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You're never too old for Valentine's Day trivia - Janice Roosevelt, Ecobroker, ABR, ePRO - MATT FETICK REAL ESTATE - Keller Williams
Growing up in the Midwest, I remember  the Buster Brown shoe store and making Valentine's Day cards by hand from red and pink construction paper and paper doilies. It was a grand thing, what with cupcakes decorated with conversations hearts.
Today's research led me to vinegar valentines, a custom of paper insults given on February 14 and even memorialized in the Calvin and Hobbs Cartoon series.
Calvin often gives Susie vinegar valentines to cloak his true affections.
These caricatures such as the one here from Wikipedia can be sent to spinsters, floozies, dudes and scholars, Hmmm!--
 
 
    
The cards aren't anything too elablorate, a sheet of thin, colored paper or later, postcards, 
Considering that in our dire financial straights  the average American  consumer will spend $102.50 on Valentine's Day gifts, meals, and entertainment, according to an annual U.S. National Retail Federation survey-down from $122.98 per person in 2008. 
This year's retail predcition is for expenditures in excess of $14.7 billion for Valentine's Day, including 190 million cards, but not including all those handmade paper cards that kids exchange.
Some 20-25 milliion Chocolate kisses will be made along with 8 billion conversation hearts. 

In my office  Christina Hughes and I have consumed our fair share of officemate ... more

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