Christmas and Commercialisation Reviews

Most of you will know that the original Santa Claus is supposed to be dressed in green and called St Nikolaus, but not as many of you will know that the old man with the white beard, adorned in red and white only became that after Coca Cola dressed him in those colors for their magazine and newspaper commercials in the 1930s, the ultimate piece of ...  Read the complete review

Lead us not into temptation. A line from the lords prayer. Somewhat apt now that the Christmas season looms over us once more. Having watched as the shops in the local centre hurry to take down the pumpkins and masks that have adorned their shop windows for that last few months, only to see them replaced the very next day with a bold, ...  Read the complete review

I work for a large department store. Until I started working for the store I did not realise how commercialised Christmas was. The stock room was filling up with Christmas fare in October, and we had to fit it in somewhere. Shelves were moved and every nook and cranny was opened up to fill with Christmas fare. It was Sell sell sell, as ...  Read the complete review

Was it all worth it? Snow, presents, children getting excited, lots of eating drinking (and consequently throwing up), office parties, pantomime and last minute shopping. Tree, crackers, cards, wrapping paper, the list goes on and on. Yes, it’s that silly season again – Christmas. But what is it all about really? ...  Read the complete review

I wish an outline had been given on what I could/should write about on here, as that'd make it easier, but atleast it makes it all open. A streamed ramble. The simple way I see it, and I'm sure as countless many people see it is that there's two types of Christmas. Some celebrate one, and some both. Religious, and/or ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Its a funny old category this because who can even remember a chrismas without some form of commercialisation. Not me I can remember the ads when I was a kid. Only thing is the prices seem to be going up a lot more now for what some things are made out of and their quality It is hard to belive and verges on the scandelous for some items. ...  Read the complete review

Christmas, we are told, is about giving. It's about loving, togetherness and families. For many people it's about Christ too and celebrating his birth. Which is a little bit late in my opinion as he died yonks ago. At some point long before Christmas eve town centres will become intolerable. The roof of Harvey Nichols has already ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

For many people, Christmas is not a time of peace on joy - leaving aside the many people around the world who are stricken by war, poverty, disease and the like, Christmas brings for more melancholy than it does joy for a depressingly large number of people. Rampant commercialisation is certianly a part of the problem. Through the media, ...  Read the complete review

Is Christmas too commercialised? Well ask yourself this. If you have no money this Christmas - in fact even if you're already overdrawn - can you imagine yourself giving no presents? Can you imagine giving your family and closest friends a simple "Merry Christmas!" and nothing else.... Of course you can't. There's a ...  Read the complete review

I was resolved to write nothing about Christmas this year. After all, it has been done to death, and though it is a great way of attracting a few extra reads, as a dooyoo topic, there are even more contributors who won’t read these things than there are who won’t write about them. But since very few of you read ...  Read the complete review

That's the way it seems in American. That's fine, but in the "recent" (20?) years, it seem that the "Christmas season" starts earlier each year. It wasn't that long ago, when the Thanksgiving parade (last Thursday in November)was the "start of the Christmas season", with Santa at the end of the ...  Read the complete review

My story is about several little kids. I feel that christmas has become too comercial and have came to this not very hard conclusion because the kids are from different families. My cousin Kyran is 11 years old. He gets everything he wants. Christmas is just a way of him getting loads of things and getting bored with them quick. Last year ...  Read the complete review

Why is the commercialisation of Christmas a bad thing? Well you could say that Christmas is the time of year when you are supposed to celebrate the birth of Christ and the over commercialisation of it has distracted people from this fact. But I am not religious and yet I still celebrate Christmas, not because I want to celebrate ...  Read the complete review

Christmas – the time for family, friends, joy, and, of course, presents. Christmas carols everywhere, the familiar Christmas scent in the air, people smiling everywhere. Bells ringing, trees are alight with a warm Christmasy glow. Unless you have a heart of stone, you can’t help feeling all Christmasy yourself. Even those of us who ...  Read the complete review

Christmas advertising gets earlier and bigger every year. This year the media frenzy started early-October, and by November almost every ad on TV contained that 'c' word! And, it would seem, people are brainwashed by this. The sense that the more that is spent on Christmas the happier Christmas will be. Going shopping yesterday - ...  Read the complete review

Well, Christmas is a massive subject to go into! I'll start by looking into the real meaning of Christmas: The younger generation of today are starting to forget the true meaning of Christmas: The birth of Jesus Christ. We can only blame two things for this: Shops and TV. Now a days, advertising goes a long way with ...  Read the complete review

Well this game certainly makes the most out of your playstation 2 as it has some of the best graphics seen yet on a platform racing game. it runs smooth and with over 200 cars to get you will be playing this game for ages as long as you do not cheat. The cars handle a lot better than most racing games making this one that you definatley ...  Read the complete review

I am not a paricularly religious person; despite having been brought up a Catholic, I wouldn't really even class myself as Christian these days, yet I still celebrate Christmas. Why? Well, to be honest, I hadn't really thought about it until someone mentioned to me the other day that they were planning on going to mass on ...  Read the complete review