Valentine's Day Sarcasm

[newton86]

Yahoo finance isn't usually linked on this particular subforum, but this is a nice sarcastic article pointing out the absurd amount of money spent on Valentine's Day by Americans each year.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-i-m-spending--143-on-valentine-s-day-174140189.html

[dycker1978]

HA HA HA...

"If the trend holds, eventually we’ll spend 80% or 90% of everything we earn on love, and the rest on Halloween."

Love that quote

[Sibley]

I'm definitely atypical, but if my SO isn't going to do something just because on any random day, then I do not want it on Valentine's day. Forced emotion is meaningless (remember when you were a kid and your mom made you apologize? You certainly didn't mean it, and everyone knew it).

Plus, I'm allergic to flowers and don't like chocolate. Saves me a bunch of money!

[Dr. A]

In my home, February 14th is referred to as "Discount Candy Day Eve".

Yahoo finance isn't usually linked on this particular subforum...

Actually, I've noticed that the "Personal Finance" section of the Yahoo finance home page has had quite a bit of frugally-inspired articles in the last few months. Makes me wonder how that editorial decision went down.

[Travis]

In my home, February 14th is referred to as "Discount Candy Day Eve".

Yahoo finance isn't usually linked on this particular subforum...

Actually, I've noticed that the "Personal Finance" section of the Yahoo finance home page has had quite a bit of frugally-inspired articles in the last few months. Makes me wonder how that editorial decision went down.

A fair number of them end up in the Unmustachian/Comedy section, so there's that...