What do YOU want for Xmas?
Jay Honeck wrote:
we don't exchange useless stuff (AKA x-mas presents) in our family for
years. We spend some time together and try having a good time.
Well, with our kids I don't mind. However, I proposed holding that kind of
Christmas with my sisters a few years ago (ages 59 and 56, by the way), and
you'd have thought I was trying to steal their favorite teddy bears.
So, onward we march, into consumer heaven...
You're a good American, Jay. Remember the current Christmas
celebration with all the gift-giving was invented in the 1930's as a way
to start the country climbing out of the Great Depression.
In colonial days the idea of decorations and gifts would have been a
sacrilege.
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