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I remember about 20 years ago my wife nagged for us to go out for dinner on Valentine's Day. I warned her, it'll be shit - restaurants have no atmosphere when there's no bigger groups of people, they'll try and do fixed menus to get 3 sittings in, etc... she still wanted to, so we went to a restaurant that we really liked.... and Sure enough, we never went out on VD again.

duncs500 wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 4:46 pm We tend to do more for anniversaries, seems like a bigger deal and thankfully also doesn't have the mark up.

We don't have an anniversary.. We sort of drifted together over the space of a few months and as we're not married, there's no annual date I need to worry about forgetting.

which is nice...

#BecauseDinny

dinny_g wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 5:13 pm

duncs500 wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 4:46 pm We tend to do more for anniversaries, seems like a bigger deal and thankfully also doesn't have the mark up.

We don't have an anniversary.. We sort of drifted together over the space of a few months and as we're not married, there's no annual date I need to worry about forgetting.

which is nice...

Same, we narrowed ours down to October 2010 because someone asked but we don’t do anything.

Really just birthdays and christmas for organised gift giving tbh.

Ours is “sometime around Dec ‘99, Jan ‘00 ish”

Mine didn't get a card as I've been unable to do much as I have a cold.

She was very thankful for the box of seeds and bulbs to grow her own flowers.

I went away for 3 nights today so went to the butchers this morning and bought a her a beef casserole and dumplings. I left it in the fridge as a treat for when she gets back from work.

That's better than a shitty card and flowers.

The woman in the photo looks like she’s planning his funeral- with an immediate start to proceedings

We don't do cards or presents for any occasion, yes it was my idea and I still get the when I start on about what a load of old baloney it all is