Vanity on Keeping Christmas out of Christmas

my experience | 12/1/2010 | self

[Yaelle]

Last night I went into Cost Plus for some imported candy treats for the kids. I've also been seeking Chanukah wrapping paper, which is nowhere to be found in stores this year. I noticed that they had a huge section in the middle of the store under the sign "Holiday Wrap." As I perused the many bins, I found that every single roll of wrapping paper had Christmas themes or colors.

What was the original intent of transforming Christmas into the generic "holidays?" Wasn't it to not exclude the other religions who might possibly be celebrating Chanukah, Eid, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, all of which are equally important in the politically correct society? And yet, among the rolls of paper, there were none for Chanukah, the second most celebrated holiday in December. (I noted there was no wrap decorated with naked women being tortured with electrical cords either, for Kwanzaa.)

My question, which was not understood by either of the store employees as I asked it, remains: If your store has not purchased any wrapping paper for any other holiday, and all of the wrapping paper you have is clearly for Christmas, why can't the signage over the bins say "Christmas Wrap?"

[massgopguy]

8 Crazy Nights!

[Responsibility2nd]

He probably felt the Kwanzaa hijacking was not enough. So why not add yet another element of thread hijacking?

BTW. HAPPY FESTIVUS TO ALL!!!

[Shimmer1]

My Israeli dil tells me that they don’t give Channukah presents in Israel.

[dfwgator]

[humblegunner]

As I perused the many bins, I found that every single roll of wrapping paper had Christmas themes or colors.

Good. Christmas in coming up, you know.

Wasn't it to not exclude the other religions who might possibly be celebrating Chanukah, Eid, Kwanzaa, or the Winter Solstice, all of which are equally important in the politically correct society?

Go start your own country, celebrate pickled crab shells.

[GeronL]

#18... so close to the truth

[Yaelle]

I need to look at other Targets, I guess. Don’t live in a very Jewish district...

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

Kwanzaa is sooooooooo bogus

[GeronL]

The way the country is headed, maybe its better to divide it up into 300 million fiefdoms and start from there.

[humblegunner]

My Israeli dil

Dil? Isn't that a pickle?

[humblegunner]

The way the country is headed, maybe its better to divide it up into 300 million fiefdoms and start from there.

I read a book about that once.

I recall enjoying it.

[Yaelle]

There is no war against “holidays” or “holy days.” There is a war against Christmas. In the moronic quest to be politically correct, retailers try to AVOID using the word Christmas, in the same vein as Hollywood using their films as anti-Christian propaganda. And mind you, I am offended against the anti-Christmas trend, and I am not Christian! :)

[T Minus Four]

Let the feats of strength begin!!

[randog]

Yes, people spending billions of dollars on gifts for Holydays they don't celebrate.

Amen.

Christmas is a Christian Holiday--if you're not a Christian then don't celebrate it just as I don't celebrate Hanukkah because I'm not Jewish.

Here's a suggestion--go party with the muslims and see if they'll let you water their religion down.

[Yaelle]

Often, especially if there are kids, there will be a gift every night for all 8 nights. Now, these gifts are often a book or other educational things, with one night being for charitable donations, one night for Grandparent gifts, etc. I like to give unusual candies, because the kids love them as much as some expensive piece of junk. But yes, money is traditional for Chanukah gifts, and in America it’s been about presents, due to the proximity to Christmas.

[T Minus Four]

And mind you, I am offended against the anti-Christmas trend, and I am not Christian! :)

Well I am and I say, let them have what's left of Christmas and let the Christians go back to celebrating the birth of the Savior. We'll call it something different and unique, like "Jesus' Birthday"

[fml]

Sure do and unless I'm wrong most posters I think missed your point (lol)

You've go Santa saying happy holidays and holiday trees for sale - just silliness. The holiday is Christmans. It's packaged and sold as Christmas but we are supposed to be somehow sensitive and refrain from actaully saying it...sheesh.

I was pleasantly surprised when entering our local supermarket the sign on the door said MERRY CHRISTMAS.

[GeronL]

Sounds like a good book, did they label it science fiction or something?

[mnehring]

So for all these decades, we have complained about Christmas becoming commercialized. Christmas trees in the stores earlier and earlier. Christmas in July sales. Everybody selling Christmas related trinkets and happy meals all over the place.. nothing but 'commercial' Christmas..

..yet, when ‘commercial’ industry says “OK” you don't want Christmas so commercialized and changes it to Holiday, we demand our commercialized Christmas back?

Yep, nothing screams CHRISTmas like a mom bringing her kids to Wal Mart at 4AM, shoving her way in line to be the first for whatever Elmo is the item that year, then getting in someone’s face for saying Happy Holiday instead of Merry Christmas.

Maybe we should be cleaning our own houses, putting the Christmas back in Christ and the Holy back in Holiday instead of worrying what all these commercial ventures are doing.

[VeniVidiVici]

Ask them for “holiday wrap” with balloons and giraffes on it and watch their head explode.