Akwat Kbrana said: Valentine's Day is as meaningful as you want to make it.

I agree with you 100%

Bingowings said:

Do you need a special day to do that though?

what is wrong with having a special day to do it? Are you now going disparage the celebration of birthdays and anniversaries and what not?

Bingowings said:

I'm sure if you saw something your wife would really like and you could afford it you would buy it regardless of the day of the year.

not everyone can afford the buy gifts every single day of the year. That is why we have special days of the year to buy them. If you gave gifts every day, they wouldn't be special anymore.

Bingowings said:

Valentine's Day was originally a day to anonymously declare affection for someone in the hope that with the Saint's intercedence the message will be correctly interpreted and requited. There is hardly any of those aspects left in the current 'card day'.

part of that is because not everyone is Catholic and therefore not everyone believes in the Saints. However as Akwat said:

Valentine's Day is as meaningful as you want to make it.

Bingowings said:

Christmas was originally a series of pagan festivals like Yule to see people through the middle and hardest days of the winter and it still has aspects of that even if it has been overly commercialised.

funny I always thought it had something to do with a certain being's birth.