All I Want For Christmas Is....

my two front teeth? Nah, I have those already. A white Christmas? Nah, not the biggest fan of snow unless I can go screw around in it in my car. You? No…sure, I love my friends and family to death but there’s something I want even more.

So what do I want? Well, this is how I see it:

All this commercialized crap ruins the season. I used to be big into Christmas--the presents, the dinner, the time spent, the stories...everything. Now it’s one of my most dreaded seasons of the year because of everything that goes into it. The giant sales starting in early November, the ridiculously expensive presents that everyone just has to have or they won’t be happy, the incredible amount of money that’s involved. Quite honestly, I think Mr. Gaudette is on the right track with just donating everything to charity instead of giving presents. Sure, it may seem extreme but I think, in this world, we need something extreme to turn Christmas back into what it’s meant to be. So if anyone is getting me anything for Christmas (not that I want you to), please consider spending your money on something that doesn’t support an over-commercialized, coroporate spending binge. Give it to charity, or add it to what you’re spending on a little (or bigger) brother or sister or your parents. Make someone else’s Christmas because, quite honestly, my Christmas wish won’t be fulfilled until we get away from how Christmas is getting to be.

So I guess what I really want for Christmas is for this particular holiday to go back to what it used to be: the birth of Christ and spending time with the friends and family that mean the most to you.

I wish you all an early Merry Christmas and I hope it’s everything you want and more!

12-16-2009

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