Ready for Valentine's Day

I saw some Godiva (pronounced go-die-va) chocolates on display in Celeo. They wanted 3,700 yen for 5 chocolates in a heart-shaped box! $6 for one piece, are you kidding me?

I saw some Godiva (pronounced go-die-va) chocolates on display in Celeo. They wanted 3,700 yen for 5 chocolates in a heart-shaped box! $6 for one piece, are you kidding me?

Ridiculous...but I doubt anyone would buy their overpriced chocolate(?) in any other case.

Recently, I have realized that people, these days, don't appropriate holidays and customs in Japan... It's the ever-greedy companies that are pushing western holidays down these peoples throats. Valentine's Day is a month away, let's start advertising; Halloween starts in late August now; "Christ"mas starts as soon as we get someone to take down the Halloween decorations. ugh...

Rightsided, I was thinking the same thing. Might as well get a jump on Halloween and Christmas, too. Heck, let's have all the holidays and all the trimmings all year round. They've become banal by the time they arrive anyway. Why wait for them to start?

Godiva chocolate tastes like plastic. It is utterly overpriced and overrated. The best chocolates (that I know the brand name of) in Japan are Mary's Chocolates. Good taste and reasonable prices. Pretty close in quality to Sees Candies - which are number one in my book, but cost a fortune here in Japan.

Come on, guys... it's not THAT far ahead. The shops that were getting ready for it the day after Christmas are the ones going too far. Besides, what else are they going to peddle? Setsubun goods?

Another example of consumerism and the desperate attempts to keep the economy going by convincing people to buy more crap they just don't need. More people should learn to buy things when they really need them, not just for the sake of consuming and because they have been told to consume.

They wanted 3,700 yen for 5 chocolates in a heart-shaped box! $6 for one piece, are you kidding me?

may be the cost of outer/inner box and packing is more expensive than the chocolates (!)

I'm off chocolates, yet Mrs Sense will inevitably buy me some because it's the done thing.

Still a month away but already unbearable.Grrr.

Every time I say the word "diet", I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

I saw some Godiva (pronounced go-die-va) chocolates on display in Celeo. They wanted 3,700 yen for 5 chocolates in a heart-shaped box! $6 for one piece, are you kidding me?

Some outlet malls have Godiva shops. You can get the same box for under 1000yen. Godiva has name value so those who receive it go nuts.