Bad, bad Valentine

CRoyal

CRoyal

Infinite Impetus
Some people really get into this manufactured “holiday”… And some people become disappointed when their significant other does not perform up to standard on Valentines. I know some of you guys have “bad Valentine’s Day” stories. Were you disappointed? Forgotten? Maybe you used St. Valentine to exert your own revenge? Let’s hear it…
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
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I'm not a huge fan of manufactured holidays designed to sell stuff, including Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Grandparent's Day, etc etc. The "Hallmark Holidays" as they are referred to.
 
Wenchy

Wenchy

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vraiblonde said:
I'm not a huge fan of manufactured holidays designed to sell stuff, including Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Grandparent's Day, etc etc. The "Hallmark Holidays" as they are referred to.
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Christmas is the biggest manufactured holiday of all...IMO

I'm enjoying my flowers. :lol:

Thanksgiving is the only no pressure holiday/occasion (to me)
 
CrashTest

CrashTest

Well-Known Member
Usually only 2 types of people like Valentine's Day.

Women who are in a relationship, and guys who aren't.
 
Chasey_Lane

Chasey_Lane

Salt Life
I prefer not to put too much emphasis on Valentine's Day. My anniversary means much more. That said, my wonderful hubby surprised me with some beautiful flowers. :smile:

For dinner we're having chicken curry, rice and steamed veggies at home. :cheers:
 
baileydog

baileydog

I wanna be a SMIB
Both my husbands loved me come holiday time. The only holiday I enjoy is my birthday and xmas. I hate expensive flowers, please no jewerly, I dont wear it..ever. I say they got off easy. The hubby Ive had now for near 20 yrs, I dont even celebrate our anniversary.
 
itsbob

itsbob

I bowl overhand
We'll find out this afternoon after my new Mercedes SLK gets delivered..

If it doesn't, than that's a BAD BAD Valentine's..
 
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Bay_Kat

Bay_Kat

Tropical
I only like Valentine's Day when I was working at CVS. Every year, right around 5 pm the card aisle would be packed with panicking husbands and boyfriends. To me that was hilarious.
 
kwillia

kwillia

n/a
There was that Valentine's Day I tried to save money... I purchased a dozen roses and then I sent Baja 11 roses with a card stating, "The 12th rose is you" and then sent the single rose to BadGirl with a card stating, "You plus this single rose make it a bomb-diggidy baker's dozen"... they were both tickled pink with me until they bragged to each other and then I was busted... that was a bad VDay.
 
Dye Tied

Dye Tied

Garden Variety Gnome
Lupercalia

February occurred later on the ancient Roman calendar than it does today so Lupercalia was held in the spring and regarded as a festival of purification and fertility. Each year on February 15, the Luperci priests gathered on Palantine Hill at the cave of Lupercal. Vestal virgins brought sacred cakes made from the first ears of last year's grain harvest to the fig tree. Two naked young men, assisted by the Vestals, sacrificed a dog and a goat at the site. The blood was smeared on the foreheads of the young men and then wiped away with wool dipped in milk.

The youths then donned loincloths made from the skin of the goat and led groups of priests around the pomarium, the sacred boundary of the ancient city, and around the base of the hills of Rome. The occasion was happy and festive. As they ran about the city, the young men lightly struck women along the way with strips of the goat hide. It is from these implements of purification, or februa, that the month of February gets its name. This act supposedly provided purification from curses, bad luck, and infertility.


Lupercalia, the True Origin of St. Valentine's Day
 
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