Comments on: 365 days of Valentine’s Day. http://healthysimplicity.com/365-days-of-valentines-day/ Making health simple. Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Lucas McDonnell http://healthysimplicity.com/365-days-of-valentines-day/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Lucas McDonnell Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:42:43 +0000 http://www.healthysimplicity.com/365-days-of-valentines-day/#comment-4 Valentine's Day also seems like the least practical of holidays. Other holidays at least seem to have some degree of practicality to them (you might get something useful/fun for Christmas, Hanukkah or your birthday). In Japan, Valentine's Day often requires women to give <i>giri-choko (literally 'obligation chocolate')</i> to all their male co-workers, "often at great personal expense" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_day" rel="nofollow">thanks Wikipedia)</a>. Lastly, Valentine's day was never traditionally a jewelry holiday -- until the diamond industry started realizing they could use it to up diamond sales (also in the Wikipedia article). Valentine’s Day also seems like the least practical of holidays. Other holidays at least seem to have some degree of practicality to them (you might get something useful/fun for Christmas, Hanukkah or your birthday).

In Japan, Valentine’s Day often requires women to give giri-choko (literally ‘obligation chocolate’) to all their male co-workers, “often at great personal expense” (thanks Wikipedia).

Lastly, Valentine’s day was never traditionally a jewelry holiday — until the diamond industry started realizing they could use it to up diamond sales (also in the Wikipedia article).

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