We don't do Valentines day as a rule. Like you we prefer to celebrate our anniversary which is a fortnight later. I think in the very early stage of our relationship DH might have bought me flowers but since then nothing.

When I lived in Melbourne and worked in the CBD I must admit I just got tired of the consumerism of the day, it was like a competition in he office to see who received the most elaborate and expensive flower arrangement. I think it totally lost the meaning of the day.

When I was with an ex fiancee he sent me a dozen red roses to my work, I was absoluetly furious as we didn't have the money to pay for them (I knew he had put it on the credit card) and I knew he didn't do it out of love for me it was just to make himself looked good. (Especially as we had agreed we weren't acknowledging the day) Then to make matters worse we were at his family he had great delight in informing them of what he didn't making sure that they knew that I didn't get him anything.

Hence to say that relationship didn't last too much longer, the writing was well on the wall by that time.