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We don't really celebrate, but I do bake him heart-shaped cookies every year because he loves cookies and I did it when we first started dating. I just ate a couple. Yum!
I've never celebrated valentines day. Over priced roses, over crowded restaurants... no thank you, not to mention its not even fun to get dressed up for a nice evening out when its like 20 degrees out. If I were to celebrate some sort of valentines day, I'd make up some random date in like June to do it.
We go out to dinner or something and get a card for each other but we don't celebrate hardcore. We're not doing gifts this year, because we'd rather save the $$ for our upcoming vacation.
@Keltaena: yum! That's cute! I would be ok with making DH some cookies (and I know he would love that) Maybe I will do that!
We don't celebrate. We don't even get each other gifts for birthdays or Christmas, lol. Usually the two of us would rather have a nice dinner, and it doesn't have to be a special occasion for that to happen 
I always get FI something, but he hasn't reciprocated since the first V-day after we met... I think this year, I'll skip the gift and just make a heart shaped shephards pie instead. haha
@shooting_star5711: We dont usually get each other too many gifts either. Plus valentines day, my bday and our dating anniversary are all within 10 days of each other so trying to celebrate all of it would be insane.
@KLloyd1: Here they are (or some of them, anyway)! I'm not the best icer. . .
@pinkshoes: I agree. It's so cold here and it woulnd't be fun to get dressed up because I would freeze. Valentines day is the 2nd busiest restaurant day next to NYE so when i was a server, I loved it because I made a ton of money!
@Keltaena: adorable! You are making me want cookies now! haha
I've always had a boyfriend on V day but I've never had the urge to "celebrate." I just don't see how waiting for 3 hours at a restaurant and $200+ spells love.
We have never done V day and on 2/14 we do absolutely nothing. Our v day usually involves vegging out on the couch.
Besides all the real, good jobs get you off work for at least a day.
lol But that's just us.
We're not celebrating this year because our wedding is 18 days later, but normally, we make a point of cooking together and eating at home on Valentine's Day. We try to do that normally anyway, but it's nonnegotiable on Feb 14.
We celebrate it mainly because we just love any reason to celebrate XD
In the 4 Valentine's days we have been together...we have gone to BW3s and had wings and beer. Not really sure how we started that tradition...but i'm perfectly happy with it:)
He usually sends me flowers at work but we don't really celebrate. We were joking about getting one of those heart shaped pizzas this year, but we may actually just do it for fun, lol.
Normally, we exchange cards and something small and we have a nice dinner. This year, it's going to be us and our neighbors and we're going to cook at home.
We never do anything big.
I totally support doing something small, starting a tradition, cooking together at home, etc.
I do not support buying expensive jewelry, going out to an expensive dinner, etc. just because it's what is expected on valentines day.
We don't celebrate valentines day with gifts... We usually just go out to dinnerother week before or after.
We don't, it's not worth it and it's so commercialized.
No presents, flowers, or cards. FI hates cards in the first place. We usually just make dinner together (not that different from a normal night) and I make a yummy dessert. This year I'm making him a bacon bouquet as a joke but that's it.
We normally just make a nice dinner together. I agree that we should love one another unconditionally the entire year but, I must admit to being extra sweet on V-day.
We don't really celebrate but that's because DH's bday IS Valentine's Day and I never want to take away from his bday for a stupid Hallmark holiday!
i haven't in the past, but my SO planned something for us weeks ago and i'm looking forward to it. that said, we go out to dinner all the time and last night i made a special dinner for our 1 year anniversary. we have lots of date nights :)
@KLloyd1: That's how my DH feels about it. I'm slowly converting him, though. :) I completely agree that it's a blown up reason to overspend, etc. DH and I don't do gifts anymore, or get sucked into overpriced restaurants, etc. but I did tell him I wanted a card, and he surprised me with pre-Valentine's day flowers on Friday. I have zero expectations for Valentine's Day - so it was a nice surprise.
I agree with you - that we should be doing nice things for each other all year round to show our love... but, IMO, as time goes by and passes quickly, I view it as a nice pause in the calendar to do something different than the other 364 days...
We don't. We go out on Feb 21 because it's our 1/2 year wedding anniversary (so 1.5 yr) and the 21 of January was the day we met so we use Feb 21 to celebrate both our dating anniversary and 1/2 year wedding anniversary. We just go out to dinner but don't exchange gifts. I love going on when there aren't crowds like there are on Valentines day!
we skipped it this year to save money. though i did maybe have heart shaped brownies delivered to his work as I couldnt resist.
e try and so sponetanous nice things for each other every month or so.. so we dont really need a specific day as an excuse to do something nice for one another.
I think it depends on how you celebrate it. You can definitely celebrate the history of the day without spending a ton of money.
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So it may stem from never having a boyfriend for Valentines day when I was in high school and college and I was always bitter but DH and I do not celebrate Valentines day and it was my decision to not celebrate. He actually loves that we don't celebrate because he doesn't have to stress about buying me gifts. My thoughts/reasons for not celebrating is I think we should show each other that we love each other everyday, not just the one day a year that hallmark says we should. I know that it does stem back to roman or greek gods or something but it seems today like its more about spending money on people and getting them good gifts when I think we should just love each other unconditionally everyday and do things all the time to show each other that you love them. I know some people will disagree but that's just how I feel. Does anyone else NOT celebrate valentines day?