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My wife and I go out the day before so we don't have to fight the crowds.

 Posted by: Joel Hedlund // February 12th, 2010 at 7:35 am>

I am taking my wife out to eat Saturday and then overnight at a cabin without the kids!

 Posted by: Rocco // February 12th, 2010 at 7:59 am>

Well, personally I look forward to February 15th when all the valentine's day chocolates are on sale.

 Posted by: Laura Anne // February 12th, 2010 at 8:05 am>

great idea! btw, does it still count if you go out the day after valentines day? hmmm..

 Posted by: mike foster // February 12th, 2010 at 8:29 am>

clearly you are a true romantic. nice job.

 Posted by: mike foster // February 12th, 2010 at 8:30 am>

YES!

 Posted by: mike foster // February 12th, 2010 at 8:30 am>

I bust out Valentines day on my wife randomly through out the year. My wife now could care less about V-day. I will not have a calender tell me when to do something special. Rick McKinley might call it a Valentine Conspiracy.

 Posted by: Jimmy Small // February 12th, 2010 at 8:50 am>

me too!

 Posted by: Crystal Renaud // February 12th, 2010 at 8:55 am>

We have a different challenge. Our anniversary is Feburary 12. Twenty-seven years ago I thought it was a good idea (easy for hubs to remember at least one of these special days, right?) but now it's hard to fight through the crowds. So we do a joint celebration “around” these two days. Sometimes before, sometimes after. Usually it's very low key though.

 Posted by: Cindy Graves // February 12th, 2010 at 8:59 am>

Exactly Jimmy. I used to be a contrarian on V-day but then thought, “wait, then I shouldn't really be celebrating Christmas since that's just a contrived one day celebration that didn't really happen on 12/25 and I should celebrate year round!” We ptich the Advent Conspiracy but still buy the tree and the gifts and go to the Christmas service at church for the first love of our lives, but we can't do the same for the second love of our lives?

So I swallowed the negativity, fought the cool-to-be-contrarian streak that runs so wide inside me, wrestled to the ground the urge to not let past relationship hurts be past, and embraced the observance and 1800flowers.com did the rest.

 Posted by: michaeldimarco // February 12th, 2010 at 9:02 am>

I'd like to be that guy that says, “We don't need to celebrate Valentine's Day, because we celebrate it everyday”, but it's more of a we just don't like the crowds, and having to expect something from each other.

We just kind of say, “Meh” to Valentine's Day.

(I feel like I should mention that we DO love eachother and enjoy eachothers' company lol. We'll probably celebrate it on our time and not the calendar's.)

 Posted by: Brett Barner // February 12th, 2010 at 9:42 am>

we usually do dinner with the fam. if this is your “big night”…that's o.k….but i don't care much for the gross materialism that retailers have with holidays…and the t.v. commercials that make you sleepwalk to a jewelry story…

 Posted by: Jim Gray // February 12th, 2010 at 10:10 am>

oooh!good one!

 Posted by: Jim Gray // February 12th, 2010 at 10:11 am>

i love the “portable” valentine idea

 Posted by: Jim Gray // February 12th, 2010 at 10:12 am>

let me just add that like Mike's story…my wife Sharon and I have experienced the ugliness of trying to get a table somewhere, to trying to rush from work to home to wait for the sitter …i've been married 17 yrs and we decide what to do, and i buy flowers all the time…

 Posted by: Jim Gray // February 12th, 2010 at 10:15 am>

My wife's birthday is 2 weeks before Valentine's day. Coupled with that and the holiday madness we just got through in Nov/Dec, we're all holiday'd out.

Granted, this is no excuse for her to not receive chocolate

 Posted by: dannyjbixby // February 12th, 2010 at 11:13 am>

Julie and I are going to see Donny and Marie this evening, then to Ruth's Chris on Saturday night.

 Posted by: Ed Carp // February 12th, 2010 at 11:14 am>

Excellent! Julie gets flowers on a random schedule, too

 Posted by: Ed Carp // February 12th, 2010 at 11:17 am>

ruth's chris rocks! can i come

 Posted by: mike foster // February 12th, 2010 at 11:31 am>

We dont do Valentine's Day. I would much rather my husband love me on any ol day of the week instead of being forced to express his love for me on a certain day. I am also tarnished by parents who owned a Hallmark store and how we were encouraged by Hallmark to sell more product . Totally against bosses day and grandparents day too for the same reasons. All made up to sell merch.

 Posted by: Lori Zimbardi // February 12th, 2010 at 12:14 pm>

Lori, what about Father's Day and Mother's Day? Do you skip those too? Just wondering since those are merch holidays as well.

 Posted by: michaeldimarco // February 12th, 2010 at 12:35 pm>

I know. Just another sneaky tip….Easter Monday is a great bargain day for chocolate too!

 Posted by: Laura Anne // February 12th, 2010 at 4:20 pm>

So what you're telling me Cindy, is if I should get married, it would be a good idea not to get married around the Valentine's Day period if possible?

 Posted by: Laura Anne // February 12th, 2010 at 4:23 pm>

my wife is at the mardi gras outreach (answering the cries) so i'll be without her on v-day. so…i'll be eating a tub of ice cream by myself. just kidding we'll probably have a phone date!

 Posted by: mohan37 // February 12th, 2010 at 5:19 pm>

that would be tough to enjoy holidays after knowing what you know…i totally get that.

 Posted by: mike foster // February 12th, 2010 at 6:00 pm>

Very fair question and yes we celebrate mothers and fathers day but no we dont spend money on it. The kids make a popsicle frame with their picture in school and that is the extent of our gifts. We honor our grandparents on Mothers and Fathers day and they too get something the kids make. Our family has a running joke that when ever we are in the mall or a card store we pick up a card and show the other person and say “this is your card” and read it then put it back. My mom and dad even do it to each other.

 Posted by: Lori Zimbardi // February 12th, 2010 at 7:58 pm>

Well, my birthday is the 2nd, my husband's is the 17th, and then we have Valentine's Day? No hot dates here. It's just too much hassle for us. We normally do one outing to sum up everything.

 Posted by: Mackenziie // February 13th, 2010 at 10:29 am>

Well, if you like flowers and restaurants, they are usually cheaper and less crowded other times during the year.

 Posted by: Cindy Graves // February 13th, 2010 at 5:05 pm>

F hl

 Posted by: Lori Zimbardi // February 14th, 2010 at 12:29 pm>

No thanks for me. No expectations, but being intentional about just showing my husband how much I love him. Blogged about this this morning, too.

 Posted by: Elizabeth // February 14th, 2010 at 5:33 pm>

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