Valentines cards and gifts.

Soroptimum

humptydumpty

Soroptimum why did you need to change the red/white colours? - sounds lovely to me (not sure if the addition of a daffodil would be an improvement!)

As others have mentioned, it’s a superstition thing, blood and bandages. My DH knows I don’t like red and white flowers, but forgot to mention to florist. I know it’s superstition but can’t help it!

My Grandmother had this superstition, she always told me it started from nurses in the field hospitals in WWI who had seen enough red and white (bandages) to last a lifetime.

We have been married just less than a year, both second marriages.
We agreed, no Valentines cards etc. Very definite.
Today I got the card and my favourite chocolates that were delayed in the post from yesterday.
I feel really bad.

Yes we do - and this year I got a Valentines card with a big badge to wear…..we’ve been married for over 40 years and I wouldn’t call him romantic!

Valentine's Day was never traditionally celebrated in Denmark, so no, we don't exchange gifts or cards on this day.

Like Halloween, it has made its way in - mainly amongst the young, due to all the American films and TV series shown.

In Denmark, you traditionally (if you were unmarried) sent a card that you had stuck snowdrops into and wrote a number of dots corresponding to the number of letters in your name and a little verse, which would sound rude in translation, but isn't in the original, so I shan't attempt a tranlation.

The recipient had until Easter to guess who the card was from. If they guessed correctly, you gave them an Easter egg on Easter Sunday. If they could not guess who had sent the card, you claimed an Easter egg from them.

Sadly the tradition has more or less died out here, being only remembered by children in kindergarten or day-care and their grandparents.

Originally, like Valentine's Day cards it was a way of telling the person you were in love with that he was welcome to make some kind of advance.

My dp says he tells me he loves me everyday and not just on valentines day so I get nothing I wonder if this is a cope out lol xx I don't mind as its so commercialised and expensive now

My husband always gives me a hand written poem, customised to me. At one time I was ungrateful and thought I would rather have some sort of cargo, flowers, chocs etc. But then I came to think, what sort of nasty mercenary person are you? I do put the poems in my common place book. Yesterday I gave him a card which I never usually do. I usually forget about Valentine’s day but my daughter mentioned it and I saw a very beautiful card when I was buying stationery on line. He seemed pleased. Particularly as I had written a loving message. So I should after all these poems.

My friend always goes out and gets me a lovely card and a rose and says it's from my dog lol. Well she is my wee love and I absolutely adore her ?

Valentine cards I thought were sent unsigned to someone you were attracted to and then maybe dating - not your husband/wife. The year we got married was the year we stopped observing valentines day but always celebrate our wedding anniversary instead. Anniversary in August so not linked in anyway.

Our anniversary is 14/2 because it fell at half term Pre marriage we did cards we still do plus anniversary cards gifts and dinner

With regard to Valentine’s gifts, I always bought a card for my boyfriend (now my husband) but never received one back, because he said, Valentine’s Day is a load of American rubbish! Many years passed but still no card. And then, mysteriously he started to buy me a card, and then started to include flowers. Yesterday I received a card, a lovely bunch of roses (red, pink and white) and a box of Neal’s Yard toiletries.

We exchanged gifts but they weren't romantic things. Just things we thought were amusing or necessities.

Sago’s OP reminded me of when our first child was born. All the new mothers in the ward were getting beautiful bunches of flowers, sometimes arranged in a little cradle in the requisite pink or blue. My husband arrived clutching two bunches of flowers wrapped up in brown paper (fashionable now but utilitarian then) and proudly told me that he got two because they were two for the price of one! To say I was disappointed doesn’t describe it. However my beautiful baby boy made up for it.

We exchange cards but not gifts. I usually have to make do with a Valentine's card from the local corner shop!

We only exchange cards but this year I splashed out on a box of Ferrero Rocher (DH's favourite) for us both to scoff. My birthday is at the weekend so we'll be out for a nice meal then.

Used to exchange cards only when young and impressionable. Grown up since and don't bother with anything.

Like a few of the ladies on here I had a lovely Valentine's day cuddle from my furry companion Kaspar a very loyal and loving Mini Schnauzer. He listens to everything, seldom complains unless I am taking too long to put my jacket on for our walks, then he is a bit vocal. Shares the bed and swaps sides without any fuss. A true gentleman.

Valentines day is also our wedding anniversary so we exchange cards and gifts, and indeed I was given 2 lovely bunches of flowers. It is also my son"s girlfriend" birthday so we sonetimes go out for a joint meal out. Mr Growing Old and I had been planning a day out instead this year but abandoned that as we were invited by son and girlfriend to go and view houses with them as they are house hunting.

I give a gift and a card to him for Val day / birthdays etc. I usually just get a card back. And he says I'm the unromantic one.

Despite the rip off prices that I and my lovely husband object to, he always gives me a dozen red roses, a romantic card and this year a silver heart necklace with an infinity sign through it. We are hopelessly romantic about each other. We have been together nearly 14 years, but we each with the wrong person for 30 years!

Is it just me ? I would be offended if my husband decided I was not worth the going rate for flowers or actually stole or picked others. We don't normally celebrate Valentine's Day as it is my husband's birthday the next day, which we do celebrate although sometimes if we are going to a hotel for his birthday we might book in the previous day so that we are there for Valentine's as well. My husband is romantic every day and objects to being told on a specific date that he shows his love on that day.

Cards only but every year I remind DH that I have never had a dozen long stemmed red roses. Unfortunately I'll be saying the same next year too!

We don't do Valentine's Day as its my birthday on the 12th and go out for that or some other treat like a week in London in 2020 and a bout of Covid (me) on our return.

We got cards for each other. I bought him a fancy English artisan cheese, he bought me a fancy Australian Shiraz, for a lot more than we'd normally spend. Not a huge fan of cut flowers but a small pot of miniature daffodils is on the kitchen windowsill...

Got so many don't know which to open first.

We married on Valentines day,so we only celebrate our anniversary,but write happy v day in the anniversary card.
We do exchange gifts too.
The courgette gift is priceless that made me laugh Sago.