Valentines, consumerism and unproductive days

WEll, I will be glad when the second semester starts in school...I don't know about anyone else, but having teenagers at home during the day leads to the most unproductive days, well almost, hired them to clean the rec room, but inspection proved that the job was only half done which lead to a 2 hour disruption in my day...then did laundry, took them out shopping for a bit, had to get a new antenna for the satellite radio, and various other things we really didn't need..

the consumerism around every "holiday" is just sickening, even though we do take part in in, and yes, even my 1 year old will give out valentines to his daycare friends and educators, it doesn't make me fall any better about it. Everything from the chocolates and stuffed animals, to grandious gifts of jewlery etc. when and where did this all come from...there are gifts to buy for class mates for school age children, and even for my little guys at daycare, you can buy 20 packs of playdoh with stickers that say to and from.

the teenagers lead me on a youtube search and watched some kid do major freak outs..interesting, but a total wast of my day,,,,unproductivity was the theme of the day...