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Valentine’s Day is no longer a day to do cute things for your loved ones it has turned into curating the perfect romantic experience to post on social media for your followers to envy. Companies and influencers both impact consumerism numbers via the promotion of buying useless items that you do NOT need through posts and or videos. Valentine's Day can be an incredibly expensive holiday to celebrate. Buying expensive jewelry, flowers, and dining at a nice restaurant might not even help your relationship and could While some embrace the holiday, others say Valentine's Day has become nothing more than a cash grab. about how much cash we will be spending on gifts. "On Valentine's Day it runs $88 per Between the burden of finding the perfect gift for your boo, the anxiety of finding a Valentine if you're single, and the pressure to spread love to people you don't even like, there are plenty Either thousands or hundreds of years later, Americans seem likewise unable to agree on whether Valentine’s Day is a hallowed celebration, a marketing scam that entrenches the hegemony of the Is Valentine’s Day an over-commercialized “fake holiday” created by greeting card companies or a sweet, time-honored celebration of love and romance? The truth may lie in the middle. Take a look at how we got from the evil-purging origins of the holiday to shiny red boxes of candy. Every year for Valentine's Day, lovers around the world pull out all the stops for their sweethearts. From traditional flowers or chocolate to more expensive gifts such as diamonds, the holiday Valentine’s Day is a week away, and while a lot of people can’t wait for the “day of love,” others chalk it up to being nothing more than a Hallmark holiday. WTOP visited the National Mall What the over-the-top, commercial Valentine’s Day holiday does should be as criminal as $300 roses. No one can meet the expectations. 4. Cupid has roots in Greek mythology. Watch out around Valentine’s Day, or else you may be struck by Cupid’s arrow. According to Ti me, the ubiquitous cherub can be traced back to 700 B.C.In Valentine’s Day is a commercialized holiday, where you have to buy chocolates, flower, and romantic crap, for your special person. Who commercialized it? Companies who make romantic crap. Valentine’s Day Isn’t About “Real Love” Show how much you love them with this diamond blah blah blah. Every jewelry store commercial around Valentine’s Day. Give the gift of performance or luxury or whatever the fuck we’re selling. Every car commercial around Valentine’s Day. I’m not against romance. In fact, it’s quite the Valentine's day is an over commercialized day by and for companies and has nothing to do with kindness of any kind. How about this, just hear me out: what if instead of one day a year, we're nice to the people around us the entire year round (known and unknown). That was me until I was 27. I met my wife the Valentine’s Day after. We have a lovely daughter and a baby boy in his way (any day now!). Valentine’s Day doesn’t mean anything, hun. Don’t get caught up in the Hallmark holidays For them, Valentine's Day may be a 'phew, thank God I don't have to deal with this' feeling. (I fit into this one) note: I'm married and very grateful for a partner that legit doesn't care about Valentine's Day - they don't have it in her native country. I am in my 30s. Similar to you, I have always wanted to partner in life, and Valentine’s Day seems so romantic. Throughout my life, I have only celebrated it once (when I was 28). Eventually I met my partner three years ago (officially together for 1.5 of it) - and suddenly I don’t care about Valentine’s Day. My issue with Valentine’s Day is specifically that it’s a commercial holiday about love, as opposed to a lot of the other commercial holidays that are essentially just about drinking and having fun. For my SO and me, Valentine’s Day is just this performative thing where you just tick off the boxes once a year and call it a day. Valentine’s Day is a bullshit holiday invented by Big Greeting Card to sucker you out of more of your hard earned cash. Naturally, The Factory is trying to cash in on that cultural brainwashing. Buy Valentine’s Day only exists in its modern form to sell cards and chocolates at an otherwise slow time of the year. We really don’t have any other major holidays between Christmas/New Year’s and Easter (yes St Patrick’s Day but you don’t really buy gifts/candy as much for that) It's called Saint Valentine's Day, after Saint Valentine (duh). It's an actual holiday that has been hijacked by commercialism to sell lots of chocolate, flowers, and cards (and fill up restaurants). Kinda like Hallowe'en.
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