The radio DJ cheerfully announced this morning that the average American spends $341 per child at Christmas! Seriously?!?!?! Does anyone else think this is a ridiculous amount of money? Yet as I sit back and add up the receipts and tally everything in my head I discover- DAMN IT he was probably right... And my holiday spirits sink with the dread of the coming year and the debts to be paid.
How did we become such a commercialized mess? Why has the birth of Jesus become national debt day? What happened to the years of some candy and one gift for Christmas or even lovingly made ones? I will tell you where! They have dissipated like morning fog and left behind a generation of spoiled children who have so much already but the over stimulated market is so full of "amazing" things that as adults we want as much as our children that we are willing to bury ourselves in debt to attain them.
STOP THE INSANITY PEOPLE!
I am as guilty as the next of making my list and checking it 63 times with the thought "oh just this one more little thing and I am done," until the madness finally fizzles on Christmas Eve and I am struggling to wrap all the nonsense in time for Santa's arrival the next morning...
So cheers to all of you who make the holiday about the Joy of Jesus Birth without the commercialism attached- because I am sorely behind in that lesson!
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