Posted on 11/26/2010 10:05:57 AM PST by traumer
We have 2 grandchildren that I spend about $60 each on. That’s it. We have a huge Christmas Eve with tamales, rice, and beans and cocktails then a quiet Christmas day with just close family.
The adults all enjoy Christmas more since we cut out the commercialism.
Does this mean you are sick and twisted also?
Not taken at Target. Also not taken this morning,
Some stores send people up the line before opening and attach plastic wrist bands.
A Black Friday for the Diversity Community!
Would you call it a Diversity Pileup?
“Christmas has been so much happier since we made the decision to stop the gifts. We go to church services Christmas eve, make a nice breakfast Christmas morning, and there is no more of the stress.”
We probably all have someone in our family like that - never happy and don’t want anyone else to be. I feel sad for them but we can’t do anything about it. It sounds as if you’re keeping everything in focus though.
For me, anymore, just trying to come up with something that no one has is beyond stressful. If they needed something, it would be different. Then the other side of it is I end up feeling very guilty when I know someone can’t afford the gift they’ve given me.
That’s no way to celebrate Christmas and it looks like this will be our year to shake off the shackles of the frenzied shopping trips and coming home empty-handed, and feeling deep-down emptiness to boot. Shopping will be fun when there are babies to buy for, but right now - just UGH!
I come here don’t I? :)
Was going to be Buy Nothing Day for me, but then I realized I was low on TP.
Dude, that is a bumper sticker.
True. Sometimes it’s the only laugh I get in a day!
Has nothing to do with Christmas, has everything to do with greed and sickening materialism.
Our family stopped the gifts about 10 years ago. Christmas has become what it was supposed to be since we did.
These people could care less about Christmas.
Christmas as it should be is lost ... it’s all about materialism, and then people moan and groan and blame the credit card companies for their over spending on stuff ...
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I think I know why it is called Black Friday.
You are left black and blue.
Standing in line in the cold to buy cheap Chinese made crap on sale.
"jdalimo7284 says: November 26, 2010, 1:24PM I was about #30 in line @ this Target and it was a combo of the skippers who tried to cut in line and Target not having any security or order to anything! There were three woman who showed up @ the front of the line about 15 min before the doors opened and totally just proceeded to skip everyone who had waited for 5 hours (like me) very patiently. Two of whom can be seen on the video, the afro-amer woman with no hair in the drk grey jacket who pushes through in the beginning!"
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