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Xmas late starting this year?

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neonleon

neonleon

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As a sufferer from melancholia I watch morbidly each year for the start of my least favourite season - xmas. The great festival of capitalismas, whereby people try to sell you stuff you don't want every waking second of the day; that starts usually around September the first and continues until the end of December.

This is usually as long as my depression lasts, although it sometimes flags on into January when people start trying to sell you stuff you don't want, because they couldn't sell it at xmas for the full mark up price - even with four solid months of advertising and media bombardment.

Normally woolies or argos wait until the last swallow squeaks out of the sky, before they give us inappropriate tinsel displays and santa's sweating their tits off through an indian summer.

Am I alone in this? Has the credit crunch put xmas back a month or two, or has anyone seen the first tinsel yet?
 
i'm amazed woolies has not got the tinsel up yet! they are the worst for it. october on wednesday, they're late... but perhaps they are waiting for halloween this year to finish?
 
Thank god there are fellow miserable scrooges out there. Christmas is a pain in the arse and expensive. Dont mind Boxing day cos i can get out and watch the match but xmas day itself is depressing
 

My wife and my daughter are two of the mugs that love it all,Imean yesterday my wife says I think this year we will have a new set of lights out side,and get a tree for the garden(in the 5 years we have lived here we have bought a outside tree from QVC and guess what they have All been stolen before xmas) and of course what do you want for xmas like shes going to get me a busty blonde:lol:
 

someone give leonbil a hug

seriously though i agree with you, not sure if its as bad in europe but in the states the commercialism is [Poor language removed] awful, and it also gives the "put the christ back in christmas" crowd a chance to come out and moan about your political correctness, because obviously its bad if the entire world doesn't think in the exact way they do.

i don't come from a christian family, but my parents always celebrated it when we were young so my sisters and i wouldn't feel left out when the other kids got presents, but i think it worked out okay as my family always seemed to value the togetherness above the capitalism.

every year since i was 12 i've gone through the same dance with my parents, where they tell me i'm not going to get anything this year and not to feel bad, and then they end up spending way to much money on me anyways (plus i'm 18, starting to feel a bit to old to get gifts). last year my dad bought me a wii, which with his permission i sold and gave him back the money for (keeping the 100 bucks profit of course).

anways, i think the exchange in our family emphasizes the importance we have for eachother rather than the gifts.
 

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