Survey: Valentine's Day - what do you do?

 Nothing.  It's a weekday, we both have work/school and are poor as dirt right now.  We don't even do something for our wedding anniversary.

Liesje

Nothing.  It's a weekday, we both have work/school and are poor as dirt right now.

Ditto. I think after work I'm going to cook dinner (no school tonight) & we'll cuddle and watch a movie? haha idk... maybe next year if we have money i'll get my ring ;o)

for the most part i hate chocolate & jewelery so0o0o0o ya idk i'll settle for a teddy bear and a card

This year, we decided to forego the chocolate & other stuff and get a household present for the two of us to enjoy - we haven't decided on what that will be - but we'll probably wait till Saturday to shop.

My day job is in non-profit elder services and we always have a Valentine fundraiser breakfast, so I'll be there in the a.m. 

Oh, wow!  I completely forgot that V-Day was tomorrow...

DH and I have been together for almost 8 years now (married one year this July) and this day has never really been too significant for us.  I do always tell him I want flowers, but he thinks they are a waste of money since they die and of course are pretty expensive at this time.

Two years ago though he did get me 2 potted plants.  One was a mini rose bush, which I promptly killed when transplanting it, and the other was a tropical tree of some sort, which is still going strong.

This year we'll probably just make dinner and watch a movie together, which isn't anything out of the ordinary for us. 

Probably just dinner on the day, but dseeing how HORRIFIC the restaurant scene is that night we'll probably order in. The REAL fun is Sunday night when my HOCKEY TEAM comes to town and we attend the game. That was my gift this year. It's never a suprise because I know thier schedule and he is EXPECTED to get tickets for all games they have here in DFW lol.

My kiddo has her school party so I'll probably go to that while one of my sisters watches the boy here at the house.

BF has a gig that night, but I have a math test. Stupid valentine's day.

Their parties are so fun...and MAN are they organized. They do this craft, then this game for so long then move onto this game, then eat, then pack up to go home LOL. I wish I could do that!

Her teacher really has their respect....tho I wonder if they hand picked easy kids for her lol. She's only a 2nd year gal....VERY young, VERY pretty, and VERY nice to the kids. I've liked her a lot tho...and Lily just about worships her haha!

Nothing as far as I know due to the fact we are both broke right now. I'm sure he'll surprise me with flowers or a small gift, and we may either go out to dinner or he'll probably just cook something nice. Now that we are married and have been together 5 years now, V-day isn't that exciting anymore. The first few years of us dating it was fun to do stuff on V-day but now it's kinda like, ehhh it doesn't matter if we do anything or not.

DH is working so I guess me and Maison will just hang out and be bored! 

folks ROMANCE is only there if you **make** it be there!!  don't let it go stale -- it does NOT have to be money driven!

Make him a 'card' -- take some old magazines, newspapers, advertisements and look for "words" -- from descriptive words like "Fabulous" to stupid words like "To" and "Bankrupt" and "Super-sized"

Then glue them on plain old paper and make a funny "Valentine".  You can make it like it's a stupid "ransom demand" or just string together stupid stuff and fill in the inbetween words with a felt tip pen.  It takes time -- you can make it long or short, sweet, dirty or whatever ... but if he's the 'star' of it he'll love that you spent time doing it.    Make a hole or two in the left hand margin and 'tie' it with ribbon. 

 David and I work at it ... all the time.  And we work at HAVING FUN!!!  I've got ratty old drapes (from when I bought my house and I never bothered to change them) but I'll spend money on a foolish toy for Davey.

Today AT WORK (the man knows how to get mileage out of flowers) I got roses AND they are being hugged by Froggie Prince Kiss-A-Lot (he sings "My Girl" and dances around).

IT IS A HOOT!!!!

Shoot folks -- buy penny valentines and date 31 of them with things like "Good for a Kiss" ... "Good for me rubbing your back" .... "Good for me laughing even when we both know it's not funny!!"  ... dumb stuff. 

later, when your ship comes in, you can graduate to roses and a singing frog (but remember my husband works about 16 hours a day and most of the time six days a week), but there were lots of times when a 'date' for us as a married couple was a box of doughnuts (the store kind) taken down to the neighborhood lake with a thermos of coffee and just sitting and holding hands.  But it was time we PLANNED to spend together.  (not bad for a couple of thrifty fifties!!)

calliecritturs

Then glue them on plain old paper and make a funny "Valentine".  You can make it like it's a stupid "ransom demand" or just string together stupid stuff and fill in the inbetween words with a felt tip pen.  It takes time -- you can make it long or short, sweet, dirty or whatever ... but if he's the 'star' of it he'll love that you spent time doing it.    Make a hole or two in the left hand margin and 'tie' it with ribbon. 

 David and I work at it ... all the time.  And we work at HAVING FUN!!!  I've got ratty old drapes (from when I bought my house and I never bothered to change them) but I'll spend money on a foolish toy for Davey.

Callie - you're so sweet and funny but one of the last cards I bought DH had like tons of wording to it. Probably like one of those "If.............." cards. Anyway, he read the entire thing, thanked me and then said "can you just buy me those cards that say 'Happy Birthday' or whatever the occasion? I really don't like to have to read all this" - lol. So I bought a cute, but short on words, card and will give him his 2 favorite candies, peanut M&Ms and Hersheys Hugs.

We broke too!! Waiting for our taxes to come in sometime this week.

I got JJ a bag of M&Ms and Samantha a singing frog( regretting that as I type!).

He'll probably take me out as soon as taxes come in.

Oh and cant forgot about the dogs. Gonna get Kujo a cute little bed I saw at walmart. The bigger dogs will get a nice treat from Feeders Supply and Ginger gets a new crate. 

Benedict

What do you do for Valentine's Day?

Nothing. But I think we're planning on Mexican take-out. Not because it's Valentine's Day, though. More to celebrate Jaia's stitches coming out! LOL Now, that's a household that revolves around the dogs! LOL

DH hasn't descided if we are going out to dinner or if he's gonna make something special.  He's been buying stuff (and hiding) for V-day for about 2 weeks.  I'm pretty sure it's limited edition disney pins (our new hobby/collection) that I won't buy myself (I keep finding other things that money should be spent on).  I bought him a digital camera, it's not a really nice one, less than $100 at Walmart, but he'll like it.  This year is an exception though.  Normally we just go out to dinner and he buys me one of the necklace's that Kay's has on special for the holiday.  We hit a rough patch around Christmas so I think we're sort of making up for it the V-day.