- Be at the mall early to be at the front of the shopper stampede when the shops open? Nope.
- Go to your favorite online sites and use your holiday discount coupons for a pre-emptive Xmas shopping strike? I don't think so.
- Stand in line at the local big box electronics store for the latest big hype toy/game/movie release, and then afterwards go for the Starbucks grande vanilla latte? Nuh uh.
The release of the new movie Christmas With the Kranks, based on the John Grisham bestseller Skipping Christmas, is another manifestation of the growing trend towards simplification and especially away from the overweening commercialization of the Christmas season. It's kind of at cross purposes, tho...
"OK, here's the pitch: we take this huge Grisham bestseller about rejecting the over-commercialization and mindlesss consumerism of Christmas and we make it into a big holiday-season film with millions earmarked for ads so millions will shell out 8$ apiece to see it. Yeah! That's the ticket!"
Here's an assignment for you. Compare and contrast these two news stories on Yahoo today:
Some Americans trim more than the tree
Bargain shoppers get early holiday start
OK, now answer me this: Am I just delusional, or did anybody else notice that the majority, almost all of the 'simplify' stories and examples in the first story came from Blue states?
And practically all of the 'shopping frenzy' quotes and examples in the second story came from Red states? [Or, if not in a Red state, then from a Wal-Mart in a Blue state?]
Hmmmm. What can we conclude from this, moral values-wise?
Being together with loved ones, not buying things, is the true spirit of Christmas?
Or:
If you don't spend enough on Christmas presents, you'll make baby Jesus cry?
Happy BND everybody.
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