Re: Stocking Stuffers 😠

stevieb · ‎03-10-2010

@PINKdogWOOD wrote:
@Shanus Bravo to you Ms Shanus! Your last sentence says it all - whether of the Jewish faith, Catholic, Christian, Hindu, it doesn'ta matter, the true story and meaning of the season is not of buying & giving gifts. Not at all.

I stopped buying 'stuff' for other people years ago. It saddens me this time of year that few 'get' what this season is about.

Oh, I think plenty of folks 'get' what the season is all about... and they also choose to give and receive gifts... The two aren't mutually exclusive...

In my pantry with my cupcakes...

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@PINKdogWOOD wrote:
@Shanus Bravo to you Ms Shanus! Your last sentence says it all - whether of the Jewish faith, Catholic, Christian, Hindu, it doesn'ta matter, the true story and meaning of the season is not of buying & giving gifts. Not at all.

I stopped buying 'stuff' for other people years ago. It saddens me this time of year that few 'get' what this season is about.

What does what gifts are given have to do with who "gets" it, and how I'd like to tell can you tell who "gets" it????

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@stevieb wrote:
@PINKdogWOOD wrote:
@Shanus Bravo to you Ms Shanus! Your last sentence says it all - whether of the Jewish faith, Catholic, Christian, Hindu, it doesn'ta matter, the true story and meaning of the season is not of buying & giving gifts. Not at all.

I stopped buying 'stuff' for other people years ago. It saddens me this time of year that few 'get' what this season is about.
Oh, I think plenty of folks 'get' what the season is all about... and they also choose to give and receive gifts... The two aren't mutually exclusive...

There's giving and receiving gifts according to one's income, and there is keeping-up-with-the-Joneses, overspending to the point of six months debt to buy your kids expensive electronics they'll be bored with at the end of that six months and want something more/else.

I believe the OP is about commercialism, competition and the greedy entitlement some parents are helping to foster in their kids. Throw in children of divorce, multiple sets of grandparents and competing step parents and it gets, frankly, ugly. I see it. I experience it. It disgusts me. It's not about getting your kids what they want within reason and you can afford, it's about having to deal with all kinds of created "having" frenzy.

And yes, holidays (any holiday, any culture) is about the cultural traditions and associated beliefs, not JUST gifts. Even leaving religion aside, without gifts there can, and should be if possible, family memories created around the holiday just being *together*, even if Xmas dinner is McDonald's. It shouldn't be just about the gifts so that they are more important than the rest of it; I think that's all the OP is saying.

Life without Mexican food is no life at all