What Christmas spirit? I just home from doing a little necessary shopping and all I could see was a bunch of people trying to scarf up the discounted wares of nervous merchants who are hoping to dump their seasonal overstock before the 12th hour. Nobody is smiling and nobody is wishing anybody anything. No Merry Christmas; no Happy Holidays...nothing, and I'm in the Bible Belt. A sign just as you go into Hastings said something like "last minute....we got you covered. Now I guess you have to use your imagination as to what they mean by last minute.
Personally, I wish Christmas would just go away. Oh, not the meaning of Christmas, or the spirit of Christmas, but all the sickening secular, political and commercial crap that has become attached to it. I no longer find any joy in it. I wasn't that fond of the season before, but with each passing year, its approach brings with it an increasing sense of dread.
There was an editorial in our paper this morning talking about the nearly total absence of "Christmas" in advertising and businesses that are exploiting it. It concluded with the following sentiment: "So go ahead stores. Call it what it really is: "The Greed Stampede." Or how about, "Last Chance of the Year to Lift the Sagging Economy" sale?".
Oh well; hope YOU enjoy yourself out there anyway.
I had fun this morning. Cars were going the opposite direction when I came home. It's cold and freezing out here so everyone probably slept in.
I hear ya about the anti-Christmas spirit out there to ruin everyone's Christmas, but I aint gonna let it happen. :-) At least I try real hard not to. I bought a live Alberta Christmas tree last week for $30 at Costco. This week it was marked down to $20, so I bought a Blue Spruce. Just love them. Each year I try to buy a live one and plant it in my yard. I've been here since '92 and have quite a forest growing. Of course some have died and some have dried up because I forgot to plant them. LOL
I did buy a huge Poinsetta last week and neglected to water it, so it dried up and lost all its leaves already. So now I have to nurse it back to life if I can. Poor plant.
The thing that got me though is that there are no more after Christmas sales! Like you said, they made a switcheroo and are now suckering people in before Christmas. Bummer.
Libby, hope you have fun baking those cookies for your family today. I think that is so cool! ;)
It was better here...