• Based on retail statistics, about 3% of pet owners will give gifts to their pets on this day.
• About 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged each year. This makes it the second largest seasonal card sending time of the year
• More than 35 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate will be sold representing $1 billion in sales.
• Teachers will receive the most Valentine’s Day cards, followed by children, mothers, wives, sweethearts and pets.
• In Victorian times it was considered bad luck to sign a Valentine’s Day card.
• Or you could pop over to Finland where Valentine’s Day is called Ystävänpäivä, which translates into “Friend’s day”. It’s more about remembering your buddies than your loved ones.
• Women purchase approximately 85 percent of all gifts on this holiday.
• In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who would be their Valentine. They would wear this name pinned onto their sleeves for one week for everyone to see. This was the origin of the expression “to wear your heart on your sleeve.”
• 73 percent of people who buy flowers on this day are men, while only 27 percent are women.
• 15 percent of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine’s Day.
• Red roses are considered the flower of love because the color red stands for strong romantic feelings.
• 189 million stems of roses are sold in the U.S. on this day.