Warbler said :
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?
For myself yes to some extent, when I post here I post my personal opinions and I personally see the anniversary of my birth to be no different to any other day and I acknowledge Birthdays of people I know on the telephone, online or face to face if I see them (if I think they care to hear it) but I am more likely to buy that person something as and when I see something they hopefully really want based on what I know of the personal taste of recipient when I can afford it and give it to them when I see them. I very rarely if ever send cards to people.
Most of the people I know are either indifferent to birthdays or would rather not be reminded of them but do like to be contacted and remembered all year round.
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.
Warbler said : 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.
Naturally I wasn't suggesting buying expensive gifts every single day of the year that's silly but as and when something of genuine use or interest pops up and you can afford it. If you give something to someone because of the date how is that special? Leap years aside, every year has the same dates in it.
Akwat said:
Valentine's Day is as meaningful as you want to make it.
Yep. I paid a massive utility bill this Valentine's Day, it kept my significant other and myself warm and able to cook for months. I also cooked dinner, I cooked dinner today too, did the laundry and got food from the grocery shop.
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.
Warbler said :
funny I always thought it had something to do with a certain being's birth.
Nope the Christians pinched the date, some of the customs and practices straight out of a hodgepodge of Pagan festivals Yule, Saturnalia etc.
People have been leaving cakes out for Odin's horse in their shoe, decorating trees, exchanging gifts, having the boss serve them, eating and drinking too much etc around the winter solstice long before Christianity.
It's not Jesus' birthday, the Christ Mass is a Mass said for Christ in a church, everything else is about getting through the worst of the winter.