Valentine’s Day

As everyone knows on 14th of February is a “Valentine’s Day”. What I did this year is taking an extra job and saving cash for my trip to USA. I spend all week, each day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. to advertise a Valentines stand in a shopping mall in the city I live. Personally, I don’t like all that valentine’s crap like heart shaped lollipops, huge teddy bears, red pillows, and everything else with inscription “I love you, miss you, you are the one, your breath smells like a morning rose”… etc. And I’m not thinking like this cause I’m evil, little singe. No I’m not singe and not evil, I’m just wondering how Valentine’s Day can affect all the consumers to spend more and more, buy bigger and bigger goods. The man bought a huge lollipop for his daughter right from my stand, he paid 90 PLN – more than 20 EUR. Well, I wouldn’t be happy to get such a present from my bf, and if I would have got if from my father like twenty years ago, probably I would eat it and get diabetes. 5 minutes of happiness and all life with health problems. Consumerism is a huge damaging weapon nowadays. Instead of spending 5 minutes each day hugging your partner, or your kids, you suddenly wake up and buy some trash to make it up to them. That’s sad, we have more money buy less time for our family.

By the way, the real price for the 10 PLN lollipop is actually 2 PLN. And for 200 PLN teddy bear – the real price is 40 PLN, and the bear comes directly from China. When I was selling all that Valentine’s stuff I was just wondering if I’m the same in particular situation and I think I am. As everyone now. It’s a bit sad to see all people follow the “social norm”, I even wanted scream “don’t give this thing to your kid, it’s not even a pure sugar, but chemicals”. Well I could not scream it out, bit my lip and keep selling. At least I earn some extra cash for my USA Trip and now I can even afford to go to Broadway and see my favorite musical “Chicago”. So as for me, I didn’t try the chemical lollipops, but at least this event was worth to work hard and sell pretty Valentine’s dream.

My beautiful  love-lollypops stand :D