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Retailers should be swooning this year: Spending for the lover's holiday is forecast to top $18.6 billion, a 5.8% jump in spending over 2010. That amounts to about $125 per person who buys a gift for that special someone.

In 2008, $35.6 billion worth of floral items were purchased in the U.S., and I'm betting Mother's Day was one of the leading occasions. If you're thinking flowers as one of this year's Mothers' Day gift ideas, we have a few tips to pass along to help you get your money's worth. Where can you get...

A new survey of by PayPal confirms that people are spending less on each other this year than they did before the economy took a crash but that doesn't mean they have stopped giving gifts altogether. The majority of men who took part in the survey reported that they wished they could give more to...

Get 100 blooms for $20 from ProFlowers when you click on the upper right corner of the site where it says "hear about us on radio or TV?" When the page comes up use coupon code ELLEN, which will bring you to a special deal page which has the following offers: 100 blooms (25 stems) of Peruvian...

If there's an online industry that likes to add to your purchase price with fees more than Ticketmaster, it has to be online flower-sale companies. It's nothing for a $30 birthday celebration bouquet to turn into a $50 purchase by the time you hit the pay now button. Once you add in delivery fees,...

A new Facebook app from Facecard.com, a prepaid credit card company that caters mainly to parents of teens, could put the hurt on PayPal and on Facebook's million dollar virtual gift industry! The app, called Facecard, will let you transfer money to other Facebook users just like you could with...

FTD Good Neighbor Day is Wednesday, Sept. 9, when some FTD florists will give away bouquets of flowers.The program, in its 15th year, encourages customers to keep one flower from the bouquet for themselves and give the rest away to others as a way to help spread friendship and kindness to their...

In Tokyo, it's called "Operation Flower." I, too, have observed the phenomenon: Pretty flowers deter crime. And in Suginami City, a district of Tokyo, there's pretty amazing data to back up the theories. After a shameful year of break-ins in 2002 -- 1,710 in an area with a population of about...

Whole Foods is giving away free flowers every month for a year to 10 winners of a drawing. The entry deadline is March 4. The sweepstakes started Feb. 4. The official rules for the online entries state that no purchase is necessary to enter and that buying something won't increase your chances of...

The Daily Deal for Wednesday, February 13th -- Four inches of snow today and more to come. Are you northern readers as sick of winter as I am? Then you might enjoy our deal of the day, an invitation to spread your imagination to the sunny, warm days of spring by planning your flower garden. The...