Posted on 11/18/2006 5:53:56 AM PST by Wil H
The Christmas shopping season is upon us and it seems that we have won the opening skirmish it the war with secularism to stamp out Christmas. Walmart have agreed to let Christmas back into their stores this year. That is great news but I am sure it is the power of the almighty dollar rather than the Almighty himself that drove them to that decision, but then, God does move in mysterious ways.
This year I am going shopping prepared and I invite you to join me in the campaign.
I am going to carry a number of letters, sealed in envelopes and addressed to the Store Manager. Any time I don't find any evidence of Christmas celebration in a store I will give the manager a letter and leave.
Here is what the letter says:
Dear Sir or Madam,
I came to your store today with the express purpose of spending a significant percentage of my $XXXX (put what you like in here) Christmas shopping budget.
However I note that your store chooses to no longer participate in the celebration of Christmas and therefore you don’t qualify to receive my Christmas dollars.
A quintessential part of Christmas is the sharing of the joy of giving and doing so in festive Christmas environment, it is estimated 95% of Americans celebrate the holiday and fortunately for them, and I, there are many other stores that embrace the Christmas spirit.
My Christmas spending, as I am certain many other’s, will be done with those that wish to share the spirit of holiday. Should you ever decide to participate again I will consider returning as a customer, until that time, ALL my business goes elsewhere.
Sincerely,
XXXXXXXX
Merry Christmas
If a substantial number of people did this, maybe the message that Walmart got would reach the other retail outlets and perhaps we could get our Christmas back into the public square. If the stores all start decorating for Christmas again do you not think think they will pressure the municipality to decorate the streets appropriately?
This year, Prescott AZ has street banners on downtown lamp posts declaring "Prescott, Your Christmas City" I might just take a trip there to do my Christmas shopping.
Best Buy is a "Happy Holidays" hold-out, so they are off my shopping list. They also have the most disgusting TV ads , particularly the slut who clears the table for sex when she sees her boyfriend at the door with a "happy holiday" Best Buy package. That's the true secular spirit of Best Buy's holiday, I guess, but I don't have to reward them for it.
If just 1/2 the energy you use to get people to say "Merry Christmas" were used to support the troops, perhaps they, too, could have a Merry Christmas.
Find a deployed serviceman (or womans ) family, and buy the kids toys, or pay their heating bill.
Buy some Christmas cards, and send them to the troops.
Gad, fight a fight that is significant.
I saw a Target ad last night that said "Merry Christmas". That and the Salvation Army donation will probably mean more Christmas spending for me there.
BTW, Prescott and the area around it are, IMO, are absolutely gorgeous. I love it up there. I'm stuck down here in the desert, so my shopping choices are kind of limited.
I thought we had enough about this last year.
There is no war, but constantly ranting about it will surely make it appear that way.
Someone, somewhere, is pulling in income off of this "war". It's probably a pretty good business too.
Really? Now that IS a switch (and good to hear about)
Target's ads of a couple of years ago so infuriated me that I've boycotted them eversince. They were the odious "Joy to the World" sung by 3 Dog Night ads.
I wrote letters informing Target I was disgusted by their popularized secularization of Christmas.
Perhaps somebody at the top got the message...
Christmas shopping is just shopping. If you want to turn it into a crusade, have a good time. Is that a good time???
Wanna bet? The ACLU would love to have Christmas banned altogether.
Does Target have the Salvation Army this year?
If I carried a letter for the store managers, it would be one I carried all year long and it would be about RUDE sales people, especially the ones who talk on their cellphones while they ring you out.
Walmart has a good selection of cards for the armed forces.
You imply that these are mutually exclusive events (protesting stores and supporting troops), which, of course, they are not, this something I will do this year in addition to my other Christmas activities.
And if I were a serviceman that was able to get back home on Christmas leave and found the place looking like it was mid-February, I would be pretty ticked.
They donated $1,000,000 to them. That is what I was referring to.
I am curious, btw. Does anyone know if this would be more oe less than what they would make outside the stores. I really want to know, this isn't a sarcasm thing.
LOL
Seems everyone is girding his loins for CHristmas shopping. I don't mind it so much now that our mall has Starbucks.
But I prefer shoppig in stand alone stores and on the internet.
Socks are a great gift this year. Go to Joyofsocks.com for great socks.
Complaining and whining that some retail outlet doesn't yell "Merry Christmas" at you with it's advertising isn't exactly spreading the message Christ brought.
With Consumers Day.
MERRY CONSUMERS DAY
Been posted many times here at FR the past week.
Target is donating one million dollars to Salvation Army but will not allow bell ringers again this yr.
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