Valentine's Day vs Chinese New Year

As many of you might know, this year, Chinese New Year falls on Valentine's Day. For those of you who celebrate the Chinese New Year, and who has a significant other, how do you plan on celebrating this dual holiday? Will you be spending time with your family, or try to have some kind of romantic event with your SO?

I'm not Chinese. But I abhor Valentines Day. It's a conspiracy by women to gain more loot out of men and a further attempt by women to turn men into girly men..

Actually I just can't stand Valentines Days. To me it's silly. So silly that last I started a thread in another forum called Boycott Valentines Day. But fret not I will get my lovely wife a card on V-Day...

I don't see anything wrong with celebrating both

I agree with popeye, just an excuse by women to get more stuff, I will celebrate both chinese new year and valentines, with a big meal on new chinese new year and ice cream on valentines day.

i spend one day with her, one day with my family
fair enough?

sorry im a pisces man. we're made for romance

bd popeye said:

I'm not Chinese. But I abhor Valentines Day. It's a conspiracy by women to gain more loot out of men and a further attempt by women to turn men into girly men..

Actually I just can't stand Valentines Days. To me it's silly. So silly that last I started a thread in another forum called Boycott Valentines Day. But fret not I will get my lovely wife a card on V-Day...

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Im In full agreement with Pop Eye, to which I might add Ive been married to my wife for 39yrs, and during that time neither of us have ever bought each other a birthday present, xmas present, celebrated wedding anniversary, let alone celebrating Valentines day and we are still very much in love with one another. We just dont need that commercial rubbish in our lives.

But Chinese new year brings back happy memories as a kid when I used to get heeps of money in those red envelopy thingys after greeting ones elders with a happy and prosperous New Year.

Im In full agreement with Pop Eye, to which I might add Ive been married to my wife for 39yrs, and during that time neither of us have ever bought each other a birthday present, xmas present, celebrated wedding anniversary, let alone celebratingValentines day and we are still very much in love with one another. We just dont need that commercial rubbish in our lives.

But Chinese new year brings back happy memories as a kid when I used to get heeps of money in those red envelopy thingys after greeting ones elders with a happy and prosperous New Year.

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I celebrate neither, and bladerunner hit the spot. Commercial rubbish they are! You don't love her more on valentine's day because it is valentine's day; you love her the same way as the flag rises everyday over Tiananmen -unless she melted your credit card over the phone or at the mall yesterday . I just hope my girlfriend isn't going to be so materialistic. @_@

I don't know about you, but since most of my family are still in China, and like all the kids I know, a lot of them dread being here because we get so much less envelopes.

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I don't know about you, but since most of my family are still in China, and like all the kids I know, a lot of them dread being here because we get so much less envelopes.

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No relatives in China, however my sister and myself used to be given a sort of gratuity money by old timers who would come around to ask for our fathers advice or thank him for something., I think he was one of the respected go to men for this and that. One pound ($3.00US) was the norm, which kept me suitably financial for sweets, burgers and DC/Marvel comics.

Ocassionally the odd person would give us Ten pounds each, which amounted to an above average weekly working wage in those days. To give you some indication, what the gentleman was giving us, would amount to about $800 dollars NZ in todays money. When our father found out he would go beserk and make us give it back, but somehow the gentleman found someway to slip it back to us kids before he left our household.

My family celebrates Chinese New Year, basically with a big dinner with everyone (grandparents, a few relatives over here etc) - and that's basically it. My sister and I'd get about $300 collectively from parents/grandparents/aunt, but since when I first got the little red bags (about wen I was six) I always returned the cash to help parents pay off the mortgage faster (and there was nothing to spend money on). My parents said they'd pay me "interest" and return my money when I would need it.
It's been about ten years, so I estimate I'd have about $3000+ NZD. my poor parents haha

As for valentines day - I take a far more cynical pov and see it as just a day where people attempt to make acts of real love (and all that jazz..) and girls get bad presents, which they'd use as excuses to break up with guys. That's prolly mostly because the age group I hang around though.

Im In full agreement with Pop Eye, to which I might add Ive been married to my wife for 39yrs, and during that time neither of us have ever bought each other a birthday present, xmas present, celebrated wedding anniversary, let alone celebrating Valentines day and we are still very much in love with one another. We just dont need that commercial rubbish in our lives

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Don't get me wrong..we do give gifts on Christmas and anniversary, birthdays etc but we certainly don't go overboard like some do. No way. Modest but thoughtful is the best way to describe it.

It is best to give surprise gift for no other reason than you love your wife. That's what I do.