I love my wife and I try to do right by her but every year this Sweetest Day thing comes up. And every year I'm like, "What's that? Man, I must have gotten
really plastered last night, I thought it was still October. Oh. It is? Then what on earth are you talking about?" So far I've been able to avoid it by rightfully claiming ignorance until it was too late to do anything about it. But this year she had the foresight to mention it to me literally in passing as I'm on my way out the door to go to work. It is less than 48 hours away now.
Did some Wikipedia'ing on the topic (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetest_Day) and apparently this is one of those Hallmark Holidays and the only reason anyone even knows about it around here is because of a big-shot candy company in the region. It's not even a thing in other parts of the country. I didn't grow up that far from here and I didn't hear about it until adulthood, but my wife grew up near this area.
I'm not sure what to do because I don't necessarily want to set the precedent for a gift or something because I'm a dumb male primate and will be more likely to forget to do something every following year. So some questions for the moustachioed hive mind:
Do you celebrate Sweetest Day?
If so, what is different about it from Valentine's Day?
Do you give gifts?
If so, do you give gifts to a romantic partner, close friend, family members, or all of the above?
Am I the only one who thinks life would be so much saner if we wiped away all of the various gift-giving holidays (including xmas) and just celebrated people and how much they mean to you on their birthday instead? Instead of repeatedly... constantly... every month or so throughout the year?