My thoughts on…Christmas’ coming
November 2nd 2007 -
God damnit! It’s that time of year again! Christmas is coming. You may say, “Leon, it’s November. Why are you talking about Christmas already?” Then you haven’t been paying attention to the media, have you? Know the old saying, “Christmas comes earlier every year?” Well, this year it came before Halloween. Last week Sunday, I was washing dishes when I heard a Christmas ad on the radio from Singer. It was the typical Christmas ad. Jingle bells in the background and that sickening “family togetherness” crap. I looked in the sink and saw a knife, thought of that happy little Brady Bunch family, and started dreaming of a Red Christmas, if you know what I mean. That brought a slight grin to my face, and temporarily sated my anger at the blatant commercialization of the holiday. I guess retailers are drooling at the prospect of raiding our wallets, so they’re getting us in the holiday spirit early. No. Not that holiday spirit. The spirit of buying useless, overpriced trinkets. Screw peace and goodwill! Money is what matters!
If you’re asking, “why do I hate Christmas?,” well here’s my answer to you. I don’t hate Christmas. I hate what society has turned it into. If you don’t have any money, you can’t celebrate Christmas. Simple. That shouldn’t be the case, but it is true. People only say, “it doesn’t feel like Christmas” when they’re broke. With that in mind, I should be buying my gifts right now before they price them to high heaven, but sadly I don’t have any money. I’ll have to get myself a Christmas job. But before you get suckered in by all the decorations, lights, jingle bells, santas, and other generic Christmas elements, just remember that Christmas lasts for only one day, no matter how major retail chains wanna drag it out. So don’t spend too much money on gifts, especially if they’re for children. No matter how big the present is, chances are Junior will stop playing with it by mid-January. So it doesn’t make sense buying something that takes you a dozen or more payments to complete. And please, remember the most important part of Christmas. Otherwise it’s utterly pointless, no matter how many gifts you have under the Christmas tree.
P.S. A friend of mine actually got jacked by Santa Claus a couple years back. Really! A dude dressed up as Santa rode up to him on a bicycle and robbed him clean. Well, at least he got robbed by jolly ol’ St. Nick. Maybe the elves fell short on their quota and he needed the money for presents!
Stunner Says:
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Yup Christmas is all about commercialism these days! The stores will be trying everything to lure us in, in the coming weeks. But here in Kingston it also means more TRAFFIC!
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November 3rd, 2007 at 12:58 am
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Jamaipanese Says:
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:15 am
capitalism at it’s finest
marsha Says:
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I agree it’s commercialized…but Christmas is also family, stories of the past and good food.
Mad Bull Says:
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Well, I am dreaming of an irie Christmas.
Campfyah Says:
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:17 pm
I’m so feeling you on the whole Christmas trip. I saw my first commercial last week. We were still in October and I was appaled. Just do like I d and ignore the whole damned thing. I put up a tree and that’s about it. I don’t do gifts and thank Goodness, the son is a man now, so he be the one doing the buying.
kami Says:
November 4th, 2007 at 6:30 am
chuckling at the red christmas bit…yup, overly commercialised but you just gotta know how much you can afford to spend and not get dragged into all the crap
Melody Says:
November 4th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
“Please remember the most important part of Christmas.” That’s true, Christ often gets left out & forgotten.
P.S. Those ‘novel titles’ in your other post were a riot.
taylor2nd Says:
November 6th, 2007 at 10:28 am
I’m trying to work out a gift budget if i do any spending at all. Not really feeling the spending especially with me losing aproximately 40k just like that… just like that.. dunno if i gonna even replace that device.
Esteban Agosto Reid Says:
November 18th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Perverse and crass commercialization of a religious and spiritual day,the birth of Christ.
retro Says:
November 19th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Hard to believe Christmas is already around the corner. I am ready for some Thanksgiving turkey though.