RANT! Dumb women and Valentine's Day!

[KellyHM]

I agree! DH and I usually exchange cards on V-Day, maybe go out to dinner if we feel like it, but just hang out and enjoy each other's company. For our Anniversary I asked for help building a new coop.

 

[ozark hen]

I also asked for an incubator for the Christmas before last....

now I happily hatch eggs

 

[crtrlovr]

wow. Apparently this is one hot topic! while I was busy typing what I thought was going to be right under the first Miss Prissy response on this post, there were LOTS of other folks busily typing away at the same time. At least we're all pretty much in the same or a similar vein of thought.... guys, you don't have to throw away a wad of money to impress us, just be real! Having said that, I'd also like to point out that if you're just cheap/stingy, get over that too!

 

[ozark hen]

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You are just awesome!

 

[Dawn419]

I'm with ya on this one too, Spooky!

Skip and I have been together for 14 years. The first time he asked about buying me flowers I straight-up told him "Only if the roots are still attached.".

We don't do the Valentine's Day thing either. I'm much more appreciative of the little things he does to surprise me like helping me feed and water when the weather is bad, saying "Yes" when I ask about more chickens and buying me the occassional $10.00 or less coral fragment for our small saltwater reef tank.

Dawn

 

[wendy]

Rhett&SarahsMom :

I agree.

I will never forget our first Valentines day.
We were working at different companies for the first time since we had met. I had my car and he his own. somehow we ended up at the same store on the way home from work. I saw him in the candy aisle and ducked down the card aisle. When I came up behind him in line I didnt say "Hey hon' I just leaned over to look at what he had and said "I dont think your wife needs that candy" The looks I got from the other shoppers was priceless.

He turned around and gave me a kiss and asked what I wanted instead of a box of choc. We left the line, put the candy back and went to dinner at the local ice cream place.

Of course now he knows I only like the pretty heart shaped boxes. And I get peanut butter hearts for the chocolate part of it.

I read all of these, but I must say this is one of the sweetest things!

 

[spookyevilone]

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I said the same thing the one time someone confronted That Guy about why he doesn't buy me flowers. I told him I only like them if the flowers eventually turn into food. That year, I got an entire flat of ornamental strawberries.

That Guy also heard about my inability to resist a raggedy little surplus Serama and said, "So are we buying him a hen or hatching him a child bride?"

-Spooky

 

[fowlafoot]

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That is pretty close to my definition of a perfect date too

My husband and I spent our first Valentines Day at a museum of Natural History and had dinner at his house, I cooked but only because I like cooking. This year we're packing both kids up and heading back to the museum, because oddly museums are very uncrowded on V-Day

 

[Stumpy]

Funny you mention this -- just today as we were in a store passing the aisle of Valentines stuff, I said to DH, "Don't buy me any flowers. Just think, we're saving for carpet; we're saving for carpet." Our house isn't finished and I'd just love to have some carpet upstairs, more than a THOUSAND roses.

That said, I do wish it would occur to DH to surprise me sometime, no biggy, just something showing that he had paid attention to what I like.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

I like bouquets of flowers...

(but I don't **need** them to feel loved by my DH).