Who does NOT celebrate Valentine's Day? Why not?

[kuntrygirl]

I love the unique ideas that everyone has posted. Soooooooooooo sweet!!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Awwwwwwwwww, how sweet! Yea, you gotta celebrate that.

 

[Raiquee]

I like V-day for the fact that it gives busy Mamas and Daddys a "date night". Now, not saying that its not possible to have other date nights, it's just one that can't go to the wayside. Me and DH usually go out to eat, maybe get something for each other (but it's never v-day themed, it's something we have been wanting/needing) and he always gets me chocolates. GOSH I LOVE CHOCOLATES. I usually get a back rub too, which is mighty nice! But, me and hubby do this a lot when we can afford to. Because it's important to us to have this romantic nights without the kiddos, to keep our marriage alive and fresh.

This year we put off v-day to our old dating anniversary, which we both had to think really hard to remember. Just so we can go out and have a nice quiet dinner.

But today I told him how much he meant to me, how much I appreciate everything he does, and in a few moments we will be curling up to watch his favorite TV show together. Just to be spending that time with him really keeps us in the romantic part of our marriage, which I hope to never see go away.

 

[elizabethbinary]

^ haha my husband and I can never remember our anniversary either and we only got married 3 months ago!! Everytime someone asks how long it's been we argue... was it the 7th or the 9th????

We don't normally celebrate it - or most holidays actually. We don't have Christmas, New Years, nothing... we don't see days as special at all. Except birthdays. Those mark an occasion for an individual so we like those. And I'm jewish (he's not, sorry mum!) and he just couldn't have cared to bring Christmas with him so he dropped it. It's nice because we don't have to buy into *anything* hahaha. We always end up with heaps of money around the holidays from everyone else using our services but us not buying anything.

I do celebrate Jewish holidays but mostly for personal religious reasons and excuses to have large dinner parties.

I should mention my husband and I are *sickly* in love. Almost together 3 years, still all newlywed lovely dovey gross.... we had a flatmate MOVE OUT because he was tired of us cudding so much, hahahaha. We baby talk and everything. He carries me to bed every night when I fall asleep on the couch. I bring him cupcakes to work. He rents a movie I wanted to see on the way home. I buy the Fight for him on the special channel on the big TV and make him beer nuts and buy him a 6 pack and watch it with him. He constantly tells me how beautiful I am. I constantly tell him how handsome he is. We're disgusting. We don't need Valentine's Day. We need a crowbar.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

Years ago I read a great suggestion in the Ann Landers/Dear Abby advice column. They encouraged people to make & bring Valentines to the patients at their local VA Hospital. In some communities there is such a great response that the VA volunteers decorate the wards & put cards on the patients' meal trays. Ever since I have had my boys, and any group they're involved with, make cards that we take to our local VA. Some years we also make Thank You cards to bring on Veterans' Day.

This is the spin I've tried to put on Valentines' Day for my boys, to think of ways to show special love & consideration to others often overlooked. In addition to the veterans, we also send cards & photos to out-of-town relatives. When my boys get older I'm going to encourage them to look for creative & ingenious ways to show their thoughtfulness & affection for their loved ones, and not just think they must spend a lot of money on commercial junk to make an impression.

 

[kooltex]

I don't like the commercialization of "Holidays". Even christmas bugs me. We buy for the kids and thats it.
I told my hubby if he wants to buy me something, buy me something I can use. Got a new pair of dog grooming clippers that I really needed, my other ones were about to bite the dust. I told him I needed them, it just so happened that I needed them around valentines day.
I did cook him his favorite meal for dinner, Pot Roast and a butterscotch pie. So In a way I guess we do celebrate it, but we do not buy the over priced flowers, or stuffies, heat shaped candy. Waste. I'd probably shoot him if he spent 50 bucks for cut roses! Blaaaaa. Buy me flowers I can plant.

 

[4-H chicken mom]

The DH and I don't really celebrate Valentine's Day. It is a waste of money. We just give each other a big kiss and hug and tell each other how happy we are to be in each other's lives. Also, because it is my birthday the day after. This way if we go out to dinner the day after, restaurants won't be crowded.

 

[justbugged]

I DH and I don't celebrate VD, but then we don't celebrate any of the holidays. We never have, because of the religion that we were both raised in. I can't see ever thinking about celebrating any of the holidays at this point. Our family just doesn't have any traditions that make holidays seem special.

I also have watched too many people that will tell me about how fun the holidays are, and then just a little bit later I have watched the same people crying from all the stress of having to celebrate. That I just don't understand.

 

[Beekissed]

When I was in grade school I LOVED this holiday! It was fun and exciting then. Now? I barely even acknowledge it is happening....I don't think I heard any reference to it all day, so I'm not the only one that disregards the holiday.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Today is not only Valentine's Day but also my 18th Wedding Anniversary. Yet, we don't make a big deal out of either. We give gifts to each other through the year and like others, my husband doesn't by roses, he buys me rose bushes.