The Day of Love

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Millions of people across the world will celebrate Valentine’s day tomorrow. For many, it’s the perfect time to express their love for significant others or spouses. For others, it’s a falsified, commercialized excuse for selling flowers, cards, and candy. Regardless of your opinion about the holiday, it provides an excuse to fire up the romance and remind the special ones in your life that you love them.

Six Useless, but Fun Facts for Valentine’s Day:

  • 188 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion. (This total excludes packaged kids valentines for classroom exchanges.)
  • Over 50 percent of all Valentine’s Day cards are purchased in the six days prior to the observance, making Valentine’s Day a procrastinator’s delight.
  • Research reveals that more than half of the U.S. population celebrates Valentine’s Day by purchasing a greeting card.
  • There are 119 single men (i.e., never married, widowed or divorced) who are in their 20s for every 100 single women of the same ages.
  • 2.2 million marriages take place in the United States annually. That breaks down to more than 6,000 a day.
  • Kissing unleashes chemicals that ease stress hormones in both sexes and encourage bonding in men.

Now for something a little more useful. If the news about our struggling economy has you down and you’re looking for a less expensive way to celebrate the day, why not plan a quiet dinner at home and then snuggle up with a good romantic movie?

Here are the Top 10 on my Valentine’s Day list:

  • The Princess Bride — you can’t go wrong with this movie. It’s a classic and one of the most quoted romantic movies of all time. Besides, it’s got the whole package — humor, action, and romance — and the guys like it too.
  • Ever After — the classic Cinderella story in a 16th century setting.
  • Pride and Prejudice (not the zombie version ) — great movie based on the book by Jane Austen.
  • When Harry Met Sally — Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan set out to see if men and women can ever just be friends.
  • Sweet Home Alabama — A great song and a great movie with a classic love triangle between Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas and Patrick Dempsey.
  • French Kiss — Another Meg Ryan film primarily set in France…after all, Paris is the most romantic city in the world.
  • Pretty Woman — a 90s version of Pygmalion with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts.
  • Dirty Dancing — an oldie, but goodie.
  • How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days — Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson prove that love conquers all, even when trying your best to mess it up.
  • Australia — an epic romantic adventure starring Nicole Kidman and the “sexiest man alive”, Hugh Jackman.

Free feel to comment below and share your own list.

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