If you don t have enough dough to buy new shoes or clothes, at least try to wear those decent ones to impress your date. - TIME MATTERS/ The first impression of women is usually based on how much men value their time. If you ask a woman on a date, make sure that you can turn up on time because not doing so will give her the impression that you don t value your word. Thus, it increased both the number of people sending letters and the quantity of letters they sent. This practice of exchanging Valentine s Day cards was once banned during the height of racial atrocities in human history. The Chicago post office recorded around 25,000 cards it rejected because of their indecency. Customized designs for various occasions like Valentine s Day are available for email messages. There are those with built songs and recorded messages. Some cards are even three-dimensional. Home-made cards are also given especially to lovers and parents. While the traditions of United States have changed due to changing politics and technology, the Spring Festival of Italy just ceased. Giving gifts on Valentine s Day has been a tradition common to many countries. Some say because such occasion has been commercialized. Some believe it to be an important day to show love to loved ones. Even before, Valentine s Day is celebrated by giving love letters and later modified to giving flowers and chocolates until anything will do as long as it shows feelings of love. And with over 800 online dating sites that are currently active, it is expected to grow double in the years to come. A safer choice With online matchmaking, many people are getting hooked to discovering endless possibilities through online dating. In fact, many people also use this as a practical means of dating specially on Valentine's Day because it is a good avenue for knowing and meeting other people because you can be very exact in your likes and dislikes and you get to choose who are the people you will communicate with and those that have the same interest as you have. A survey of Debra Waterhouse, who authored Why Women Need Chocolate, showed that 50 percent of the women respondents would choose chocolate over sex and 22 percent of them were more likely to choose chocolate to elevate their moods. Depending on the taste of the receiver, people give regular, dark, or milk chocolates.