Who won't give in to the holidays?

Just about every industry has reinvented the meaning of a holiday. They have taken the religion aspects out and besides from even that, the innocence out as well. They have trained us consumers well, with their ads and brainwashes. Christmas, has been molded into a holiday of perfection and scored according to how much those presents you recieved cost. We've allowed them, the businesses, to control basically every holiday. Holidays have lost their meanings, they've all been turned into a reason to binge shop.

Every year Christmas is rushed earlier and earlier. I usually notice it the day school starts that some Christmas decorations are mixed in with Halloween. This year, however, it was the end of August I saw Reindeer dolls in CVS. I love the holidays, but I feel like thats really killing it. As I looked through these Reindeer dolls, there was Cupid dolls mixed in. These weren't clearance items, and they're still there now too.

I realized that these dolls I saw weren't placed early by mistake, stores are trying to stimulate the holidays even earlier this year.

Businesses are taking advantage of us, they know that we are weakend from the economy. Some even say our economic problems are behind us. Ether way, even if thats true, shouldn't we be saving our money so we don't repeat the debt trend again?

I think that its scary that these ads and slogans are used to lure us into spending. They make us think that we are doing something good for others. Meanwhile, we are only hurting ourselves. Even if you can afford to spend $5,000+ on Christmas, why not cut your budget down to 2,500$? Then if and when the economy declines again, you will have an extra $2,500 stashed somewhere.

We don't have that choice though. The only choices that we have are what these stores tell us we have. I know people that already have their trees up and decorations. People this year are really craving what the holidays are known to bring. They really want to feel the happiness brought on by decorating. Stores know this, they want you to feel that feeling too. Because when your happy, everything is great and you don't care at that moment how much cash you waste in presents.

This is a dissapointing, sad, and scary situation.