Cash for christmas (Christmas and Commercialisation)

Member Name: Lorraine27

Product:	Christmas and Commercialisation
Date:	15/12/01 (34 review reads)
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In today's overindulgent culture we are all taken in to the overindulgence of christmas whether it be the giving of presents or the overeating, drinking too much syndrome.

How many lives are ruined at christmas because of debt, affairs through office parties and upset stomachs from the overindulgence of rich food? How many people run off to the next weight watchers meeting having starved for a couple of days - is this happiness?

Radio stations are offering money, magazines are offering money and newspapers are offering prizes for the best decorated houses but who pays the electric bills?

I am not a party pooper, in fact I enjoy christmas as much as the next person but you will not find me in the supermarket buying extra chocs and drinks just for the fun of it. Gone are the days when I used to find chocolate brazils in the cupboard two months later as they had not been eaten.

As an after thought - I always understood the true meaning of christmas was to celebrate the birth of Christ. In reality he was born in a manger, in a barn which he shared with animals. There was no christmas tree lights, no turkey and no trimmings or alcahol to celebrate his arrival.

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