Day 45 (410) – February 14, 2019
Pink – A Photo a Week / Which Way Challenge / Kammie’s Oddball / Durable – FOWC / Intimate – RDP / Smitten – WODC
Happy Valentines Day. I don’t think I have really bought in to this so called intimate, holiday dating back to when I last filled out those little paper “Be My Valentine” cards, stuffed them in their little envelopes, affixed the foil stamp to seal the deal, print the names in the To: and From: blanks, taped a carefully picked out candy heart on said envelope, and placed it in the decorated shoebox on my classmates desk. Or something like that. The only thing I know is that the older I get the more expensive this damn so called “holiday” gets. Especially with kids. Not only do you have to help do their cards, resurrecting those haunted, I mean happy, memories from the past, but you are requested to help by providing some food item in leiu of chaperoning the class party, school dance, or movie date. And if that’s not enough, they really want to get their latest interest(s) a durable, cellophane wrapped heart shaped package of a variety of so called chocolates, to show how much more special they are over the other potential valentines. Or worse, they actually are smitten with someone who requires not just that box of crap/candy, but a plastic tube encased rose, along with a bear, stuffed in a T-shirt with “I like you Bear-y Much” written across the front. No wonder nearly every store you walk in to today has a display such as the one above, sparing the millions of relationships that would be on the cusp of disaster should he/she show up to their other half’s valentine expectations, empty handed. But I wouldn’t know anything about that.
Look What I Found
Whiplash
Proscenium 
“…I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold, and it’s getting old…”
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Valentine’s Day is a holiday over there?
Over here although shops sell the usual Valentine cards, flowers chocolates etc, it’s not a holiday.
People here don’t wish each other a Happy Valentine Day. Then again, people here wouldn’t dream of wishing each other a Happy Day of the week either. That’s an American thing.
The loving wishes and love tokens on Valentine’s Day are on a more personal level and are reserved for the one you love, or the one you really want to be closer to.
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Oh no. They shut schools down on Valentine day as they hop the children up on sugars before shooting them home for the parents to pry them off the walls.
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I’ve seen it referred to a holiday several times by American bloggers.
We weren’t allowed to give the children sweets (candy) We had ‘healthy school status’ so couldn’t do it.
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We shouldn’t be allowed to either. I don’t think they can call it a Valentines party any more. I think they call it February Fun Day or something. It’s strange.
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Great post. Thank you Bear-y much 😂😂
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😛 it’s the little things we remember.
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True! A heart of gold n a practical one is what matters…
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That’s what they tell me.
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That’s great 💛 …
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Ohhhh, ok. Heart of Gold! Neil Young.
I was listening to him on the way home from work. The needle and the damage done.
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👍🏼😘 totally.
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I’m low on the “celebrate this day” scale also.
My husband however loves buying me chocolate so I graciously accept it, open it, eat a piece then give it to him and the kids.
We all end up happy.
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The family that chocolates together stays together! I am obligated to chocolate covered strawberries, BUT THAT’S IT! 😉
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And is anything at all any better?
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Ha! Yeah, it’s a manufactured holiday, for sure. But, those Reese’s hearts are pretty dang good. That’s aisle I’d choose. 😃
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Not gonna lie, Love those and the Reese’s Easter eggs that will be out next. But then again, any reason for a Reese’s is a good reason. 😛
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We did the cards for classes. However, while I saw some people making ridiculously over the top boxes for their kids, I stayed “old school” and they used paint, stickers, and construction paper. And tape lol. But this crazy cellophane wrapped insanely expensive crap is just that.
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It kills me. Saran Wrap does the same thing for a lot less. AND they make it in different colors now!
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Preach!
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I am the quintessential frugal father! 😂
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Oh teach me more lol!
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You’ll have to wait for the book 😉😂
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Fine lol
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Hahaha.. Bitter truth! Sadly, the “emotions” have changed and so have the “ways!” 😉
Beautiful shots tho!❤️
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Right? I can’t remember what I had for breakfast but I sure as hell can remember those traumatic moments in elementary school! 😳🥰
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Hahahaha.. #thoseWereTheBadDays 😝😝
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*insert clapping hands here* oh yes. Personally, I refuse to celebrate it with anything other than a “happy valentine’s day dear” I swear the whole thing was dreamed up by Cadbury and Hallmark! 😉 ewwwewww, don’t even remind me of those traumatic, er ah I mean, tragic, oops, I mean fun filled childhood valentine days…… *phew, I need a drink* 😉
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See I think Bailey’s and Smirnoff has a part in it as well. 😛 I am so glad you could hate, I mean appreciate those fund memories!
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Haha!!!! I concur!
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