What an American holiday. Christmas is undeniably secular, and is pretty widely accepted as a time to get together with family and (often) exchange gifts. A holiday devoted to consumerism, which needs two months of preparation. Yes, this is another Christmas rant, and while nearly everyone on the internet has written one, I haven’t, and I feel left out.
Let me pose a hypothetical situation: you are one of six friends (family, whoever) that decide to exchange gifts. Everyone spends about $50 on each gift, totaling $250 (50×5). You receive five gifts, totaling about $250 worth of stuff. In case you missed that, you just traded money for an equal amount of things you didn’t want or need.
Thankfully, my friends and I don’t exchange gifts. I hope we never do. However, my family is another story, as they still exchange presents. I doubt I’ll ever be able to unplug myself from that.
I think part of the magic of Christmas is how you perceived it as a child. Once Santa was outed and I got older and had to start buying gifts, that aura was pretty much gone. Maybe its just because I don’t have money to throw around.
Man, that was a pretty half-baked rant…
edit 1: A little embarrassing really…maybe I can spruce it up later…
edit 2: Nope, not gonna happen. Just gonna ignore it.