Christmas is just a spend fest
12-March-2010
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Is it just me or is anyone else fed up with the insanity that seems to grip the nation from November until early January?  Houses with more lights on them then a Las Vegas casino, less than well known stars on TV touting the latest food, gadget or Christmas must have.  Parents are hassled into spending huge sums of money on presents for their kids and it all seems very far removed from the idea of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.

The Christmas spend fest, Christmas tree

I’m not a getting on my high horse here and I’m not an overly religious person, but it seems like the whole thing has been stolen, repackaged and sold back to us as a festival of eating, dinking and spending too much.  Aren’t we forgetting the original Christmas message?

I work with people who are Muslims and they say they decorate the house with a tree and tinsel and buy presents for their kids at Christmas so they are not left out.  It is no longer a religious festival; it is an orgy of consumerism and over indulgence.

I’m not against having a good time and enjoying the festive season but Christmas to me has become an ugly selfish time of year.  We are bombarded with advertising to spend, spend, and spend some more.  Look around at the money that gets spent each year on presents and decorations and food.  The retail economy relies on Christmas each year and when you have spent your fill and they have made a tidy profit, they try to sell you whatever is left slightly cheaper in the January sales.

We are forever harping on about falling standards in Children’s behaviour and attitudes, but is it any wonder when the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ our lord has been turned into this obscene corporate, celebrity endorsed spend fest - I shall from this day forward refer to it as “Cashmas”

By: Real Christmas Only


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I think christmas has lost its meaning. most people look forward to christmas because of the presents and trees and lights. it think christmas should be more about sharing love not presents or eating turkey and ham or drinking wine and beer. people should share there love.!
*sinead doody age 14  16-Dec-2009 15:35

 
Christmas is now falling a few weeks before Halloween. Already the shops are full the nonsense. Let's turn it into a Trick or Treat festival, with the kids being scared to death by the Ghost of Christmas Past. Let the little Lord Jesus haunt you. Away with the manger.
*The Scowling Jester  23-Oct-2009 00:13

 
Im fed up of all you moaners! Christmas is a time to watch rubbish movies on tv, and getting slightly merry with family and friends! Where is the harm in that? LOVE it!
*oh cathy  15-Sep-2009 00:32

 
christmas Is a myth jesus and all that bull hang on how can we believe about this one guy called jesus did all this stuff what a load of crap and christmas whats that about nonsense just a commercial con to get you to spend your hard earned cash once a year on something you don't need I believe In what I see and not something that happened years ago when I wasn't there absolute rubbish get real . but I do like the christmas dinner mmmm ! and the beer
*scrooge !  11-Dec-2008 14:25

 
Christmas is a family thing. As I grew up I learned to despise everything to do with the family. Family sets expectations which you can never achieve, and nor do you want to. Thank God the parents now both have Alzheimer's. At least they can't remember anything nowadays. Christmas is Christmas past and at least all is forgotten now.

Christmas is to collect a whole boxload of presents you do not want, and a spend you cannot afford. Chiristmas is to eat that half-cooked, ill, salmonella-ridden, dinosaur on the table. Who dares carve it?

Christamas is a soggy expectance of snow that never comes. And have you noticed just how tight the principal householder is with their booze.

Christmas is not Silent Night, but cruddy reruns of B-rated movies on telly.

Christmas is crying in your heart wanting to be free of all this nonsense.
*My Winter Solstice Stood Still  30-Nov-2008 10:12

 
I am not a spoilsport. I told my 5-year old that Santa didn't really exist, and that he was I. And that this year his/my sleigh was broken down, and there would no presies. Ha Ha Ha.

As for my wife I told her she wasn't going to get anything too. Ha Ha Ha.
*Santa's Gone Bust  28-Nov-2008 22:21

 
Christmas is just a spend fest and I for one, will be keeping my wallet tight shut this year. Christmas has indeed lost its meaning and it did a long time ago. Just another excuse to spend cash and ship a few more boxes.
*Rob from Lewisham  28-Nov-2008 21:01

 
Happy to give the kids a few presents and have the family round.

But all the other bullsh.t, Office Party, shops desperate to cash in, (especially the ones desperately advertising Sof'as!!) I mean how stupid are these companies? There you are watching The Great Escape - an escape tunnel has collapsed, but I know what your thinking, "Oh my God I've got to go and get a leather sofa, right now!"

And your boss, never needs staff any other time, when it really is busy, but oh no! at xmas everyone has to stay open, or at their desks - because "our customers need us." No! All our customers have gone home, f.ckwit! It's cold, miserable weather - the building industry (fair play to them) shuts down for 10-14 days. But come the 2nd January, (3rd if you work in Local Government) we all have a mad rush back to work....in the dark....because customers need us. Oh God not that old one, why did the F.ckwit come back early as well? I could have just about survived the first week if he hadn't come in, now I'm totally depressed!!! Then by the 5th there's some other miserable old coot, writing in The Daily Mail, how everyone (else, not him) hates their family, hates christmas and wonders why we had to have any time off? We want time off to be away from W@nkers like him!!!
*Mercy  21-Aug-2008 22:54

 
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.
*grumpyoldwoman  12-Feb-2008 16:44

 
I want to see Jesus getting high off smoking weed.
*jesus lover  29-Dec-2007 00:31

 
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.
*Peter Pan  29-Nov-2007 10:01

 
christmas is a time for family and friends to be together!
spending money on people shows your love for them
*x  27-Nov-2007 10:53


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