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Open Thread *** Recession Reduces Valentine’s Day Romance!

By SusanUnPC on February 14, 2009 at 3:40 AM in Economy, Open Thread

Via Reuters’ videos:

Chocolate is the food of love? Well, I love it every day! Ha!

So, have you cut back on special gifts for your loved ones? AND (!) BELOW THE FOLD, a link to a site that had me laughing so hard, my sides hurt …

And what else is going on in your lives? How else have you cut back on expenditures?

Here’s the side-busting funny site: Chairman Meow: Obey The Kitty!

http://www.DailyPUMA.com Alessandro Machi

I was wondering about Valentines Day Flowers dropping this year. It seems to me that this is the one gift or gesture that doesn’t get minimized even when the times get rough.

So, I have two theories. Monetary Sales may be down but perhaps everybody is just buying smaller, less expensive ” floral gestures of love” this year. I’m cool with that.

My second theory is the number of scumbags who send flowers to different mates, each one thinking they are the only one, is down, way down this year. lol, I’m cool with that as well.

http://www.DailyPUMA.com
wodiej

I don’t get into the Valentines Day hype. It’s outrageous what they charge for roses. I do other romantic things that don’t cost alot.
beebop

Your tax dollars already being abused:

Washington — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown got help from the White House to make sure he could cast what was viewed as an essential Democratic vote Friday night in favor of the economic stimulus package.

Brown attended calling hours in Mansfield on Friday afternoon and evening for his mother, Emily Campbell Brown, 88, who died Feb. 2. Her funeral is this morning, leaving Brown little time and no commercial flight options to get to Washington and back so quickly.

The White House provided a government plane so Brown could return to the Capitol for the vote and then get back to Mansfield to be with his family and honor his mother, officials said. The trip is considered official business.

Brown’s vote was considered necessary because it takes 60 votes to cut off debate in the Senate and conclude the matter.

Sen. Ted Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat who has a malignant brain tumor, was not expected to vote because of his health, setting up a decisive vote for Brown. The vote began Friday evening, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid held it open long enough for Brown to return.
NomNomNom

also in bill : $545 million for chronic disease programs, health promotion & genomics programs and almost 1bn for “new vaccinations for children.”
http://www.naturalnews.com/025608.html
C.S.

Ah, yes. Government of the People, for the People, and by the People…as long as we don’t get in the way of government for the wealthy, by the influentially powerful and of double standards.

Does anyone believe that government jet paid for from our tax money would have been waiting for Senator Sherrod Brown if he had wanted to vote against that bill? That’s not legislation by democracy; that’s as blatant as the special double standards used to see some guy with several aliases and dual citizenship snuck into Our White House.
Dawnelle

It’s been 7 yrs since “someone special” (other than relatives) sent me roses on Valentines day!

It was really nice getting them, but I haven’t lost much sleep in the yrs since.

I would have bought MYSELF a dozen roses had BAMBI been called OUT on his whole bad self.

Hell I would have bought the whole BLOG roses for that!

lol
obamastolemyboyfriend

I have a bottle of champagne waiting for such an occasion. I hope it doesn’t get too old. I was certain by last March-May the jig would be up!
I’m a Linda too

Hubby and I laughed on the news coverage on HLN yesterday, “they’re buying cheap engagement rings”. While they keep using talking points to downsize on spending, they almost seemed to be that commercial telling you THIS is where you need to SPEND. Almost to guilt you in to spending that 10 percent of your salary on a ring. They said sales were high on “cheap engagement rings”. How demeaning is that. CHEAP?

Well, I guess they really don’t like me. I don’t even HAVE an engagement ring. After living with the guy for a few years and kinda’ agreeing that we were spending the rest of our lives together and deciding to get married before we moved, didn’t exactly call for having to go out and buy an engagement ring when I needed to buy my wedding band. I know, they hate folks like me.
Sassy

My grand-daughters received a Valentine and $25 checks from us for their recent straight A report cards.
That will be the only spending we do, for I am trapped with kleenex on one side and the trash can on the other. YUK!
We have reduced our driving by half, our long distancing calling by half, and gone to basic cable rather than premium.
We no longer dine out except for a quick burger on errand day.
We have no control over property taxes, home and vehicle insurance, or health insurance, so we are about as lean as we can get!
Dawnelle

GREAT well save it we’ll have a party! Roses and Champagne! Sounds heavenly! lol

2012 awaits (if not before)
Tricia Spiegel

To me Valentine’s Day is telling those I love that I love them. That’s it. And if the reply back is the same. The is worth more than money can buy.
Ellen D

That sounds like us. We even have business associates in other countries switching to KYPE.
Ellen D

Ooops SKYPE.

KYPE doesn’t work as well.
trixta

Kennedy didn’t vote? Was it due to health reasons? Or could it be that he didn’t like the health care provisions in the bill? I wonder … although he sure has proven himself to be the quintessential Obot in the Senate.
trixta

Magic Jack is pretty good– especially for the price!!– but only runs on high speed.
elise

My husband wrote a poem for me for Valentine’s Day and I’d like to share it with nq. ( he is a mathematician/physicist)

THEORUM: I LOVE YOU
PROOF:

there is no normal abnormality,
no sensible absurdity,
no finished perpetuity,
no civilized barbarity,
no anonymous celebrity,
no peripheral centrality,
that could conceivably

amongst countable infinities
discern the simple entities
make probable a certainty
of clarified opacity
of what i see
demonstrably
and thereby axiomatically
make certain the validity
obtain a continuity
and establish irrefutably
this simplest of congruities

that

when in your proximity
and curvilinearity
i experience rigidity
longing and solidity
INSATIABLE ENORMITY
a veritable MONSTROSITY
as far and far as the eye can see
(I’m given to hyperbole):
the basic electricity
and opposite polarity
require that our circuity
establish the velocity
and urgent synchronicity
and
finally
Oh my God
!!!SUPERCONDUCTIVITY!!!

And then in our tranquility
It’s obvious and plain to see
that
I LOVE YOU and YOU LOVE ME
QED!!!!!!!!!
beachnan

Wow! That was amazing!