Everybody grab your camping gear... we're going to the store! The 99 cent store is selling a three piece lingerie set for 99 cents, to the first 99 people who spend 19.99. Wow... I am so there! Can I just tell you everything that is wrong with this? Well... you don't have to read... so I will just go ahead and tell you!
Let's start with Valentine's day, or as my brother calls it, Singles Awareness Day. This is a holiday beefed up soley for the purpose of boosting sales during the most notoriously slow retail period in the year. Halmark got it rolling and then it just snowballed into jewelry and chocolate and lingerie and the list goes on. Now way back, a long time ago, the actual day was a pagan holiday to basically celebrate sex... not love. Well of course the Church couldn't have that so they made it Saint Valentines day. Saint Valentine was martyred. So the Church gave us the name of a man who was murdered, to name a sex holiday. Then retail gave us candy, rings, and lingerie. So basically we celebrate the martyrdom of sex for material gifts. Excellent.
Now lets move on to the idea of 99 cent lingerie. It's not even just a pair of underwear for 99 cents. It's the whole kit and caboodle. Now according to the 99cent store flier it is a famous maker... a name brand set of lingerie. But here's my issue with this. Jordache is a big name, but they are definitely not making the lingerie that screams... well, that screams style for starters. Heck, Wal-Mart has their own brand label, but that is a far cry from Fredricks of Hollywood or Victoria's Secret. And what big label is really going to sell their lingerie to the 99 cent store... unless it's the lingerie from Valentines day 1981 that they couldn't get rid of.
And last, Hello! You have to spend 20 dollars at the 99 cent store to get the lingerie! Go to Walmart and spend twenty bucks to get lingerie you actually get to see before you're stuck with it and 20 bucks worth of stuff you probably don't need.
Or you could quit buying into the farce they call Valentines day altogether. Now this means you chicks got to get over this whole thing first! Guys have been over it since it was i decided they had to spend money. So ladies quit being a chump and making your man run around and buy gifts that don't mean anything. A good man will show you he loves you in little ways all the time. And if he doesn't kick him to the curb. But for heavens sake... let this bloody masochistic ritual go!
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AMEN sister! Preach it!
I did require that Michael send me flowers on VD, just because I had spent so many years surrounded by the floral tributes of others, while my desk remained barren. But I did at least return the favor.
Singles Awareness Day is pretty good. Or how about Deleriously Coupled or Dead day? Not quite the same ring, I know, but it tells the story. If you aren't paired up, you are apparently worthless, a loser, or both.
I will say, though, that most couples don't tell each other they love each other enough. I don't see a problem with having a day to remind them to think about what they mean to each other. But it's gotten out of hand.
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