Posted by OhioGuy on October 15, 2007, 3:35 pm
I'm planning on getting my wife a box of malted milk balls - her
favorite - and writing a poem for her. The day is about showing you
remembered and that you appreciate the person with a small gift (usually
edible), not about trying to get huge or expensive gifts.
Just wondering what everyone else is planning on doing to show their
appreciation for their significant other on Sweetest Day this year?
Something sweet, I hope!
http://www.theromantic.com/sweetestday.htm
http://www.theholidayspot.com/sweetest_day/
Sweetest Day is Saturday, October 20 this year
Posted by Rod Speed on October 15, 2007, 4:20 pm
To ignore what is just another stupid con job.
> I'm planning on getting my wife a box of malted milk balls - her
> favorite - and writing a poem for her. The day is about showing you
> remembered and that you appreciate the person with a small gift
> (usually edible), not about trying to get huge or expensive gifts.
> Just wondering what everyone else is planning on doing to show their
> appreciation for their significant other on Sweetest Day this year?
> Something sweet, I hope!
> http://www.theromantic.com/sweetestday.htm
> http://www.theholidayspot.com/sweetest_day/
> Sweetest Day is Saturday, October 20 this year
Posted by OhioGuy on October 15, 2007, 4:55 pm
>To ignore what is just another stupid con job.
How so? I spoke to my Grandfather, and he says most folks around here
have celebrated it since he was a kid. (and he's 84)
It is also on our wall calendar.
Why would you consider an opportunity to show your appreciation to someone
you love (at little cost, I might add) to be a con job?
50 years ago, Sweetest Day was mostly celebrated in the Midwest. However,
as jobs moved, the Interstates were built, and people started becoming more
mobile, they took their local holidays with them, including Sweetest Day.
That is why Texas, California and Florida are now up in the top 10 as far
as # of people celebrating Sweetest Day. Just 10 years ago, it was still
all Midwest states.
Posted by Anthony Matonak on October 15, 2007, 5:18 pm
OhioGuy wrote:
>> To ignore what is just another stupid con job.
>
> How so? I spoke to my Grandfather, and he says most folks around here
> have celebrated it since he was a kid. (and he's 84)
I didn't grow up in the Midwest and neither did my father or his father.
This is entirely new to me and generations before me. I guess I'll have
to just do the same thing I do with all the other special days that have
absolutely no meaning to me, my family or anyone I know.
Anthony
Posted by Peter Bruells on October 15, 2007, 5:18 pm
> OhioGuy wrote:
> >> To ignore what is just another stupid con job.
> > How so? I spoke to my Grandfather, and he says most folks around
> > here have celebrated it since he was a kid. (and he's 84)
>
> I didn't grow up in the Midwest and neither did my father or his father.
> This is entirely new to me and generations before me. I guess I'll have
> to just do the same thing I do with all the other special days that have
> absolutely no meaning to me, my family or anyone I know.
Yeah... but it sounds as if its a "holiday" one can easily ignore,
unless the pest of Halloween which has crept over the Atlantic.
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> favorite - and writing a poem for her. The day is about showing you
> remembered and that you appreciate the person with a small gift
> (usually edible), not about trying to get huge or expensive gifts.
> Just wondering what everyone else is planning on doing to show their
> appreciation for their significant other on Sweetest Day this year?
> Something sweet, I hope!
> http://www.theromantic.com/sweetestday.htm
> http://www.theholidayspot.com/sweetest_day/
> Sweetest Day is Saturday, October 20 this year