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RE: Daily Discussion No. 2: "Black Friday" and Holiday Shopping - Too Much Emphasis on Consuming Rather than Connecting?
I don't go Christmas shopping on Thanksgiving or Black Friday!! Yes, Thanksgiving should be about getting together with family and/or friends. Yes, consuming has replaced connecting for a large majority of people! My husband and I don't spend thousands of dollars at Christmas. We didn't do it when our children were growing up and we don't do it now. We get together with family and eat traditional Christmas food and then go to church on Christmas Eve. It's fun to give gifts at Christmas, but we aren't trying to break the bank to impress our friends or family!
And that-- to me-- feels like the right and proper approach to the holiday season. This whole feeling that everyone is engaged in a giant "content" to see who "wins at Christmas" is just offputting to me... and yet it is also very pervasive, especially in US society.