“made up” gifting) and gives out candy on Halloween (incredibly “made up” candy gifting!). A made up holiday which celebrates your partner is a million times better than any of the above.

We get small, meaningful things (I suspect I’m getting a silver photo frame of a photo he took on a trip recently) but we would never miss the opportunity.

Religious holidays aren’t made up holidays, and Halloween is for kids. The “holiday that celebrates my partner” is his birthday. The “holiday that celebrates us” is our anniversary.

The holiday isn’t, the gifting is.

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Anonymous wrote:
I took advantage of a "Valentine's Day offer" and bought myself stuff from Dior, then announced to my husband this afternoon that his gift was being delivered today. I will order sushi for tomorrow and we'll have a nice family dinner at home. He's relieved with this arrangement. It's been going on for years.

Life can be very simple if you make it so.

My god this soynds so pretentious!

I thought it sounded stupid, lol.

Anonymous wrote:Why is it everyone gets super defensive about how Valentines is made up but still gets gifts of Christmas (“made up” gifting) birthdays (“made up” gifting) and gives out candy on Halloween (incredibly “made up” candy gifting!). A made up holiday which celebrates your partner is a million times better than any of the above.

We get small, meaningful things (I suspect I’m getting a silver photo frame of a photo he took on a trip recently) but we would never miss the opportunity.

Not "everyone" gets super defensive about how Valentine's is made up, lol. It's just the people who either 1) have no one because they can't get anyone, or 2) have someone who doesn't really even like them all that much and therefore isn't going to get them sh!t.

The people pounding away at their keyboards about flowers being "so overpriced"? They have a DH who won't get them anything but will spend the evening in the basement leaning into his identity as a super-wizard on some online game -- probably all night because he doesn't have to get up because he's unemployed.

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I took advantage of a "Valentine's Day offer" and bought myself stuff from Dior, then announced to my husband this afternoon that his gift was being delivered today. I will order sushi for tomorrow and we'll have a nice family dinner at home. He's relieved with this arrangement. It's been going on for years.

Life can be very simple if you make it so.

My god this soynds so pretentious!

Anonymous wrote:Why is it everyone gets super defensive about how Valentines is made up but still gets gifts of Christmas (“made up” gifting) birthdays (“made up” gifting) and gives out candy on Halloween (incredibly “made up” candy gifting!). A made up holiday which celebrates your partner is a million times better than any of the above.

We get small, meaningful things (I suspect I’m getting a silver photo frame of a photo he took on a trip recently) but we would never miss the opportunity.

Religious holidays aren’t made up holidays, and Halloween is for kids. The “holiday that celebrates my partner” is his birthday. The “holiday that celebrates us” is our anniversary.

Me. We don’t celebrate. Happily married 20 years. Anniversary, we tend to do dinners or a trip together if it’s a milestone.

Well if they shop at Wegmans's that have to buy you something. They shove it in your face for 2 weeks.

Neither one of us feel like doing anything for Valentine's Day this year.

We're cooking a nice dinner and having a special dessert at home.

Why is it everyone gets super defensive about how Valentines is made up but still gets gifts of Christmas (“made up” gifting) birthdays (“made up” gifting) and gives out candy on Halloween (incredibly “made up” candy gifting!). A made up holiday which celebrates your partner is a million times better than any of the above.

We get small, meaningful things (I suspect I’m getting a silver photo frame of a photo he took on a trip recently) but we would never miss the opportunity.

I’m sending her flowers at work.

I hope she loves them! 🤞

He might get me flowers, he might just get me a card.

I got him a card.

We are going to dinner at 2941.