Valentine’s Day, is becoming like Halloween.

We celebrate February with Bridgewater heart crockery.

I make no apology for joyous festive weeks.

Well…. That’s quite possible 😁

Oreo

Is it something in the British psyche that keeps them so down on having fun?

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Or in the Gransnet psyche?

Valentines day, it means a lot to some and is rubbish to others.
I used to love getting a beautiful card from my partner back in the day. He's gone now.

Whatever floats your boat, surely.

Thank you, blue14.

It’s as easy to ignore as Mothers Day (when for most of us, our mothers may be long dead)
Articles “full of what to wear” ? Meal deals? Why not take advantage, there,any be some good offers.
So are the magazines about beach-ready bodies - irrelevant if you are holidaying on Shetland.
Just because it’s in the media doesn’t mean you have to read it

Allira

Oreo

Is it something in the British psyche that keeps them so down on having fun?

A real pumpkin is better than plastic that!

Likewise, chocolates rather than teddy bears (unless it's a Steiff one, of course!).

Oh dear my non Steiff Teddy has just flounced off and I've had to promise to make him a new love heart waistcoat if he is to make an appearance for St Valentine's Day
And in a month or so it'll be time to start the pumpkin seeds off, all and every festival celebrated here!

* back in the mists of time

I think if people enjoy it where’s the harm?
Is a huge commercial rip off but then so is Easter and Christmas and I presume adults know this and will either be happy to pay or perhaps find a different way to celebrate. We never really celebrated Valentine’s Day, I think when we were courting, back in the midst of time, we sent cards to each other but cannot remember doing anything else.
Would just advise against red roses, vastly inflated in price, and put a few bunches of daffs together wrapped in a red ribbon. Daffs are presently a £1 a pop in Lidl but you would need a fair few bunches, even so would work out cheaper.

It’s not everyone of course that has a fun deficit, I remember a miserable woman in our street years ago who Mum said ‘ it’s being so cheerful as keeps her going’ and we kids would dissolve into giggles.
Let’s try and enjoy every bit of fun that comes our way including Halloween🎃 and where applicable Valentines Day if wanted.🌹

I don’t see it as a virtue Monica but a national flaw.

Oreo

Is it something in the British psyche that keeps them so down on having fun?

It's Puritan streak that has been with us for nearly 400 years combined with a horror of anything that could be thought to be connected with the Pope and Roman catholicicm.

All those heretic catholics with their mysterious monks (Gothick and horror stories) and outragous ceremonies and processions (Mardi Gras, Saints feasts etc etc. The great British virtue is self control.

Oreo

Is it something in the British psyche that keeps them so down on having fun?

A real pumpkin is better than plastic that!

Likewise, chocolates rather than teddy bears (unless it's a Steiff one, of course!).

Is it something in the British psyche that keeps them so down on having fun?

Galaxy

My halloween stuff is used year in year out. How is that any different to christmas decs.

Mine too, Galaxy. Some of it’s been on the go since the grandsons’ parents were tiny. I did buy a dancing skeleton fiddler a few years back that sadly no longer performs. He still looks a bit scary though so keeps making an appearance.

grumppa and Grannmarie - a sad, bittersweet Valentine's Day for you both and so many others in the same situation.
I'll be thinking of you and send you both

My halloween stuff is used year in year out. How is that any different to christmas decs.

It sort of bothers me, because so much of it is landfill. I don't like Halloween at all, all that plastic.

Why does it bother you Sago if what you deem as tacky cards and teddy bears are enjoyed by others?

Grumppa, it will, I know. I hope you can find some comfort in memories of happier times together.

We always celebrated Valentine's Day across fifty years of marriage, though in recent years we chose to eat well at home rather than pay through the nose to dine out (I cooked). Last year DW was too unwell to get me a card, so I produced a mutual one. It will feel odd this year.

St Valentine is the Patron Saint of beekeepers and epilepsy.

I didn't know that. 🙂
I'd quite like to be given a jar of good honey on 14th February! (As well as some chocolates.)

It will be bitter-sweet for many with their memories though
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We married in February, a few days after Valentines day, so we have always ignored it and celebrated our wedding anniversary instead.

Valentine's Day is becoming so like Halloween it's Scary

Haven't bothered with Valentine's Day since I was 18. But then I don't really bother with my birthday either, although I try to make a fuss of other people's.

DH has always bought me a big bunch of red roses at Christmas - no idea how it started and I really wish he wouldn't but he thinks I love them and it makes him happy so I will 'enjoy' them every time he does it.