Christmas is just a spend fest

What really gets me about Chrismas these days is the sales starting on Boxing Day! For goodness' sake can't we go for more than one day without going shopping?
Why can't the January sales actually wait until January and let the poor people who work in the shops have a decent holiday over Christmas?
I try to avoid shops as much as possible between Christmas & New Year & would much rather spend the week dossing around at home than buying stuff I don't need because it's cheap.

I want to see Jesus getting high off smoking weed.

It's all crap! It's just one commercial, gigantic money-spinner.

In the supermarkets people go crazy, fighting like ferrets and start threatening each other over a loaf of bread. Must have seventy loaves and forty eight gallons of milk because the shops are closed for one day. TV commercials advertising new three piece suites for Christmas. Oh yes, always have a new suite for Christmas. It's just so ridiculous.

Celebrating the holiday and festive season went out of christmas a long time ago.

christmas is a time for family and friends to be together!
spending money on people shows your love for them

Not really. In my family the only people who get pressies are the kids; but everyone gets together, sees relatives we may not have seen for a while, has a good time. It is possible.

christmas is a time to celebrate jesus' birth and people are treating it as a time to spend a lot of money and get drunk lots it is not right

Well Christmas is finally over and the season to be jolly is no more. I totally agree with the writer though that it should be called "Cashmas". I for one spent way more than I should have done this year, but at least I didn't get myself into debt. Many people out there I am sure can't say the same.

What a load of scrooges.

I'll bet you lot NEVER objected when you were kids,expecting presents from santa.

Now the boots on the other foot, so to speak, and it's YOU who pays,your moaning.

It goes to show how how some ADULTS just ignore the children these days.

SHAME on you.

Start a National xmas present boycott And donate the money to charities- the look on the faces of retailers would be the best present you could have and it would put the meaning back into Xmas it would send out the right message to kids. It would be a win win win situation

Oh dear, Mark. No family to share your Christmas. That is sad. We look forward to the arrival of our one and a half year old grandson today for a nice family Christmas. HAPPY CHRISTMAS to you all.

Humbug!!! I intend to spend Christmas day in my local pub getting pissed and taking the Mik out of people who insist on wearing their ridiculous 'Christmas' jumpers down the pub! When I finally get kicked out for being too drunk or too miserable I then intend to treat myself to a pot noodle and my vast collection of 'adult educational movies' !! Now that's what I call Christmas!

Christmas is now just a marketing tool like Harry Potter etc. The same way as mothign sunday has been hijacked by the greedy shops and expanded to every member of the family.