At least a month before every major commercial holiday, it is in your face.In every storefront, every display is screaming at you to celebrate it by buying lots of shit that's useful one or two days a year.
Some displays are pretty and make you feel like you're actually missing something. Others are impossibly ugly and pitiable.
Valentine's Day is arguably the worst of these holidays since the pressure's on whether you're feeling more single than usual or you want to make your honey happy.
There's nothing especially offensive about holidays so much as the way they are shoved down your throat. There's no escape and the sentiment of all the holiday buzz is pretty much profit driven. When else do flowers, chocolates and cards fly off the shelves? Tables are booked, booze is bought, jewelry showered on the significant others of the affluent.People are gonna buy the shit anyway. Is an intensive holiday-themed marketing theme so necessary?
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