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To VD…….

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No hearts, no flowers, no candy, no roses, no money for…..THE MAN. And no, I’m not talking about YOUR man, I’m talking about the man who makes all that money off of what amounts to a man-ufactured holiday. It is time for us, all of us, to put our foot down and say NO MORE. No more commercial holidays. No more colored candy. No more diamond sales. No more expensive dinners. No more chocolate. Sorry had to scratch that last one….they threatened to take away my Woman Card.

It’s bad enough what they did to Christmas and Easter (Jesus wasn’t crucified so your kid could get a colored bunny and a new dress)…and yes Halloween and Thanksgiving too. PEOPLE WAKE UP. You’re being conned out of your hard-earned money. Do you know what those DeBeers commercials really mean? You know, the one about leaving your woman speechless? Comedian, Ron White says, “Diamonds. That’ll shut her up.” That’s what they really mean. (PS I love Ron White–he’s so crass).

I found this luscious tidbit over at DumpYourWifeNow (obviously THEY are all for boycotting VD).

Real romance is about spontaneity, choice, and reciprocity. Valentine’s Day, on the other hand, is contrived, commercial, unilateral nonsense. If you want to do something special and genuine, choose her birthday and other times when she least expects it. Anything done on Valentine’s Day is a joke.

From Fox News: “It’s supposed to be a holiday of happiness and warmth but instead ends up being a holiday of stress and fear.”

Though it’s technically a celebration of all manifestations of love, Valentine’s Day — named for St. Valentine, who, legend has it, wrote a passionate letter to the apple of his eye from prison, which he signed “From Your Valentine” — is more about the romantic kind than anything else. The young newlywed from Connecticut said words on a page wouldn’t suffice in this day in age.

“If we just wrote a letter, we’d be in the doghouse,” he said.

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“Valentine’s Day is a time for retailers to rape and pillage,” said the Nantucket husband.

It’s precisely all the pressure — to be part of a couple, to be romantic, to be generous, to be thoughtful — that makes people turn against Feb. 14, sometimes vehemently. Robarge, the Glamour editor, said she “physically rejected” the holiday last year by getting violently ill after a cozy evening of drinking wine and eating cheese with her then-boyfriend.

So it’s (probably) too late to really do anything this year (I guess), but I encourage the world to boycott Valentines Day. Stop the Madness.

There are better and yes, more meaningful ways to say I Love MyselfYou.

I encourage you all to take my little button up there and put it on your blog….keep it up all year long and next year, hopefully February 14th will just be another day in the life. Now, go forth and boycott!