Valentine’s Day
Posted on February 18th, 2008 – 4:22 PMBy Kara McGuire
Howdy. Tom Lee here. Kara McGuire asked me to fill in this week so you now have the honor of witnessing my debut as a blogger (cue trumpets). Although I occasionally write Pay Dirt columns, by no means am I a financial expert. If you want advice, go to Kara. If you want the satisfaction of knowing that there is someone out there in worse financial shape, then I’m your man.
Speaking of being a man, I’m curious…how many of you dudes out there did something nice for your lady on Valentine’s Day? At the risk of embarrassing my girlfriend, I probably dropped over $200 in V-Day related largess: flowers, dinner, a show..etc. Money can’t buy happiness but better safe than sorry.
Granted, we just started dating recently. But call me a romantic, but I always thought if there is one event that would prompt a guy to open his wallet other than birthdays and anniversaries, it would be Valentine’s Day. I was pretty surprised to learn that most of my friends and co-workers would spend their Feb. 14 eating Chinese takeout or watching the latest Grey’s Anatomy episode from Netflix.
So dear readers, how did you spend your V-Day? Did it cost you a pretty penny or is love best reflected in the old adage “it’s the thought that counts”?
8 Responses to "Valentine’s Day"
I love my wife. We have an understanding that Valentine’s Day has become a “Hallmark Holiday”, a day like Halloween that Hallmark has elevated in status to elevate its revenue. We shouldn’t need a special day to let each other know we love one another.
My wife watched trashy reality TV until 9:00 at which point I took over the TV to watch with Wild game. Pretty romantic, eh?
I remember those days! One of our first V-days together I bought her a $199 pendant, chocolate and went out for dinner.
Now, with 2 kids in the house, it was 2 doz roses, a $60 box of chocolates (which I got for 50% off!), and I made steak and king crab legs for dinner. Still expensive overall, but we curbed the cost significantly by eating in and watching a movie later.
Well, as long as you got some action, who cares about the dough.
Crabs’ legs at home, and fresh flowers. Roses are overpriced.
Tulips (roses bore me), chocolate, and snow tubing!
Oh, I can’t forget the romantic Chipotle dinner on the way to the tubing hill…
My hubby bought me tulips on TUESDAY, to prove that we don’t need to celebrate our love on V-day only. On Thursday we settled in, had chicken and rice for dinner and watched Saw 4, the perfect date night to us!
White Castle and the Rambo trilogy.
After 18years of marriage and four kids….
Valentines days was spent working and then we went to the gym together in the evening.
