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The Business of Love : What it costs to say “Be Mine”.

Posted on 14 February 2007 by John

So today is Valentine’s Day — the day of minting money err. I mean Love. Forbes has an awesome article which basically makes you feel that if Cupid got a cut of all the business done in his name, he would be a billionaire. Lookie –

The survey polled 7,703 consumers and found that 63% of them planned to celebrate Valentine’s Day, most between the ages of 25 and 34. On average, men will spend $154 on their Valentines, nearly double the $85 the average female will spend on her sweetheart. The most popular gifts men plan to buy to say “Be Mine”: flowers (58.3%), candy (42.9%) and jewelry (27.6%).

Source : Forbes.

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This is a viral video from Youtube that is getting a lot of attention.

I will let the author set the scene:

It was back in Oct 2005.

My wedding was about a month to go and I decided to make a memorable event for my future wife. But, I and she were working and due to preparation of wedding, I didn’t have enough budgets for expensive proposal. While I was considering for the event, I remembered what she said in the past. “Wow it would be great if I can get a chance to go in the room with full of yellow post it just like Sang Sang Plus” (Sang Sang Plus is one of the famous talk show (TV program) in Korea and they prepare a room with full of yellow post it – questions from fans to famous celebrity)

I wrote all the happy memories that I had with my wife in 5,940 post it. It took me 4 days & 5 nights to write everything and post it in the bathroom. (I tried main living room first, but, due to surface of wallpaper, I had to change the place) Once we back from honeymoon, we took all the post it off and kept it in the box until now.