Hoodie Footie and other bad Valentine's Day ideas

The fabrication of Valentine’s Day

I say skip the silly gifts and have a steak. Image from Flickr.

In 496 AD, Pope Gelasius started Valentine’s Day to honor a couple of Christian martyrs. Feb. 14 happened to fall during a pagan fertility festival. Fast-forward to now, and you’ve got Pajamagram telling us that the hoodie-footie is the perfect Valentine’s Day gift — there are a lot of bad Valentine’s Day ideas out there.

How we got here is a long story, but let’s just say that no one ever bought diamonds as Valentine’s Day gifts until the 1980s when a large diamond retailer launched a marketing campaign saying they should. Thanks to Hallmark, jewelry companies, chocolate makers and florists, Valentine’s Day is a long-standing American obligation. If people enjoy having an excuse to do something romantic or show some extra love to family and friends, there is nothing wrong with that.

However, in the case of the hoodie-footie…

Before you go out and get a short term personal loan for a hoodie-footie, you should know that the full name of this product is the Hoodie-Footie Snuggle Suit. If that isn’t enough to make you barf, let me appeal to your logical side. A Hoodie-Footie Snuggle Suit covers every inch of the body (besides the face). The hoodie-footie send your loved one the message that when you snuggle you’d prefer it if there was absolutely no skin touching at all, good luck. … click here to read the rest of the article titled “Hoodie Footie and other bad Valentine's Day ideas“