Love stings, we all know that.
Sometimes, however, it hits you where it really hurts – the wallet.
This is the one of those days that allows retailers to truly cut loose and stick the collective genitals of consumers everywhere into a giant vise and just… keep… tightening.
- Sparkly bling. You just have to sell a kidney to pay for it.
- Chocolates. You’ll be hearing about the weight gain until next year.
- Wine. Nothing like drunken, clumsy sex that costs $200 a bottle.
- Roses. The “Ultimate Retailer WMD”. They know you’re in love and horny enough to pay anything so they raise prices %300 and blame it on “high demand”.
I TOLD YOU LOVE HURTS...
All in all, Valentine’s Day is another casuality of the retail machine’s relentless onslaught, one that won’t be stopping any time soon.
Unless we get smart and customize our celebrations to fall on different days. If we can put a man on the moon, I’m sure we can outsmart some douchebags in suits.
Can’t we?
My V-day celebration is my families favorite meal and a movie at home. We’re keeping it very low key!
Low key rocks! And it’s affordable!
Valentine’s Day leads up to my wife’s favorite holiday – Feb 15th, Half-Priced Chocolate day!
I like the way you think, my foodie friend!
My 2.5yrs with Hallmark, although fun, spoiled most seasons for me. My gift. The heart chocolate I posted on my page, $2 and then I took him to the airport. We are always pretty low key, and this was normal.
Normal sounds cool to me….
I should say, that was my gift to hubby!
We are celebrating this weekend since I am sick and in bed today. I don’t ever remember being sick on Valentine’s Day. Danny is going to pick up dinner on the way home!
The other day when restaurants jack up the prices is New Year’s Eve.
Happy Valentine’s Day Hook!
Get well soon, Susie!
At least you’re already in bed – that saves Hubby some time!
Hahaha!
Hook, I cannot even begin to explain the things that I got for valentine’s day…My comment would be banned.
Here is a toast to all of us receiving the same gifts as me for the V-Day price massacre!!!
Naughty, naughty….
Good post. (What no link to the whining tune “Love Hurts”?) Happy Bloggentines Day to all
“Bloggentines Day”?
Very cool!
I have always hated Valentines Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Thanksgiving (socially but loved the family get together portion) and even Christmas and Easter and so many of those other little holidays.
It shocks me that people have come to “expect” certain behaviour and spending to increase around these holidays. All because a calendar tells us we should. I’m a huge romantic, I pretend not to be but I am.
I hate how we let the calendar dictate when we show appreciation and how we show it. Why can’t we tell our mothers and fathers thanks for all they have done for us every day, a brunch in their honour for just because I thought it’d be neat.
I know for some families, they only see the extended family for funerals, weddings and that is about it, and for others only see some of the family for the big holidays ever so nicely spread out over the year.
But that’s just me!!! I think everyday is a day to be thankful for what you have, enjoy everything like new, say and show you love someone, appreciate the newness of life, and appreciate our parents.
But then again, I’m an odd one and I’d much prefer homemade things over something bought any day of the week!!! and sex toys don’t count! They are a shared merchandise.
you are so true! i liked it….
You’re far from odd, Woman! I wish more people were like you!
Sex toy addicts???
No, silly! Socially-conscious, intelligent, hot bloggers!
You are such a charmer twinkletoes!!!
Get back to work so when I wake up I can read something funny with my coffee!!!!
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I’ll get on that!
Love that picture!
We are staying low key too. Steaks dinner at home some
Champaign and Sparkling Apple Cider and Lady and the Tramp.
Hope you have a nice snuggly V-day!
Sounds awesome!
Now I know what Roy Orbison meant…
But yeah, its a money grab, but not as obvious a money grab as “Sweetest Day,” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetest_Day ) a day so unabashedly invented by greeting card companies it’s actually kind of impressive from the standpoint that it must’ve taken a huge amount of cold-hearted calculation and cynicism to push it onto the population at large as a second Valentines Day. Also a complete lack of shame. That being said, no one I know in the “Great Lakes region” — as Wiki says — actually celebrates the day in any sort of fashion. Unless scorn and derision are considered “celebrating.”
You always bring something cool to the table, Aaron! Thanks!
No problem! Your posts always getting me thinking about stuff!
That’s what I’m here for; to stimulate your young brain!
LOL, Hook, you’re a Valentine party pooper. Don’t you know, you need to be out of town ON Valentine’s Day and give your true love a rain check? The prices will be cut in 1/2 tomorrow on all of that left over chocolate and day old roses. If you wait a week, you might get the stuff marked down 90%. That is usually when I stock up on my personal stash. Thanks for the laugh. This is the funnest Valentine I’ve seen yet.
What a cool compliment! Thanks!
No, thank you. I’m still laughing at this. Such fun!
I had to facebook this, I hope you don’t mind, but I swear you made my day. LOL!!!!
Go for it! Anytime!
LMAO – I love the pic of cupid with an arrow in the back. Yeah! That’s how I feel about this sad day – what? me? bitter? naaaaa
You’ll be fine – eventually….
>Roses. The “Ultimate Retailer WMD”. They know you’re in love and horny enough to pay anything so they raise prices %300 and blame it on “high demand”.
- A rose on any other day would smell just as sweet.
Kate
Well said, Kate!
I like to imagine that we’re all lovable all days of the year… I am just not into a man I like thinking he has to go broke or put something on credit. I would appreciate it more if he did really bad impersonations of celebrities until I cannot stop laughing!
That sounds good too!
Sounds warm and fuzzy….
I really truly hate Valentines Day, and all the other holidays where we are forced to spend money on stupid things.
Great post as usual!
Great comment as usual!
“Can’t we?”
Nope. Peer pressure.
I hate that!
I know. Her friends will tell her you’re a horrible person if you don’t do something outrageously romantic on Hallmark Day. The pressure is always on…
I believe all of the Holidays are money grabbing. We should all show and express our love and gratitude to our friends and loved ones regularly, not when the calendar or Hallmark tells us to. That is just my 2 cents
Your two cents are worth their weight in gold!
I am always shocked by the advertisements on TV and the talk around the water cooler …gosh! it’s not a holiday!! We should start a campaign if there isn’t already one—say NO to valentine’s day
I’d join that cause!
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