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| Holiday Shopping Contradiction |
| 11.11.05 (8:41 pm) [edit] |
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Anyone who knows me knows that Christmas decoration before Thanksgiving is a pet peeve of mine, partly because that way by the time it actually gets here we\'re good and sick of it, but reguardless... This occured to me today as I was perusing the mall, already playing holiday music, and kids lined up to Saninty. (I remember when I used to believe in Sanity...good times...). Anyway, Macy\'s, the place at which I filled out online-paperwork at on Wednesday, was fully decorated for Christmas the week before Halloween. So shopping establishments are already attempting to get people worked up into a spending frenzy. Yet, the retail industry has decided to indoctrinate us with the notion that the day after Thanksgiving is the day that the holiday shopping season starts and that then we work ourselves into a spending frenzy. If stores are trying to get us into the mindset of Christmas shopping on or before November 1st, why don\'t they just have the big shopping day on November 1st, skip the day-afer-Thanksgiving blitz, OR wait until the-day-after-Thanksgivin g to get people in the mood. The former is more likely to happen, because we need to get people to spend as much as possible. However, the contradiction is more likely to persist. It must suck to not celebrate Christmas at this time of year. There is little you can do to escape the fact that if you do not celebrate the holiday you are somehow outside of the dominant culture instated by ruling classes who try to work people into that spending frenzy. hmmm... These stupid little things at the bottom of the posting need to be clearer about whether they are lowercase l's or uppercase I's |
posted by: dre (reply)
post date: 11.15.05 (1:27 pm)
they shoudl totally start putting out christmas decorations in august . . . ya can never get enough!!!!
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