What the hell is happening to the world? We had Christmas decorations, people have put their Christmas trees up already, at the end of October, beginning of November. I have one question for them all:

WHY?!

To be honest – and I don’t care if you think I’m Scrooge – I think Christmas is over-rated. Everyone spends more than they can afford to buy hundreds of presents every year, and what for? Because Jesus was born on Christmas Day? Can someone please explain to me how Jesus being born on Christmas Day (as a matter of fact, I seem to remember he was born in January or something) equates to spending as much as we do on presents every year? Ok, Jesus was presented with frankincense, myrrh and gold, but that was only three presents!

What it is, is commercialism. All the manufacturers and retailers see Christmas as one huge money-spinning exercise, and they’ve exploited all the kids who want Christmas presents via TV ads etc., who in turn nag their parents, and for a bit of peace, the parents buy the presents for the kids.

It’s a vicious cycle. It causes more problems than it’s worth, and I think Christmas Day when families sit down to open presents, it all ends in an anti-climax: “oh, no more presents?”. Then settle down to a normal routine until the next year.

Rachel and I have had debates on how much we’re going to spend on our kids for Christmas. Rachel thinks the kids should get everything they want, I reckon make them choose what they want the most, and that’s it. There’s always birthdays and the next Christmas. The problem is that kids are so fickle, they get bored with things after a while, regardless of how much it costs.

Sigh, it makes me wanna scream!