Do you believe Valentine's Day is a hoilday created by the greeting card establishment?

Question

To me it's just to get the remaining money that wasn't spent at Christmas.

Reaper nailed it he's my new hero!!

Answer 1

i agree. you spend money to get rotten teeth on Halloween, gain an additional twenty pounds from good ol Thanksgiving, spend your entire tax return, and then some, of gifts for people you can't even remember how they're related to you, and then there's New Years where you get so wasted in a van attempt to remember how horrible the past few months were, only to come to valentines day where you become the dog in the house for not remembering every single little anniversary or day of love. screw them hippy card manufacturers and damn you you fat chubby cherub bastard

Answer 2

And the candy, egg, clothing, toy, celophane,and bow producers.Good one, grim,[and the person who said["no, the chocolate company's] but you forgot my favorite holiday[note the sarcasm?] Easter! A Christian holiday, where they are supposed to be mourning a death and celebrating a resurection. Instead, we borrow a symbol of fertility from the pagan's, a rabbit,dress him up half naked in a jacket, no pants, and have him deliver and hide boiled eggs, also a fertility symbol. What this is supposed to mean to the little children who later find the eggs, I can't explain.
And oh, do the card and candy company's have a field day! You have to buy a big basket, fill it with candy and toys, buy the colored celophane, buy a bow, and put it all together.And don't forget, Easter isn't just for kids, the wife, hubby, girlfriend, parents, etc, have to have a basket, too.I'd like Godiva in mine, thank you.If you doubt that adults are supposed to get Easter baskets, go to any high end chocolate company, there are the pre-made baskets, themed for adults, with chocolate golf balls, cars, whatever. And do not forget to send a card to everyone you know to wish them a happy holiday.
Then you have to buy and boil eggs, and buy the coloring technique that is popular this year, dye the eggs, hide the eggs, get the kids to find the eggs, throw the eggs away, because it isn't safe to eat them, and a week later, smell the rotten one that got forgot, And don't forget to go buy your Easter church outfit for one of the the twice a year pilgrimage to church. Hundreds of dollars on clothes for the family.
Go to the card store, and look at the Easter cards. Look at the size of the section of religious cards, then look at the size of the sections of non-religious cards. Try to find the religious cards, they are in the back of the store.
Without Easter, we would go straight from Valentine's Day right back to Christmas, there are no more big card sending holidays between the two, yet.[I do not count Mom and Dad's day, they are not tecniquely a holiday]
And, isn't it lucky for the candy company's that Easter is in the spring? The chocolate doesn't melt.
Thank you for asking this question. I obviously enjoyed answering it.

Answer 3

I think that every Holiday is created for us, the consumers to spend money. Hallmark definitely has a hand in it but so does the chains of stores that count extra millions of dollars after every holiday.If you have kids then you are totally messed up because if you don't buy the whole class Valentines cards and candies and little presents then your kid is the odd ball. Just in my life time they have created different days like Secretary Day, Grandparents Day, Teachers Day, Earth Day, they even have a kids day. They turned Easter into a smaller Christmas. I don't remember having to give people Groundhog Day cards but hey they make them too. When are we the consumers going to stop buying into this money making crap? I couldn't agree more with your analogy. Thanks for asking a great question.

Answer 4

No, I think Valentine's Day is legitimate. Where I live, some people celebrate "Sweetest Day" which is the second Saturday in October. My husband thinks that is a made up holiday by the greeting card and candy people to make more money before Christmas.

For Valentine's Day- a card and a small box of candy is quite nice. Especially, if you live up north and it's cold- it's something look forward to besides the next snow storm.

Answer 5

Valentine's Day is another in a string of corrupted "pagan" holidays. You don't hear as much hue and cry about it as you would about something like Halloween or Easter, because it wasn't a *Celtic* holiday that got corrupted, and most modern neopagans have fixated on the Celtic calendar for their holidays, etc.

Mid-February was the time of the Lupercal festival, which was a Roman fertility holiday. It's referenced in "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare - Caesar asks the priests to take extra care to make sure his wife Calpurnia gets included in the Lupercal festivities, because she is currently barren and he wants a son. As Christianity attempted to insinuate itself within the Roman Empire (and elsewhere in the world), one of the "tricks" the early church members used to boost conversion was find ways to take the local festivals and attach some sort of Christian meaning to them. Christmas went from being the birthday of the Sun to the birthday of the Son (clever!); Easter went from being the rebirth of green life to being the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Halloween went from being a time to remember all the dead to being a time to remember all the saints and martyrs of the Church, and St. Valentine's Day went from being a time of sexual frenzy to being a time where you were supposed to contemplate the nature of true and pure love such as Christ had for all humanity.

Unfortunately, part of that "conversion" process required that some of the old heathen symbols be kept around (so the locals would be more likely to actually celebrate the new holidays). That's why we have the Easter Bunny and Christmas Trees and Valentine's Day Chocolates (chocolate *is* an aphrodisiac, after all...).

Answer 6

I don't think it was only established by the greeting card companies but also the candy companies, and balloon companies! I totally agree with you I think everyday should be a day you tell your significant other I love you! Not just some made up holiday from corporate America!

Answer 7

Valentine's Day is the Anti-Christ of holidays. The greeting card establishment uses it to make single people feel like crap and so that those people who are paired up with someone will feel better about their floundering relationships. It also about the bottom line....$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Answer 8

Maybe pushed by the greeting card people but embraced by the public to the point where now the card, candy and flower people are meeting the public's demands.

(Is it, though, such a bad thing for there to be some frivolous holiday when people send their sweeties cards and flowers and go out for dinner? Life is so dreary sometimes. Valentine's Day is a silly little nice-ness, but we need that kind of silliness and sweetness sometimes in a world with so much dreariness.)

Answer 9

No. I believe Valentines Day is a holiday to celebrate passion and love with your partner. But the Greeting Card and Diamond and Chocolate and Flower Industries exploited the celebration by telling the world that if you don't buy her cards, diamonds, chocolates, or flowers, it means you're a bad boyfriend/husband. Which forces us to buy these objects to keep her happy, because every girl around her is getting cards, and diamonds, and chocolates, and flowers, from their partners. So we ourselves give into the addiction these companies have instilled onto us.

Answer 10

along with Mother's day, Father's day, Grandparent's day, in fact the whole years worth of cards is just a blowing up of small events so that they can profit from it. There isn't a month that goes by without some card covering it. I literally don't buy into it. I gave up sending Christmas cards years ago.