Anyone Been To Sears Lately? (Christmas Related...You Will Laugh)

Sears | 11-19-05 | my favorite headache

[gondramB]

What's next? There no Coca Cola Santa this year for the first time in 75 years.... And it's not just Christmas...

[goodnesswins]

We are returning to a more MODEST Christmas celebration....not interested in the hype that starts in October ......and MORE interested in giving gifts to those who truly appreciate them...i.e. Soldiers and their families, or Iraqi families.....too many Americans are spoiled brats, and don't even UNDERSTAND the concept of Christmas...../stage

[Boazo]

ACLU tree

[daybreakcoming]

I have nothing against JCP. It may have been that particular store or manager.

[sgtbono2002]

I dont know when you put up a wishing tree, but my Aunt kept a Christmas tree up till Aprils once. All the balls were hanging on sticks and the needles were in the floor.

Her rug had a path across it where it was worn right down to the hardwood floor.

If she had been rich they would have called her eccentric. but she was in actuality a nut.

She died 3 days prior to her 100th birthday.

A brilliant woman in most ways.Just didnt care about her dwelling place.

[reagan_fanatic]

Frank Costanza believes that tinsel is very distracting so there are no decorations. The pole is tall, silver, hollow, long, skinny, and heavy.

LOL ... that was one of the funniest Seinfelds ever!

[calex59]

It isn't the idea a person needs a tree to celebrate Christmas, it is the idea that the word Christmas is considered a "bad" word. The idea of deleting the word Christmas from the Christmas tree is the point, not the tree itself.

The stupid PC that is engulfing the country will be overturned if we don't spend our dollars on Christmas until these companies realize the people who spend on Christmas are the ones being offended and insulted.

[wizr]

Back in the '60s, when I worked in the stockroom at Sears, we started marking UP the prices in October, for the Christmas discounts.

[Horatio Gates]

LOL...Festivus pole! I forgot about that one.

I'm sort of old fashioned I suppose. I just go out and kill my tree every year just like the in the old days. 8>)

[CondorFlight]

We have to stop these pushy right-wing Christians from trying to force religion into everything, including Christmas!!

(sarc/off)

[LibWhacker]

Wishing tree??? That barely makes any sense to me. What does wishing have to do with Christmas? Maybe as in: I wish someone would give me a Lambourghini for Christmas? But that seems a stretch.

[goodnesswins]

INTERESTING....."In 1984 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (Lynch v. Donnelly) that a city-owned Christmas display including a Christian nativity scene was depicting the historical origins of Christmas, and was not in violation of the First Amendment ("establishment of religion")."

[kenth]

Yeah, we make a point of saying that, especially to clerks who've been told to say "happy holidays".

Wishing trees. That's just insane.

[Sans-Culotte]

Such angst by all concerned over 'Christmas trees' is highly ironic, given that neither Christmas nor tree idols would have been recognized as Christian by the orignal Christians during the first century of the Christian era.

.Duh. We all already knew all that. Just because Christmas trees and Easter eggs had their genesis in something pagan does not prevent them having a different meaning now. Bringing this type of thing up reminds me of threads in which Napoleon and the French are being discussed. Someone always has to comment "Napoleon wasn't French; he was Corsican", as if that fact was not common knowledge.

[Polybius]

Such angst by all concerned over 'Christmas trees' is highly ironic, given that neither Christmas nor tree idols would have been recognized as Christian by the orignal Christians during the first century of the Christian era.

How to Decorate the Hanukkah Bush

[tutstar]

You've got to be kidding! I know you aren't but that is beyond pc!!!!

[Txsleuth]

I know you posted this as a funny story...but, I want to thank you....

I am making a point of NOT shopping anywhere that refuses to acknowledge that the "holiday" that they are making big $$$$$$$$$$$$$ from is CHRISTMAS!!!!

Please, if anyone else has "no Christmas allowed" stores that they run across...please post them also...

Thank you, MFH!!!

[WKUHilltopper]

Maybe they're called "Wishing Trees" because they're wishing I'd come in and spend money...keep wishing, idiots!

[goodnesswins]

Well....probably....since I'm in the Socialist Republic of Washington, the State...