A Penny Saved

Happy Valentines day everybody.  Nothing warms the heart better than a commercially fit holiday.  By commercially fit holiday I mean a holiday where the sole purpose of it’s continued existence is for the sale of commercially available goods.

You can stop looking at me like that.  I’m not a bah-humbug sort of fellow most of the time.  I know that like Christmas there is a bit of a deeper meaning to Valentines day that most people seem to miss.  It’s a good case of missing the forest for the trees.  Or not.  What it really boils down to is that some salesperson (most likely a salesman) in the early years of commercials decided that Valentines day would be a great day to meet his quota for sales of chocolate or roses or whatever V-day fodder he happened to be selling.  And the rest, as they say, is history.

Now, both the men and the women get in a little hot water with their significant other if they don’t get them something.  Luckily, my wife is not very demanding and a dinner out and a movie usually is enough, but there are some who won’t settle for anything less than roses, dinner, and diamonds.

How much do you spend on V-Day?  Or how much is spent on you?  Does it make you any more loved?  Or special?  Perhaps there would be an easier way for your significant other to express how loved and special you are to them besides spending $50 on flowers.

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