I don't know about anyone else, but I could never take Mother's Day seriously. Neither did my mother unless I forgot or omitted to buy her a prezzie.
Since I believed from an early age that Mothers' Day was a have on the part of the retailers (Hallmark Day, as Max suggests), I used to "compensate", giving my mother the strangest or oddest things I could find. And they always had to be ultimately useless. I can only remember a few of them, but I (and my mum) always thought the best one was the time I forgot Mothers' Day until THE day, and couldn't get the appropriate card because Hallmark had successfully sold out.
So I got her a Deepest Sympathy card instead. She dined out on it for months afterwards.
Anyone else?
