My idea to stimulate the economy...
 

I was sitting here thinking of a way to generate economic growth that would stimulate many industries and really get the cash flowing...

This will be better than any TARP program, any "green jobs" initiate, any "jobs bill"...

Make every ****ing day Valentines Day...ridiculous holiday where a ton of money is spent. The amount of $$$ spent on this day is insane :mad: I think it's a flawless idea...economic growth, plenty of sex....it's a win win situation :rofl:

I was at the store to get some breakfast stuff(Acme and CVS) and the lines were packed with guys buying flowers, candy, stuffed animals etc. If you that 365 days a year we could really get back on track. :mrgreen:

***Disclaimer*** This is in no way a bashing/political thread..it's a V-Day bashing thread. Mods can delete this if they feel it's going to go in an ugly direction.

I agree lol. Valentines Day is a stupid ****ing scam holiday. Ill admit i bought some flowers, but i will never buy some $300 piece of jewelry just for Valentines day....stupid

I did my part to spend $$ too :( :lol:

One of those necessary evils, but complete bull**** :mrgreen:

Haha this year I was going to spend some money on a girl but now that things went south with her that money is going to the Camaro ;)

Amen to that. I don't have to spend any money this year.. feels pretty good.

Hallmark can go to hell!

Why? Don't you feel a card is worth $5?:lol:

I like how my local florist jack the rates up from $2 to $6 a rose a couple days before, and up until Valentines Day. $70ish for a dozen roses :shock:

Here's my gripe with Vday.

If you buy anything, the lady is expecting it and you don't get any positive points. The only thing that happens is you simply don't get deducted points.

If you buy your lady a single rose / carnation / sun flower / ANYTHING on any random day of the year with no significance, it will mean more than two dozen roses on v-day by factors of exponential powers.

agreed w/both of you. thats why i made my own card and in it i included the words "when you throw this away i won't feel bad about wasting the 5 bucks on a card" wife even says i should write for hallmark :lol:

no gifts were exchanged between me and the woman. with all the moving bs and the recent meltdown of my desktop (thank goodness for the old laptop) money is being spent elsewhere at the moment.



the best present of all is the new 4 bedroom 2 bathroom house were moving into thats half the price what were paying now for a 2br 1 bath :D

Its a commercial holiday through and through the only sure winner is the retail end. With hope others get lucky too.

look something like this?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_J53C9Yxl1a...ntine+2009.jpg

:lol: i didn't buy a thing. i did eat some cupcakes though. yum!

Eh me and the girlfriend agreed not to buy anything, but I did anyway just so I wouldn't look like a d-bag.

:rofl: isn't that the truth.


Because you KNOW her gf's will be like oh, what did mike get you? Nothing? oh... well I guess it's nice you guys are comfortable enough to do that....


:lol:

I hate V-day.

agreed

$110 on 2 dozen flowers, candy, a stuffed bear, and a card... but im in Iraq so i felt the need to make this one a little better than normal

Understandable for sure

i did the roses and a card.. $35 total from shoprite... she got me a card and a lil thingy and i bought lunch and she made dinner... i think i broke even lol

everyone who spent money today is an idiot. i made it a point to lie to my valentine and say i was stuck working all day, not see her until tomorrow, go out and buy something tomorrow at 75% off. LOL. WIN.

best of luck with that relationship...

knowing jon I doubt it's much of a relationship..

Yupp I did my part too. Those damn Roses from Steven Singers really did the trick tho :naughty: