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Ah that time of year is upon us again - Sweetest Day! Another day to remind us that:

-We have no significant other, or

-our significant other is far away, or

-our significant other has more important things to do than spend time with us, or

-our significant other is spending time with someone else, or

-we plan on guilting our significant other into spending way too much money on flowers, candy, and a card, or

-it's a day to do something sweet and/or romantic with your partner, or

-we have a wonderful significant other that loves us and we don't need some dumb-ass holiday to remind us of that.

Celebrate it, piss on it, do what you want.

I'm going back to bed.

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:wub: My boyfriend gave me tigerlillies last night at midnight. :wub:

I probably didn't deserve it either, I was being kind of a bitch last night.

SO or not, it's a Hallmark holiday. If you don't like it, ignore it. Personally I think it's good to do something nice for each other that day. Not that you should need a day to remind you to do something nice for your SO, but sometimes it helps when you've been together a long time and start to take each other for granted. As far as buying a present just to give your SO a Sweetest Day present, nah, skip it.

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Ah that time of year is upon us again - Sweetest Day! Another day to remind us that:

-We have no significant other, or

-our significant other is far away, or

-our significant other has more important things to do than spend time with us, or

-our significant other is spending time with someone else, or

-we plan on guilting our significant other into spending way too much money on flowers, candy, and a card, or

-it's a day to do something sweet and/or romantic with your partner, or

-we have a wonderful significant other that loves us and we don't need some dumb-ass holiday to remind us of that.

Celebrate it, piss on it, do what you want.

I'm going back to bed.

Umm, 1-800-FLOWERS :sofa:

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Sweetest day has historical precedent - in one single small town. I forget the entire history (wikipedia it yourself), but it was a day they set aside for parades and some other fun little-town stuffs.

So Hallmark hears about it and thinks CHA$CHING$

I have told Jon he is off the hook for Sweetest Day. I couldn't care less. Our anniversary is at the end of October, and that's more important.

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This is only the second Sweetest Day I'm not working. My parent's use to own a flower shop, so Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Sweetest Day only meant an extra day of work for me after working 40+ hours at my regular job. The shop's been closed two years now, and it still seems very weird that I am not selling flowers all day. When I had a significant other, I always suggested just going out for a nice dinner, one, because I was usually too exhausted to cook, and two, because I don't buy into needing a day set aside for acknowledging your "sweetie". It should be done throughout the year, in little ways and in your actions, to let the person know how special they are to you.

Regardless, I wish all of you, my sweet, sweet DGN friends a Happy Sweetest Day. May you have a great day regardless of whether you celebrate or not.

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... because I don't buy into needing a day set aside for acknowledging your "sweetie". It should be done throughout the year, in little ways and in your actions, to let the person know how special they are to you.

Regardless, I wish all of you, my sweet, sweet DGN friends a Happy Sweetest Day. May you have a great day regardless of whether you celebrate or not.

Ditto. :-)

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Sweetest Day was not invented by Hallmark. It was invented by candy companies.

"Herbert Birch Kingston, a philanthropist and candy company employee wanted to bring happiness into the lives of orphans, shut-ins and others who were forgotten. With the help of friends, he began to distribute candy and small gifts to the underprivileged."

Which I think is, well, very sweet.

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Eh, I hate all Hallmark holidays. Too much damn pressure.

Random surprises mean so much more (which reminds me - I think I'll do something special now that it will be unexpected - much more fun when it's out of the blue).

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Why do we need greeting cards anyway?

Why can't we just come up with something to say to someone on our own, instead of wastin $5 on a card ?

I think that it would be alot more personable if we looked our loved ones in the eyes and expressed our feelings and sentiment, instead of sayin: "oh here's yer card"

Sweetest day doesn't make any sense to me either.

In fact, until I read this thread, I had completely forgotten that it even existed.

If you just "have" to get a card, get one that's blank inside and then compose the inside greeting yourself, in pen, so the person knows it came from you.

I don't yet know how anyone else feels about this, but I think that would be a good thing to do, rather then just get some mass produced inpersonal card that 50 bajillion other people are probably recieving.

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Why do we need greeting cards anyway?

Why can't we just come up with something to say to someone on our own, instead of wastin $5 on a card ?

I think that it would be alot more personable if we looked our loved ones in the eyes and expressed our feelings and sentiment, instead of sayin: "oh here's yer card"

Sweetest day doesn't make any sense to me either.

In fact, until I read this thread, I had completely forgotten that it even existed.

If you just "have" to get a card, get one that's blank inside and then compose the inside greeting yourself, in pen, so the person knows it came from you.

I don't yet know how anyone else feels about this, but I think that would be a good thing to do, rather then just get some mass produced inpersonal card that 50 bajillion other people are probably recieving.

My grandmother would be so tickled with what you just said, she would put extra cream in your tea. She was a very proper lady, I'll have you know, and she was appalled at the idea of pre-printed greeting cards. She would always receive them graciously, as that's what proper ladies do, but she would never, ever give one. She actually had an entire stationery wardrobe, but even she admitted that the only thing that was absolutely necessary was unmarked paper, and everything else was a matter of taste.

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Yeah as a Floral Designer, you learn about all these fucking retarded "Holidays"

There is no true holiday as "Sweetest Day" it is only for Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and I think Wisconsin. Made up only because Memorial Day, Labour Day, and 4th of July are the WORST card selling months. After Father's day, they got nothing.

So, they all got together and said "Hey, we need money... and Valentines Day is WAY too far away, soooo... hey, who likes the sound of Sweetest Day?"

Seriously, that's pretty much how it got started. The gap from Father's day til Thanksgiving is a downer, but thats their fault.

I FUCKING HATE SWEETEST DAY BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING POINTLESS.

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Oh! I forgot to add this:

I fucking hate all you assholes that come to my work 10 minutes before I close down the Floral Department for the day and ask me to make you a fucking bouqet because you aren't creative enough to make it your self.

THEY ARE FUCKING ROSES! MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN SYMBOL OF EFFECTION.

DISCLAIMER:

*now yes, Odims DID sent me Stargaizer Lillies afew days ago, but he didn't know about sweetest day, and I forgot since I don't work at Nino's anymore. he sent them to me because he remembered that I like Stargaizer's. No other reason at all*

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We don't celebrate it. Hell, until someone sent me a text......I didn't even remember it existed.

I think I was in my teens when I first heard about it.

Why do we need 2 valentines type days?

Oh yah. So we can buy more cards and C.R.A.P.

Seems there is a new holiday invented every day and I think Hallmark is behind it I really do. Hell, they make made for tv movies now. There is no stopping them!!!

Next thing we will have national booger picking day. Complete with green cards of goo.

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My grandmother would be so tickled with what you just said, she would put extra cream in your tea. She was a very proper lady, I'll have you know, and she was appalled at the idea of pre-printed greeting cards. She would always receive them graciously, as that's what proper ladies do, but she would never, ever give one. She actually had an entire stationery wardrobe, but even she admitted that the only thing that was absolutely necessary was unmarked paper, and everything else was a matter of taste.

LMAO That's awesome!!!!

Oh and HH, boogers aren't always green :ralph

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