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Why I don’t Do Christmas
The Truth Behind Christmas
Winter months are not my favourite. I never liked the cold although everyone tells me I am from Lithuania so I should be ok with the cold. I am not ok with the cold. I really do not like the cold. The other part of winter is Christmas and the New Year. I was never a fan of Christmas like I was never a fan of winter. New Year it’s just another way of counting down your time here.
Christmas has become a consumer’s haven.
Christmas shopping starts from October!!!! Isn’t it madness?!!! From November, everything is lit in Christmas lights and we are being enticed to buy; think of the loved ones and buy, buy and buy. The companies manipulate us with their enticing advertisements and emotional Christmas ads. Just google “Christmas ads” there’s so many!
These emotional Christmas ads sells things like ‘you cannot buy time with your family’ or ‘family is what matters the most’ and so on. The way we are “told” to compensate this is by buying things. By buying things marketed to us we associate love with materialist stuff. This way we accumulate stuff we don’t need. Companies keep making stuff we don’t need.
