I feel like most struggle just to make it all year long and right when they get to the end of the year , and they might have put a little something aside - instead of growing that and having more resources for the family - they are bilked out of the last of their money with gift buying obligations - just to continue some tradition. Having to buy gifts causes lots of stress and anxiety as you can see by any commercial for Christmas shopping - there is this obligation to "find the right gift" for all these people and everybody goes into debt just to participate in a commericalized holiday that doesn't even pretend to be about Christ anymore. And then all the after Christmas videos with all the ungrateful kids who hate their parents because they bought them the wrong color iPhone makes me sick. I always tell the kids to please not get me anything and pay off a bill instead... for God's sake if I want something , I will go to the store and if buy it- I don't need to wait for the Sun to go around the Earth another year before getting things. When I love someone and want to get them a gift , I just do it - doesn't matter what time if the year it is. I wish more people would catch on to this - the social stigma of having to participate in Christmas is tiresome...
I feel like most struggle just to make it all year long and right when they get to the end of the year , and they might have put a little something aside - instead of growing that and having more resources for the family - they are bilked out of the last of their money with gift buying obligations - just to continue some tradition. Having to buy gifts causes lots of stress and anxiety as you can see by any commercial for Christmas shopping - there is this obligation to "find the right gift" for all these people and everybody goes into debt just to participate in a commericalized holiday that doesn't even pretend to be about Christ anymore. And then all the after Christmas videos with all the ungrateful kids who hate their parents because they bought them the wrong color iPhone makes me sick. I always tell the kids to please not get me anything and pay off a bill instead... for God's sake if I want something , I will go to the store and if buy it- I don't need to wait for the Sun to go around the Earth another year before getting things. When I love someone and want to get them a gift , I just do it - doesn't matter what time if the year it is. I wish more people would catch on to this - the social stigma of having to participate in Christmas is tiresome...