Happy Valentine’s Day
In addition to the United States, Valentine’s Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia. In Great Britain, Valentine’s Day began around the 17th century. By the middle of the 18th, it was common for friends and lovers of all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes, and by 1900 printed cards began to replace written letters due to improvements in printing technology. Ready-made cards were an easy way for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of one’s feelings was discouraged. Cheaper postage rates also contributed to an increase in postage. The popularity of sending Valentine’s Day greetings. Americans most likely began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began selling the first mass-produced valentines in America. Howland, known as the “Mother of the Valentine,” made elaborate creations with real lace, ribbons, and colorful pictures known as “scrap.” Today, according to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated 145 million Valentine’s Day cards are sent each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year (more cards are delivered at Christmas). Women purchase approximately 85 percent of all Valentine’s day cards.
Here at CLEANbee residential and commercial cleaning services, we offer an array of options that is sure to satisfy your significant other’s desire to spend time with you and your family. We will custom build a cleaning plan to meet your needs in about fifteen minutes, so the time commitment to starting this great tradition in your family is minimal! We will come to give a free estimate, talk to you about your wants, desires, and needs when it comes to cleaning, and then develop a comprehensive cleaning plan to fit your needs best. We will vacuum floors, mop floors, disinfect bathrooms and kitchens, dust, clear cobwebs, wipe baseboards, clean light fixtures, to name a few of the things that we do.
We value all of our customers and seek to give you the best possible experience. We are looking to serving you and the ones that are dear to you in the upcoming years, and who knows, with the giving of this gift, you might rekindle the flame of passion in your significant other, like those in olden days.
Happy Valentines Day, from us to you!
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