# Christmas: Commercialized Or Not Commercialized?

Category: Let's talk

## Post 1 by Aragorn (Veteran Zoner) on Saturday, 23-Jul-2005 20:59:21

Am I the only person, or so it might seem, that thinks Christmas, the time when our savior Christ was born, is being way too commercialized?
Every year, there are just thousands and thousands of commercials for everything under the dog gone sun, but it seems as though people forget what Christmas actually means. Am I the only one that sees this?

## Post 2 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Sunday, 24-Jul-2005 9:11:02

No I agree and as an atheist the supposedly true message of Christmas, is lost on me however I am very much aware of the poverty which prevents parents from showering their children with gifts, and the sense of isolation and desperation that many feel in the season of goodwill..personally I detest Xmas..

## Post 3 by Aragorn (Veteran Zoner) on Sunday, 24-Jul-2005 14:31:04

As much as I hate to admit it, so do I. It's truly become nothing more than another day for me. It's lost it's sense of meaning, in some ways, but I still keep the meaning of it in my heart.

## Post 4 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Monday, 25-Jul-2005 11:28:01

Xmas is truly for children ..do you feel the buy buy buy!!! hysteria begins far earlier each year or is it just me...

## Post 5 by Aragorn (Veteran Zoner) on Monday, 25-Jul-2005 11:58:21

Christmas could be for children, but in some ways it's not. However, yes, it is buy, buy, buy, and nothing more.

## Post 6 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Monday, 25-Jul-2005 12:18:01

We refuse to bow to the enormous pressure of putting yourself in debt just to please the majority of the population..we buy what we can afford, for our family a few friends and that is it.However I can see us in a few years time entering the nightmare of being dragged round crowded toy stores, by very excited children, screaming I want!....

## Post 7 by Aragorn (Veteran Zoner) on Monday, 25-Jul-2005 16:35:51

Every year, and year after year, it's all the same. Chidlren always screaming "I want, I want", and then the different types of media that just hype the hell out of everything. It's unreal!

## Post 8 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Tuesday, 26-Jul-2005 10:14:20

You should book a cabin in the middle of Inverpolly, in the far NW of Scotland, with no tv,radio or Pc,we are seriously thinking about it this year ...It is a nightmare and I feel a lot of the presents are aimed at high income parents whose little darlings already possess half of Toys are us ect...aren't we a pair of old scrooges ..smile..