Is anyone else sick of hearing about Mother’s Day and Father’s Day?

Same with Valentines Day, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and so on and so forth.

These are just opportunities to make money. Practically no meaning to them at all otherwise.

Yes. Victims of molestation.

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I had a great Mother & a difficult but better than most Dad.I honored BOTH my parents all year long; so having a special day for them didn’t change how I treated them. Since they have both passed, I’m finding it painful at best to be reminded that I no longer have a parent in my life. I do my best to still honor them; but the constant reminder that they aren’t still here is borderline torture!!!

I used to feel that there were legitimate, celebratory holidays meant to honor or celebrate someone or an event but there were a few that felt made-up just to make money. The latter group were in the minority.

Today though, I feel it’s the other way ‘round. The majority of holidays are treated as simply opportunities to sell stuff.

It’s dusheartening, but you can counteract all that by how you choose to celebrate or not celebrate them. Don’t give into the hype.

No, but I do think the pressure to buy gifts for various holidays is a bit ridiculous.

Marketing ploys, nothing more.

What? I thought those days are supposed to benefit parents. Your kids can be made to remember how grateful they should be for being your offsprings, you can guilt them in to giving you gifts, you can make them to appreciate appreciate their parents even more, and so on.

So yes, I’m sick of hearing these special days because I’m not a parent, otherwise I’ll think about reaping the benefits of these silly human-made special days.

I consider them part of the “Hallmark Holidays” marketing scam. Perhaps some children need an annual reminder to show their appreciation. If it works, I see nothing wrong with that.

I was sick of reading incoming emails about them and other holidays.

Now that I’ve set my filters so that any message with a subject line containing Mother, Mom, Father, Dad, or Happy goes straight to Trash, I actually enjoy seeing them in the bin, waiting for permanent deletion.

I thought Mother’s Day marketing has gotten way over the top. I’vecpretty Much ignore Father’s Day marketing.

I don’t watch TV or listen to much commercial radio, but even at that I feel battered with messages. Many of them come through e-mail spam, but there’s also all the ad junk on news websites and elsewhere.

In our family, we don’t succumb to societal gift-giving pressures. We customarily give gifts only for Christmas and birthdays, and otherwise for no special reason or occasion—just “I have a present for you.”

I do like a nice card, though, for anniversaries and Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day, and you can’t go wrong with flowers.

But yes, it’s all terribly overdone, and for the crassest of reasons: making money, of course.

But the pressure wouldn’t work if people didn’t respond to it. In this time of grotesquely evolving notions of social interaction, people may cling to tokens such as those called for by designated pseudo-holidays (Halloween presents, anyone?) precisely because they are feeling the lack of genuine connection and grasping at symbols as substitutes.

Even if I don’t see the TV ads any more, I can sort of feel them, like knowing there’s an infection underneath that pink spot where you cut your finger.

About Father’s Day, my husband said precisely this: “I don’t give a shit about Father’s Day, and I don’t want to do anything.” Fair enough.

I don’t see any point in feeling anything about the various holiday hullabaloo. Why waste time?

I hadn’t noticed, but I fast forward through commercials. I don’t mind a little bit of the advertising as a reminder the day is coming. Mother’s Day is easy for me to remember, because my mom’s birthday sometimes falls in the same day. Father’s Day I could easily forget, and it’s my dad who would care the most.

When I was little my mom would remind us it was Mother’s Day. She’d say, “don’t say my name, don’t ask me for anything.” Lol.

I think there is a special day because parents are often taken for granted. I’m not much into flowers and gifts, but a phone call or card seems appropriate.

I do prefer gifts and acknowledgement at random though, rather on a Hallmark day. Random days show more thought and sentiment I think.

Yes, I do and my father is no longer alive. I find all of these so-called special days annoying. Families should decide days that are important to them. When I moved to the UK I was really, really shocked at how massive the card industry was and appalled at how much of a money spinner it is. There are even cards that are especially for ‘My dog on his birthday’, My friend’s sister’ and so on. That is absolutely milking every penny they can out of people.

The other part I hate is, of course, those that lost fathers and are recovering, people who never had a father, abusive fathers and also fathers with kids that are abusive to them. Or kids who didn’t care less or forgot and of course more guilt is laid upon all parties. We were never a card family thank god my father could see it for the waste of money it was. My SO’s family are really strongly into the card thing and I don’t really care for it.
There are times when you want to say thank you to a person for being great or whatever, but you should just do that and it should come from the heart, with something you actually want to spend money on, like a picnic for example. The most precious thing you can give to another is your time.

Mr. NoMores Neighborhood. Can you say, “Dollars”?

Yes. I never understood these holidays.

I like them. I never feel that the gun is loaded.

I’m on the chronological verge of being sick of hearing about the next totally expendable US holiday- Independence Day.