HAPPY CHRISTMAS! (Christmas and Commercialisation)

Member Name: moonbailey

Product:	Christmas and Commercialisation
Date:	22/12/01 (119 review reads)
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Advantages: bringing firends and family together

Disadvantages: none

I can't stand to hear people moaning about how commercialised Christmas has become. To me the only reason someone should not enjoy the festivities and glitz is if it reminds them of a loved one lost at Christmas. Any other excuse is just sour grapes.

We need reminders at various points in the year to get our priorities in order and keep our spirits up.

Those who are religious need christmas to reaffirm their reasons to believe and make their resolutions to attend church more frequently in the new year.

Others need it as a nudge to get them to think about how much they appreciate friends and family.

The process of choosing presents for others makes us think about them; what it is that we like about them and what their tastes and ways of life really are. That's why we either get them a serious, useful or romantic token, or a winged hat that plays god save the queen.

Imagine the grimness of winter without the glow of shop windows, rich with the promise of celebration and warmth up ahead. I'd go mad with boredom just waiting for the weather to either get on with it and snow, or cheer up and fast forward to spring - if it wasn't for this massive present giving, champagne swigging distraction!

Who can honestly say they'd remember to give those thoughful gestures of gifts without a date set to have them bought by!

There's Christmas in December, Valentines day in Feb, Spring round the corner, my birthday in summer (thought I'd slip that one in) but otherwise it's just too nice a season to need a pick me up - and then orange glowy autumn - lovely. It's no accident that these events have been bookmarked for centuries to bring us full circle - always looking forward to something.

They're all optional, pick and choose your favourite.

But imagine the state the economy would be in if we didn't support it with regular splurges of card buying and present givi
ng? We'd be ruined! And there'd be no sales, ladies!

So, are we all agreed?

Christmas, commercialism, and all that it brings with it - is fine and dandy and welcome to fill the shops in miserable October if that's what it takes to cheer us moaning brits up.

And it helps employment - I know it's the only time of year that I'm guarenteed a job, even if it is shopwork!

Three cheers for Christmas!!

Hip hip!...

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