Went out to the store earlier and noticed Valentines Day stuff is already

that's too bad because it's really a nice 4 day binge of eating, football and family and then there is black Friday which I have been crazy enough to do with my daughter, it's become a tradition, lol.
 
I've read about that.....Amazon do it here, and some other stores are beginning to......we tend to do that on Boxing Day!
 
We used to get 4 days at Easter, GoodFriday, W/e, and Easter Monday.
On Easter Sunday, all large shops have to close....
 
Not here, for one reason Easter is a religious holiday...the kids get a week off usually around Easter but it's called spring break.

Also...stores here are always open..even Christmas!
 
There was a time when I easily fell into the humbug trap. But, after crawling back out into the sunlight, I chose to happily celebrate whatever ya got to celebrate. (NOT celibate as our poor horny monk from the previous post . . . !!!)
 
Just in case nobody else has noticed besides the Valentine's Day stuff being out the day after Christmas, the St. Patrick's Day stuff is out already. So far haven't seen any Easter stuff, though. That will probably change in a heartbeat!

We'd have been married 25 years on Valentine's Day this year...he chose the date, I didn't! And he always gave me an anniversary gift AND a Valentine gift.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Just in case nobody else has noticed besides the Valentine's Day stuff being out the day after Christmas, the St. Patrick's Day stuff is out already. So far haven't seen any Easter stuff, though. That will probably change in a heartbeat!

We'd have been married 25 years on Valentine's Day this year...he chose the date, I didn't! And he always gave me an anniversary gift AND a Valentine gift.
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You lucky girl...


Hot Cross buns have been spotted in the UK and Australia. Perhaps you don't have them?
 
My grandmother made hot cross buns on Holy Saturday so we'd have them for breakfast Easter morning. She put saffron in them...even back then saffron cost a king's ransom, but for the hot cross buns she spared no expense. Oh, my, they were sooo good!

Oh, and the husband? He was fond of giving me diamonds:D I always said I didn't want to be one of those old ladies with blue hair and dripping diamonds. I don't have blue hair (and don't wear the diamonds when I'm working

CeeCee, the first year when he died was the pits. I was on the road on the way back from Michigan after his memorial service. The years since get easier because I make it a day filled with all the very best memories. I miss him every day of my life, but so glad and so lucky that he was in it.
 
I think I am quite glad that you haven't got blue hair....but at least you have the diamonds to treasure.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Just in case nobody else has noticed besides the Valentine's Day stuff being out the day after Christmas, the St. Patrick's Day stuff is out already. So far haven't seen any Easter stuff, though. That will probably change in a heartbeat!

We'd have been married 25 years on Valentine's Day this year...he chose the date, I didn't! And he always gave me an anniversary gift AND a Valentine gift.
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I'm sorry for your loss GeorgiaXplant, it must be a bittersweet time of year for you.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
My grandmother made hot cross buns on Holy Saturday so we'd have them for breakfast Easter morning. She put saffron in them...even back then saffron cost a king's ransom, but for the hot cross buns she spared no expense. Oh, my, they were sooo good!

Oh, and the husband? He was fond of giving me diamonds:D I always said I didn't want to be one of those old ladies with blue hair and dripping diamonds. I don't have blue hair (and don't wear the diamonds when I'm working

CeeCee, the first year when he died was the pits. I was on the road on the way back from Michigan after his memorial service. The years since get easier because I make it a day filled with all the very best memories. I miss him every day of my life, but so glad and so lucky that he was in it.
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feel the same way although at first I would get angry when I saw older couples together, I felt cheated, I was 53 when he died so we could have had many more yrs. had he lived would would have been married 44 yrs on July 25.
 
CeeCee said:
feel the same way although at first I would get angry when I saw older couples together, I felt cheated, I was 53 when he died so we could have had many more yrs. had he lived would would have been married 44 yrs on July 25.
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Ditto, Viv was 56 when he died, I was 54. Life just isn't fair...
 

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