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Also, make sure your partner even wants flowers and cares if they get the flowers on Valentines day or not. Peronally, I do not want to get overpriced flowers that someone feels obligated to give me because it's a holiday. I'd much rather have the flowers some other time when they will cost half as much. I realize a lot of people are really into the symbolism of getting them on the exact day, but to me it's just silly.
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I don't want to sound like a cheapskate or something, but Wal-Mart and Target often have a dozen roses for $20 or less and a wide selection of other cut flowers as well. It doesn't help much for long distance delivery and I'm not trying to hurt mom-and-pop, brick and mortar florists, but facts are facts.
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@ Melsky
I agree. Compulsion for flowers (whether sincere or not) isn't as romantic as receiving them \"just because.\"
You can also head to your downtown flower mart (if you live in a major city) and get roses way cheap. Get there early, like 5am.
Personally, I prefer stargazers (lillies), in case someone out there was wondering...
Best of all to forget the roses -- they're hopelessly bourgeois and
the whole Valentine's-rose industry is poisoning thousands of
Ecuadorian workers (as well as the land) with horrid insecticides.
I realized how little I care for flowers once I started spending $120 on a bouquet for my (then) girlfriend, when I was out of the country at the time. I now treat flower-buying as reserved only for anniversaries and apologies (sometimes one after another!)