How darn quickly can each Christmas come? Feels like just a few weeks back since the last one.



I've always been a non-believer of the religious side of Christmas, but the principles behind it are good, you know, the whole spirit of giving & sending people good wishes. Personally, that stuff shouldn't just exist for a "festive season", but hey, that's just my opinion. Celebrate it all year round & shopping would be a damn-sight easier as well!

Despite my non-belief & my dread of Christmas, I am still yet to convince my family that we should celebrate a couple of days after the inevitable sales in which case everything you bought before the 25th would be around a third of the price or better! Whoever came up with the gift giving side of Christmas did some brilliant marketing & kudos to them!

I admit to falling foul of desperately searching on Christmas Eve for some trinket which will make someone happy for a couple of nano-seconds before they then have to work out where to store that hideous statue of Elvis or work out whom to give it to next year. I did the whole Christmas Eve shopping madness thing today with a few hundred-thousand like minded, flustered persons & finding the perfect present is soon overwhelmed by finding an elusive car park. Fun in abundance!



My hope is that one day we all hold off on festivities until the sales are in action. Just think how much less pressure there would be & for all those families struggling to buy copious amounts of presents for kids when they really can't afford to, it would be bliss. It's crazy that we are all hopelessly obligated to spend cash on overpriced items to celebrate a day which has little relation to the birth of some dude called Christ!

& just for the record, I have never purchased a statue of Elvis for anyone or am I ever likely to.