00:00 Valentine's Day, the annual holiday celebrating love, is being commemorated by couples and
00:05 friends worldwide today on the 14th of February.
00:08 Whether you have romantic plans with your partner or are getting up to some Galentine's
00:12 activities, this special day is full of people acknowledging their love for others.
00:16 However, there are plenty of people who choose not to celebrate the holiday or perhaps don't
00:21 have someone to share it with.
00:23 We asked people in Manchester if Valentine's Day is overrated and if they even still celebrate
00:28 it at all.
00:29 I love it.
00:30 I love it.
00:31 Amazing.
00:32 What do you love about it?
00:33 Well, it's just like a day about love.
00:36 I just like, I do share affection a lot with my friends and family and I do like to treat
00:42 them so like today when I go back to my flat I've got them like little goodies just to
00:46 be like, happy Galentine's.
00:47 Make it special, make a day, yeah.
00:50 I love it.
00:51 I think it's nice.
00:52 It's happy, isn't it?
00:53 And yeah, why not?
00:54 Because there's so many miserable things about it so sometimes it's nice to just, yeah, go
00:59 for something.
01:00 You don't have to spend loads, I know some people spend a lot of money, maybe that's
01:02 what you're asking, but you don't have to do.
01:04 You can just do something nice.
01:06 Or a little rose or a little, I quite like it if someone left some flowers on my doorstep.
01:12 As I go to uni it's hot mess at the club probably but tonight we are doing matching pyjamas,
01:20 making our own pizza and a movie, probably watch Love Island.
01:26 And you've got a date at the weekend haven't you for a Valentine's date but it's in London
01:31 at the weekend so she's got best of both worlds.
01:34 Do you think the Valentine's Day is overhyped?
01:37 Yeah, so we don't really tend to celebrate it, all we do is, so we've been a couple of
01:42 ten years and ever since the beginning we just go on holiday don't we?
01:45 Yeah, I mean not every year but yeah we tend to, yeah we don't tend to like mark it as
01:52 a day really.
01:53 We might occasionally say Happy Valentine's Day but really it's not a standout date in
01:58 the calendar.
01:59 Not like Pancake Day, Pancake Day is the highest celebration for us.
02:02 Yes.
02:03 Why?
02:04 I suppose I've been married 30 years so it's, yeah, it's not, I think it's probably for
02:12 the younger generation, it's not something I get involved in.
02:16 Will you be celebrating?
02:18 No.
02:19 No, not at all.
02:21 When me and my husband first started dating and before that yeah you perhaps get together
02:26 with that special person in your life but no, not at the moment, I've got too much on.
02:31 I think it's overhyped in terms of cards and gifts, yes, but I think the tradition of it
02:37 is quite nice.
02:38 We're actually going to the theatre.
02:40 Oh, fantastic, so you are celebrating it this year?
02:43 Yes, yes and I usually make the cards, in fact I've made Galentine's cards for all my
02:47 female friends which is about 20.
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