Hallmark Holidays

[PepperPottsJ]

While the commercial side of V-day irritates me, I still like to do something special for MH. If it's on a work day I have sent a bouquet of dried meats, cupcakes, chocolate covered bacon, last year and this year are luckily weekends . I'm a bit stuck this year, any suggestions?

[requiressnacks]

I'm in a rut too - we usually just end up cooking or going out for a fancy steak dinner. Usually no gifts.

[amandamh2]

I also hate the commercialism of Valentine's Day and we don't do presents or go out. We do usually make a nicer supper and I like to use it as an excuse to make a fancy cheesecake or other nice baking.
This year we won't even see each other though as I'm going home for a family event he couldn't get time off work for.

[TheEleventhHour]

We have never done gifts. We will usually go out to dinner together if it works with our schedules. This year we will either go to our favorite brewery or our new favorite restaurant in town. Neither are fancy but we don't get out alone all that often!

[peaseblossom55]

We usually do gifts but I said let's not this year. We spoiled each other a ton for Christmas. I said we can exchange cards. I hope that he will want to at least go out to dinner nothing too fancy, or take me out for a good dessert. :-) My egg retrieval will be right around then so reservations at a fancy place will probably be out.

[rablissful]

No gifts for us!

We just go out to a nice dinner. This year we'll be seeing Deadpool as well. #soromantic

[swivelchair5]

*lurking*

I'm not a fan of valentine's day, and DH and I usually don't do anything to celebrate it. However, we do celebrate Really Cheap Candy Day on February 15, when all of the stores mark the leftover chocolates down 50 or 75%.

[ceejay]

We don't do much. We'll typically go out for a nice dinner, exchange cards, and usually H will buy me flowers.

[peaseblossom55]

Feb 1, 2016 10:23:45 GMT -5 swivelchair5 said:

*lurking*

I'm not a fan of valentine's day, and DH and I usually don't do anything to celebrate it. However, we do celebrate Really Cheap Candy Day on February 15, when all of the stores mark the leftover chocolates down 50 or 75%.

Yes I love this! Nothing is better than eating conversation hearts in August! I buy like 5 bags I love those things.

[samanthasays]

Feb 1, 2016 10:17:26 GMT -5 rablissful said:

No gifts for us!

We just go out to a nice dinner. This year we'll be seeing Deadpool as well. #soromantic

MH wants to see Deadpool too! He is calling it the romance movie of the year. Just because it comes out Valentines Day weekend does not mean it is romantic... nice try though H

[onesweetworld]

Last year I went all out on a brand new carhart and other things. I got an IOU a water cooler. A year later, still no water cooler. H is getting a beautiful papyrus card I picked up at target and that's it.

[pinkcat]

DH and I used to do gifts but now we just pick on an "experience" together and do that instead. We've gone to a museum, the zoo, a winery, etc. This year we are going to stay downtown for the night and go out for dinner and drinks.

[lgraceh]

pinkcat, We try more for experiences too. We are splurging on a couples massage this year since we will be on vacation.

H also usually does a whole week of little gifts leading up to it. My birthday is 2 days after Valentines, so I usually try to downplay it. I like birthdays (not just my own) way more than holidays.

[RajahMD]

I got MH tickets to see Garth Brooks on concert. The concert is over Valentine's weekend. We may go somewhere nice for dinner before the concert,

[RajahMD]

I'm still trying to convince him to go see Deadpool the Friday before the concert. I'm hoping he'll give in.

[ohinvrtedworld]

When I worked in an office, H sent me flowers, but I think it was mostly that he wanted to look good in front of my coworkers LOL.

We haven't done V-Day gifts before. This year, my vote is just going out for sushi (maybe on the Monday after because of happy hour prices hahaha).

[rooskie]

lgraceh - my sisters birthday is 2 days after Valentine's Day!

H asked me last night if I would be his Valentine. We started with gifts and he would make dinner when we first started dating. Then we would get the heartbaker pizza from papa murphys. Last year we went out to a little Italian restaurant by our house so I'm going to push for that this year.

I might get him a new travel mug but that's probably it this year. He sometimes does flowers but complains that I just kill them.

[ThankfulSnail]

My birthday is in the same week as Valentine's day so we usually don't do much special for Valentine's because it gets too expensive in one week. We'll probably do a special dinner and wait until after DD goes to bed to eat so we don't spend it fussing over her, then we'll probably watch The Walking Dead mid-season premiere. I usually try to do something extra-DH focused in bed on V-Day, but after the year we've had he'll feel like it's extra special if he just gets lucky.

[goldenlove3]

We don't normally plan anything. H usually buys flowers and we might go get dinner but nothing fancy. Last year we got sushi.

[ohinvrtedworld]

I forgot that a few years ago I made creme brulee with the oven broiler and it turned out really good -- not a super hard dessert if anyone wants to try it to be fanceh!

[emilie]

We hang out with family or friends who are equally hateful of Hallmark holidays.

[jubilantsquirrel]

We go to our favorite wing place where we chow down on messy finger foods and chug a couple beers. It's very romantic.

[wannabmama]

****** there's a whole separate holiday for that!
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Steak+and+Blowjob+Day

[samanthasays]

I HATE going out to dinner on "holidays", it is so crowded and the places that do the fixed meals are the worst. I typically cook something a little nicer for dinner, and we have more booze than normal, and normally special sex. But this year I ordered the Oscars pack from Club W, it has 3 bottles so you can drink your way through the award show! We will be doing that on Saturday while watching the Academy Awards we have on the DVR. I am not staying up and getting drunk on a Sunday to watch the Oscars, I am too old for that shit

Also, H proposed to me feb 13th, so we "celebrate" either the 13th or 14th, whichever falls on a better day.

[samanthasays]

Oh but I do decorate. I decorate for everything though. I will literally take any excuse to decorate the house

[cookswithwine9]

This year we are going to be in an airport most the day. Normally, I cook a special meal at home and we split a bottle of wine. We also do cards and small gifts like flowers and chocolate.

[smallpotato]

Valentine's Day isn't usually a big deal for us either. This year, MH is working on Valentine's Day, which falls right in the middle of a 4 day weekend for me. We may go to my mom's on Friday and see if she can watch DS for us if she's not working that night. We'll exchange cards if we remember to write them out. If we do go out, it's won't be anywhere fancy.

[thelittleredm]

Feb 1, 2016 10:17:26 GMT -5 rablissful said:

No gifts for us!

We just go out to a nice dinner. This year we'll be seeing Deadpool as well. #soromantic

I'm fairly certain these are our exact plans.

[wannabmama]

No gifts for us. H wants to go skiing bc of the long weekend (surprise surprise) but other than that he usually cooks me dinner, which is nice. But that's about the extent of it.

[♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪]

To start with something funny, one year I got MH an Edible Arrangement. LOL, bless his heart; he pretended to love it.

From there on, I have stuck with getting tickets to a game or concert or something interesting around town. Event instead of physical items. I find this always is appreciated.