Christmas

So we all know that Christmas is just around the corner. Time to start shopping for the kids and loved ones in your life.

Why has it become so commercialized?

I remember when my kids were young, you bought them the things they wanted.. well what they thought they wanted, knowing full well that it was only because they happened to see it on TV.


What happened to people buying from the heart? What happened to giving what we wanted the person to have or giving them what we thought they needed?

I have found over the past 10 years it has all become about the almighty dollar. How much we spend instead of what we buy and the reason why we buy it.

The last couple years, with my own kids being young adults now, it was "mom, just give me cash".

This year my youngest said "I miss the days when there would be lots of gifts under the tree and we would get up and wait for you to wake up so we could open them".

So I said "ok, this year, NO CASH, I will buy gifts and you will be surprised at what you get". His response was "um, no, it is nice to open gifts but I need the cash".

Cash! Heck, when I was a kid, I would open my gifts and find matching dresses that my grandmother had made by hand for my sister and I... ugly as sin but yet we wore them out of respect and knowing the time she put into making them.

Today, give kids anything homemade and it is like "whats this? Don't you love me anymore?"

We need to bring back the traditional Christmas.. Families spending time with each other, not just because they want their gifts but because they want to be with their families.

The traditional dinner and seeing everyones smiling faces, instead of eating at a TV tray and talking about the woes of life!

Am I the only one who feels this way?