Yeah, that’s right.\u00a0 I don’t like Valentines Day and I choose not to participate.\u00a0 Debbie Downer?\u00a0\u00a0Maybe, but if you were in my shoes you might not want to bust out with the\u00a0heart\u00a0chocolates and schmoopy cards either.\u00a0 I refuse to spend my money on this commercialized “holiday”\u00a0that pressures us to spend money on frivolous things so that we can express how much we love our special someone.\u00a0 C’mon people…really?\u00a0 I believe that I say how much I love my husband everyday with my actions.\u00a0 Like a home cooked meal and clean clothes.\u00a0 A clean house and always having body wash and shave cream when he steps into the shower.\u00a0 Do you really think that all of these things are part of my “job” as a wife?\u00a0 Well maybe if I didn’t have a job also and contribute to paying the household bills, then I would buy him some pointless little stuffed animal that will collect dust after a week on his dresser.\u00a0 Or maybe buy him a box of chocolates that he would only eat part of and then leave laying around and I would end up eating the rest of, just so I wouldn’t have to look at them anymore (and because I am addicted to sugar).\u00a0 Well why not just get him a card (that now costs $5) and let some cheesy writer for Hallmark express how I feel for me?\u00a0 I will tell you why.. becuase I am jaded.. yeah that’s right – jaded.\u00a0 And I will freely admit it.\u00a0 Last year, around Valentines Day, I found out that I was not his only Valentine.. so there!\u00a0 I said it!\u00a0 So I refuse to spend money on all of this stupid Valentines Day crap.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Are we so bored with our lives that we have to create this “spending holidays” where we are put under pressure to tell someone with tangible things just how much we love or care for them?\u00a0 I mean, what if you are a kid and all of your friends get Valentines from the other kids and you don’t get any?\u00a0 Or your\u00a0friend gets 10 and you only get 2?\u00a0 How does that make a kid feel?\u00a0 Then what if you get one from a\u00a0boy that you are friends with and\u00a0he implies that he wants to be more… but you don’t?\u00a0 Or you are hoping that someone you really care about does something special for you and they don’t… It’s not like I have never celebrated Valentines Day, ever.\u00a0 One year I booked a surprise dinner on a train for the evening for my boyfriend (at the time) and myself.\u00a0 I thought that was the coolest, most romantic gesture ever.\u00a0 And then when it was all over, he said.. we should have just stayed home.\u00a0 OUCH.\u00a0 Then there was the time when one of the guys at work gave all of the women in the office a rose and a box of chocolates for Valentines Day.\u00a0 When I got home, my boyfriend got all mad and threw the flower away and threw the chocolates outside…<\/p>\n
They ought to call it the “Spend Money to Disappoint Day”…\u00a0 just sayin….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yeah, that’s right.\u00a0 I don’t like Valentines Day and I choose not to participate.\u00a0 Debbie Downer?\u00a0\u00a0Maybe, but if you were in my shoes you might not want to bust out with the\u00a0heart\u00a0chocolates and schmoopy cards either.\u00a0 I refuse to spend … Continue reading