It's Valentine's Day! Hurry up! Get to Walgreens, or Rite Aid, or whatever drugstore you can find and pick up that $8 card, or $25 box of candy, for your wife, girlfriend, husband, boyfriend, children, parents, or any other special person who you ask to be your valentine this year. Don't have a valentine? Don't worry, it's just another day. It will fly by just like the rest of them. The only difference is, billions and billions of dollars will be spent. If I had half of the money I spent on Valentine's Day over the years, I could pay for a vacation to Hawaii. Restaurants will be jammed, all of the guys will be ringing the phones off the hooks trying to make reservations. Flower shops and greenhouses won't be able to make the flower arrangements fast enough. Maybe I need to have some flower ads on this blog....at least I'd get some page views.
Most of this spending will be done by men. That is a fact. To all of the men, all of the flowers, cards, candy and diamond bracelets in the world aren't going to make you romantic. They won't save you. You need to put some thought into your purchase for it to count. Do something thoughtful, write a note with your feelings, spend some time together. Soon enough that bracelet will be in a drawer collecting dust and those flowers will be dead, but memories will last forever. There's nothing wrong with celebrating the day, if it's for the right reasons.
Children need to be taught these ideas too. Parents have to go out and buy cards and candy for them to pass out to their friends in school. At least they can have fun without realizing the commercialism of the day. It's the parents who are sucked into spending the money. They have to, but they can still teach them all of the important things to celebrate on Valentine's Day, like love, respect and family. Teach them the history of Valentine's day and how it started.
Why go out for whatever and fight the crowds when you can go anytime, any other weekend. Stay home and save your money. I'm not going to go somewhere because it's a Valentine's day requirement. Luckily for me, my wife feels the same. When you're in that dating phase and you have to try to adhere to those Valentine's requirements of buying things and going out trying to impress the other person, well I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore. How do I know all of this? I was on both sides. I was just reminded by my wife that I won't be doing any of these things that I've mentioned this Valentine's Day. She's right, but when you put the "OO" in smooth, the way I do, I can do them anytime. This year, I'll save my cash for another day.
JP
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