Today I learned about a new term, kicking valentines. I guess that MaKayle kicked a lot of valentines as a child. I had never heard of it. To kick a valentine you go up to a friends door, leave a valentine, knock, and run off. The disagreement is about whether ‘kicking valentines’ exists and if it does exist what it is called. Valentines for me consists of my mom getting me some candy and me putting that candy in boxes that sat on my classmates desks. That’s it. It would have been fun to go up to someones box and kick it across the room but I never did that. If it does exist it is for sure not called Kicking Valentines. I would call it Valentines Ditching or something. Thoughts?
Feb 14
Kicking Valentines
Posted by Luke | 8
Feb 14Kicking Valentines
Posted by MaKayle | 8
I KNOW that’s what we called it. Even my aunt, sister, and sister’s co-worker have already confirmed it! It was the funnest Valentines tradition we had as a kid too. Valentines night was full of trying to catch the ‘kickers’ and trying not to be caught. You always had to scout out the best escape route to the best hiding place. Kicking Valentines exists and that is what it is called.
A friend of mine grew up in California and hates the way we ask to school dances. Which i guess is the equivalent of “kicking valentines” which is a cheesy way of saying will you go to the dance with me, which i assume was started by a kid who was too scared to ask, or didn’t want to and his mom demanded he ask, so she put his name in a cereal and put it on a girls door step she deemed worthy to go dancing Sadie Hawkin’s style with her son.
I’ve never heard it called “kicking valentines” but when I was little I would leave them on the porch and run. My girls were so excited when you “kicked” our house last night, I’m impressed you could get to our door undetected!
When I was a kid we didn’t leave Valentine’s we left bags of poo (or other disgusting things) and called it “Doorbell Ditching” which was a nicer name for what it is really called.
I am with Matt, the whole act of this surprise message, and asking girls out by sticking forks all over a front yard, or making cute signs and hiding them in a bottle of exlax is retarded.
I for one am going to teach my children to just be adult about these sort of things. Not everyone is going to like you and rejection is a normal facet of life, learn to deal with it while you are young so you can one day grow up to be strike force in Utah and bust dozens of mexicans pirating bad music and worse movies.
I’ve never heard of it as “kicking valentines”. And the majority of the time I just gave them at school…. unless it was a super special one… and then I would leave it on the doorstep and then run.
Valentine Ditching sounds more fitting to me. Never “kicked” valentines. =) You guys are funny.
So, when I was a kid NO, but when I was as Rick’s College many moons ago, my dorm mom had 3 kids and she taught me of a tradition her family always did. They called it Stamping Valentines. Thus putting the Valentines on a friends doorstep, and then, yes, knocking and running as fast as you can trying not to get caught!!!
Yep, it was the best fun ever! Lots of fun secret valentines got delivered and kept everyone on edge all day. Dalton had a fun little homemade cake dilivered to him this year. No name just a little card with best friends forever valentine card and a question mark. Our whole household had fun with this one – it made the whole darn day for all 6 of us. He got home late from his two hour swim practice and then delivered a ‘surprise’ to the gal who he thought brought him the cake, but he says he hates valentines day because it is just too much work! I used to love the ‘kicking valentines’ and think it needs to make a come back.
Yes, “Kicking Valentines” does exist….Put the valentine on the front door step, kick the door and run! We are having a discussion about this in a group from a southern Utah county and wondering if it was a “county” tradition or “Utah” tradition or just where it came from. Does anyone know? I think I read somewhere that people in Idaho “Kick valentines” also. Is it a Mormon tradition?